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S14.E1 ∙ Young Shoulders

Mon, Feb 13, 1984

A cynical teenage boy re-evaluates his attitude to life and his parents after his sister is killed in a plane crash.

7 /10

S14.E2 ∙ A Coming to Terms for Billy

Mon, Feb 20, 1984

Norman comes storming into the family home with his new lady friend. But has she managed to achieve the impossible by mellowing the big man?

7.6 /10

Based on a book of the same name, depicting events in a Welsh valley after a nuclear holocaust, in which almost everyone has dies, leaving just two families. Eventually just one girl and one man are left, and the majority of the film is about how they cope with the situation and each other.

6.1 /10

S14.E4 ∙ Moving on the Edge

Mon, Mar 05, 1984

A woman in a state of personal crisis finds it hard to communicate with her husband and family.

6.4 /10

S14.E5 ∙ Desert of Lies

Mon, Mar 12, 1984

Jake and Sue's expedition to the Kalahari Desert in 1983 follows in the footsteps of an earlier trek in 1848 by two missionaries. The two pairs of travellers, in the past and the present, meet with disaster.

6.5 /10

S14.E6 ∙ Hard Feelings

Mon, Mar 19, 1984

A group of house-sharing ex-college friends begin to find their existence disintegrating amid a backdrop of London riots and their own selfishly hedonistic lifestyle.

6.7 /10

S14.E7 ∙ Under the Hammer

Mon, Mar 26, 1984

A previously unknown painting by Vincent Van Gogh, said to have come from Russia, comes up for sale at a London auction of impressionist paintings. The good order of the sale house is disturbed when someone challenges the picture's authenticity.

7.1 /10

S14.E8 ∙ King

Mon, Apr 02, 1984

A man who has had a good life in England wants to retire to Jamaica, but the celebration with his daughters doesn't go as expected.

7.9 /10

S14.E9 ∙ Rainy Day Women

Mon, Apr 09, 1984

In 1940, during World War II, an officer is sent to investigate rumors of German spies in a sleepy village where various people are the victims of war hysteria.

7.2 /10

S14.E10 ∙ Dog Ends

Mon, Jul 16, 1984

Arthur's life is becoming miserable as he has to share his family home with an elderly dog and his incontinent father. His neighbour suggests a specialist who can help resolve the situation - but has Arthur fully understood?

7.1 /10

S14.E11 ∙ The Groundling and the Kite

Mon, Jul 23, 1984

Peter is a songwriter, while his old friend Jimmy is an A and R (Artists and Repertoire) man. But when Jimmy tries to sell one of Peter's songs, Peter is furious. Can the friendship survive?

6 /10

S14.E12 ∙ The Cry

Fri, Jul 20, 1984

In Ulster in 1959, a journalist witnesses the beating of a youth.

6.2 /10

S14.E13 ∙ It Could Happen to Anybody

Mon, Aug 13, 1984

A long-suffering Glasgow housewife puts up with years of her husband's violence and drunkenness - and then something happens which makes her snap and fight back.

6.7 /10

S14.E14 ∙ Only Children

Mon, Aug 20, 1984

A young woman's comfortable life is turned upside down when she has a baby.

0 /10

S14.E15 ∙ The Amazing Miss Stella Estelle

Mon, Aug 27, 1984

Miss Stella Estelle is a cabaret singer in working men's clubs, and she sings songs from the 1960s to support a large and difficult family. But how long can it go on? The backdrop is a family in decay: husband out of work, wife working and still doing the domestics, daughter the singer and hopeful star, son her "manager" but in reality going nowhere. Stella plays a crummy club circuit, singing songs for oldies for £50 a night - She's never going to be a star because of her parents' short-sighted greed.

6.4 /10