Summer Season

E1 Episode 1: Long Term Memory

• Now playing
• Jun 11, 1985

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

E2 Episode 2: Rachel And The Roarettes

• Jun 13, 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, starts questioning her own values and expectations.

E3 Episode 3: Phoebe

• Jun 18, 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 to life is, to say the least, more forthright.

E4 Episode 4: You've Never Slept In Mine

• Jun 20, 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?

E5 Episode 5: Paris

• Jun 25, 1985

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

E6 Episode 6: Picture Friend

• Jul 2, 1985

After a drunken woman falls off a bus, and is taken to hospital overnight, she starts to have disturbing memories.

E7 Episode 7: Pity In History

• Jul 4, 1985

E8 Episode 8: Glamour Night

• Jul 9, 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 outburst from the model.

E9 Episode 9: Time Trouble

• Jul 11, 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 London by train. The older of the two boys, Carl, is a chess prodigy. The younger son is a normal boy with no interest in chess. They arrive at a Chess event where visiting Russian Grand Master Krylov plays several games simultaneously. Unbeknown to his accompanying KGB escort Krylov is hoping to manufacture an opportunity in which he can defect. Krylov easily beats all of his opponents except for Carl. After a long struggle they reach the decisive point in their game, while the tensions between East and West also reach a climax...

E10 Episode 10: Radio Pictures

• Jul 16, 1985

Actors rehearse and record a radio play.

E11 Episode 11: Maybe Baby

• Jul 18, 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 sticklebacks.

E12 Episode 12: The Dumb Waiter

• Jul 23, 1985

In the kitchen, two assassins await the arrival of their victim. But someone keeps sending them messages via the dumb waiter.

E13 Episode 13: One For The Road

• Jul 25, 1985

A torturer confronts his victims.

E14 Episode 14: Pythons On The Mountain

• Jul 30, 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.

E15 Episode 15: A Still Small Shout

• Aug 1, 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.

E16 Episode 16: A Crack In The Ice

• Aug 6, 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 hears the cries of a drowning man and goes to his rescue.

E17 Episode 17: Flights

• Aug 8, 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 retrieve her bicycle wheels from his flying machine.

E18 Episode 18: Tuesday's Child

• Aug 13, 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.

E19 Episode 19: Urban Jungle

• Aug 15, 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 style at BBC Pebble Mill studios Birmingham. Sadly Roy Kinnear left to go to Spain for Muskiteers Film and within to weeks had had a terrible accident and passed away god bless him. David Rappaport & Roy Kinnear had there sons visit set on last day of recording in Studio A.

E20 Episode 20: Broken Homes

• Aug 20, 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 community action quartet to brighten up the old lady's life.

E21 Episode 21: Kisses On The Bottom

• Aug 22, 1985

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

E22 Episode 22: The House On Kirov Street

• Aug 27, 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 is just another unwelcome disturbance.

E23 Episode 23: After You Hugo

• Aug 29, 1985

E24 Episode 24: Portrait Of Isa Mulvenney

• Sep 3, 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, which is to affect his life for the next 20 years.

E25 Episode 25: Reservations

• Sep 5, 1985

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