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Season 14 1984

  • 1984-02-14T12:00:00Z on BBC One
  • 1h 15m
  • 18h 45m (15 episodes)
  • United Kingdom
  • English
  • Drama
Single drama's potential to engage mass audiences with social comment and artistic experimentation.

15 episodes

Season Premiere

1984-02-14T12:00:00Z

14x01 Young Shoulders

Season Premiere

14x01 Young Shoulders

  • 1984-02-14T12:00:00Z1h 15m

Cynical teenager Andrew Groves re-evaluates his attitude to life and his parents after his sister dies in a plane crash.

14x02 A Coming to Terms for Billy

  • 1984-02-21T12:00:00Z1h 15m

When his father comes home to Belfast after more than 2 years in England, conflicts arise with Billy

1984-02-28T12:00:00Z

14x03 Z for Zachariah

14x03 Z for Zachariah

  • 1984-02-28T12:00:00Z1h 15m

After a nuclear holocaust, only a man and a woman survive in a Welsh valley.

1984-03-06T12:00:00Z

14x04 Moving on the Edge

14x04 Moving on the Edge

  • 1984-03-06T12:00:00Z1h 15m

The study of a woman who is falling apart, but who, at the bottom of the slope, begins to rebuild some hope for her future.

1984-03-13T12:00:00Z

14x05 Desert of Lies

14x05 Desert of Lies

  • 1984-03-13T12:00:00Z1h 15m

An expedition tracing the path of long-lost missionaries meets with tragedy in the Kalahari Desert.

1984-03-20T12:00:00Z

14x06 Hard Feelings

14x06 Hard Feelings

  • 1984-03-20T12:00:00Z1h 15m

A group of unemployed Oxford drop-outs living in a Brixton commune get their come-uppance by one of them.

1984-03-27T11:00:00Z

14x07 Under the Hammer

14x07 Under the Hammer

  • 1984-03-27T11:00:00Z1h 15m

Concerning the life of the artist Vincent Van Gogh

1984-04-03T11:00:00Z

14x08 King

14x08 King

  • 1984-04-03T11:00:00Z1h 15m

A man who has had a good life in England wants to retire to Jamaica, but the celebration with his daughters doesn't go as expected.

1984-04-10T11:00:00Z

14x09 Rainy Day Women

14x09 Rainy Day Women

  • 1984-04-10T11:00:00Z1h 15m

In 1940, during World War II, an officer is sent to investigate rumors of German spies in a sleepy village where various people are the victims of war hysteria

1984-07-17T11:00:00Z

14x10 Dog Ends

14x10 Dog Ends

  • 1984-07-17T11:00:00Z1h 15m

In a future society where euthansia is common, a man signs papers to have his father put down

14x11 The Groundling and the Kite

  • 1984-07-24T11:00:00Z1h 15m

Peter is a songwriter, while his old friend Jimmy is an Artists and Repertoire man. But when Jimmy tries to sell one of Peter's songs, Peter is furious. Can the friendship survive?

1984-07-31T11:00:00Z

14x12 The Cry

14x12 The Cry

  • 1984-07-31T11:00:00Z1h 15m

In 1959 Ulster, a journalist witnesses the beating of a youth

14x13 It Could Happen to Anybody

  • 1984-08-14T11:00:00Z1h 15m

A long-suffering Glasgow housewife puts up with years of her husband's violence and drunkenness - and then something happens which makes her snap and fight back.

1984-08-21T11:00:00Z

14x14 Only Children

14x14 Only Children

  • 1984-08-21T11:00:00Z1h 15m

Jill has everything; a successful career, four close, if somewhat exotic, friends (her 'family') and a live-in lover. They provide for all her needs including, eventually, a baby. But that is where reality sets in.

14x15 The Amazing Miss Stella Estelle

  • 1984-08-28T11:00:00Z1h 15m

Stella, 14, works nights. She sings 60s numbers between the stripper with a snake and gorgeous Doris in working men's clubs. She knows what makes her act a success, but does she want to be the breadwinner for her family?

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