Screen Two: Series 1
Episode Guide
Season 1 Progress Shield
Contact
Jan 6, 1985 · 66 min
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.
Poppyland
Jan 13, 1985 · 90 min
He is a respectable pillar of London society who yearns for an idyllic existence away from the noise and the smoke. She feels hemmed in by the confines of an isolated fishing villa
Unfair Exchanges
Jan 20, 1985 · 90 min
Mavis's plight will ring a bell in the heart of anyone who ever felt like murdering a telephone. Is some ghoulish mind behind the increasingly mysterious and sinister calls she get
Knockback (1)
Jan 27, 1985 · 90 min
In 1965, at the age of 25, Alan Ackland is sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of a business associate. In 1971, Sylvia Barker, lonely and depressed after a failed marria
Knockback (2)
Feb 3, 1985 · 90 min
Alan and Sylvia fall in love and Alan gains a renewed sense of purpose. He begins to hope for an eventual release on licence. However both he and Sylvia have to face the fact that,
Lent
Feb 10, 1985 · 90 min
It is the Easter holidays at Gorse Park Preparatory School. Everyone has gone home except four elderly members of staff and young Paul Blake, the orphaned son of the former headmas
The Unknown Soldier
Feb 17, 1985 · 90 min
The soldier in the spinal carriage can neither move nor speak. Who is he? His fellow wounded and officers are intent on finding out.
The Burston Rebellion
Feb 24, 1985 · 90 min
On a chilly winter's day in 1911, Kitty and Tom Higdon arrived in the Norfolk village of Burston to take up positions in the village school. Their arrival was to irrevocably change
Space Station
Mar 3, 1985 · 90 min
"It's a city of glass. There are trees and flowers from all over the world. And marble. Acres of it. And in a field, there are cows as still as statues." Maria is taken to a new fo
In the Secret State
Mar 10, 1985 · 90 min
A department head within the British secret service uncovers some unpleasant secrets when he investigates the apparent suicide of a colleague.