1 - The Long Distance Piano Player
A man tries to break the world's record for nonstop piano playing
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Episodes
2 - The Right Prospectus
A couple look for the proper school, not for their children but for themselves.
3 - The Lie
""The Lie"" refers to the 8-year marriage of a couple who are constantly hurting each other.
4 - Angels Are So Few
A man claiming to be an angel enters the household of a bored housewife and teaches the family a few lessons.
5 - The Write-Off
A man is made redundant but can't bring himself to let anyone know, plunging into a web of deceit as he keeps up the charade he is still in work.
6 - I Can't See My Little Willie
A man has a mid-life crisis in his brother's pub where sees life as a game show
7 - A Distant Thunder
A newly-appointed knight finds his celebrations cut short by someone who was witness to his treachery during the war.
8 - Hearts and Flowers
A TV host and his architect brother attend their father's funeral
9 - Robin Redbreast
A woman living in a country cottage thinks that someone is trying to get her.
10 - The Hallelujah Handshake
A petty thief and social misfit finagles his way into a church congregation
11 - Alma Mater
A civil servant working abroad revisits his old school
12 - Circle Line
A cynical student has a radically different view of life from his landlady, leading to conflict. Matters come to a head when he sleeps with her fourteen-year-old brother.
13 - Hell's Angel
A couple are distressed by the changes in their adopted teenage son when he joins a biker gang.
14 - The Piano
An old couple refuse to move when they find out that they can't take their piano with them
15 - Billy's Last Stand
Billy, a self-employed coal-shoveller, gains a seedy business partner and competition in the form of a rival coal-shoveller.
16 - The Rainbirds
A man who attempted suicide by jumping out a window is saved only to live in a coma, in which he has fantasies about his relatives and nightmare creatures.
17 - Reddick
Charges that the Rev 'Red' Reddick is exploiting his youth club members leads to an explosive confrontation.
18 - The Foxtrot
An odd menage a trois results when a woman and her lover are visited by her long-lost husband
19 - When the Bough Breaks
When an injured baby arrives at the hospital, a social worker looks for the parents
20 - Orkney
A trilogy of plays--A Time to Keep, The Whaler's Return, and Celia--exploring the life of the islanders in the past and present
21 - The Rank and File
The story of the Pilkington glass workers strike of 1970
22 - The Man in the Sidecar
A succesful novelist Edith lives with her husband and his friend, but she decides to ask the friend to leave.
23 - Everybody Say Cheese
The story of a disintegrating marriage told through family photos