7x1 - Caught on a Train

October 31, 1980

Peter boards a train to attend an important business meeting across Europe. His train trip is made more complicated by two women also assigned to his train compartment. One is an independent American whom Peter finds attractive. The other is Frau Messner - an extremely particular and demanding older European woman. Between the two of them, they try different aspects of Peter's patience...

7x2 - Fatal Spring

November 7, 1980

7x3 - The Black Madonna

November 14, 1980

7x4 - The Happy Autumn Fields

November 21, 1980

7x5 - Grown-Ups

November 28, 1980

Dick and Mandy, a young working class couple, move into a council house in Canterbury, and find Mr. Butcher, one of their former teachers, living next door. Mandy's unmarried sister, Gloria, is constantly dropping in, and will not take any hints that the couple would prefer to be left alone, until her presence finally goads them to action.

7x6 - My Dear Palestrina

December 5, 1980

7x7 - Shaping Up

December 12, 1980

7x8 - Standing in for Henry

December 19, 1980

At an advertising agency in Nottingham, young graphic designer Graham is recruited as a temporary replacement for the iconic Henry. The agency are desperate to be part of the Swinging Sixties but not without Henry. Can Graham replace him?

7x9 - Fothergill

January 9, 1981

John Fothergill, aesthete and scholar, becomes the proprietor of the Spread Eagle, in Thame, Oxfordshire, with the intent of turning it into the most celebrated Inn in England, catering to the brightest lights in London's literati.

7x10 - One Hundred and Eighty!!!

January 16, 1981

A darts tournament is put in peril when the players' wives stage a sit-in in the pub.

7x11 - The Kindness of Mrs. Radcliffe

January 23, 1981

7x12 - A Last Visitor for Mr. Hugh Peter

January 30, 1981

In prison the night before his execution, republican preacher Hugh Peter prepares to be hanged, drawn and quartered for treason.

7x13 - Journal of Bridget Hitler

February 6, 1981

An Irishwoman married to a German in pre-WW1 Liverpool prepares to meet her brother-in-law, a young man named Adolf Hitler.

7x14 - Episode 14

February 13, 1981

Days at the Beach

7x15 - Bobby Wants to Meet Me

February 20, 1981

It's 1978, journalist Neville Morris, from Changes magazine, writes an essay about Bob Dylan called "A Jewish Massiah". Dylan's publicist Elle Smith reaches out that Bobby wants to meet him at Earl's Court. Neville goes into panic mode.

7x16 - Days

February 27, 1981

7x17 - Clapperclaw

March 6, 1981

7x18 - The Potsdam Quartet

March 13, 1981

7x20 - Skylark

March 27, 1981

7x21 - Elizabeth Alone: Part 1

April 3, 1981

7x22 - Elizabeth Alone: Part 2

April 10, 1981

7x23 - Elizabeth Alone: Part 3

April 17, 1981

7x24 - The Man Who Almost Knew Eamonn Andrews

April 24, 1981

7x25 - Episode 25

May 1, 1981

7x26 - The Day War Broke Out

May 15, 1981

Albie Warren and girlfriend Carla are second on the bill of variety artists and musicians performing to half empty venues. Albie impersonates wartime comic Rob Wilton to people who don't know him. Will he take the chance to top the bill?

7x27 - Random Moments in a May Garden

May 22, 1981

7x28 - Going Gently

June 5, 1981

Play about two elderly cancer patients suffering in hospital.

7x29 - Marriage

July 10, 1981