About this season
Series of single made-for-television dramas.
Episodes (6)
1. Captives
Aired 11 May 1996
A beautiful young dentist working in a tough British prison starts to become attracted to a violent inmate after the break-up of her marriage, and embarks upon an illicit affair with him, with terrible consequences for all.
2. A Man of No Importance
Aired 18 May 1996
A friendly, poetry quoting bus conductor in 1963 Dublin wants to stage Oscar Wilde's play, Salome, with passengers on his bus.
3. The Cement Garden
Aired 25 May 1996
Four children live with their terminally ill mother. After she dies, they try to hold things together. In their isolated house, they begin to deteriorate mentally, whilst they hide their mom's decomposing corpse in a makeshift concrete sarcophagus.
4. Bad Boy Blues
Aired 1 June 1996
Two boyhood friends end up on different sides of the law. How will each react when they meet up for the first time since school?
5. The Precious Blood
Aired 8 June 1996 • 76 min
Drama set in Belfast that asks if it is possible to have peace with justice. Rosie Williams is haunted by the murder of her husband 12 years earlier. Her teenage son John, fuelled by revenge, is heading on a path towards delinquency, until he meets boxing gym owner Billy McVea, affecting all their lives.
6. Century
Aired 15 June 1996
Paul Reisner, a young doctor, becomes a researcher in a prestigious medical institute. He feels he has a chance to be part of a movement of unending progress in science and civilization. Then he begins to discover the dark side of the institute, which foreshadows the dark side of the 20th century.