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

Home Sweet Home is a 1982 television film devised and directed by Mike Leigh, for BBC TV, 'about postmen, parenthood, social workers and sex.' It was Leigh's second collaboration with Play for Today producer Louis Marks, and cinematographer Remi Adefarasin, and with composer Carl Davis - the music score featured a quartet of basses -. It stars Timothy Spall, here working with Leigh for the first time, Eric Richard, Tim Barker, Kay Stonham, Su Elliot, Frances Barber, Sheila Kelley, and Lorraine Brunning. It was first broadcast on 16 March 1982. The film was shot on location in Hitchin, Hertfordshire. 90 minutes.

A man tries to break the world's record for nonstop piano playing

A couple look for the proper school, not for their children but for themselves.

""The Lie"" refers to the 8-year marriage of a couple who are constantly hurting each other.

A man claiming to be an angel enters the household of a bored housewife and teaches the family a few lessons.

A man is made redundant but can't bring himself to let anyone know, plunging into a web of deceit as he keeps up the charade he is still in work.

A man has a mid-life crisis in his brother's pub where sees life as a game show

A newly-appointed knight finds his celebrations cut short by someone who was witness to his treachery during the war.

A TV host and his architect brother attend their father's funeral

A woman living in a country cottage thinks that someone is trying to get her.

A petty thief and social misfit finagles his way into a church congregation

A civil servant working abroad revisits his old school

A cynical student has a radically different view of life from his landlady, leading to conflict. Matters come to a head when he sleeps with her fourteen-year-old brother.

A couple are distressed by the changes in their adopted teenage son when he joins a biker gang.

An old couple refuse to move when they find out that they can't take their piano with them

Billy, a self-employed coal-shoveller, gains a seedy business partner and competition in the form of a rival coal-shoveller.

A man who attempted suicide by jumping out a window is saved only to live in a coma, in which he has fantasies about his relatives and nightmare creatures.

Charges that the Rev 'Red' Reddick is exploiting his youth club members leads to an explosive confrontation.

An odd menage a trois results when a woman and her lover are visited by her long-lost husband

When an injured baby arrives at the hospital, a social worker looks for the parents

A trilogy of plays--A Time to Keep, The Whaler's Return, and Celia--exploring the life of the islanders in the past and present

The story of the Pilkington glass workers strike of 1970

A succesful novelist Edith lives with her husband and his friend, but she decides to ask the friend to leave.

The story of a disintegrating marriage told through family photos