Screen Two — Season 4

All 11 episodes in airing order, with first-run dates and viewer ratings.

1. 01S04E01

   January 9, 1988

   The Vision

   Veteran broadcaster James Marriner is persuaded to front a new big budget national family TV channel. But he begins to suspect that the channel is a front for something much more sinister and political.

2. 02S04E02

   January 17, 1988

   Dead Lucky

   Martin Urban, a young accountant, is gay but unwilling to own up to this fact because he desperately wants to be the ideal son for his parents. When he wins a fortune on the football pools, he decides to give half of it away to deserving people. But he neglects to include his friend Tim Sage, who filled in the coupon for him and really needs the money. Perhaps Martin doesn't acknowledge Tim because Martin is strongly sexually attracted to him. Tim's revenge upon Martin succeeds beyond his wildest dreams, setting in motion a chain of events leading to a tragic climax

3. 03

   January 24, 1988

   Sweet As You Are

   A lecturer has an extra-marital one night stand and contracts HIV. The movie shows how he tells his wife and the way in which she is forced to cope with his infidelity and the fact he has put her in danger of contracting the disease herself.

4. 04S04E04

   January 31, 1988

   Stanley Spencer

   The controversial English artist Stanley Spencer scandalised the art world when he painted the Resurrection taking place in the churchyard of Cookham, his home village by the River Thames; and further scandalised the village when he decided that to nourish his imagination, he needed two wives.

5. 05S04E05

   February 7, 1988

   Border

   Czechoslovakia, 1952. For some, life under the post-war Stalinist regime is hardly worth living and although the escape route to the West is almost suicide, the rewards - prosperity, political freedom, even luxury - make it a risk worth taking.

6. 06S04E06

   March 6, 1988

   Love Birds

   Barbara and Naseem are in the same hospital, having babies. They make friends. But the celebrations of their husbands, Kenny and Quereshi, 'Jimmy', lead to a headlong chase, with crazy mix-ups, collisions and brushes with the law.

7. 07S04E07

   March 13, 1988

   Shadow On The Earth

   Two brothers growing up in a small Scottish mining town become convinced the albino man living in their street is an alien. Influenced by science fiction films and the religious bigotry around them, they begin to persecute him, until one day actually get to know him.

8. 08S04E08

   March 27, 1988

   Reasonable Force

   In times of civil unrest, crack police units like Inspector Maclntyre's get the job of keeping order on the streets. But when a demonstrator dies after a riot, who will the public - and the Police Force itself - hold accountable?

9. 09S04E09

   April 3, 1988

   The Temptation of Eileen Hughes

   The McAuleys are local celebrities and Eileen Hughes, a young shop assistant, is flattered to be taken under their wing. Then she accepts their invitation to join them for a week's holiday in London ...

10. 10

    April 17, 1988

    Lucky Sunil

    Young, handsome and alone in London at the start of a great career. But will Sunil's luck hold out against the seductions of pretty girls, the wiles of con-men and a hundred temptations of the great city?

11. 11S04E11

    April 24, 1988

    Run for the Lifeboat

    Problems of a Welsh coastal village where the lifeboat crew is the main focus.