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Series 8

October 17, 1977

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Season 8
Stronger than the Sun

Stronger than the Sun

Oct 18, 19771h 15m0 votes
Director: Michael Apted

A worker discovers a radioactive leak at the nuclear power plant where she works and tries to make it public knowledge.

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Come the Revolution

Come the Revolution

Oct 25, 19771h 15m0 votes
Director: Michael Darlow

Mike and his commune have a performance of their musical theatre "Diver" at the local pub, and ITV's Beth Bailey is coming along to see it. But will Beth's visions for the play as an incitement to revolution please everyone?

5 guest stars
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Abigail's Party

Abigail's Party

Nov 1, 19771h 15m0 votes
Director: Mike Leigh

Comedy of manners focusing on the bourgeois affectation and sexual frustration of a young married couple. Abigail's mother Sue is invited to take refuge from her teenage daughter's party with a neighbouring couple, Beverly and Laurence. They have also invited Angela and Tony, new arrivals in the street. Beverly plies her guests with alcohol as Sue becomes increasingly withdrawn and embarrassed by the pretentious goings-on. Slowly, marital tensions emerge and the evening is breaking up in disarray.

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Oy Vay Maria

Oy Vay Maria

Nov 8, 19771h 15m0 votes
Director: Richard Loncraine

The story of the romance between a Jewish boy and an Irish Catholic girl

3 guest stars
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Nipper

Nipper

Nov 15, 19771h 15m0 votes

Teenager Jimmy's life begins to unravel after the death of his father. With his mother promiscuous and his new stepfather and stepbrother difficult to get along with, he begins to fall into a cycle of petty crime and self harm.

5 guest stars
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One Day at a Time

One Day at a Time

Nov 22, 19771h 15m0 votes
Director: Ronald Wilson

"People coming to their first AA meeting, prosperous people, sometimes, accustomed to the best. They look round the places where we meet, and you can see them thinking: what am I doing here? I owe my life to these rooms!"

4 guest stars
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The Mayor's Charity

The Mayor's Charity

Nov 29, 19771h 15m0 votes
Director: Mike Newell

Olive Major is determined that her year of office as Mayor will be a happy and successful one. But her appointment of Ex-Warrant Officer Higham as Attendant and Mace-bearer causes the storm-clouds to gather over Medburgh Town Hall.

4 guest stars
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Catchpenny Twist

Catchpenny Twist

Dec 6, 19771h 15m0 votes
Director: Robert Knights

Three schoolteachers in Belfast give up teaching to become singers/songwriters.

3 guest stars
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Charades

Charades

Dec 13, 19771h 15m0 votes

"We've just got to get it right. It'll be our little secret. When all the other servants have gone out, we'll play this little game to amuse ourselves. A sort of private charade."

3 guest stars
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The Thin End of the Wedge

The Thin End of the Wedge

Dec 20, 19771h 15m0 votes

"Five days of darkness then. Unless you get it together we will have five days of darkness. And on the sixth day you will say, let there be light, and no doubt it'll be such an effort that on the seventh day you'll have to rest!"

3 guest stars
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Scully's New Year's Eve

Scully's New Year's Eve

Jan 3, 19781h 15m0 votes
Director: Michael Simpson

A Liverpool teenager has a hectic night out on New Year's Eve.

3 guest stars
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Licking Hitler

Licking Hitler

Jan 10, 19781h 15m0 votes
Director: David Hare

During World War II, a young woman joins the propaganda department and makes radio broadcasts to Germany from a British country house.

5 guest stars
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Red Shift

Red Shift

Jan 17, 19781h 15m0 votes
Director: John Mackenzie

A stone axehead links three couples living at different times in the same place in Wales.

5 guest stars
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The Spongers

The Spongers

Jan 24, 19781h 15m0 votes

The story of a single mother of four living on welfare

2 guest stars
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Destiny

Destiny

Jan 31, 19781h 15m0 votes
Director: Mike Newell

A story dealing with racial tensions and fascism during a by-election in a West Midlands town

9 guest stars
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Our Day Out

Our Day Out

Feb 7, 19781h 15m0 votes

When a teacher takes a group of troubled school children on a school trip to Conwy in Wales, the children understand life outside of Liverpool.

3 guest stars
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The After-Dinner Joke

The After-Dinner Joke

Feb 14, 19781h 15m0 votes

The story of a well-meaning charity worker

3 guest stars
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The Legion Hall Bombing

The Legion Hall Bombing

Aug 22, 19781h 15m0 votes

The story of the trial of Willie Gallagher, convicted of bombing the Strabane British Legion Hall in 1976.

3 guest stars
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