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