Episode guide
Screen Two: Series 1
10 episodes · first aired Jan 6, 1985
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- 1 Contact Jan 6, 1985 · 1h 6m A platoon of British soldiers aggressively descend upon a car on a Northern Irish border roadside and promptly execute the driver and apprehend the passenger.
- 2 Poppyland Jan 13, 1985 · 1h 30m He is a respectable pillar of London society who yearns for an idyllic existence away from the noise and the smoke. She feels hemmed in by the confines of an isolated fishing village and…
- 3 Unfair Exchanges Jan 20, 1985 · 1h 30m Mavis's plight will ring a bell in the heart of anyone who ever felt like murdering a telephone. Is some ghoulish mind behind the increasingly mysterious and sinister calls she gets? Is it…
- 4 Knockback (1) Jan 27, 1985 · 1h 30m In 1965, at the age of 25, Alan Ackland is sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of a business associate. In 1971, Sylvia Barker, lonely and depressed after a failed marriage and…
- 5 Knockback (2) Feb 3, 1985 · 1h 30m Alan and Sylvia fall in love and Alan gains a renewed sense of purpose. He begins to hope for an eventual release on licence. However both he and Sylvia have to face the fact that, for the…
- 6 Lent Feb 10, 1985 · 1h 30m It is the Easter holidays at Gorse Park Preparatory School. Everyone has gone home except four elderly members of staff and young Paul Blake, the orphaned son of the former headmaster. The…
- 7 The Unknown Soldier Feb 17, 1985 · 1h 30m The soldier in the spinal carriage can neither move nor speak. Who is he? His fellow wounded and officers are intent on finding out.
- 8 The Burston Rebellion Feb 24, 1985 · 1h 30m On a chilly winter's day in 1911, Kitty and Tom Higdon arrived in the Norfolk village of Burston to take up positions in the village school. Their arrival was to irrevocably change the…
- 9 Space Station Mar 3, 1985 · 1h 30m "It's a city of glass. There are trees and flowers from all over the world. And marble. Acres of it. And in a field, there are cows as still as statues." Maria is taken to a new foster…
- 10 In the Secret State Mar 10, 1985 · 1h 30m A department head within the British secret service uncovers some unpleasant secrets when he investigates the apparent suicide of a colleague.