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Season 11977

Season 1

September 21, 1977
23
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1977
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23 episodes
Season 1
Professional Foul

Professional Foul

Sep 21, 19771h 25m0 votes
Director: Michael Lindsay-Hogg

Professor Anderson attends a conference in Prague, but what he really wants to do is attend a football match. Then he meets a former student unexpectedly, and must consider putting his philosophical ideas into practice.

9 guest stars
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Exiles

Exiles

Sep 28, 19771h 30m0 votes
Director: Alan Cooke

In the 1920s, Michael Arlen was one of the most popular and acclaimed writers in the world, but he mysteriously stopped writing altogether. His son tries to work out why.

10 guest stars
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Abie's Will

Abie's Will

Oct 5, 19770 votes
Director: Stephen Frears

A once-celebrated writer who has written nothing since the war, lies paralysed and dying as his family gathers at the family home.

6 guest stars
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The Sinking of HMS Victoria

The Sinking of HMS Victoria

Oct 12, 19770 votes
Director: Leonard Lewis

A dramatisation of events surrounding the loss of the turret ship HMS Victoria during fleet exercises off Tripoli on 22 June 1893.

8 guest stars
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True Patriot

True Patriot

Oct 19, 19771h 0m0 votes
Director: Ronald Wilson

A biopic of German theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer, whose opposition to Adolf Hitler led to his involvement in an assassination plot.

15 guest stars
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Shooting the Chandelier

Shooting the Chandelier

Oct 26, 19770 votes
Director: Jane Howell

Czechoslovakia, April 1945. A chance meeting between a professor and his former student turns into a violent trial of strength.

7 guest stars
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The Kitchen

The Kitchen

Nov 2, 19770 votes
Director: Alvin Rakoff

A busy day in the kitchen of a great hotel.

21 guest stars
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Arnhem: The Story of an Escape

Arnhem: The Story of an Escape

Nov 16, 19770 votes
Director: Clive Rees

Graeme Warrack was Divisional Chief Doctor of the 1st Airborne Division at the Battle of Arnhem in September 1944. With other doctors, medical personnel and padres, he stayed behind with the wounded.

9 guest stars
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Forgotten Love Songs

Forgotten Love Songs

Jan 4, 197855m0 votes
Director: Rodney Bennett

A man seeks the perfect relationship.

4 guest stars
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A Visit from Miss Prothero

A Visit from Miss Prothero

Jan 11, 197837m0 votes
Director: Stephen Frears

Arthur Dodsworth has recently retired. He lives alone except for his budgie and memories of his late wife Winnie. One afternoon his nap is interrupted by the doorbell; his former secretary, Peggy Prothero, has come to visit.

3 guest stars
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Mr. & Mrs. Bureaucrat

Mr. & Mrs. Bureaucrat

Jan 18, 19780 votes
Director: Mike Newell

Satire set at the Department of Something or Other, where mistakes in form-filling can bring careers to a sudden end.

11 guest stars
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Foreign Affairs

Foreign Affairs

Jan 25, 19780 votes
Director: Jonathan Alwyn

Moscow is the setting for a reunion between Viktor and Susan which brings about unforeseen complications.

14 guest stars
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The Dissolution of Marcus Fleischman

The Dissolution of Marcus Fleischman

Feb 1, 19780 votes
Director: John Bruce

Marcus Fleischman's reincarnation proves a frustrating one. His widow, in his absence, leads the simple life of a shopkeeper, and brings up their son as best she can.

9 guest stars
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The O'Hooligan File

The O'Hooligan File

Feb 8, 19780 votes
Director: Mike Vardy

A former teacher takes on the system armed only with pen, paper and stamps.

9 guest stars
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The Turkey Who Lives on the Hill

The Turkey Who Lives on the Hill

Feb 15, 19780 votes
Director: Alex Marshall

Married life starts off full of bright hopes for Alex and Lynda, but soon they are trapped in a nightmare with their friend Bill.

5 guest stars
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Flayed

Flayed

Feb 22, 19780 votes
Director: Don Taylor

A disparate group of guests find themselves locked into a largely empty television studio controlled by an anonymous man.

8 guest stars
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She Fell Among Thieves

She Fell Among Thieves

Mar 1, 19781h 18m0 votes
Director: Clive Donner

France, 1924. Two English gentlemen join forces to investigate notorious villainess Vanity Fair in her fortified chateau. Tongue-in-cheek 1978 TV film based on the novel by Dornford Yates.

15 guest stars
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Stargazy on Zummerdown

Stargazy on Zummerdown

Mar 15, 19781h 20m0 votes
Director: Michael Ferguson

In the 23rd century, Albion (formerly Britain) is made up of two distinct communities — the Aggros (farm workers) and the Toonies (industrial workers). They meet at Zummerdown for the annual midsummer festival of Stargazy.

8 guest stars
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Liza

Liza

Mar 22, 19781h 20m0 votes
Director: Peter Hammond

Lavretsky returns to Russia from Europe and joins the group of admirers of his beautiful young cousin Liza.

12 guest stars
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For Tea on Sunday

For Tea on Sunday

Mar 29, 19780 votes
Director: Don Taylor

Some young women, sharing accommodation, invite their boyfriends for tea on Sunday. But one of them proves to be alarmingly disturbed.

6 guest stars
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When the Actors Come

When the Actors Come

May 3, 19780 votes
Director: Don Taylor

In 19th-century Eastern Europe, a group of actors, led by Janos, arrive at a castle to give the Count and his friends a private performance. But the actors are also revolutionaries, and they have another agenda.

14 guest stars
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Ice Age

Ice Age

May 17, 19780 votes
Director: David Hugh Jones

An unexpected stranger arrives at the old peoples home in Norway where a famous writer is kept in confinement after the war. A young partisan plots his assassination, while others advocate handing him over for trial for collaboration.

7 guest stars
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The Copyist

The Copyist

May 24, 19780 votes
Director: Basil Coleman

A fateful day in the life of a celebrated composer.

9 guest stars
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