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The Long Distance Piano Player

The story of one man's obsession (to win the world long distance piano-playing record) and the battle for good (his wife) and evil (his agent) that rages around him.

The Right Prospectus

What would it be like to go back to school in middle-age and have one's chances all over again? This is the question John Osborne asks in his first TV play for many years.

The Lie

A rare foray into television for Ingmar Bergman, this brilliantly made, disturbing film stars Frank Finlay in the story of a 70s middle-class marriage build on deceit and delusion.

Angels Are So Few

Cynthia's a bored housewife. The dishy angel at the door could be the answer to one of her prayers. Dennis Potter's fascinating fable about fantasy, and having your wings clipped.

The Write-Off

Where do playwrights get their ideas from? George Salverson , the distinguished Canadian author of The Write-Ofi, took this story straight from life when a friend telephoned to say that he had lost his job but for six months had been too proud to tell anyone.

I Can't See My Little Willie

When it's time to wet the baby's head, it's surprising the secrets that emerge ...

A Distant Thunder

A boy's hero-worship of his distinguished father is threatened by the intrusion of echoes from the hero's wartime past

Hearts and Flowers

Robin Redbreast

Norah Palmer owns a cottage In the country. She is a modern woman, used to city life, and totally unprepared when the setting and the people begin to take on an ancient and terrifying meaning.

The Hallelujah Handshake

Henry sets out to join a church and passionately help the parish. Slowly but surely his habits of exaggeration and lying begin to catch up with him.

Alma Mater

Jimmy Nicholson , back from the Middle East, visits his son at the public school where he was educated. He discovers that the traditions by which he has guided his life appear to be obsolete.

Circle Line

A play by a student about a student, and his unexpected reactions to the pressure or vacuum of student life. Something, too, of what the rest of us look like from that young point of view

Hell's Angel

The adopted child is useful; the grown-up boy a problem. But it isn't so easy to drop a person.

The Piano

Change is hard when you're older -even change for the better.

Billy's Last Stand

Billy is his own boss. But Darkly has plans for him ...

The Rainbirds

John Rainbird is in a coma after a suicide attempt. He falls prey to fantasies involving his relatives and nightmare creatures.

Reddick

Charges that the Rev ' Red' Reddick is exploiting his youth club members leads to an explosive confrontation ...

The Foxtrot

Arthur and Gwen, a cosy middle-aged couple, remember with nostalgia the pre-Motorway Britain of their youth. When Tom, an old friend, returns from voyaging the world their life takes a strange new turn.

When the Bough Breaks

When Sheila, a young mother, fails to explain satisfactorily to the doctors how her baby fractured its skull, Margaret Ash down, an NSPCC social worker, is asked to investigate. Poverty, ignorance, a work-shy husband, and almost a tradition of family instability - these are only some of the things she discovers.

Orkney

The Rank and File

This story by the author of The Lump and The Big Flame explores the effects of a strike both on the men themselves and on their families

The Man in the Sidecar

A famous and successful woman novelist is in the middle of a book about a woman enjoying the self-destruction of her husband's self-respect. The situation is paralleled in her own home.

Everybody Say Cheese

Every year beach photographer Henry Hunter goes back to Mar-gate to stay with his old friend Frank and his efficient landlady wife Hylda. But now people are taking their own pictures and Frank is getting older ...

Traitor

Why would someone who claims to love their country betray it? Dennis Potter's fascinating play features a BAFTA-winning performance from John le Mesurier.

Edna, the Inebriate Woman

Patricia Hayes won a BAFTA for her remarkable performance in this legendary film from the writer of Cathy Come Home, about an elderly, drunken vagrant living rough in 70s Britain.

Evelyn

Frank is 40 and worried about his age, which he says is 35. His girl-friend keeps him young, but who are her friends?

O Fat White Woman

Thank You Very Much

Michael Regan

Skin Deep

Pal

The Pigeon Fancier

Home

Still Waters

Stocker's Copper

The House on Highbury Hill

In the Beautiful Caribbean

Ackerman, Dougall and Harker

The Villa Maroc

Cows

A Time to Keep

The Fishing Party

The Reporters

A Life Is Forever

Carson Country

Man Friday

Triple Exposure

Better than the Movies

The General's Day

The Bankrupt

Just Your Luck

The Bouncing Boy

Shakespeare or Bust

Land of Green Ginger

Kisses at Fifty

Highway Robbery

Song at Twilight

Only Make Believe

For Sylvia or the Air Show

The Operation

Access to the Children

Hard Labour

Man Above Men

Speech Day

Steps Back

Three's One

Edward G.--Like the Film Star

Blooming Youth

The Stretch

Making the Play

Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont

Her Majesty's Pleasure

Jack Point

The Emergency Channel

Mummy and Daddy

Private Practice

Shutdown

Baby Blues

Jingle Bells

The Lonely Man's Lover

All Good Men

Joe's Ark

Hot Fat

Easy Go

Headmaster

Penda's Fen

Pigeon--Hawk or Dove?

Three for the Fancy

The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil

Schmoedipus

The Childhood Friend

A Follower for Emily

Leeds--United!

Baby Love

Back of Beyond

The Bevellers

Taking Leave

Fugitive

Eleanor

Gangsters

The After Dinner Game

Breath

The Death of a Young, Young Man

Sunset Across the Bay

Funny Farm

Goodbye

Just Another Saturday

A Child of Hope

The Saturday Party

Wednesday Love

The Dandelion Clock

Brassneck

The Floater

By Common Consent

Plaintiffs and Defendants

Two Sundays

Moss

84 Charing Cross Road

Keep an Eye on Albert

Children of the Sun

After the Solo

Through the Night

A Passage to England

Rumpole of the Bailey

The Other Woman

Nuts in May

Doran's Box

Packman's Barn

A Story to Frighten the Children

The Happy Hunting Ground

The Jumping Bean Bag

Clay, Smeddum and Greenden

Love Letters on Blue Paper

Willie Rough

Tiptoe Through the Tulips

The Peddler

Early Struggles

Double Dare

The House of Bernarda Alba

The Bar Mitzvah Boy

Bet Your Life

Rocky Marciano Is Dead

The Elephants' Graveyard

Housewives' Choice

Your Man from Six Counties

Buffet

Love on a Gunboat

The Kiss of Death

Our Flesh and Blood

Do as I Say

Spend, Spend, Spend

A Photograph

The Price of Coal (1)

The Price of Coal (2)

Gotcha

Campion's Interview

A Choice of Evils

The Country Party

Stronger Than the Sun

Come the Revolution

Abigail's Party

Oy Vay Maria

Nipper

One Day at a Time

The Mayor's Charity

Catchpenny Twist

Charades

The Thin End of the Wedge

Scully's New Year's Eve

Licking Hitler

Red Shift

The Spongers

Destiny

The After Dinner Joke

The Legion Hall Bombing

Nina

Victims of Apartheid

A Touch of the Tiny Hacketts

Dinner at the Sporting Club

Donal and Sally

Sorry

Butterflies Don't Count

Soldiers Talking Cleanly

One Bummer Newsday

The Out of Town Boys

Vampires

The Chief Mourner

Waterloo Sunset

Blue Remembered Hills

Who's Who

The Last Window Cleaner

Ploughman's Share

Degree of Uncertainty

Light

Coming Out

Don't Be Silly

Long Distance Information

Cries from a Watchtower

Comedians

Even Solomon

Just a Boy's Game

Billy

A Hole in Babylon

The Slab-Boys

Katie

The Network

Chance of a Lifetime

Keep Smiling

Dreams of Leaving

Thicker Than Water

Murder Rap

Instant Enlightenment Including VAT

No Defence

That Crazy Woman

A Gift from Nessus

Kate, the Good Neighbour

Buses

Shadows on Our Skin

Ladies

The Vanishing Army

Not for the Likes of Us

The Executioner

The Imitation Game

A Walk in the Forest

Pasmore

C2H5OH

The Adventures of Frank: Everybody's Fiddling Something

The Adventures of Frank: Seeds of Ice

Minor Complications

Number on End

Jude

The Flipside of Dominick Hyde

Name for the Day

Jessie

Beyond the Pale

The Muscle Market

A Brush with Mr. Porter on the Road to El Dorado

Dear Brutus

The Cause

Beloved Enemy

The Kamikaze Ground Staff Reunion Dinner

The Union

Sorry

The Garland

The Sin Bin

Before Water Lillies

Bavarian Night

The Good Time Girls

Baby Talk

A Turn for the Worse

Psy-Warriors

Country

London Is Drowning

A Room for the Winter

No Visible Scar

Iris in the Traffic, Ruby in the Rain

Protest

United Kingdom

PQ17

The Factory

England's Green and Pleasant Land

A Cotswold Death

Under the Skin

Commitments

Life After Death

The Silly Season

Too Late to Talk to Billy

Willie's Last Stand

Tishoo

Home Sweet Home

A Sudden Wrench

Eve Set the Balls of Corruption Going

Whistling Wally

Soft Targets

Three Minute Heroes

The Remainder Man

Intensive Care

A Mother Like Him

John David

Aliens

Another Flip for Dominick

Last Love

Gates of Gold

Wayne and Albert

Atlantis

The Last Term

Reluctant Chickens

Shall I Be Mother?

The Falklands Factor

A Matter of Choice for Billy

Floating Off

Stan's Last Game

Young Shoulders

A Coming to Terms for Billy

Z for Zachariah

Moving on the Edge

Desert of Lies

Hard Feelings

Under the Hammer

King

Rainy Day Women

Dog Ends

The Groundling and the Kite

The Cry

It Could Happen to Anybody

Only Children

The Amazing Miss Stella Estelle