Screen Two — Season 3
All 15 episodes in airing order, with first-run dates and viewer ratings.
- 01
Two guys meet, one American, a deserter from the US army, one Brit, and they are drawn together by their mutual love of Soul music. Neither being gainfully employed they decide to start a mobile disco service for fellow soul lovers, which leads them to buy an ice cream van, and the adventure begins. Before long they find themselves on the run from the bad guys and the police.
- 02
The story of Anthony Blunt, the "fourth man" in a notorious 1951 spy scandal.
- 03
Freedom fascinates and frightens Jackie, encountering the real world for the first time in years, She clings to an ideal: 'What I want most in the whole world is to be in love and to be loved'. Reality can be harsh and unforgiving.
- 04
What's happened to Pilkington? James doesn't much care, he's far more interested in renewing acquaintance with the girl he silently adored as a teenager - but maybe she knows something.
- 05
Michael Palin's nostalgic comedy about a family holiday at a Suffolk seaside resort. Richard Burrill, a 17-year-old, is reluctantly dragged to Southwold with his parents, where he meets Edwin, another teenager who has very definite ideas about how to enjoy himself, and a young Dutch girl with an eye for the boys.
- 06
Finn's story seems to begin when Henry Kirk comes into the bookshop where she works. But it goes back a lot further than that.
- 07
Teenage Catherine enjoys reading Gothic Novels. She visits Bath and meets Henry and his sister Eleanor. Upon returning home, Eleanor invites Catherine as her companion. There Catherine's begins to suspect a dark secret at Northanger Abbey.
- 08
This production for the BBC-2's "Screen Two" series was the last of Dennis Potter's "one-shot, one-slot" plays for television. It had its origins in Potter's 1983 play "Sufficient Carbohydrate," about two middle-aged executives, one English, one American, who both work for the same multinational food company. Together, they vacation with their wives on a Greek island. In the TV adaptation, British businessman Jack becomes bitter as he faces the prospect of seeing his family company taken over by an American corporation. On a holiday at an Italian villa with his new manager, Eddie, he begins to stir up antagonism prompting Eddie's son Clayton to fantasize a murderous outcome.
- 09
Heaven On Earth follows several children and teens as they are sent from their homes in Wales and England to Canada. Host families await them and each child must adapt to their new surroundings, deal with their new duties and families and survive by holding into their friendships. Heaven on Earth is based on historical events and focuses on the trials and hardships of children who were unwanted but ultimately found their place in the world.
- 10
Jo teaches 'difficult' children - American style. Young Helen, one of her most rebellious pupils, teaches horse-riding - Cotswold style. Who is going to learn the most?
- 11
After the Great War, thousands of Canadian troops were sent to Kinmel Park Camp in North Wales to await their return as young heroes.
- 12
St. John Quartermaine, a teacher in an English language college for foreign students, his life revolving around work, seemingly without a social life of his own, is becoming increasingly absent-minded and forgetful.
- 13
Fledge needs a job. He'll take anything. And when Dawlish gives him strange errands to run, for cash in hand, strictly 'on the palm', it's a welcome change from the dole. Until he finds himself digging dirt on an old friend.
- 14
Mr and Mrs Desmond Howard Jones invite you to the wedding of their daughter Mariella to Dominic Frazer.
- 15
Easter holidays in the charming seaside town of Dynmouth. The fair has come to town with roundabouts, the big wheel and a spot-the-talent contest. And Timothy Gedge wants to make people laugh - but he needs props.
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