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Season 11978

Miniseries

March 7, 1978

During the Great Depression, a sheet music salesman seeks to escape his dreary life through popular music and a love affair with an innocent schoolteacher.

6
Episodes
N/A
Rating
0
Votes
1978
Year

Cast

Bob Hoskins
Bob Hoskins
Arthur Parker
Gemma Craven
Gemma Craven
Joan Parker
Cheryl Campbell
Cheryl Campbell
Eileen
Kenneth Colley
Kenneth Colley
The Accordion Man

Episodes

6 episodes
Season 1
Down Sunnyside Lane

Down Sunnyside Lane

Mar 7, 19781h 12m0 votes
Director: Piers Haggard

Arthur Parker is a music salesman with a song in his heart but trouble in his fortunes. On a trip to Gloucester, he meets two people who will change his life: a strange 'gentleman of the road', who plays hymns on a piano accordion and a beautiful young teacher. At home, Arthur's wife Joan waits apprehensively.

9 guest stars
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The Sweetest Thing

The Sweetest Thing

Mar 14, 19781h 18m0 votes
Director: Piers Haggard

As Eileen tells her schoolchildren their favourite fairytale, song salesman Arthur, Prince Charming in the tale, is coming back to make her his princess. He finds her in a magical forest. His wife Joan wonders if she has left him for good and the mysterious accordion player still haunts the story.

11 guest stars
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Easy Come, Easy Go

Easy Come, Easy Go

Mar 21, 19781h 27m0 votes
Director: Piers Haggard

Arthur has at last returned home to his anxious, waiting wife, who still cares enough to make a new bargain with him. She reluctantly agrees to finance his record shop.

16 guest stars
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Better Think Twice

Better Think Twice

Mar 28, 19781h 17m0 votes
Director: Piers Haggard

Arthur and Eileen are both back in London. While he seeks to start his own record shop, country girl Eileen wants the life that begins at Oxford Circus.

11 guest stars
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Painting the Clouds

Painting the Clouds

Apr 4, 19781h 21m0 votes
Director: Piers Haggard

Arthur and Eileen have disappeared. Joan is receiving strange visits from a police inspector, and the case of the murdered blind girl is to be opened.

12 guest stars
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Says My Heart

Says My Heart

Apr 11, 19781h 24m0 votes
Director: Piers Haggard

Now wanted for murder, Arthur takes Eileen on the run, hungry, desperate, but still together. They hide in a lonely farmhouse, but he makes a fatal error.

13 guest stars
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