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Season 6

Season 6

November 7, 1979·31 épisodes·1h 15min
Épisodes · 31
E1

School Play

A play about the horrors of life at an English public school - with all the schoolboys played by adults.

Nov 7, 1979
E2

Every Good Boy Deserves Favour

A dissident, Alexander, has been pronounced insane by the authorities (although he isn't), and finds himself sharing a cell with a genuine mental patient, Ivanov.

Nov 14, 1979
E3

The Brylcreem Boys

Cpl. George Hunn's sentry post is knocked over and he wakes to find he is suffering from frost bite of the face. Sent to hospital he is put on a ward with aircrew who have mental issues. He is trapped reenacting their missions at night.

Nov 21, 1979
E4

An Affinity with Dr. Still

Nov 28, 1979
E5

Home Movies

Keith and Alec have been making holiday movies, together for 25 years. Alec suddenly spots a moment between wife Sybil and Keith. He realises daughter Katie is actually Keith's and she is in a sexual relationship with her 'brother' John.

Dec 5, 1979
E6

Sweet Wine of Youth

Dec 12, 1979
E7

Speed King

In 1935, Sir Malcolm Campbell's obsession is to win the World's Land Speed Record in his car Bluebird. Speed King is about the man, the car, and the ruthless, but irresistible, public ambition of a world hero.

Dec 19, 1979
E8

Pews

Set in a north country synagogue, a group of Jewish men have to organise a shiva, however, not having the required number of their faith, resort to recruiting George, a 'non-Jew', to make up the numbers.

Jan 12, 1980
E9

Gentle Folk

An Edwardian house party given by a Fabian woman, her business-man husband and assorted guests from politics and the Arts—including a young man prone to disturbing premonitions.

1h 15min·Jan 19, 1980
E10

Trouble with Gregory

Gregory has troubles enough when Ella moves him out and sets him up for a job with the radio. Suspicions of infidelity can make the world a disturbing place. But then he still has to meet the new neighbours...

Jan 23, 1980
E11

Lifelike

A comprehensive school is praised for its authenticity, but one schoolboy does not agree with this assessment.

Jan 26, 1980
E12

The Enigma

An upper-class young man has rejected his affluent background, but, when a crisis comes, reverts to type pretty quickly.

Feb 9, 1980
E13

Hesther for Example

Cousin, W. Clifford Mill, ran a dirty postcard business; which brings Paul to the country in search of a profitable afternoon. Hesther knows the value of most things and, when evening falls, she turns his visit to her own advantage.

Feb 16, 1980
E14

The Best of Friends

What is friendship? Why do two grown men behave like egomaniac children or flustered prima donnas? And when they meet unexpectedly after ten years, how will things be?

Mar 8, 1980
E15

In Hiding

A teenager learns about life and death while staying with his aunt during the school holidays.

Mar 15, 1980
E16

Rottingdean

Mother is manic, Father frustrated. Son sees himself as quite an operator. Daughter wants to change the dreary world of Jubilee-year England. The day has come. Back to Rottingdean... if all goes smoothly.

Mar 22, 1980
E17

The Dig

Apr 18, 1980
E18

Happy

Apr 25, 1980
E19

Mary's Wife

A married transvestite comes to terms with their true gender identity.

May 2, 1980
E20

Games Without Frontiers

Nobody goes to Amsterdam to wander about. It's either the Rijksmuseum or the red-light district. On the boat going home Clive and Stewart admit to not having spent long in the museums – so what did they get up to in Amsterdam?

May 9, 1980
E21

The Unborn

A physicist has visions of his unborn baby – it turns out that the child will grow up to become a Hitler-like dictator responsible for World War III.

May 16, 1980
E22

Electric in the City

May 23, 1980
E23

Blue Remembered Hills

Repeated from Play for Today

May 30, 1980
E24

Thank You Comrades

Jun 6, 1980
E25

Coming Out

Jun 13, 1980
E26

Crest of a Wave

Jun 20, 1980
E27

Freedom of the Dig

Jun 20, 1980
E28

A Walk in the Forest

Jul 6, 1980
E29

Hallelujah, Mary Plum

A talented, independent artist lives by the sea with her daughter. As summer approaches, she faces two threats to her way of life: the local doctor who is in love with her and her unhappy sister who comes to stay.

Jul 13, 1980
E30

Dalhousie's Luck

Our gamble is over, Dalhousie. You'll walk at dawn tomorrow as agreed, but in case you've no mind to return, there's one fact might persuade you. On what you do hangs not only your life but hers .

Aug 3, 1980
E31

An Ordered Life

German composer Anton Webern survives Naziism only to be shot by an American GI in the closing days of WWII. His son, against his father's wishes, joins the Wehrmacht and is killed in a railway accident in 1943.

Aug 10, 1980