BBC2 Playhouse

- Season 7

(1980)

Peter boards a train to attend an important business meeting across Europe. His train trip is made more complicated by two women also assigned to his train compartment. One is an independent American whom Peter finds attractive. The other is Frau Messner - an extremely particular and demanding older European woman. Between the two of them, they try different aspects of Peter's patience...

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Dick and Mandy, a young working class couple, move into a council house in Canterbury, and find Mr. Butcher, one of their former teachers, living next door. Mandy's unmarried sister, Gloria, is constantly dropping in, and will not take any hints that the couple would prefer to be left alone, until her presence finally goads them to action.

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The permissiveness of the Swinging Sixties affects an advertising agency in Nottingham.

John Fothergill, aesthete and scholar, becomes the proprietor of the Spread Eagle, in Thame, Oxfordshire, with the intent of turning it into the most celebrated Inn in England, catering to the brightest lights in London's literati.

A darts tournament is put in peril when the players' wives stage a sit-in in the pub.

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In prison the night before his execution, republican preacher Hugh Peter prepares to be hanged, drawn and quartered for treason.

An Irishwoman married to a German in pre-WW1 Liverpool prepares to meet her brother-in-law, a young man named Adolf Hitler.

In 1920, a trio of British soldiers have to guard an unexploded mine that has washed up on a beach.

A young music journalist dreams of meeting his idol, Bob Dylan.

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Period Drama. The true story of Unity Mitford who in the 1930's went to live in Germany and was friends with Adolf Hitler.

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Michael Hordern and Denholm Elliot are perfectly cast and are ideal foils for each other.

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Two men in their 60s sharing a hospital room after their diagnoses of terminal cancer struggle with fear, physical pain, the difficulties of being in hospital, family members unable to cope, loneliness, and their unusual friendship.

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