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S5.E1 ∙ In Between Days

Wed, Oct 09, 1985

A film about being 16. A group of four friends in between being children and adults, emotionally, sexually and physically.

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S5.E2 ∙ 50 Years On

Wed, Oct 16, 1985

A Golden Wedding holiday. Four couples married in 1935 celebrate 50 years of life together, and talk of the happiness and sadness of their golden years.

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S5.E3 ∙ Schoolgirl Mum

Wed, Oct 23, 1985

Girls who become pregnant under 16. The girls, their boy-friends and their parents talk about the consequences.

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10 years ago a famous documentary was made by Franc Roddam about "Mini" Cooper, a most attractive and intelligent child arsonist. Now released from a secure psychiatric institution, he hopes to make a career as a magician.

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S5.E5 ∙ Forget-Me-Not

Wed, Nov 06, 1985

A Western-style beauty contest in austerity-ridden Poland.

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S5.E6 ∙ Searching for a Miracle

Wed, Nov 13, 1985

A child with a genetic disease and his young parents go from Northern Ireland on a pilgrimage to Lourdes, in the French Pyrenees. After a week they find there is a change.

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S5.E7 ∙ Page 3 Girls

Wed, Nov 20, 1985

The story of Sharon, a young hopeful still at school, ambitious to become a famous top-less pin-up, like Samantha Fox and Linda Lusardi.

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S5.E8 ∙ Keep Taking the Rose Petals

Wed, Nov 27, 1985

Asian alternative-medicine men in Britain, attracting increasing custom from Westerners.

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S5.E9 ∙ Animal Crackers

Wed, Dec 04, 1985

Extraordinary British houses, follies and monuments built for animals, birds and fish through the centuries. Celebrated by Lucinda Lambton.

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S5.E10 ∙ Our Man in Shanghai

Wed, Dec 11, 1985

The Foreign Office opens a new mission in China. The film follows the new Consul-General during his first week in Shanghai. A high-powered trade delegation is due, led by Lord Young; our man has to look after them while finding his own feet. He succeeds in seeing the only performing panda in the world.

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S5.E11 ∙ A House of Hope

Wed, Dec 18, 1985

A film for Christmas. Alcholics, criminals, down-and-outs and tramps find a sanctuary in a remarkable Christian community in Dorset.

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S5.E12 ∙ The Gift of Life

Wed, Jan 08, 1986

Seven couples in Hammersmith Hospital go through the long and painful process of trying to conceive a test-tube baby. one succeeds.

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S5.E13 ∙ Flight from Vatersay

Wed, Jan 15, 1986

Life on a remote Hebridean island. One young man emigrates to Glasgow hoping for a job and a brighter future.

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S5.E14 ∙ Stop the Wedding!

Wed, Jan 22, 1986

Strange and moving tales of people being jilted at the altar.

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S5.E15 ∙ Student Nurse

Wed, Jan 29, 1986

The pressure on student nurses. Three girls at different stages of their training at St. James Infirary, Leeds.

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S5.E16 ∙ Emergency - Bloomsbury 3

Wed, Feb 05, 1986

Dramas of life and death with the ambulance service in action in central London.

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S5.E17 ∙ How to Find a Lover

Wed, Feb 12, 1986

The singles scene in Miami, Dallas and New York.

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S5.E18 ∙ Cry for Home

Wed, Feb 19, 1986

Three young Britons of Lithuanian, Estonian and Latvian origin go on a Baltic cruise to catch a glimpse of their former home-lands. It's the nearest they can get.

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S5.E19 ∙ The Fishing Party

Wed, Feb 26, 1986

Four prosperous City men take a fishing holiday in Scotland. Their aim is a world record for skate. What emerges is the outspoken, even outrageous, point of view of rich young men of the right.

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S5.E20 ∙ The Real Life of a Hollywood Wife

Wed, Mar 05, 1986

The women who really matter in the dream city. Reporter - Mrs Richard Burton.

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S5.E21 ∙ A Case of Malicious Wounding

Wed, Mar 12, 1986

A Yorkshire coal miner caught up in the bitter industrial warfare between strike pickets and police. The traumatic events of 24 August 1984 have changed the course of his life.

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S5.E22 ∙ Come Home Julie

Wed, Mar 19, 1986

A young black girl, once fostered by a Scottish family, then snatched back to Ghana, returns to her foster parents - with not altogether happy results.

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