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This anthology of 55-minute plays aired on Thursday nights on BBC2.
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Seasons
- Ep 1
1.Long Term Memory
11-06-1985Gerald, a man who abandoned his family 21 years ago, hopes to reunite with them.
- Ep 2
2.Rachel And The Roarettes
13-06-1985The Roarettes are a gang of women bikers led by dazzling, androgynous Rachel. She walks into a pub, and into the life of Melanie, who, observing the free lifestyle of the Roarettes...
- Ep 3
3.Phoebe
18-06-1985Phoebe comes straight from a farm and a very religious family to work as a kitchen maid in a girls' school. It is wartime, and the other maid is Stella, a Londoner whose approach t...
- Ep 4
4.You've Never Slept In Mine
20-06-1985Life in the Assessment Centre is far from easy: all the other girls want to know what you are in for. Shop-lifting? Truanting? Or something far more spectacular?
- Ep 5
5.Paris
25-06-1985Two old ladies meet in Glasgow and weave fantasies about trips to Paris.
- Ep 6
6.Picture Friend
02-07-1985After a drunken woman falls off a bus, and is taken to hospital overnight, she starts to have disturbing memories.
- Ep 7
7.Pity In History
04-07-1985 - Ep 8
8.Glamour Night
09-07-1985The play involves a glamour photography session. During the photo-shoot the photographers begin trying to coerce a model into posing topless, leading eventually to an angry outburs...
- Ep 9
9.Time Trouble
11-07-1985Tension between the East and the West escalate and the radio warns that a nuclear war is becoming a distinct possibility. Liverpudlian Michael Angelis takes his two young sons to L...
- Ep 10
10.Radio Pictures
16-07-1985Actors rehearse and record a radio play.
- Ep 11
11.Maybe Baby
18-07-1985A comic exploration of the pros and cons of bringing a baby into the modern world, featuring not only Jill and Michael, the potential parents, but elephants, dwarf mongooses - and...
- Ep 12
12.The Dumb Waiter
23-07-1985In the kitchen, two assassins await the arrival of their victim. But someone keeps sending them messages via the dumb waiter.
- Ep 13
13.One For The Road
25-07-1985A torturer confronts his victims.
- Ep 14
14.Pythons On The Mountain
30-07-1985John Prothero, internationally famous for his witty and iconoclastic TV criticism, now treats us to an outrageously comic helping of autobiography, Scenes from a Welsh Adolescence.
- Ep 15
15.A Still Small Shout
01-08-1985A successful novelist is roped in by his old chum from college days to do a bit of spying on the side in Eastern Europe, with disastrous results.
- Ep 16
16.A Crack In The Ice
06-08-1985A comedy about injustice set in St Petersburg in 1839. The Tsar has tightened up security and mounted a round-the-clock guard at his palace. Unfortunately for Private Postnikov, he...
- Ep 17
17.Flights
08-08-1985Henry is a teacher, but his dream of man-powered flight and his habit of destroying the odd greenhouse on his test runs threaten his career. His daughter Ruth would dearly love to...
- Ep 18
18.Tuesday's Child
13-08-1985Teresa has been on a visit to the Holy Land. When she returns, she goes to Father Doyle to confide news of a miracle and his faith is put to the test.
- Ep 19
19.Urban Jungle
15-08-1985About a newspaper reporter in Norfolk and his investigation into crimes & corruption Tim Roth plays news paper reporter trilby hat with a card in the hat band Studio play for today...
- Ep 20
20.Broken Homes
20-08-1985Independent pensioner Mrs Malby is not the least bit interested in an offer of domestic help from pupils at a local school. A teacher misinterprets her refusal and dispatches his c...
- Ep 21
21.Kisses On The Bottom
22-08-1985What do the characters on the seaside postcards get up to in private?
- Ep 22
22.The House On Kirov Street
27-08-1985It's November 1941, and a group of German officers are billeted in Anton Chekhov's old house in Kirov Street. The house is now a museum guarded by Chekhov's sister for whom the war...
- Ep 23
23.After You Hugo
29-08-1985 - Ep 24
24.Portrait Of Isa Mulvenney
03-09-1985Bill is a middle-class English boy sent by his father to serve an engineering apprenticeship on the Clyde. He lodges with a Greenock family and forms an attachment to his landlady,...
- Ep 25
25.Reservations
05-09-1985A young couple book a hotel room for a dirty weekend.
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