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Season 21978

Season 2

September 20, 1978
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1978
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15 episodes
Season 2
Langrishe Go Down

Langrishe Go Down

Sep 20, 19781h 45m0 votes
Director: David Hugh Jones

In the late 1930s, three reclusive middle-aged spinster sisters live on their run down family estate in Ireland. Otto Beck, a perpetual graduate student from Bavaria with a habit of making pompous declamations, rents the back lodge to work on his esoteric thesis. Imogen Langrishe, the least repressed of the sisters, begins an affair with Otto. Imogen takes the love affair seriously, but Otto just enjoys the cheap lodging and the comfort of Imogen.

9 guest stars
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Fairies

Fairies

Sep 27, 19781h 6m0 votes
Director: Moira Armstrong

How could photographs, taken on a simple camera by two Yorkshire village girls, have momentous implications for man's understanding of the world?

9 guest stars
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Fearless Frank

Fearless Frank

Oct 4, 19780 votes
Director: Colin Bucksey

The outrageous – and not entirely reliable – memoirs of Irish writer Frank Harris, sometime cowboy in the Old West, friend to the famous in the literary world, essayist and critic, and seducer of beautiful women.

15 guest stars
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The Lost Boys: Part 1 – We Set Out to Be Wrecked

The Lost Boys: Part 1 – We Set Out to Be Wrecked

Oct 11, 19781h 40m0 votes

1897: A quiet afternoon in Kensington Gardens. A little boy in a red tam-o'-shanter realises he is being watched by a small man with a huge St. Bernard. The man is J. M. Barrie...

5 guest stars
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The Lost Boys: Part 2 – Dark and Sinister Man

The Lost Boys: Part 2 – Dark and Sinister Man

Oct 18, 19781h 40m0 votes

1906: Arthur is gravely ill. Sylvia turns more and more to Barrie for help. A wealthy man following the huge success of Peter Pan, Barrie is only too happy to respond.

5 guest stars
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The Lost Boys: Part 3 – An Awfully Big Adventure

The Lost Boys: Part 3 – An Awfully Big Adventure

Oct 25, 19781h 40m0 votes

1913: Three years have passed since Sylvia's death. George is now a man and Michael, 13 years old. For the Llewelyn Davieses, childhood is at an end, and illusions are about to be destroyed.

5 guest stars
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Return Fare

Return Fare

Nov 1, 19781h 29m0 votes
Director: Ken Grieve

A man adjusts to freedom after years incarcerated.

6 guest stars
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Another Day

Another Day

Nov 22, 19780 votes
Director: Jim O'Brien

Abandoned by her husband, Eileen tries to make the best of bringing up her children in a rundown bed-sit. A man called George shows her attention, but others are suspicious of his motives.

6 guest stars
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The Vanishing Army

The Vanishing Army

Nov 29, 19781h 15m0 votes
Director: Richard Loncraine

The promotion of an ambitious, decorated NCO is put in jeopardy when he marries an unconventional wife and faces the snobbery of his superiors and their families.

17 guest stars
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Night People

Night People

Dec 6, 19780 votes
Director: Leonard Lewis

A classical string quartet stop at a motorway cafe in the early hours. Among the people they meet are a football supporter, a travelling salesman and an elderly couple who are going to Gretna Green to get married.

11 guest stars
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Renoir, My Father

Renoir, My Father

Dec 13, 19780 votes
Director: Alan Cooke

A dramatisation of the life and work of the artist Auguste Renoir, based on the book by his filmmaker son, Jean Renoir.

15 guest stars
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On Giant's Shoulders

On Giant's Shoulders

Mar 28, 19791h 30m0 votes
Director: Anthony Simmons

A middle-aged childless couple on a remote farm adopt a Black boy with no limbs due to the effects of Thalidomide. They encounter a great deal of resistance and scepticism from their friends and neighbours.

7 guest stars
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Stepping Out

Stepping Out

Apr 4, 19790 votes
Director: Peter Bartlett

A middle-aged woman who enjoys making lavish ballgowns wishes her daughter would visit more often.

5 guest stars
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A Light That Shines

A Light That Shines

Apr 11, 19790 votes
Director: Marek Kanievska

At a teaching Order, Conroy is asked to mentor promising student Stephen, who is feeling pressured.

10 guest stars
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In England's Green and Pleasant Land

In England's Green and Pleasant Land

May 16, 19790 votes
Director: Clive Halls

Authorities must decide if the repentance of a reformed convicted murderer is genuine so he can be prepared for release.

10 guest stars
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