Season 7

1. The Bar Mitzvah Boy

A story exploring the emotions of a boy undrgoing the traditional Jewish ceremony

1976-09-14 • 75 min

2. Bet Your Life

Like alcoholism, gambling is a disease. Ches, a compulsive gambler, is sent for medical help. A wonder drug perhaps? Or hypnosis maybe? Ches finds that his psychiatrist has other ideas.

1976-09-21 • 75 min

3. Rocky Marciano Is Dead

Harry Marcus is a former welterweight champion mourning the loss of the past and dreaming of a return to the glory years of boxing. When a squatter moves in next door, does he have what it takes to fulfil Harry's dreams?

1976-09-28 • 75 min

4. The Elephants' Graveyard

Bunny’s wife thinks he is a postman, but in reality he spends his days in the Scottish hills. One day he meets Jody, a fellow walker.

1976-10-12 • 75 min

5. Housewives' Choice

When Joyce appears on the door-step she looks like the perfect 'kindly, respectable lady whom Marcia needs to look after her baby. But Joyce only seems to be the average housewife.

1976-10-19 • 75 min

6. Your Man from Six Counties

A young man from Belfast is sent south to stay with relatives in an attempt to keep him out of trouble.

1976-10-26 • 75 min

7. Buffet

Freddie is going through an existential crisis as everyone around him seems to doubt their own identity and the entire purpose of conversation. Surrounded by inflation and extra marital affairs, his only solace is in buffet room drinking.

1976-11-02 • 75 min

8. Love on a Gunboat

In 1956 Britain staggers through crises in Suez and Cyprus while Leslie Potter pursues and marries Monica Dobbs. Twenty years later the nation has still not recovered. Neither has Leslie.

1977-01-04 • 75 min

9. The Kiss of Death

A young man's chances at romance are thwarted by his own shyness.

1977-01-11 • 75 min

10. Our Flesh and Blood

How Mums and Dads feel when they have one.

1977-01-18 • 75 min

11. Do As I Say

A quietly unhappy housewife finds a stranger in her house and is raped at knife-point by him. But when she turns to friends, neighbors and her parents-in-law for sympathy, they all seem preoccupied by other matters.

1977-01-25 • 75 min

12. Spend, Spend, Spend

The rags-to-riches-to-rags story of a 1960s football pools winner, based on a true story

1977-03-15 • 75 min

13. A Photograph

A couple receives a photograph in the mail of two girls sitting in front of a caravan and neither can identify the people or the place.

1977-03-22 • 75 min

14. The Price of Coal: Meet The People

A pair of plays, broadcast over two weeks, about mining life: ""Meet the People,"" about a coal mining community preparing for a royal visit, and ""Back to Reality,"" about a coal mining disaster that brings tragedy to a community.

1977-03-29 • 75 min

15. The Price of Coal: Back To Reality

A pair of plays, broadcast over two weeks, about mining life: ""Meet the People,"" about a coal mining community preparing for a royal visit, and ""Back to Reality,"" about a coal mining disaster that brings tragedy to a community.

1977-04-05 • 75 min

16. Gotcha

A student holds his teacher hostage in the classroom on the last day of school.

1977-04-12 • 75 min

17. Campion's Interview

A story about school.

1977-04-12 • 75 min

18. A Choice of Evils

The story of Father Borelli who in Rome during World War II must choose between freedom and his principles

1977-04-19 • 75 min

19. The Country Party

Richard Elkinson, the former stockbroker, is now running a country restaurant. His daughter decides to spring a surprise on him in an attempt to change his life for the better.

1977-04-26 • 75 min