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Private Notes
Young Frank Brady falls in love with a woman he has only seen from a distance. He enlists his friend Peg to help him win the woman's love.
The team's off on the annual rugby tour. Every year it's the same, but this time a sour note threatens. Tommy and Jack have bone to pick with their sister's husband, Dave. Dave has a girlfriend, and they come down to the club like a courting couple.
Carpenter and widower MacNeil takes a blunt approach in making advances to lady executive Miss Saville who works in the same firm as himself. His belief in his instincts regarding women is contradicted by his daughter Mary, who knows him better than he thinks.
Mary MacNeil drifts into a complex relationship with a Welsh barrister.
Fed up with having his car stolen, Williams decides it's time to take the law into his own hands, but there is a price to pay.
An effete television producer and his beautiful wife move into an old terraced house. In the basement is a sitting tenant they cannot move. The tenant starts to invade their life with increasing voracity, leading to him eventually beating up the young wife and then becoming her afternoon lover.
Two people (one rich, one poor) have failing kidneys, an expensive kidney machine would save them.
Michael Vint, an embittered hack reporter from a Sunday newspaper, is sent down into the country to find a story in the love life of an aging has-been writer and his new glamorous young film star wife. The writer is annoyed about the intrusion into his private life, but his wife sees it as an opportunity.
Writing for ITV Sunday Night Theatre (1969), Dennis Potter introduced the notion that popular music expresses the yearning of the human spirit for a better world. A troubled young man, David Peters (Ian Holm), claims, "Once dreams were possible, that's what the popular songs told us." Rejecting rock music of the day, Peters is immersed in the tunes of Thirties crooner Al Bowlly (killed during the London blitz). He collects Bowlly memorabilia, publishes the Bowlly fan-club newsletter, and finds pleasure in lip-synching Bowlly records but his obsession with Bowlly masks certain darker events in his past.
