Episode 1 - The Long Distance Piano Player

A man tries to break the world's record for nonstop piano playing

Episode 2 - The Right Prospectus

A couple look for the proper school, not for their children but for themselves.

Episode 3 - The Lie

""The Lie"" refers to the 8-year marriage of a couple who are constantly hurting each other.

Episode 4 - Angels Are So Few

A man claiming to be an angel enters the household of a bored housewife and teaches the family a few lessons.

Episode 5 - The Write-Off

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.

Episode 6 - I Can't See My Little Willie

A man has a mid-life crisis in his brother's pub where sees life as a game show

Episode 7 - A Distant Thunder

A newly-appointed knight finds his celebrations cut short by someone who was witness to his treachery during the war.

Episode 8 - Hearts and Flowers

A TV host and his architect brother attend their father's funeral

Episode 9 - Robin Redbreast

A woman living in a country cottage thinks that someone is trying to get her.

Episode 10 - The Hallelujah Handshake

A petty thief and social misfit finagles his way into a church congregation

Episode 11 - Alma Mater

A civil servant working abroad revisits his old school

Episode 12 - Circle Line

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.

Episode 13 - Hell's Angel

A couple are distressed by the changes in their adopted teenage son when he joins a biker gang.

Episode 14 - The Piano

An old couple refuse to move when they find out that they can't take their piano with them

Episode 15 - Billy's Last Stand

Billy, a self-employed coal-shoveller, gains a seedy business partner and competition in the form of a rival coal-shoveller.

Episode 16 - The Rainbirds

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.

Episode 17 - Reddick

Charges that the Rev 'Red' Reddick is exploiting his youth club members leads to an explosive confrontation.

Episode 18 - The Foxtrot

An odd menage a trois results when a woman and her lover are visited by her long-lost husband

Episode 19 - When the Bough Breaks

When an injured baby arrives at the hospital, a social worker looks for the parents

Episode 20 - Orkney

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

Episode 21 - The Rank and File

The story of the Pilkington glass workers strike of 1970

Episode 22 - The Man in the Sidecar

A succesful novelist Edith lives with her husband and his friend, but she decides to ask the friend to leave.

Episode 23 - Everybody Say Cheese

The story of a disintegrating marriage told through family photos

Episode 24 - The Cellar and the Almond Tree