Episode guide
Screen Two: Series 4
11 episodes · first aired Jan 9, 1988
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- 1 The Vision Jan 9, 1988 Veteran broadcaster James Marriner is persuaded to front a new big budget national family TV channel. But he begins to suspect that the channel is a front for something much more sinister…
- 2 Dead Lucky Jan 17, 1988 Martin Urban, a young accountant, is gay but unwilling to own up to this fact because he desperately wants to be the ideal son for his parents. When he wins a fortune on the football…
- 3 Sweet As You Are Jan 24, 1988 A lecturer has an extra-marital one night stand and contracts HIV. The movie shows how he tells his wife and the way in which she is forced to cope with his infidelity and the fact he has…
- 4 Stanley Spencer Jan 31, 1988 The controversial English artist Stanley Spencer scandalised the art world when he painted the Resurrection taking place in the churchyard of Cookham, his home village by the River Thames…
- 5 Border Feb 7, 1988 Czechoslovakia, 1952. For some, life under the post-war Stalinist regime is hardly worth living and although the escape route to the West is almost suicide, the rewards - prosperity…
- 6 Love Birds Mar 6, 1988 Barbara and Naseem are in the same hospital, having babies. They make friends. But the celebrations of their husbands, Kenny and Quereshi, 'Jimmy', lead to a headlong chase, with crazy…
- 7 Shadow On The Earth Mar 13, 1988 Two brothers growing up in a small Scottish mining town become convinced the albino man living in their street is an alien. Influenced by science fiction films and the religious bigotry…
- 8 Reasonable Force Mar 27, 1988 In times of civil unrest, crack police units like Inspector Maclntyre's get the job of keeping order on the streets. But when a demonstrator dies after a riot, who will the public - and…
- 9 The Temptation of Eileen Hughes Apr 3, 1988 The McAuleys are local celebrities and Eileen Hughes, a young shop assistant, is flattered to be taken under their wing. Then she accepts their invitation to join them for a week's holiday…
- 10 Lucky Sunil Apr 17, 1988 Young, handsome and alone in London at the start of a great career. But will Sunil's luck hold out against the seductions of pretty girls, the wiles of con-men and a hundred temptations of…
- 11 Run for the Lifeboat Apr 24, 1988 Problems of a Welsh coastal village where the lifeboat crew is the main focus.