Season 13 (1982)
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Episodes 18
Soft Targets
A story about a homesick Russian journalist in London at the end of the cold war
Read MoreThree Minute Heroes
Out on the streets, young people looking for fun. They come together at nights to listen to their music. For as long as the song lasts, they're heroes. Three minute heroes.
Read MoreThe Remainder Man
Jack's obsession with the possibility of nuclear war sees him usher his family down into his home made fall out shelter after a nuclear strike hits the country. Will their time in confinement draw them together or push them apart?
Read MoreIntensive Care
A man holds a lonely vigil at the bedside of his dying father.
Read MoreA Mother Like Him
A family of five orphaned children are going to be split up into different homes. What will happen if the eldest is officially made their foster parent?
Read MoreJohn David
After giving birth to a Down's Syndrome baby, Judith decides she doesn't want to keep him. Obliged to register the birth she arbitrarily chooses John David as the name. A few months later she learns the baby has died.
Read MoreAnother Flip for Dominick
Two years after his journey to the past, Dominick Hide has been promoted to instructor and is no longer a time traveller. Then one of his pupils, Pyrus Bonnington, goes missing during a visit to 1982 London. Hide must track him down and prevent Pyrus damaging the past, but will the temptation to re-visit his own history be too strong to resist?
Read MoreGates of Gold
In 1959 County Antrim, two traveling evangelists help a mentally retarded teenager
Read MoreWayne and Albert
Wayne goes to live with his grandfather Albert. Initial generation gap hostilities between them are eventually overcome as a mutual respect develops through a their shared love of carpentry and snooker.
Read MoreThe Last Term
Devon 1940. The boys of the local public school are alerted after a German parachute drop and as members of the Local Defence Volunteers they prepare to put their youthful enthusiasm for war into practice.
Read MoreReluctant Chickens
Malcolm is a GP wrestling with ideas of retirement, while his wife Jo is a frustrated, would-be novelist. Together they dream of a more contented life, but are hampered by the arrested development of their children who won't leave home.
Read MoreShall I Be Mother?
Susan and Jenny are aged 13 and 14 and in care. Jenny's mother has died, Susan hasn't seen hers for years Both influence the close, stormy relationship that develops between the two girls.
Read MoreThe Falklands Factor
The 18th century writer Samuel Johnson writes a political pamphlet protesting the British going to war with Spain after the 1790 invasion of the Falkland Islands.
Read MoreA Matter of Choice for Billy
When his father leaves Belfast to seek work in England, a young man looks after his sister
Read MoreFloating Off
A businessman tries to keep his son from finding out about an unconventional deal he and his secretary are making with a merchant bank.
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