Season 14
Season 14 • 1983
⭐ 3.5 / 5
Episodes
1. Stan's Last Game
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.
1983-10-25 • 75 min
2. Young Shoulders
Cynical teenager Andrew Groves re-evaluates his attitude to life and his parents after his sister dies in a plane crash.
1984-02-14 • 75 min
3. A Coming to Terms for Billy
When his father comes home to Belfast after more than 2 years in England, conflicts arise with Billy
1984-02-21 • 75 min
4. Z for Zachariah
After a nuclear holocaust, only a man and a woman survive in a Welsh valley.
1984-02-28 • 75 min
5. Moving on the Edge
A woman in a state of personal crisis finds it hard to communicate with her husband and family.
1984-03-06 • 75 min
6. Desert of Lies
An expedition tracing the path of long-lost missionaries meets with tragedy in the Kalahari Desert.
1984-03-13 • 75 min
7. Hard Feelings
A group of unemployed Oxford drop-outs living in a Brixton commune get their come-uppance by one of them.
1984-03-20 • 75 min
8. Under the Hammer
Concerning the life of the artist Vincent Van Gogh
1984-03-27 • 75 min
9. King
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.
1984-04-03 • 75 min
10. Rainy Day Women
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
1984-04-10 • 75 min
11. Dog Ends
In a future society where euthansia is common, a man signs papers to have his father put down
1984-07-17 • 75 min
12. The Groundling and the Kite
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?
1984-07-24 • 75 min
13. The Cry
In 1959 Ulster, a journalist witnesses the beating of a youth
1984-07-31 • 75 min
14. It Could Happen to Anybody
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.
1984-08-14 • 75 min
15. Only Children
A young woman's comfortable life is turned upside down when she has a baby.
1984-08-21 • 75 min
16. The Amazing Miss Stella Estelle
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.
1984-08-28 • 75 min
