The Long Distance Piano Player
Episode: 1x01 | Airdate: Oct 15, 1970 (100 min)
The story of one man's obsession (to win the world long distance piano-playing record) and the battle for good (his wife) and evil (his agent) that rages around him.
Episode: 1x01 | Airdate: Oct 15, 1970 (100 min)
The story of one man's obsession (to win the world long distance piano-playing record) and the battle for good (his wife) and evil (his agent) that rages around him.
Episode: 1x02 | Airdate: Oct 22, 1970
What would it be like to go back to school in middle-age and have one's chances all over again? This is the question John Osborne asks in his first TV play for many years.
Episode: 1x03 | Airdate: Oct 29, 1970 (90 min)
A rare foray into television for Ingmar Bergman, this brilliantly made, disturbing film stars Frank Finlay in the story of a 70s middle-class marriage build on deceit and delusion.
Episode: 1x04 | Airdate: Nov 5, 1970 (65 min)
Cynthia's a bored housewife. The dishy angel at the door could be the answer to one of her prayers. Dennis Potter's fascinating fable about fantasy, and having your wings clipped.
Episode: 1x05 | Airdate: Nov 12, 1970
Where do playwrights get their ideas from? George Salverson , the distinguished Canadian author of The Write-Ofi, took this story straight from life when a friend telephoned to say that he had lost his job but for six months had been too proud to tell anyone.
Episode: 1x06 | Airdate: Nov 19, 1970
When it's time to wet the baby's head, it's surprising the secrets that emerge ...
Episode: 1x07 | Airdate: Nov 26, 1970 (50 min)
A boy's hero-worship of his distinguished father is threatened by the intrusion of echoes from the hero's wartime past
Episode: 1x08 | Airdate: Dec 3, 1970
Episode: 1x09 | Airdate: Dec 10, 1970
Norah Palmer owns a cottage In the country. She is a modern woman, used to city life, and totally unprepared when the setting and the people begin to take on an ancient and terrifying meaning.
Episode: 1x10 | Airdate: Dec 17, 1970
Henry sets out to join a church and passionately help the parish. Slowly but surely his habits of exaggeration and lying begin to catch up with him.
Episode: 1x11 | Airdate: Jan 7, 1971 (85 min)
Jimmy Nicholson , back from the Middle East, visits his son at the public school where he was educated. He discovers that the traditions by which he has guided his life appear to be obsolete.
Episode: 1x12 | Airdate: Jan 14, 1971 (65 min)
A play by a student about a student, and his unexpected reactions to the pressure or vacuum of student life. Something, too, of what the rest of us look like from that young point of view
Episode: 1x13 | Airdate: Jan 21, 1971
The adopted child is useful; the grown-up boy a problem. But it isn't so easy to drop a person.
Episode: 1x14 | Airdate: Jan 28, 1971 (65 min)
Change is hard when you're older -even change for the better.
Episode: 1x15 | Airdate: Feb 4, 1971 (50 min)
Billy is his own boss. But Darkly has plans for him ...
Episode: 1x16 | Airdate: Feb 11, 1971 (65 min)
John Rainbird is in a coma after a suicide attempt. He falls prey to fantasies involving his relatives and nightmare creatures.
Episode: 1x17 | Airdate: Feb 18, 1971
Charges that the Rev ' Red' Reddick is exploiting his youth club members leads to an explosive confrontation ...
Episode: 1x18 | Airdate: Apr 29, 1971 (70 min)
Arthur and Gwen, a cosy middle-aged couple, remember with nostalgia the pre-Motorway Britain of their youth. When Tom, an old friend, returns from voyaging the world their life takes a strange new turn.
Episode: 1x19 | Airdate: May 6, 1971
When Sheila, a young mother, fails to explain satisfactorily to the doctors how her baby fractured its skull, Margaret Ash down, an NSPCC social worker, is asked to investigate. Poverty, ignorance, a work-shy husband, and almost a tradition of family instability - these are only some of the things she discovers.
Episode: 1x20 | Airdate: May 13, 1971 (90 min)
Episode: 1x21 | Airdate: May 20, 1971
This story by the author of The Lump and The Big Flame explores the effects of a strike both on the men themselves and on their families
Episode: 1x22 | Airdate: May 27, 1971
A famous and successful woman novelist is in the middle of a book about a woman enjoying the self-destruction of her husband's self-respect. The situation is paralleled in her own home.
Episode: 1x23 | Airdate: Jun 3, 1971
Every year beach photographer Henry Hunter goes back to Mar-gate to stay with his old friend Frank and his efficient landlady wife Hylda. But now people are taking their own pictures and Frank is getting older ...