6x1 - School Play

November 7, 1979

A play about the horrors of life at an English public school - with all the schoolboys played by adults.

6x2 - Every Good Boy Deserves Favour

November 14, 1979

A dissident, Alexander, has been pronounced insane by the authorities (although he isn't), and finds himself sharing a cell with a genuine mental patient, Ivanov.

6x3 - The Brylcreem Boys

November 21, 1979

Cpl. George Hunn's sentry post is knocked over and he wakes to find he is suffering from frost bite of the face. Sent to hospital he is put on a ward with aircrew who have mental issues. He is trapped reenacting their missions at night.

6x4 - An Affinity with Dr. Still

November 28, 1979

6x5 - Home Movies

December 5, 1979

6x6 - Sweet Wine of Youth

December 12, 1979

6x7 - Speed King

December 19, 1979

In 1935 Sir Malcolm Campbell's obsession is to win the World's Land Speed Record in his car Bluebird. Speed King is about the man, the car, and the ruthless, but irresistible, public ambition of a world hero.

6x8 - Pews

January 12, 1980

Set in a north country synagogue, a group of Jewish men have to organise a 'shiva', however, not having the required number of their faith, resort to recruiting George, a 'non-Jew', to make up the numbers. I only saw the play once, but there were a number of memorable lines, including, when Kugleman comes out of the 'gents', he says to Liftchick, "George won't pass as Jewish, he's got a foreskin as long as my nose!" Another line was, when asked his occupation, George replied that he was an electrician. "If anyone askes", said Liftchick, " tell them you're an electrical contractor!" A great play with an excellent cast.

6x9 - Gentle Folk

January 19, 1980

6x10 - Trouble with Gregory

January 23, 1980

6x11 - Lifelike

January 26, 1980

A television play about a comprehensive school is praised for its authenticity, but the lead schoolboy actor does not agree with this assessment.

6x12 - The Enigma

February 9, 1980

An upper-class young man has rejected his affluent background, but, when a crisis comes, reverts to type pretty quickly.

6x13 - Hesther for Example

February 16, 1980

Cousin, W. Clifford Mill, ran a dirty postcard business; which brings Paul to the country in search of a profitable afternoon. Hesther knows the value of most things and, when evening falls, she turns his visit to her own advantage.

6x14 - The Best of Friends

March 8, 1980

6x15 - In Hiding

March 15, 1980

A teenager learns about life and death while staying with his aunt during the school holidays.

6x16 - Rottingdean

March 22, 1980

6x17 - The Dig

April 18, 1980

6x18 - Happy

April 25, 1980

6x19 - Mary's Wife

May 2, 1980

A married transvestite comes to terms with their true gender identity.

6x20 - Games Without Frontiers

May 9, 1980

Nobody goes to Amsterdam to wander about. It's either the Rijksmuseum or the red-light district. On the boat going home Clive and Stewart admit to not having spent long in the museums - so what did they get up to in Amsterdam?

6x21 - The Unborn

May 16, 1980

A physicist has visions of his unborn baby - it turns out that the child will grow up to become a Hitler-like dictator responsible for World War III.

6x22 - Electric in the City

May 23, 1980

6x23 - Blue Remembered Hills

May 30, 1980

Repeated from Play for Today

6x24 - Thank You Comrades

June 6, 1980

6x25 - Coming Out

June 13, 1980

6x26 - Crest of a Wave

June 20, 1980

6x27 - Freedom of the Dig

June 20, 1980

6x28 - A Walk in the Forest

July 6, 1980

6x30 - Dalhousie's Luck

August 3, 1980

Our gamble is over, Dalhousie. You'll walk at dawn tomorrow as agreed, but in case you've no mind to return, there's one fact might persuade you. On what you do hangs not only your life but hers .

6x31 - An Ordered Life

August 10, 1980

Colin Jeavons is the German composer Anton Webern who survives Naziism only to be shot by an American GI in the closing days of WW2. Daniel Gerroll plays his son Stephen who, against his father's wishes, joined the Wehrmacht and was killed in a railway accident in 1943.