About this season
Anthology of plays, each featuring an element of the 'flipside'.
Episodes (5)
1. Connie
Aired 27 April 1979 • 55 min
Connie decides to defend her pregnant friend Gina, but soon discovers why people may not always be willing to tell the truth.
2. Underdog
Aired 4 May 1979
Down in the street, a military band marches into a cul-de-sac. High up in the Secret Service, Skellow checks the tennis court booking and awaits his adversary, sure that Adwick has no answer to his rapier-like backhand volley...
3. A Greenish Man
Aired 11 May 1979
Troy, a lively young man, not entirely Irish, comes to ask for compensation from the man who put the lead in his brain. But the Irish, he learns, are the most inventive race in the world.
4. Only Connect
Aired 18 May 1979 • 50 min
Edward Carpenter (1844-1929) was an early socialist and a pioneer for Gay Rights in the north of England. Graham, researching the early Labour Movement, wants the facts. But people, he learns to his advantage, are not textbooks.
5. Contacts
Aired 25 May 1979
'I don't take sides. I've got a job to do and I'm going to get it done. Just like you. I'm a whore.' ' I'm going to get photographs that nobody else got, because I'm prepared to go further.'