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Épisode 1 - Contact

6 janvier 1985

A platoon of British soldiers aggressively descend upon a car on a Northern Irish border roadside and promptly execute the driver and apprehend the passenger.

Épisode 2 - Poppyland

13 janvier 1985

Épisode 3 - Unfair Exchanges

20 janvier 1985

Épisode 4 - Knockback: Part One

27 janvier 1985

Épisode 5 - Knockback: Part Two

3 février 1985

Épisode 6 - Lent

10 février 1985

Épisode 7 - The Unknown Soldier

17 février 1985

Épisode 8 - The Burston Rebellion

24 février 1985

Épisode 9 - Space Station: Milton Keynes

3 mars 1985

Épisode 10 - In The Secret State

10 mars 1985

Épisode 1 - The McGuffin

12 janvier 1986

Épisode 2 - The Silent Twins

19 janvier 1986

Épisode 3 - Time After Time

26 janvier 1986

Épisode 4 - Frankie and Johnnie

2 février 1986

Épisode 5 - Honest, Decent and True

9 février 1986

Épisode 6 - Song of Experience

16 février 1986

Épisode 7 - The Insurance Man

23 février 1986

A man in nineteenth century Prague is injured in his job at a dye factory. His attempts to seek compensation from an insurance company turn into a Kafka-esque nightmare.

Épisode 8 - Hotel du Lac

2 mars 1986

An authoress, whose career is more successful than her private life, arrives at a French hotel and finds her life changing in unexpected ways.

Épisode 9 - The Russian Soldier

9 mars 1986

Épisode 10 - Blood Hunt

16 mars 1986

Épisode 11 - Shergar

23 mars 1986

Épisode 12 - Hard Travelling

30 mars 1986

Épisode 13 - Double Image

6 avril 1986

Épisode 1 - Coast to Coast

4 janvier 1987

Two guys meet, one American, a deserter from the US army, one Brit, and they are drawn together by their mutual love of Soul music. Neither being gainfully employed they decide to start a mobile disco service for fellow soul lovers, which leads them to buy an ice cream van, and the adventure begins. Before long they find themselves on the run from the bad guys and the police.

Épisode 2 - Blunt, The Fourth Man

11 janvier 1987

The story of Anthony Blunt, the "fourth man" in a notorious 1951 spy scandal.

Épisode 3 - Will You Love Me Tomorrow

18 janvier 1987

Épisode 4 - After Pilkington

25 janvier 1987

The quiet life of Oxford professor James Westgate (Bob Peck) is shattered when he is introduced to Penny (Miranda Richardson), the wife of his crass new colleague (Barry Foster). Westgate recognises her as his childhood sweetheart, and the two resume their friendship. Westgate is bored with his mundane college life, including his deadly dull girlfriend, his German friend Boris who experiments on animals in the lab, and the attentions of a shy male student who claims to be in love with him, so he is only too happy to be diverted into joining Penny in her search for missing archaeologist Pilkington (a fellow Oxford colleague). As Westgate's obsession with his childhood friend grows, he is drawn into a tangle of misunderstanding, intrigue, and murder.

Épisode 5 - East of Ipswich

1 février 1987

Michael Palin's nostalgic comedy set in the 1950s about a teenage boy reluctantly dragged to a Suffolk seaside resort for the family holiday. Loosely based on the real-life story of how Michael Palin met his future wife, Helen Gibbins, on Southwold beach in 1959.

Épisode 6 - Naming the Names

8 février 1987

Épisode 7 - Northanger Abbey

15 février 1987

Épisode 8 - Visitors

22 février 1987

Épisode 9 - Heaven on Earth

1 mars 1987

Épisode 10 - Inappropriate Behaviour

8 mars 1987

Jo, an American teacher working in a rural comprehensive school on an exchange deal, uses behavioural psychology in her work with difficult pupils. In return, one of her pupils, Helen, teaches Jo horse-riding.

Épisode 11 - Going Home

15 mars 1987

Épisode 12 - Quartermaine's Terms

29 mars 1987

St. John Quartermaine, a teacher in an English language college for foreign students, his life revolving around work, seemingly without a social life of his own, is becoming increasingly absent-minded and forgetful.

Épisode 13 - On the Palm

5 avril 1987

Épisode 14 - Hedgehog Wedding

17 avril 1987

Épisode 15 - The Children of Dynmouth

19 avril 1987

Timothy Gedge, a socially inept yet intrusive teenage boy, wanders around the dull seaside town of Dynmouth, spying on the town's residents. At first this behaviour is seen as merely annoying, even comical, until people begin to realise that his purpose may not be as innocent as initially thought.

Épisode 1 - The Vision

10 janvier 1988

Épisode 2 - Dead Lucky

17 janvier 1988

Épisode 3 - Sweet as You Are

24 janvier 1988

Épisode 4 - Stanley Spencer

31 janvier 1988

Épisode 5 - Border

7 février 1988

Épisode 6 - Follow the Yellow Brick Road

14 février 1988

Épisode 7 - Love Birds

6 mars 1988

Épisode 8 - Shadow on the Earth

13 mars 1988

Épisode 9 - Reasonable Force

27 mars 1988

Épisode 10 - The Temptation of Eileen Hughes

3 avril 1988

Épisode 11 - Lucky Sunil

17 avril 1988

Young, handsome and alone in London. Will Sunil’s luck hold out against the seductions of pretty girls, the wiles of con-men and a hundred temptations of the great city?

Épisode 1 - Death of a Son

8 janvier 1989

Épisode 2 - Angel Voices

15 janvier 1989

Épisode 3 - Flying in the Branches

22 janvier 1989

Épisode 4 - Words of Love

29 janvier 1989

Épisode 5 - Leaving

5 février 1989

A moving, comic tale of three boys about to leave a grim Catholic School in Greenock, Scotland, who find they must each choose a different path in life as they face the future.

Épisode 6 - Virtuoso

12 février 1989

Épisode 7 - The Picnic

19 février 1989

Épisode 8 - The Firm

26 février 1989

This is the story of rival "Firms" of football (soccer) supporters, and how one man has a wish to team them up for the European Championships of 1988. However, when this is discussed, the opposing leaders are not happy, as they believe this is a challenge to their authority. This Film shows how football violence has progressed from pure violence to a form of organized crime, to the extent that all the leaders know each others home phone / mobile phone numbers.

Épisode 9 - Here is the News

5 mars 1989

Épisode 10 - Ice Dance

12 mars 1989

Épisode 11 - Sitting Targets

19 mars 1989

Épisode 12 - Defrosting the Fridge

26 mars 1989

Épisode 1 - Old Flames

14 janvier 1990

Épisode 2 - The Man From The Pru

21 janvier 1990

The story of a famous real-life murder case in which an employee of the Prudential Insurance Company was suspected of killing his wife.

Épisode 3 - Drowning in the Shallow End

28 janvier 1990

Épisode 4 - Close Relations

4 février 1990

Épisode 5 - The Impossible Spy

11 février 1990

The Impossible Spy is based on the life and career of Israeli undercover agent Elie Cohen. The story begins in 1959, with the Egyptian-born Cohen (John Shea) being recruited by the Israeli Mossad. Cohen, a mild-mannered Jewish accountant, wants no part of espionage, but goes along with his superior's plans to send him into Syria under an assumed identity. The reluctant spy is so successful in his cover that he is nearly elected Syrian minister of defense! What finally does happen results in the death of Cohen in 1965--and the birth of an enduring legend.

Épisode 6 - He's Asking for Me

18 février 1990

Épisode 7 - Sometime in August

25 février 1990

Épisode 8 - Small Zones

4 mars 1990

Épisode 9 - Circles of Deceit

11 mars 1990

Épisode 10 - The Lorelei

18 mars 1990

Épisode 11 - Children Crossing

25 mars 1990

Épisode 12 - The Kremlin, Farewell

1 avril 1990

Épisode 1 - Heading Home

13 janvier 1991

A story of a women is torn between two men in post world war II London.

Épisode 2 - Hallelujah Anyhow

27 janvier 1991

Épisode 3 - Korczak

3 février 1991

Épisode 4 - Fellow Traveller

10 février 1991

Épisode 5 - 102 Boulevard Haussmann

17 février 1991

In 1916 author Marcel Proust is leading a reclusive life in Paris. He hires a quartet of musicians and befriends one of them, a wounded serviceman.

Épisode 6 - A Private Life

24 février 1991

Épisode 7 - The Laughter of God

3 mars 1991

Épisode 8 - Morphine and Dolly Mixtures

10 mars 1991

Épisode 9 - Do Not Disturb

17 mars 1991

Épisode 10 - Dreaming

24 mars 1991

Épisode 11 - They Never Slept

31 mars 1991

Épisode 12 - Aimée

7 avril 1991

Épisode 1 - The Grass Arena

19 janvier 1992

Épisode 2 - Flea Bites

26 janvier 1992

Épisode 3 - The Count of Solar

2 février 1992

Épisode 4 - The Lost Language of Cranes

9 février 1992

Épisode 5 - The Object of Beauty

16 février 1992

American couple Jake and Tina are living in an expensive London hotel way beyond what they can afford. When they were asked to pay the bill, Jake wants to sell Tina's 20.000 pound Henry Moore sculpture, but she is not happy about that. The deaf-mute hotel maid admires the sculpture for its beauty rather than its value. When the sculpture goes missing, the couple start fighting over it...

Épisode 6 - My Sister-Wife

23 février 1992

Épisode 7 - Truly Madly Deeply

1 mars 1992

Once upon a time there were two people in love, their names were Nina and Jamie. They were even happy enough to be able to live happily ever after, (not often the case) and then Jamie died. Nina is left with a house full of rats and handymen, a job teaching foreigners English and an ache that fills the night sky.

Épisode 8 - Common Pursuit

8 mars 1992

Épisode 9 - Utz, la passion de l'art

15 mars 1992

Épisode 10 - The Law Lord

22 mars 1992

Épisode 11 - The Last Romantics

29 mars 1992

Épisode 12 - Enchanted April

5 avril 1992

Four women, driven to desperation in 1920s London, rent a small castle in Italy for a holiday, where they are joined by their husbands. The magic of the place soon begins to work in unexpected ways.

Épisode 13 - Memento Mori

19 avril 1992

The story sets in UK during the 1940's. Lettie Colston is a bad tempered lady, who treats in a very rude fashion her maid and has a quite strict personality. Charmian Colston, on the contrary, is a very nice woman, but she lives obsessed with Jean Taylor, because she calls every person like that despite his husband, Godfrey Colston, tells her everyday that Taylor's in the hospital. In fact, Lattie visits almost everyday to Jean at the hospital, a very calm old lady, who shares the room with other old women, some of them living in her own world. One day, Lattie receives a mysterious phone call, with a creepy male voice speaking, telling that "remember that you have to die one day". Charmian is receiving the same phone calls as well as Godfrey. Other friends are receiving the phone calls as well, a group of old people who likes to organize social reunions, gathering together in funerals. Lattie and Charmian are too scared because of these phone calls, and they're trying to find out who might be the responsible. Nevertheless, Godfrey has a fetish obsession with woman legs and he's been unfaithful to Charmian with a younger woman, in fact, the girlfriend of an old man, whom Godfrey can't stand because he pretends to be a literary critic. A refined and attractive lady, Mrs. Mabel Pettigrew leads the group during the social events and she offers to care for Charmian at her house, having a very seductive behavior with Godfrey, when she dares to show her legs to him. However, Lattie wants to solve the phone calls mystery with the help of a kind doctor, because the culprit maybe is among them.

Épisode 1 - The Clothes in the Wardrobe

17 janvier 1993

Épisode 2 - Edward II

24 janvier 1993

Épisode 3 - The Long Roads

31 janvier 1993

Poignant love story that follows a cantankerous elderly Highlander and his wife on a journey of discovery. Learning that Kitty is ill with cancer, they set off to visit their children, now geographically and socially miles apart.

Épisode 4 - Femme Fatale

7 février 1993

Épisode 5 - Dead Romantic

14 février 1993

Épisode 6 - The Cormorant

21 février 1993

Épisode 7 - Prauge

28 février 1993

Épisode 8 - Voices in the Garden

7 mars 1993

Épisode 9 - Maria's Child

28 mars 1993

Épisode 10 - The Snapper

4 avril 1993

Twenty-year-old Irish lass Sharon Curley (Tina Kellegher) still lives at home with her mom (Ruth McCabe), dad (Colm Meaney) and many siblings. But notoriety in her small town suddenly arrives in the unlikeliest of forms when, after a boozy night on the town, she becomes pregnant and refuses to divulge the identity of the baby's father. Eventually, the not-so-proud dad is exposed, bringing new levels of embarrassment and complication to the devout Roman Catholic Curley household.

Épisode 11 - The Trial

19 décembre 1993

Épisode 12 - The Railway Station Man

30 décembre 1993

Épisode 1 - Genghis Cohn

2 mars 1994

Épisode 2 - Skallagrigg

9 mars 1994

Back in the 'bad old days' when the physically and mentally disabled were locked away in institutions a legend grew of someone who could stand up to the authorities and help them. This charming story is how a group of disabled people went to chase that legend. To assist them John is forced to come to terms with his daughter and her friends

Épisode 3 - All Things Bright and Beautiful

16 mars 1994

Épisode 4 - The Reflecting Skin

23 mars 1994

Épisode 5 - O Mary This London

30 mars 1994

Épisode 6 - Dirtysomething

6 avril 1994

Épisode 7 - Return to Blood River

13 avril 1994

Épisode 8 - Henri

20 avril 1994

Épisode 9 - Zinky Boys Go Underground

27 avril 1994

Épisode 10 - Ethan Frome

4 mai 1994

Épisode 11 - Hope in the Year Two

11 mai 1994

Épisode 12 - Sin Bin

18 mai 1994

Épisode 13 - Men of the Month

25 mai 1994

Épisode 14 - Safe

1 juin 1994

Épisode 15 - A Landing on the Sun

8 juin 1994

Épisode 16 - In the Cold Light of Day

15 juin 1994

Épisode 17 - Criminal

22 juin 1994

Épisode 18 - A Little Bit of Lippy

29 juin 1994

Épisode 19 - Midnight Movie

26 décembre 1994

Épisode 20 - The Blue Boy

2 janvier 1995

Épisode 1 - A Very Open Prison

26 mars 1995

Épisode 2 - Life After Life

2 avril 1995

Épisode 3 - Persuasion

16 avril 1995

Épisode 4 - Crazy for a Kiss

23 avril 1995

Épisode 5 - The Absence of War

18 mai 1995

Adapted by David Hare from his own play, this British TV movie stars John Thaw as politician George Jones. Going against the grain of his bosses during a tough political contest, Jones finds himself campaigning against his own party. Though the ending is ironic, it is hardly surprising -- especially since the story was based on the real-life defeat of the Labour Party in the 1992 election.

Épisode 6 - Mrs. Hartley and the Growth Centre

21 mai 1995

Épisode 7 - Black Easter

4 juin 1995

Épisode 8 - Bliss

11 juin 1995

Épisode 1 - Great Moments in Aviation

11 novembre 1995

Leaving her home and family in the West Indies, Gabriel Angel embarks on a cruise liner bound for England during the 1950s in the hope of becoming a female aviator.

Épisode 2 - Priest

18 novembre 1995

A vivid and uncompromising journey into the soul of a tortured Catholic priest as he struggles with his own sexuality, his vow of celibacy and the confidentiality of the confessional. Father Greg arrives at a Liverpool parish to work with Father Matthew Thomas and wage war against sin and poverty. But Greg's homosexual affair with Graham leaves him racked with guilt. This feeling intensifies when he hears a terrible secret in the confessional box and is powerless to do anything about it.

Épisode 3 - Streetlife

25 novembre 1995

Jo is a single mother in the middle of a tempestuous love affair with Kevin, a married man. She is pregnant, and when Kevin starts to mess her around and her mother is taken ill, Jo's life starts to crumble.

Épisode 4 - Dernier voyage à Glasgow

2 décembre 1995

Tom, a young Glaswegian, is living in London and has Aids. Against the advice of Ira, his partner, he decides on a trip home, back to the family that rejected him and the friends he once was close to. Ira has to rescue him from the resulting mayhem.

Épisode 5 - A Very Open Prison

9 décembre 1995

The Home Secretary's plans for a prison privatisation programme are scuppered when three maximum security inmates escape.

Épisode 6 - Saigon Baby

16 décembre 1995

A childless couple's obsession with becoming parents draws them into the shadowy world of baby trafficking.

Épisode 7 - The Hawk

24 décembre 1995

A serial killer nicknamed "the Hawk" is preying on women, and suburban wife Annie Marsh begins to suspect her husband. But her past psychiatric history means that nobody will take her seriously.

Épisode 8 - The Hour of the Pig

26 décembre 1995

Idealistic young Parisian lawyer Richard Courtois sets up a practice among the superstitious rural community of Abbeville. Soon, he gets embroiled in religious, political and sexual intrigue.

Épisode 9 - Return Of The Native

31 décembre 1995

Set in 1842, it tells the turbulent story of mysterious Eustacia Vye, who longs for the excitement of a world beyond the constraints of village life on Egdon Heath.

Épisode 10 - Half the Picture

18 février 1996

A dramatised account drawn from actual transcripts that follows the unfolding drama of the Scott Inquiry into the supply of arms to Iraq. The inquiry was set up in response to public outcry over the collapse of the trial of industrialist Paul Henderson.

Épisode 1 - Captives

11 mai 1996

Rachel Clifford, a young dentist, starts working in a high security prison when her marriage breaks up. Before long she is drawn into an intense, secret affair with a convicted criminal.

Épisode 2 - A Man of No Importance

18 mai 1996

Dublin, 1960s: as usual, bus conductor Alfie Byrne is captivating his passengers by reciting from the works of Oscar Wilde. This morning, however, they are joined on their route by a new face, the beautiful Adele Rice, and Alfie realises he has the opportunity to fulfil his dream of staging Wilde's Salome, with Adele as his princess.

Épisode 3 - The Cement Garden

25 mai 1996

When 15-year-old Jack's parents die, he and his sister Julie are worried that their younger brother and sister will be taken into care. As the pressures of trying to keep their family together build up, Jack finds the sexual frustrations of teenage life and his growing attraction for his sister starting to impinge on their already complicated lives.

Épisode 4 - Bad Boy Blues

1 juin 1996

Paul, an underworld hitman, recruits his childhood friend AD on his next job - the execution of a corrupt lawyer involved in drug dealing. But the hit goes wrong.

Épisode 5 - The Precious Blood

8 juin 1996

Rosie Williams is haunted by the murder of her husband 12 years previously. Her teenage son John is heading for a life of delinquency fuelled by revenge. Then, he meets Billy McVea, who runs a boxing gym, affecting all their lives.

Épisode 6 - Century

15 juin 1996

At the close of the 19th century, Paul Reisner is one of an elite group of young doctors working on the cutting edge of medical research, under the leadership of Professor Mandry. Paul shows every sign of a brilliant career, and falls in love with Clara, a laboratory assistant. But his world is shattered when he makes a startling discovery about the professor.

Épisode 1 - Crossing the Floor

5 octobre 1996

In a desperate bid to save his political career, scheming Home Secretary David Hanratty resigns from an unpopular Conservative government to join forces with the Labour Party and its charismatic new leader Tom Peel.

Épisode 2 - Deadly Voyage

12 octobre 1996

A small group of Ghanaian stowaways are discovered on board a cargo ship and all but one brutally murdered by its crew. The survivor tells his story.

Épisode 3 - Loving

19 octobre 1996

Ireland, 1941: while the rest of Europe is at war, the inhabitants of Kinalty Castle find themselves overwhelmed by uncontrollable feelings of lust and passion. Before long, Charlie Raunce, the castle's butler, has fallen head over heels in love with Edith the housemaid.

Épisode 4 - Flowers in the Forest

26 octobre 1996

Two young children are brought to Janet Hinton, a social worker in the Scottish Highlands. When both she and an independent expert become convinced that the children are part of a ritual child abuse network, the small community is thrown into disarray.

Épisode 5 - Look Me in the Eye

2 novembre 1996

A recently married schoolteacher becomes infatuated with an enigmatic photographer after a chance encounter. But when she discovers that he has covertly been taking pictures of her, she aims to destroy this part of his portfolio.

Épisode 6 - Dallas Doll

16 novembre 1996

Dallas Adair, an American golf guru, comes to live with a middle-class family in suburban Australia. With her riotous antics and her capacity to attract both sexes, she soon sets about sexually awakening the Sommers household.

Épisode 7 - Burn Your Phone

31 décembre 1996

Andy (Alan Cumming ) works at the Hastings Telephone Exchange. All day, every day he copes with emergencies, from squashed seagulls to suicide attempts. Buton this particular day he takes a series of callsfrom someone who is threatening to murder him.

Épisode 1 - Stonewall

17 mai 1997

It's summer 1969 in New York City. Young, gay and full of dreams, Matty Dean arrives on a Greyhound bus and heads downtown. It's the time of the Vietnam War and the Apollo moon walk, but gay people are still being persecuted.

Épisode 2 - I.D.

1 juin 1997

Four young police officers are sent undercoverto infiltrate a gang of hooligans linked to a London football club, but only total commitment will gain the officers the acceptance they need to do their job.

Épisode 3 - Stone, Scissors, Paper

7 juin 1997

Seeking refuge from a violent husband, Jean secretly moves into the riverside cottage that belonged to her mother to clear out her possessions. Here, she meets a married stonemason - Redfern - with whom she gradually forms an intimate relationship. Both experience feelings of guilt for their in admissible love for one another, and it isn't long before the couple's quiet affair of the heart is violently and tragically shattered.

Épisode 4 - Butterfly Kiss

14 juin 1997

Eunice travels the motorways in a fruitless search for Judith, the only person who has ever understood and loved her. She meets Miriam, who is fascinated by the violent and unpredictable Eunice and follows her, only to find herself an accomplice to multiple murder.

Épisode 5 - Brothers in Trouble

21 juin 1997

Amir, an illegal immigrant, makes his way into Britain buried beneath piles of vegetables, finding refuge in a bleak terraced house with 17 other men in the same situation. Things look up when he gets work at a mill, but then Hussein Shah, the house leader, brings home Mary, an attractive woman with a murky past.

Épisode 6 - Mothertime

28 décembre 1997

When a single mother's drinking binge threatens to spoil yet another Christmas, her five children lock her in the sauna to dry out.

Épisode 7 - Small Faces

1 janvier 1998

In the Glasgow of 1968, young teenager Lex Maclean is torn between the artistic life of his middle brother Alan, and the thuggish world of his older sibling, Bobby.