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Aug 6, 1969
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Sep 24, 1969
Oct 1, 1969
A shy clerk suffers from his colleagues petty office politics and contemptuous treatment of him, but this weekend, as a deeply involved train spotter, the closing of an old tunnel is his big adventure. On the way up, he encounters a well off couple with a daughter that hates them, and an Army Sergeant whose men hate him. The hotel he stays at is run by a fellow railway enthusiast, with a gay son that hates him, and he meets a famous signal designer with a daughter that hates him.
Oct 8, 1969
A story about growing up, falling in love and settling old scores in the unfriendly environment of a big city.
Oct 15, 1969
A woman who suspects her husband of having an affair reveals her suspicions at a party.
Oct 23, 1969
The history of the mining industry in the northeast of England is told through family drama, comedy sketches and song.
Oct 30, 1969
A schoolmaster takes to drink.
Nov 5, 1969
Two young Australians on holiday in London find that the "old country" has its problems.
Nov 12, 1969
The story of an up-and-coming businessman.
Nov 19, 1969
The commanding officer of a regiment handling nuclear missiles is shocked to see his daughter Sally on television taking part in a student demonstration.
Nov 26, 1969
In the first part, an insane man boards a quiet railway coach and starts to annoy a patient man trying to read a paper with incessant small talk in an increasingly menacing manner until he finally pulls out a gun and screaming class hatred bile, humiliates the man until his stop is reached. In part two he breaks into a lonely house and proceeds to terrorise a spinster woman who lives ther
Dec 3, 1969
A student architect and his black girlfriend set out from South Africa to Britain. On the voyage, the student shares a cabin with an enigmatic Austrian.
Dec 10, 1969
Young Nicky Lancaster must cope with the discovery that his socialite mother is a drug addict.
Dec 17, 1969
A couple seek a desperate remedy to the problem of a burdensome parent.
Jan 7, 1970
A young woman quits her dull job in the typing pool, and goes off on a search for personal freedom.
Jan 14, 1970
Jan 21, 1970
An army deserter hides out on a country estate but falls foul of the gamekeeper.
Jan 28, 1970
A tragi-comic study of a Northern funeral.
Feb 4, 1970
Second Lieutenant Siegfried Sassoon of the Royal Welsh Fusiliers protests the appalling and unnecessary sacrifice of men's lives in the First World War
Feb 11, 1970
A young man befriends an elderly couple, claiming to be their grandson.
Feb 18, 1970
A junk dealer is caught in the middle of a tug-of-war between a woman, her husband and his mistress when they sell a piece of their furniture.
Feb 25, 1970
Two Glaswegian youngsters are caught up in sectarian gang warfare.
Mar 4, 1970
A former poet, now a Communist Party official in the German Democratic Republic, becomes entangled in the political machinery of a state about to plunge into a succession of Stalinist purges.
Mar 11, 1970
Mar 18, 1970
Three young merchant seamen from Liverpool take shore leave in their home city after three years away.
Mar 25, 1970
Apr 1, 1970
Apr 8, 1970
Apr 15, 1970
In the year 2050, advances in medicine have resulted in a need for population control. People reaching the age of 100 must submit to a government controlled euthanasia program. The story centres around a 100-year old couple who must now make plans for their funeral.
Apr 22, 1970
A young man from an army family with a long tradition of honour and distinction goes to a military academy as an officer cadet and finds himself temperamentally unsuited to the life.
Apr 29, 1970
May 6, 1970
Emma, who lived with an author for the last two years of his life, is involved in a television film about him.
May 13, 1970
A prison visitor becomes involved with a convicted sex offender.
May 27, 1970
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