About this season
Anthology series of dramatic works.
Episodes (33)
1. The Exiles: Jennie
Aired 10 October 1970
2. The Exiles: Emma
Aired 17 October 1970
3. The Exiles: Zo
Aired 24 October 1970
4. Visit from a Stranger
Aired 30 October 1970
5. Roll on Four O'Clock
Aired 19 December 1970
In a city comprehensive school that has low expectations and ambitions, pupil Peter Latimer does not conform to the macho culture, and is labeled a homosexual. This leads to bullying, both by the pupils and by some of the teachers.
6. The Policeman and the Cook
Aired 26 December 1970
Murder mystery in a boarding house based on a Wilkie Collins story.
7. The Dead
Aired 2 January 1971
Its Christmas 1901, and a group of Dubliners make their annual call on Granny Morkan's island. As the music and wine flows Gabriel's initial contentment with his wife Gretta changes as he realizes his wife's mind is far away thinking about one of the departed just remembered by all - but which one?
8. Tales of Piccadilly: Behind the Spearmint Sign
Aired 9 January 1971
Private investigator Harry is find his life & work involving debt collection and the like boring and humdrum.Then Helen enters his life with an exciting case involving her missing husband.
9. Tales of Piccadilly: A Room Full of Holes
Aired 16 January 1971
Pete and Glynis meet in a post office queue for booking long distance phone calls overseas. Their loved ones abroad become less important as they both discover they have a mutual appreciation of Rembrandt.
10. Tales of Piccadilly: The Way Out
Aired 23 January 1971
11. Big Soft Nellie
Aired 21 February 1971
12. Anna of the Five Towns
Aired 28 February 1971
13. Hari-Kari and Sally
Aired 7 March 1971
14. The Hotel in Amsterdam
Aired 14 February 1971
15. Pandora
Aired 21 March 1971
16. The Price
Aired 28 March 1971
A family convenes after the death of the father. Two brothers and their mother come to terms with the sacrifices and misunderstandings they have carried since the children left home.
17. Arms and the Man
Aired 4 April 1971
1865: Swiss captain Bluntschli fights as mercenary in the war between Bulgaria and Serbia. When his group's attacked by a few Bulgarian troopers, he learns that he's got the wrong ammunition for his cannon and has to flee. His flight leads him right into the bedroom of his enemy's fiancée.
18. Love Doesn't Grow on Trees
Aired 11 April 1971
19. The Silver Collection
Aired 23 May 1971
Rachel works in a museum, showing people round the silver collection. Jim, a carpenter, suggests she may be too far removed from real life.
20. The Shopper
Aired 30 May 1971
21. Man and Boy
Aired 6 June 1971
An unscrupulous financial manipulator is down on his luck, and does not hesitate to involve his long-estranged son in his shady dealings.
22. Paper Roses
Aired 13 June 1971
Facing retirement, elderly journalist Clarence Hubbard reflects on the pointlessness of a life wasted writing banal tabloid human interest, animal, and crime stories. Rather than go quietly to tend roses in a garden, Hubbard begins a series of violent actions not unlike those described in tabloids, and this is heightened by inter cutting tabloid headlines between scenes. Throughout, there are occasional shots of a television critic who watches this very play as it unfolds, and he writes a negative review filled with cleverly phrased but bitter invective.
23. The Prize
Aired 20 June 1971
24. Square
Aired 27 June 1971
25. Alice Dancing
Aired 4 July 1971
26. Square One
Aired 10 July 1971
27. After a Lifetime
Aired 18 July 1971
The death of 64-year-old engineer Billy Scully leads his two adult sons to reflect on another side of their father, his lifelong political commitment as an activist and trade unionist.
28. Mr. Pargiter
Aired 24 July 1971
29. One More on Top
Aired 1 August 1971
30. Hamlet
Aired 8 August 1971
Hamlet suspects his uncle has murdered his father to claim the throne of Denmark and the hand of Hamlet's mother, but the prince cannot decide whether or not he should take vengeance.
31. The Chaps
Aired 14 August 1971
32. Giants and Ogres
Aired 22 August 1971
On learning of the death of his ex-wife, American businessman Sam Dirk arranges to meet Daniel - the son he has never known. Sam's attempts at reconciliation seem doomed as Daniel doesn't seem to want to know his father.
33. Green Julia
Aired 29 August 1971