About this season
Anthology drama series.
Episodes (9)
1. Hancock
Aired 1 September 1991 • 115 min
A portrayal of the last years in the life of the comedian Tony Hancock. His refusal to accept the limitations of his own genius destroys his two marriages and, eventually, himself.
2. Tell Me That You Love Me
Aired 8 September 1991 • 98 min
Laura Simms has an exciting job as a top magazine editor, but her love life's a disaster. Her luck seems to change when she meets Gabriel, a handsome but mysterious man who believes in old-fashioned love and marriage.
3. Filipina Dreamgirls
Aired 15 September 1991 • 99 min
Five men from Wales book a package tour to the Philippines, hoping for romance and possible marriage with Filipina women.
4. Dancin' Thru the Dark
Aired 22 September 1991 • 90 min
Linda is out on her hen night while her fiance Dave is out on his stag night. Linda is having major doubts about getting married. Both groups end up at the same club, only to discover that its band is fronted by her ex-boyfriend - and the love of her life - Peter. Linda has to decide: does she stay and settle down with Dave, like her friends want her to, or does she chuck it all in and run away with Peter?
5. Ex
Aired 29 September 1991 • 85 min
Griff Rhys Jones stars as a writer on a popular television soap opera who falls in love with the show's leading lady but finds himself unable to break his ties with his ex-wife and their children.
6. Prince
Aired 6 October 1991 • 75 min
Story of how a family is affected very greatly by their Alsation dog, Prince.
7. Alive and Kicking
Aired 13 October 1991 • 91 min
A black comedy which takes an unflinching look at drug addiction. Smudger is a dealer and Liam is a counsellor who tries to break him.
8. A Question of Attribution
Aired 20 October 1991 • 71 min
A drama about the double life led by Sir Anthony Blunt, Soviet agent and Surveyor of the Queen's Pictures.
9. Adam Bede
Aired 1 January 1992 • 101 min
This first film adaptation of George Eliot 's classic novel was written by Maggie Wadey , who wrote the much-praised adaptation of Precious Bane. Two young men, the carpenter Adam Bede and the squire Arthur Donnithorne , find themselves competing for the love of the beautiful dairymaid Hetty Sorrel. It is a triangle which eventually leads to tragedy for all of them. When Adam Bede was published in 1859 it was greeted as the work of a major new talent. Charles Dickens was sure the author was a woman. He was right, for George Eliot was the pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans , a country girl who told her publisher that Adam Bede would be full of "the breath of cows and the scent of hay".