The Bar Mitzvah Boy
E1
A story exploring the emotions of a boy undrgoing the traditional Jewish ceremony
Bet Your Life
E2
Like alcoholism, gambling is a disease. Ches, a compulsive gambler, is sent for medical help. A wonder drug perhaps? Or hypnosis maybe? Ches finds that his psychiatrist has other ideas.
Rocky Marciano Is Dead
E3
Harry Marcus is a former welterweight champion mourning the loss of the past and dreaming of a return to the glory years of boxing. When a squatter moves in next door, does he have what it takes to fulfil Harry's dreams?
The Elephants' Graveyard
E4
Bunny’s wife thinks he is a postman, but in reality he spends his days in the Scottish hills. One day he meets Jody, a fellow walker.
Housewives' Choice
E5
When Joyce appears on the door-step she looks like the perfect 'kindly, respectable lady whom Marcia needs to look after her baby. But Joyce only seems to be the average housewife.
Your Man from Six Counties
E6
A young man from Belfast is sent south to stay with relatives in an attempt to keep him out of trouble.
Buffet
E7
Freddie is going through an existential crisis as everyone around him seems to doubt their own identity and the entire purpose of conversation. Surrounded by inflation and extra marital affairs, his only solace is in buffet room drinking.
Love on a Gunboat
E8
In 1956 Britain staggers through crises in Suez and Cyprus while Leslie Potter pursues and marries Monica Dobbs. Twenty years later the nation has still not recovered. Neither has Leslie.
The Kiss of Death
E9
A young man's chances at romance are thwarted by his own shyness.
Our Flesh and Blood
E10
How Mums and Dads feel when they have one.
Do As I Say
E11
A quietly unhappy housewife finds a stranger in her house and is raped at knife-point by him. But when she turns to friends, neighbors and her parents-in-law for sympathy, they all seem preoccupied by other matters.
Spend, Spend, Spend
E12
The rags-to-riches-to-rags story of a 1960s football pools winner, based on a true story
A Photograph
E13
A couple receives a photograph in the mail of two girls sitting in front of a caravan and neither can identify the people or the place.
The Price of Coal (1)
E14
A pair of plays, broadcast over two weeks, about mining life: ""Meet the People,"" about a coal mining community preparing for a royal visit, and ""Back to Reality,"" about a coal mining disaster that brings tragedy to a community.
The Price of Coal (2)
E15
A pair of plays, broadcast over two weeks, about mining life: ""Meet the People,"" about a coal mining community preparing for a royal visit, and ""Back to Reality,"" about a coal mining disaster that brings tragedy to a community.
Gotcha
E16
A student holds his teacher hostage in the classroom on the last day of school.
Campion's Interview
E17
A story about school.
A Choice of Evils
E18
The story of Father Borelli who in Rome during World War II must choose between freedom and his principles
The Country Party
E19
Richard Elkinson, the former stockbroker, is now running a country restaurant. His daughter decides to spring a surprise on him in an attempt to change his life for the better.