Rooms

- Season 1

(1974)

Within her bed sitting room at 35, Mafeking Terrace, Monica Webster battles with her inner self - until she receives a welcome visitor.

Monica faces the toughest battle between love and vanity as her relationship is constantly interrogated.

An old London house, 35 Mafeking Terrace, has been converted into bed-sits. This lodging house hosts a variety of people including student Jan who is working in a restaurant during the holidays and her secretive fellow tenant Tony.

Tony is in trouble and the only person he can talk to about it is Jan, but she has other plans for him.

Two people who are widely separated by both personality and by character are brought together by just one factor.

After Sally has sat and listened to Muriel tell her story, it is now Sally's turn to relate her own story.

One of the tenants of 35, Mafeking Terrace, an eccentric old man called Mr Busby is accused of stealing from Miss Peebles.

Miss Peebles begins to lose patience with the tenant upstairs, the eccentric Mr Busby.

Just as he is getting to know the new tenant Mrs Fox, lodger Ted is questioned by the police regarding an alleged assault on a 13 year old boy.

The past comes to haunt the new friends. For Mrs Fox, it is a snobbish former friend who is openly disdainful about the flat. For Ted, it is another visit from a bullying policeman who has uncovered his recent past.

Jo, an unsuccessful actress, causes problems for her placid room-mate and irascible neighbour with her self-centred behaviour.

Jo tries to make amends for her previous behaviour.

A single mother and the feckless attitude of her husband add to boarding house landlady Dorothy's problems.

The other tenants rally to help a lone parent, and landlady Dorothy finds solutions to her own problems.

Sarah decides to host an intimate New Year's Eve dinner party for her divorced friend Lynn and the mysteriously evasive Robert but the evening doesn't quite turn out the way she'd hoped it would.

Newly separated from her husband, Angela moves into the boarding-house and keeps crossing paths with gregarious Lionel, who moved in on the same day.

Lionel's self-confidence helps Angela regain hers, but he may be hiding truths about himself.

Can the romance survive between Gertrud and Tim, two newlyweds, when confined to one small room?

London can be very hard, especially to dreamers like Gertrud and Tim.

A barmaid from Northern Ireland takes the attic room and begins a relationship with a Barbadian. Meanwhile, Clive needs money for new scheme.

Bernard moves in with Ginnie, but this causes tensions in their relationship made worse when Dorothy wants to raise their rent.

Mr Cotgrove lives very much alone on the first floor. He's 50 and a teacher at a comprehensive school.

Over dinner, Mr Cotgrove tells Miss Hicks why he is living in a bedsitter in Barons Court.

New tenant Peter wants his landlady to keep his presence a secret from a demanding former lover, but it doesn't take her too long to track him down. Is he telling the truth about his past and why is he being hunted by her?

Peter's attempts at evading his former lover are in vain. She arrives intent on a confrontation and stripping him of his respectable veneer.

Reg is a retired army war veteran who has trouble understanding the behaviour and the morals of the younger generation. He is living the life of a derelict until a tenant, Helen, who is a nurse, helps him get his life together.

Reg is being driven to despair by the behaviour of the young man in the room next door. When his young neighbour hosts a particularly noisy party, Reg decides to give him a piece of his mind.

Susan, a 17-year-old secretarial student returns home to her bedsit at 35 Mafeking Terrace. After an uncomfortable conversation with landlord, Mr Lawson, she is visited by her agitated mother who questions her choices.

Susan returns to her room and begins to prepare a meal when she is interrupted by an uninvited visitor - her father. She lies to him and he reacts angrily. Landlady Mrs Lawson interrupts as he forces himself on his daughter.

Returning late, charming, self-confessed 'pseudo-liberal intellectual' divorced Ron drunkenly wakes up Dorothy. The following morning, she questions her relationship with Clive, and a hungover Ron is reminded of an important appointment.

Dorothy confides to Ron that Clive's inability to commit to their relationship is getting on top of her. Ron thinks he might be able to help and invites Clive in for a drink.

Australian writer Peter tries to settle in to life in London by making friends with two women who also live in the building, but is annoyed that his friend Alan is less sociable.

Peter sells a radio script and finds he has much in common with fellow tenant, Bea. However, Alan is still unable to share his friend's happiness, and the reason becomes apparent.

Well-spoken Alison brings a rare touch of glamour and intellect to Mafeking Terrace, and Clive finds he has much in common with her. But Dorothy is concerned that he may be getting too attentive.

Alison becomes ill with 'flu and finds Clive a willing nurse, causing Dorothy to let slip their address to Alison's estranged husband.

Solitary Paul prefers to keep relationships at a distance, including his girlfriend Lynda, a student in Glasgow. But his gregarious neighbour Wendy insists on getting to know him better.

Lynda arrives from Glasgow and Paul must confront the reasons behind his shyness.

Timid Anthea is encouraged to let her hair down by her outgoing neighbor Fran and her boyfriend Trevor.

As Anthea's self-confidence grows, her new friends are pushed away.

Clive lets a room to Denny without checking with Dorothy, and the new lodger's attitude arouses her suspicions.

On discovering the identity of the new tenant, Clive is starstruck. But finding an unpleasant side to his idol he tries to teach him a lesson.

Nellie finds herself without a home following the sudden death of her husband and takes one of the rooms. She is the only tenant who enjoys the company of lively neighbour Sandra.

Nellie's son is taken aback by his mother's new-found employment, social life and independence. But an unexpected financial wind-fall could change several relationships.

Sheila tries to keep her teenage sister Beverley under control in her first time in London, but their mutual interest in scholarly neighbour Ben only increases tension.

Sheila has packed a suitcase and tells landlord Clive that she is off home for a long weekend, but sister Beverley has no idea why she left so suddenly without telling her or Ben. Later, Beverley receives a letter from Sheila telling her where she is and what her plans are, but there are surprises in store for both Beverley and Ben.

By chance Frances meets married ex lover Richard and is keen to resume the affair. But is everything as it seems.

Frances has to deal with some distressing revelations and comes to a decision on her future.

Clingy lovesick Arthur is attracted to his pretty young neighbour Rowena.

Arthur is hoping that there might be a future for him with Rowena, but she already has her future worked out. What is her connection to the mysterious man in the car outside the house?

Struggling fruit and veg businessman Henry asks his neighbour Jean to help deal with his correspondence, but Jean suspects there may be another reason why Henry is constantly making excuses for his poor eyesight.

Henry finally admits to Jean that he never learned to read. When Jean starts to teach him how to read they begin to open up their inner feelings to each other. Jean gives Henry some advice on how to repair his broken marriage.

Wife Kate is furious because husband David hasn't come home in time for dinner. He eventually turns up drunk, accompanied by an equally drunk Mike, a former RAF buddy.

Mike makes an unwelcome return just as Kate is preparing a cosy dinner for two. She is furious and wants him out, but David is more conciliatory and wants him to stay. Why is Mike back and what is he after?

Harry is a retired music hall star who shares a room with his wife Pearl. His peaceful retirement is interrupted by a radio producer who is interested in documenting Harry's entertainment career for a radio show. Meanwhile Dorothy is annoyed that Clive is using rent money for some mysterious business arrangement.

Clive explains to Dorothy how he made a profit of over £600 at an auction house. An argument ensues and as a result it seems that their relationship is in danger of falling apart. Whilst recording his memories of his bygone career with the radio producer, Harry reminisces about his former music hall comedy partnership of 'Leslie and Lane'.

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