1990

1. S01E01Creed of SlavesSeptember 18, 1977—"Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants. It is the creed of slaves" (William Pitt). Ho
2. S01E02When did you last see your fatherSeptember 19, 1977—"We don't make laws, we only carry them out". Despite the Home Secretary's abolition of all exit visa appeals, Kyle successfully helps Docto
3. S01E03Health FarmSeptember 26, 1977—"...no barbed-wire, no strait-jackets, no padded cells. After all, this is 1990". When the Public Control Department send union leader Charl
4. S01E04DecoyOctober 3, 1977—"This is an island prison. Getting us all together is one thing. Getting us out is something else". High-profile political adviser Doctor So
5. S01E05Voice from the pastOctober 10, 1977—"The age of the common man seems to be degenerating into the age of the common denominator". When the Public Control Department take steps t
6. S01E06Whatever happened to Cardinal WolseyOctober 17, 1977—The Ombudsman's Court supposedly exists to hear and review appeals by citizens and consists of a tribunal of judges, but every appeal is rej
7. S01E07WitnessOctober 24, 1977—Dr. Alan Vickers, whom Kyle and Breet helped escape, has been campaigning throughout the United States to get public and world opinion to fo
8. S01E08Non-CitizenOctober 31, 1977—After the Kyle Trial fiasco, Skardon takes his revenge by turning Kyle into a Non-Citizen: stripping Kyle of his ID and Union cards, freezin

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1. S02E01PentagonsFebruary 20, 1978—There's good news and bad news in Britain. The good news: Home Secretary Dan Mellor has been replaced by Kate Smith, and a "pentagon" - one
2. S02E02The Market PriceFebruary 27, 1978—"This mate of yours is a shark. With his jaws into whole cargoes. Petrol. Fags. Booze. Grub. It's up to us to nanny him?". When food availab
3. S02E03TraplineMarch 6, 1978—"Who are we out to nail? Careguard, the Home Secretary or Skardon and the PCD?" Jim Kyle is in trouble - he has fallen into the hands of Pol
4. S02E04Ordeal by Small Brown EnvelopeMarch 13, 1978—"Authorised Systematic Harassment has enormous potential. The slow and noiseless steamroller of the State. The daily brown envelope dropping
5. S02E05Hire and FireMarch 20, 1978—"If Kyle can uncover those extortionists where an expert PCD man failed, he is obviously implicated with them." When workers fall prey to an
6. S02E06You'll Never Walk AloneMarch 27, 1978—
7. S02E07Young SparksApril 3, 1978—"Kyle'll be back to normal in about an hour. Until then he'll probably show an amusing tendency to tell the truth." Groups of dissidents, on
8. S02E08What Pleases the PrinceApril 10, 1978—"We always said there'd be Peace Crimes Trials one day ... We're winning now. There'll have to be a purge of the PCD soon." The dissident as

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