TV ShowEnded

Summer Season

1985
1 season
25 episodes

This anthology of 55-minute plays aired on Thursday nights on BBC2.

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  • Ep 1

    1.Long Term Memory

    11-06-1985

    Gerald, a man who abandoned his family 21 years ago, hopes to reunite with them.

  • Ep 2

    2.Rachel And The Roarettes

    13-06-1985

    The 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

    18-06-1985

    Phoebe 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

    20-06-1985

    Life 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

    25-06-1985

    Two old ladies meet in Glasgow and weave fantasies about trips to Paris.

  • Ep 6

    6.Picture Friend

    02-07-1985

    After 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

    09-07-1985

    The 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

    11-07-1985

    Tension 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

    16-07-1985

    Actors rehearse and record a radio play.

  • Ep 11

    11.Maybe Baby

    18-07-1985

    A 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

    23-07-1985

    In 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

    25-07-1985

    A torturer confronts his victims.

  • Ep 14

    14.Pythons On The Mountain

    30-07-1985

    John 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

    01-08-1985

    A 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

    06-08-1985

    A 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

    08-08-1985

    Henry 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

    13-08-1985

    Teresa 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

    15-08-1985

    About 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

    20-08-1985

    Independent 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

    22-08-1985

    What do the characters on the seaside postcards get up to in private?

  • Ep 22

    22.The House On Kirov Street

    27-08-1985

    It'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

    03-09-1985

    Bill 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

    05-09-1985

    A young couple book a hotel room for a dirty weekend.

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