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1. S01E01All Together NowJuly 9, 1986—The weekly brass band rehearsal is an enjoyable, light-hearted occasion. Then Mathew, the conductor, introduces James, a newcomer to the vil
2. S01E02Daylight RobberyJuly 16, 1986—Neglected by her family, kept apart from her grandchildren, desperately short of money, Bea begins to gamble - at first for small stakes, bu
3. S01E03Brick Is BeautifulJuly 23, 1986—'Bricks have a future, Mr Clark - you can count on that. They're out there waiting to be taken!' 'There is one small problem.' 'What's that?
4. S01E04Knowing the ScoreJuly 30, 1986—Graeme has musical talent and is struggling to be allowed to express it. Lois is being pushed by her mother into solo parts in the girls' ch
5. S01E05Drums Along Balmoral DriveAugust 6, 1986—'I don't think at first I thought at all. I had a nice house, lovely kids. I didn't think about blacks at all. I should've done, but I didn'
6. S01E06AsinamaliAugust 13, 1986—Five blacks in South Africa end up in jail - for crimes which range from shooting a security policeman to sleeping with a white boss's wife.
7. S01E07In TractionAugust 20, 1986—Matters are bad enough when Mr Gentle tries to commit suicide. They are even worse when the attempt fails. Worst of all is being confined to
8. S01E08The Mozart InquestAugust 27, 1986—Mozart's death in 1791 is surrounded by mystery. What are the secrets of his burial in an unmarked grave? Was he poisoned or did he die of n
9. S01E09The Marlowe InquestSeptember 3, 1986—In an unscripted inquest, three practicing barristers interrogate actors portraying relevant figures of the 16th century in order to determi
10. S01E10Blood, Sweat and TearsSeptember 10, 1986—'Is this the judo place?' 'Dojo, yeh.' 'Wants a chuffin' coat of paint, if you ask me.' 'What is it you want?' 'Self-defence thingy.' That's
11. S01E11Shift WorkSeptember 24, 1986—Julie, a cab driver, collects a fare from the local airport one evening. Unfortunately he dies of a suspected heart attack on his way home i
12. S01E12Paying Guests - Part 1October 1, 1986—Spend some time in the company of the guests at 'Wentworth' - all taking the waters except for the Colonel and Miss Howard, who has some lei
13. S01E13Paying Guests - Part 2October 2, 1986—Miss Howard's exhibition of water-colours at the Green Salon falters but then takes off. The season at 'Wentworth' is now drawing to a close

Season 1 ranked & reviewed

1. S02E01The Trial of Klaus BarbieJuly 15, 1987—Decades after the end of World War II, escaped war criminal Klaus Barbie is brought to justice
2. S02E02LandJuly 22, 1987—The Amazonian jungle, Brazil, 1987. Ruthless landowners are hiring gunslingers to evict peasants from their land. The peasants look to their
3. S02E03Lily My LoveJuly 29, 1987—Lily is 13, Colin is 39 and a vagrant. They run away together. 'One and a half to the English Lakes, single, because we're never coming back
4. S02E04Carianai and the CourtesansAugust 5, 1987—A painter falls in love with a woman whom he suspects may be a thief and a prostitute.
5. S02E05Our Lady BlueAugust 12, 1987—In a Liverpool convent a touching and unusual friendship is forged between Rachel, a young volunteer, Paul, doing 100 hours of community ser
6. S02E06White LadyAugust 26, 1987—In a derelict farmhouse, deep in the English countryside, Gil struggles alone to bring up his little daughters 'to need very little. - stron
7. S02E07The Shutter FallsSeptember 16, 1987—A 19th Century photographer travels to the North of Scotland to document the fishing industry, where he falls in love with one of the Gaelic
8. S02E08ChristineSeptember 23, 1987—Depiction of the everyday life of a teenage heroin addict.
9. S02E09The Interrogation of JohnSeptember 30, 1987—A man is brought into a small London police station and charged with gross indecency. A terrible murder has also been committed in the area.
10. S02E10RoadOctober 7, 1987—Your tour guide for the night is one drunken man called Scullery. Prepare yourself for the experience of your lifetime as he shows you an av

Season 2 ranked & reviewed

1. S03E01No Further Cause for ConcernJuly 13, 1988—'I'm doing 15 years, three years at a time, and when I come out I'm going to be the same man as when I came in. The same man!' But even hard
2. S03E02A Woman AloneJuly 20, 1988—A housewife confides to her neighbour about the troubles she has been having with her possessive husband, her romantic lover and her lechero
3. S03E03Burning AmbitionJuly 27, 1988—When the luckless Martin and Renato have the bright idea of starting up a guided coach tour of the M25, London's orbital motorway, they thin
4. S03E04Eskimos Do itAugust 3, 1988—When the widowed Mrs Bing goes into hospital for a routine operation, she little realises she will soon make a dramatic bid for the most ess
5. S03E05Out Of LoveAugust 10, 1988—The shy, hard-working farmer Thomas Price, whose life is dominated by his father Emrys, is strongly attracted to the independent Englishwoma
6. S03E06Home FrontAugust 24, 1988—'What about us? We have rights too. This is not just any residential home for kids in care. This is Home. You. tell them - they try and clos
7. S03E07Between The CracksAugust 31, 1988—The performers in this drama are not actors reciting other people's lines. They are who they say they are and they speak from their own real
8. S03E08The Black and Blue LampSeptember 7, 1988—In 1949, Tom Riley is arrested for the murder of PC George Dixon. As he awaits interrogation at the station, he is mysteriously transported
9. S03E09The Diary of Rita PatelSeptember 14, 1988—It's a new start for teenager Rita Patel and her family - new home, new school, new diary, new life. But their happiness is short-lived when
10. S03E10EdvardSeptember 20, 1988—Set in 1902, this is the story of the artist Edvard Munch and his stormy affair with Tulla Larsen , the inspiration behind some of his most
11. S03E11StarlingsSeptember 28, 1988—Gary Wilson loses his factory job, retrains as a butler and under the patronage of a wealthy young woman finds success in the City.

Season 3 ranked & reviewed

1. S04E01Testimony of a ChildJuly 5, 1989—Being accused of child abuse is a nightmare every family dreads. The Taylors are an ordinary happy family, but Paul and Jill are worried abo
2. S04E02A Night on the TyneJuly 12, 1989—When four shipbuilders are made redundant they decide that as a protest they will launch the ship they have been working on.
3. S04E03Loving HazelJuly 19, 1989—Mike and his ex-wife have an 8-year-old daughter, Hazel. She calls her new mother's boyfriend 'daddy', which Mike goes along with until his
4. S04E04The AttractionsJuly 26, 1989—When Danny, 'one of Maggie's wandering minstrels', visits a seaside horror museum, he is rather disappointed. 'It's all about victims. Now p
5. S04E05Chinese WhispersAugust 2, 1989—Kenny's work as a nurse in a psychiatric hospital isn't just a job, it's a vocation. His special group of patients are his friends - his onl
6. S04E06The ActAugust 9, 1989—Eastern Europe, February 1944: Johann Frink and Otto Hansen, once famous Berlin cabaret artists, are summoned to take part in a special 'ent
7. S04E07ScoutAugust 16, 1989—Man United's scout for many generations of young footballers, sending across the water the best Irish talent regardless of background. As si
8. S04E08The Spirit of ManAugust 23, 1989—In pursuit of faith, God and the Devil, spells are cast, buckets of water thrown and men with black beards dance and sing.
9. S04E09Beyond the PaleAugust 30, 1989—Milly and her friends have been going on holiday together ever since they've known each other. This summer they return to one of their favou
10. S04E10The Hen HouseSeptember 6, 1989—Lily lives on a remote smallholding in County Donegal. She keeps herself to herself. But a game of hide-and-seek exposes a secret.
11. S04E11Seeing in the DarkSeptember 13, 1989—Tony has begun to panic that life may be passing him by. As his friends forge ahead, he feels stuck in a dead end job and trapped by his rel
12. S04E12A Small MourningSeptember 20, 1989—When Marjorie's husband of 20 years dies of a brain tumour, she's hit financially as well as emotionally. The money she makes packing tights

Season 4 ranked & reviewed

1. S05E01Amongst BarbariansJuly 11, 1990—Two teenage boys, Ralph and Bryan, are in a jail in Malaysia, awaiting death. They have been found guilty of smuggling drugs. 48 hours befor
2. S05E02Antonia and JaneJuly 18, 1990—Plain Jane Hartman hates her life. She's goofy, boring and only has sex if she reads Iris Murdoch novels out loud to her loopy boyfriend. He
3. S05E03Night VoiceJuly 25, 1990—Clarence Flamer hosts a late-night talk show on regional radio station North Star Sound. A phone call he takes one night leads to his discov
4. S05E04The Englishman's WifeAugust 1, 1990—A woman and her daughter are stranded in a rambling old house deep in the countryside of County Tyrone. Their economic circumstances are hop
5. S05E05The Land of DreamsAugust 8, 1990—Joseph Mnwana arrives at Heathrow on a flight from Johannesburg and asks for political asylum. But what is he fleeing from? The authorities
6. S05E06Keeping Tom NiceAugust 15, 1990—Doug and Winnie have tried hard to keep their disabled son Tom 'nice', but when Stephen, a young social worker, takes a professional interes
7. S05E07A Safe HouseAugust 22, 1990—In the aftermath of the Guildford and Woolwich pub bombings, a large number of people of Irish descent were rounded up for questioning by th
8. S05E08AftersAugust 29, 1990—A man discovers his love for his wife as he prepares to face life without her.
9. S05E09WeddedAugust 29, 1990—A husband drives throughout the night on a voyage of self-discovery, while his wife waits at home, raking over the ashes of their marriage a
10. S05E10Available LightSeptember 5, 1990—A mercenary art dealer and his beguiling young assistant pay a visit to a once-famous artist. In his isolated house, they discover disturbin
11. S05E11NeedleSeptember 12, 1990—Danny and Paula are a young married couple with a baby. They are moving up in the world, leaving their high-rise for a house of their own. T
12. S05E12Shoot the RevolutionDecember 16, 1990—During the Romanian Revolution in December 1989, a young girl is shot in the head by Tudor Barbu, a member of the Securitate. His brother Oc
13. S05E13August SaturdayDecember 29, 1990—Grania did something 15 years ago that brought her great happiness but also great pain. The events of that day have been a heavy secret to b

Season 5 ranked & reviewed

1. S06E01RedemptionJuly 3, 1991—After 16 years away Stan Peachey returns to his village. His wife still loves him but his sister wants revenge. What was his crime?
2. S06E02BrokeJuly 10, 1991—A man and his wife, who are proprietors of a struggling window-covering business, agree to install curtains in an exclusive club patronized
3. S06E03Events at DrimaghleenJuly 17, 1991—The painful memories of the tragedy that awaited the people of Drimaghleen on 2/11/88 have just begun to fade; Hetty Fortune and her TV docu
4. S06E04The Fallout GuyJuly 24, 1991—Raymond Gold, a 40-year-old Walter Mitty character from Philadelphia, is recruited to pass secrets of the atom bomb to the Russians in the 1
5. S06E05Murder in OaklandJuly 31, 1991—Oakland, California, is the murder capital of the USA - there were 161 homicides in 1990 in a city the size of Cardiff. Blue and Eric are ne
6. S06E06The Hour of the LynxAugust 14, 1991—A young murderer in a psychiatric institution is given a cat to care for as part of a controlled experiment. He heaps devotion on it and the
7. S06E07ClublandAugust 28, 1991—Sylvie, a Belgian girl living in London, arrives at her local police station. She starts to tell how she was picked up in a nightclub by the
8. S06E08Arise and Go NowSeptember 4, 1991—Exploding poets, randy bishops and bungling IRA hoodlums are causing havoc in a small town in Northern Ireland. Kevin, an IRA recruit, and F
9. S06E09Message to MajorSeptember 11, 1991—This BBC film written and performed by South African satirist Pieter-Dirk Uys, is a 'video postcard' to the British Prime Minister from one
10. S06E10Journey to KnockSeptember 18, 1991—Journey to Knock humorously follows three disabled men on their pilgrimage from the North of England to Knock shrine in Co. Mayo.

Season 6 ranked & reviewed

1. S07E01The Countess AliceJuly 1, 1992—A reporter is assigned a then-and-now piece on a 50-year old photospread of three society beauties. One of them, Lady Alice Munroe, now the
2. S07E02Force of DutyJuly 8, 1992—RUC detective Simpson Gabby is consumed by guilt after he fails to act decisively in a moment of terror. As the pressure on him builds, Gabb
3. S07E03Bad GirlJuly 15, 1992—A young single mother has to convince the authorities that she is a fit parent.
4. S07E04Bitter HarvestJuly 22, 1992—A young black British woman goes to the Dominican Republic as an aid worker. When she goes missing, her parents make an emotional journey to
5. S07E05Man to ManJuly 29, 1992—A German woman takes on her husband's identity after his death, and spends the next 40 years impersonating him.
6. S07E06Death and the CompassAugust 5, 1992—In the comic book world of a timeless Latin American country, famed policeman Inspector Lonnrot becomes embroiled in a series of murders. Re
7. S07E07Dread Poets SocietyAugust 12, 1992—Benjamin Zephaniah, renowned Rastafarian poet/rapper is traveling by train from Birmingham to Cambridge to receive his Creative Arts Fellows
8. S07E08Buying a LandslideSeptember 2, 1992—Republican senator Walter Partin trails Democrat Philip Kautsky in the polls and will shortly face him in a televised debate. Drafted to pla
9. S07E09Continental DriftSeptember 9, 1992—An eccentric Scottish spinster greets the collapse of communism by snapping up a statue of Lenin on the cheap and towing it home across a be
10. S07E10A Little Bit of LippySeptember 16, 1992—Cross-dressing husband is unmasked but eventually wins through.
11. S07E11Small Metal JacketSeptember 23, 1992—1969: America is losing the war in South-East Asia. A female officer plans a fresh initiative.
12. S07E12You, Me and MarleySeptember 30, 1992—A group of bored Roman Catholic teens from Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom, steal cars and joyride around the city, causing havoc

Season 7 ranked & reviewed

1. S08E01Love Lies Bleeding/L'Inconnue de BelfastSeptember 22, 1993—Conn is an IRA murderer serving a life sentence in an Irish prison. He is given a 24 hour home leave during which he goes from point to poin
2. S08E02The Merrihill MillionairesSeptember 29, 1993—They were a top team - five miners who together had mined a million tons of coal but now they must face up to redundancy.
3. S08E03The Vision ThingOctober 6, 1993—In the run-up to a General Election, the British Prime Minister thinks he is receiving messages from God.
4. S08E04SafeOctober 13, 1993—Kaz and her friends spend their days trying to get by and their nights in a homeless shelter. But how did they end up there and what does th
5. S08E05Not Even God Is Wise EnoughOctober 20, 1993—Sometimes Busi is a champion boxer, sometimes a rock star. But when he escapes from court, where he is facing charges of assault, he embarks
6. S08E06Boswell & Johnson's Tour of the Western IslesOctober 27, 1993—In the autumn of 1773, the English writer Samuel Johnson visits the Hebrides, or Western Isles, off the North-West coast of Scotland. With h

Season 8 ranked & reviewed