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  The Long Distance Piano Player

  Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 10/15/1970

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

  Director: Philip Saville

  Writer: Alan Sharp

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  The Right Prospectus

  Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 10/22/1970

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

  Director: Alan Cooke

  Writer: N/A

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  The Lie

  Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 10/29/1970

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

  Director: Alan Bridges

  Writer: Ingmar Bergman

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  Angels Are So Few

  Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 11/5/1970

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

  Director: Gareth Davies

  Writer: Dennis Potter

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  The Write-Off

  Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 11/12/1970

  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.

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  I Can't See My Little Willie

  Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 11/19/1970

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

  Director: Alan Clarke

  Writer: N/A

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  A Distant Thunder

  Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 11/26/1970

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

  Director: James Ferman

  Writer: N/A

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  Hearts and Flowers

  Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 12/3/1970

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

  Director: Christopher Morahan

  Writer: N/A

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  Robin Redbreast

  Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 12/10/1970

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

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  The Hallelujah Handshake

  Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 12/17/1970

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

  Director: Alan Clarke

  Writer: N/A

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  Alma Mater

  Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 1/7/1971

  A civil servant working abroad revisits his old school

  Director: James Ferman

  Writer: N/A

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  Circle Line

  Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 1/14/1971

  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.

  Director: Claude Whatham

  Writer: N/A

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  Hell's Angel

  Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 1/21/1971

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

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  The Piano

  Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 1/28/1971

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

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  Billy's Last Stand

  Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 2/4/1971

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

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  The Rainbirds

  Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 2/11/1971

  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.

  Director: Philip Saville

  Writer: Clive Exton

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  Reddick

  Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 2/18/1971

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

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  The Foxtrot

  Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 4/29/1971

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

  Director: Philip Saville

  Writer: N/A

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  When the Bough Breaks

  Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 5/6/1971

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

  Director: James Ferman

  Writer: N/A

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  Orkney

  Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 5/13/1971

  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

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  The Rank and File

  Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 5/20/1971

  The story of the Pilkington glass workers strike of 1970

  Director: Ken Loach

  Writer: N/A

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  The Man in the Sidecar

  Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 5/27/1971

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

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  Everybody Say Cheese

  Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired 6/3/1971

  The story of a disintegrating marriage told through family photos

  Director: Alan Clarke

  Writer: N/A

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  The Cellar and the Almond Tree

  Season 1 Episode 24 - Aired 6/10/1971

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