Season 11 (1980)
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Episodes 27
The Adventures of Frank: Everybody's Fiddling Something
Writer-director John McGrath deliberately shies away from naturalism in an experiment that mixes blue screen, songs, and characters realising they're acting within a play. This first of two parts sees Frank travel to a hostile London.
Read MoreThe Adventures of Frank: Seeds of Ice
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Minor Complications
Kay Gilbert goes into hospital for a minor operation which goes badly wrong. This play tells the story of her fight for compensation.
Read MoreNumber on End
What could Steve Jackson's documentary film expose that must be concealed from the African leaders meeting in Brussels? Steve Jackson is on the run and the wrong decision could prove fatal.
Read MoreThe Flipside of Dominick Hide
Dominick Hide, a time traveller from London in the year 2130, is studying the city's transport system of 1980. Breaking the rules, he lands his craft to seek out his great-grandfather. Compared to his anaesthetised home, 80s London is filthy and polluted...and yet...it exudes an excitement that soon draws him in.
Read MoreName for the Day
Clive admits himself to a psychiatric hospital after undergoing a breakdown. His wife wants him back home, but in order for Clive to be released, he has to want to be cured.
Read MoreBeyond the Pale
A vacation at a seaside hotel in Ireland changes the lives of four friends.
Read MoreThe Muscle Market
The problems of an owner of a building contractor company in Liverpool
Read MoreA Brush with Mr. Porter on the Road to El Dorado
"They're nice affable gobblers and we're in the nice affable gobbling business." Tom and Gwen soon find that their gastronomical retreat from the rat race is anything but an escape when the Porters come to dine.
Read MoreDear Brutus
"They say that in the wood you get what nearly everybody here is longing for - a second chance." J. M. Barrie's fantasy play, depicting alternative realities for its characters and their eventual return to real life.
Read MoreBeloved Enemy
The head of a multinational corporation wants to do business with the Soviets
Read MoreThe Kamikaze Ground Staff Reunion Dinner
A group of men hold a reunion dinner in Tokyo
Read MoreShai Mãlã Khani: The Garland
When her 17-year-old son Roy falls in love with a Muslim girl, and a Bangladeshi butcher seeks help from her husband Raji, Leela realizes that the tears and romance of Indian cinema are closer to her own life than she has ever imagined.
Read MoreThe Sin Bin
Six lifers living in an experimental self-rehabilitation unit attached to an ordinary prison participate in a group therapy session. All of them have spent many years in prison and have little chance of ever getting out.
Read MoreBefore Water Lillies
An evening with the Parent-Teacher Association gets out of hand.
Read MoreBavarian Night
When the dynamic young head-master of St Peter's Primary School decides to liven up a parents' fund-raising social by hiring a Bavarian band, he little suspects the hidden passions that are about to be unleashed.
Read MoreThe Good Time Girls
Nancy and Ella are two bored housewives starved of affection when their husbands are away on the oil rigs. The rules are simple: have some fun, just make sure nobody finds out, and you don't get emotionally involved.
Read MoreA Turn for the Worse
Soldiers are subjected to a brutal and sadistic kind of psychological training exercise
Read MorePsy-Warriors
Soldiers are captured and interrogated by terrorists: but is it real or only a sadistic form of psychological training exercise?
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