Season 12

E1. Country

Oct 20, 1981 · 75m

The story of the disintegration of an aristocratic country estate after World War II

E2. London Is Drowning

Oct 27, 1981 · 75m

A docudrama about what would happen if London was hit by severe flooding

E3. A Room for the Winter

Nov 3, 1981 · 75m

James, an expatriate South African anti-apartheid fighter, deals with his nightmares and his complaining landlady in a run-down area of London, while dreaming of his lover Stephen, left behind.

E4. No Visible Scar

Nov 17, 1981 · 75m

A nurse is subjected to an interrogation after giving medical treatment to a terrorist leader.

E5. Iris in the Traffic, Ruby in the Rain

Nov 24, 1981 · 75m

In Belfast, Ruby has a cold and is caught in the rain while Iris is looking for work and gets caught in traffic

E6. Protest

Dec 1, 1981 · 75m

In an adaptation of Václav Havel's play, a dissident, newly released from prison for political reasons, attempts to get his well-connected friend to sign a protest. In this one man play, both the roles are played by Nigel Hawthorne.

E7. United Kingdom

Dec 8, 1981 · 75m

Two men on a local council fight the system when forced with massive spending cuts.

E8. PQ17

Dec 15, 1981 · 75m

During World War II, a British officer is ordered to abandon a Russian convoy.

E9. The Factory

Dec 22, 1981 · 75m

A manager, a foreman, and two workers are all that remains of a factory yet labor relations stay the same

E10. England's Green and Pleasant Land

Jan 5, 1982 · 75m

A planning decision must be made, and the motorway extension must go through on either the Golf Course or the Allotments - will the greens survive or the peasant lands?

E11. A Cotswold Death

Jan 12, 1982 · 75m

A police inspector investigates the murder of an Arab sheik who had become a village's Lord of the Manor.

E12. Under the Skin

Jan 19, 1982 · 75m

Three women involved in different ways in the women's movement.

E13. Commitments

Jan 26, 1982 · 75m

Politics and relationships during the last years of the Heath government

E14. Life After Death

Feb 2, 1982 · 75m

Meg: We were so close, we loved each other, we made a whole together. I feel cut in half.

E15. The Silly Season

Feb 9, 1982 · 75m

Malcolm goes through life hating the mundanity of his existence as a factory worker and an unloved husband. But when students take up summer jobs at the factory, it reawakens both his passion for political feeling and romantic urges.

E16. Too Late to Talk to Billy

Feb 16, 1982 · 75m

A family in Belfast deals with life after the death of the mother from cancer

E17. Willie's Last Stand

Feb 23, 1982 · 75m

Willie and his friends notice the passage of time around them, and how society is changing as their marriages stagnate. Can Willie prove to himself that he still has it, by being able to cheat on his wife just once?

E18. Tishoo

Mar 9, 1982 · 75m

Frank has dedicated 19 years to researching a cure for the common cold, and is almost ready to publish a paper. Yet budget cuts and his own inability to form real relationships with those around him threaten to derail the project.

E19. Home Sweet Home

Mar 16, 1982 · 75m

Home Sweet Home is a 1982 television film devised and directed by Mike Leigh, for BBC TV, 'about postmen, parenthood, social workers and sex.' It was Leigh's second collaboration with Play for Today producer Louis Marks, and cinematographer Remi Adefarasin, and with composer Carl Davis - the music score featured a quartet of basses -. It stars Timothy Spall, here working with Leigh for the first time, Eric Richard, Tim Barker, Kay Stonham, Su Elliot, Frances Barber, Sheila Kelley, and Lorraine Brunning. It was first broadcast on 16 March 1982. The film was shot on location in Hitchin, Hertfordshire. 90 minutes.

E20. A Sudden Wrench

Mar 23, 1982 · 75m

"My life is over - and I just didn't notice it passing." A call to a radio helpline leads to depressed housewife Christine finding a new direction in life.

E21. Eve Set the Balls of Corruption Going

Mar 30, 1982 · 75m

Adolescents will always be obsessed by the same old subject, even when they are educated by nuns. Six ex-Classmates meet for the first time in 12 years and hilarious memories change into highly emotional situations.

E22. Whistling Wally

Apr 6, 1982 · 75m

While Wally was happy there wasn't much wrong with the world, and pints seemed a small price to pay for what he gave us. But don't forget what we gave him. We gave him the knowledge he was important, at least to us.