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  E1Stan's Last Game

  Oct 25, 1983· 75m

  James Grout and Bert Parnaby are rival chairmen of a northern football club in the run-up to an important cup match. As tempers fray, retiring president Charles Lamb provides a calming voice of sanity.

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  E2Young Shoulders

  Feb 14, 1984· 75m

  Cynical teenager Andrew Groves re-evaluates his attitude to life and his parents after his sister dies in a plane crash.

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  E3A Coming to Terms for Billy

  Feb 21, 1984· 75m

  When his father comes home to Belfast after more than 2 years in England, conflicts arise with Billy

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  E4Z for Zachariah

  Feb 28, 1984· 75m

  After a nuclear holocaust, only a man and a woman survive in a Welsh valley.

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  E5Moving on the Edge

  Mar 6, 1984· 75m

  A woman in a state of personal crisis finds it hard to communicate with her husband and family.

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  E6Desert of Lies

  Mar 13, 1984· 75m

  An expedition tracing the path of long-lost missionaries meets with tragedy in the Kalahari Desert.

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  E7Hard Feelings

  Mar 20, 1984· 75m

  A group of unemployed Oxford drop-outs living in a Brixton commune get their come-uppance by one of them.

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  E8Under the Hammer

  Mar 27, 1984· 75m

  Concerning the life of the artist Vincent Van Gogh

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  E9King

  Apr 3, 1984· 75m

  A man who has had a good life in England wants to retire to Jamaica, but the celebration with his daughters doesn't go as expected.

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  E10Rainy Day Women

  Apr 10, 1984· 75m

  In 1940, during World War II, an officer is sent to investigate rumors of German spies in a sleepy village where various people are the victims of war hysteria

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  E11Dog Ends

  Jul 17, 1984· 75m

  In a future society where euthansia is common, a man signs papers to have his father put down

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  E12The Groundling and the Kite

  Jul 24, 1984· 75m

  Peter is a songwriter, while his old friend Jimmy is an A and R (Artists and Repertoire) man. But when Jimmy tries to sell one of Peter's songs, Peter is furious. Can the friendship survive?

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  E13The Cry

  Jul 31, 1984· 75m

  In 1959 Ulster, a journalist witnesses the beating of a youth

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  E14It Could Happen to Anybody

  Aug 14, 1984· 75m

  A long-suffering Glasgow housewife puts up with years of her husband's violence and drunkenness - and then something happens which makes her snap and fight back.

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  E15Only Children

  Aug 21, 1984· 75m

  A young woman's comfortable life is turned upside down when she has a baby.

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  E16The Amazing Miss Stella EstelleFinale

  Aug 28, 1984· 75m

  Miss Stella Estelle is a cabaret singer in working men's clubs, and she sings songs from the 1960s to support a large and difficult family. But how long can it go on? The backdrop is a family in decay: husband out of work, wife working and still doing the domestics, daughter the singer and hopeful star, son her "manager" but in reality going nowhere. Stella plays a crummy club circuit, singing songs for oldies for £50 a night - She's never going to be a star because of her parents' short-sighted greed.

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  E17The Long March

  Nov 20, 1984· 90m

  A woman returns to Belfast after ten years in England and becomes involved in the Maze prison protest.

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  E18Punters

  Nov 27, 1984· 75m

  What is the secret of Joey and Spansky's success at the races?

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  E19Talk To Me

  Dec 11, 1984· 75m

  Matthew and his wife are deeply suspicious of psychoanalysis. It's not their sort of thing at all.

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  E20Bird Fancier

  Jan 15, 1985· 75m
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  E21BrigadistaFinale

  Feb 5, 1985· 75m

  When best-selling author James Fuller Hayes comes to Glasgow to publicise his personal account of the Spanish Civil War, a surprise reunion with two of his old comrades from the Int Brigade reveals contradictory & devastating information.

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  E1Country

  Oct 20, 1981· 75m

  The story of the disintegration of an aristocratic country estate after World War II

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  E2London Is Drowning

  Oct 27, 1981· 75m

  A docudrama about what would happen if London was hit by severe flooding

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  E3A Room for the Winter

  Nov 3, 1981· 75m

  James, an expatriate South African anti-apartheid fighter, deals with his nightmares and his complaining landlady in a run-down area of London, while dreaming of his lover Stephen, left behind.

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  E4No Visible Scar

  Nov 17, 1981· 75m

  A nurse is subjected to an interrogation after giving medical treatment to a terrorist leader.

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  E5Iris in the Traffic, Ruby in the Rain

  Nov 24, 1981· 75m

  In Belfast, Ruby has a cold and is caught in the rain while Iris is looking for work and gets caught in traffic

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  E6Protest

  Dec 1, 1981· 75m

  In an adaptation of Václav Havel's play, a dissident, newly released from prison for political reasons, attempts to get his well-connected friend to sign a protest. In this one man play, both the roles are played by Nigel Hawthorne.

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  E7United Kingdom

  Dec 8, 1981· 75m

  Two men on a local council fight the system when forced with massive spending cuts.

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  E8PQ17

  Dec 15, 1981· 75m

  During World War II, a British officer is ordered to abandon a Russian convoy.

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  E9The Factory

  Dec 22, 1981· 75m

  A manager, a foreman, and two workers are all that remains of a factory yet labor relations stay the same

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  E10England's Green and Pleasant Land

  Jan 5, 1982· 75m

  A planning decision must be made, and the motorway extension must go through on either the Golf Course or the Allotments - will the greens survive or the peasant lands?

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  E11A Cotswold Death

  Jan 12, 1982· 75m

  A police inspector investigates the murder of an Arab sheik who had become a village's Lord of the Manor.

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  E12Under the Skin

  Jan 19, 1982· 75m

  Three women involved in different ways in the women's movement.

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  E13Commitments

  Jan 26, 1982· 75m

  Politics and relationships during the last years of the Heath government

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  E14Life After Death

  Feb 2, 1982· 75m

  Meg: We were so close, we loved each other, we made a whole together. I feel cut in half.

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  E15The Silly Season

  Feb 9, 1982· 75m

  Malcolm goes through life hating the mundanity of his existence as a factory worker and an unloved husband. But when students take up summer jobs at the factory, it reawakens both his passion for political feeling and romantic urges.

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  E16Too Late to Talk to Billy

  Feb 16, 1982· 75m

  A family in Belfast deals with life after the death of the mother from cancer

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  E17Willie's Last Stand

  Feb 23, 1982· 75m

  Willie and his friends notice the passage of time around them, and how society is changing as their marriages stagnate. Can Willie prove to himself that he still has it, by being able to cheat on his wife just once?

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  E18Tishoo

  Mar 9, 1982· 75m

  Frank has dedicated 19 years to researching a cure for the common cold, and is almost ready to publish a paper. Yet budget cuts and his own inability to form real relationships with those around him threaten to derail the project.

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  E19Home Sweet Home

  Mar 16, 1982· 75m

  Home Sweet Home is a 1982 television film devised and directed by Mike Leigh, for BBC TV, 'about postmen, parenthood, social workers and sex.' It was Leigh's second collaboration with Play for Today producer Louis Marks, and cinematographer Remi Adefarasin, and with composer Carl Davis - the music score featured a quartet of basses -. It stars Timothy Spall, here working with Leigh for the first time, Eric Richard, Tim Barker, Kay Stonham, Su Elliot, Frances Barber, Sheila Kelley, and Lorraine Brunning. It was first broadcast on 16 March 1982. The film was shot on location in Hitchin, Hertfordshire. 90 minutes.

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  E20A Sudden Wrench

  Mar 23, 1982· 75m

  "My life is over - and I just didn't notice it passing." A call to a radio helpline leads to depressed housewife Christine finding a new direction in life.

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  E21Eve Set the Balls of Corruption Going

  Mar 30, 1982· 75m

  Adolescents will always be obsessed by the same old subject, even when they are educated by nuns. Six ex-Classmates meet for the first time in 12 years and hilarious memories change into highly emotional situations.

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  E22Whistling WallyFinale

  Apr 6, 1982· 75m

  While Wally was happy there wasn't much wrong with the world, and pints seemed a small price to pay for what he gave us. But don't forget what we gave him. We gave him the knowledge he was important, at least to us.

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