All Episodes of Talking Heads
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Season 1
8.5/1054 votesLoading...A Chip in the Sugar
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 4/19/1988
Graham is a middle-aged man with a history of mild mental health problems, living with his mother in Leeds.
Director: Stuart Burge
Writer: Alan Bennett
8.9/1067 votesLoading...A Lady of Letters
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 4/26/1988
Irene Ruddock is not afraid to speak, or rather write, her mind: she writes letters to her MP, the police, the chemist - everyone she can, to remedy the social ills she sees around her.
Director: Giles Foster
Writer: Alan Bennett
8.3/10104 votesLoading...Bed Among the Lentils
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 5/3/1988
Susan, an alcoholic, nervous vicar's wife, distracts herself from her ambitious, and, as she sees him, vainly insensitive husband and his doting parishioners by conducting an affair with a nearby grocer, Ramesh Ramesh, discovering something about herself and God in the process.
Director: Alan Bennett
Writer: Alan Bennett
8.4/1037 votesLoading...Soldiering On
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 5/10/1988
Muriel is a strong woman, and always has been — a pillar of the community, a regular charity worker, and a volunteer for Meals on Wheels; and looking after her mentally ill daughter, Margaret, has fortified her resolve — so, after the death of her husband, Muriel is well-prepared to cope with the crisis.
Director: Tristram Powell
Writer: Alan Bennett
7.9/1038 votesLoading...Her Big Chance
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 5/17/1988
Lesley is an aspiring actress, who, after a series of unpromising extra roles on television programmes such as Crossroads, finds what she believes to be her big break as the adventurous Travis in a new film for the West German market.
Director: Giles Foster
Writer: Alan Bennett
9.0/1067 votesLoading...A Cream Cracker Under the Settee
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 5/24/1988
Doris, aged seventy-five, is a tidy woman — and when she suffers a fall after trying to clear up after her considerably less thorough home help, Zulema, it becomes apparent that her constant nagging may have been responsible for her husband's early death.
Director: Stuart Burge
Writer: Alan Bennett