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  • S07E01 Lucky

    • February 5, 1974

  • S07E02 What Would You Do?

    • February 19, 1974

  • S07E03 Weekend Guest

    • February 26, 1974
  • S07E04 Mr. Axelford's Angel

    • June 5, 1974

    Boris J. Axelford is more machine than man in the way he runs his successful electronics business. That is, until the arrival of Angel Roper as his temporary secretary. Creating chaos and mayhem with her every move, Angel turns Mr. Axelford's ordered life upside down in a matter of minutes! Mr. Axelford's Angel is an enchanting, life-affirming story with Julia Foster (Alfie) starring as the delightfully irrepressible Angel, and the multi-award winning Michael Bryant (Gandhi, Hamlet) as the stolid Boris Axelford. It won an International Emmy Award for the Best Fiction Programme in New York in 1974, and a BAFTA nomination for Michael Bryant.

  • S07E05 The Finest Family in the Land

    • June 19, 1974

  • S07E06 The Couch

    • June 26, 1974

  • S07E07 Love Affair

    • July 3, 1974

    A lonely, elderly lady strikes up a friendship with a driving instructor. Bill Maynard plays an alcoholic driving instructor. His wife hates him. His daughter doesn't like him much. His boss disapproves of him. He gives lessons to an elderly, cranky old lady (Celia Johnson). Then things go from bad to worse...

  • S07E08 A Kind of Bonus

    • June 10, 1974

  • S07E09 The Nearly Man

    • August 4, 1974

  • S07E10 The Gift of Friendship

    • September 24, 1974

  • S07E11 Better at Murder

    • October 1, 1974

  • S07E12 Graceless Go I

    • October 8, 1974

  • S07E13 Norma

    • October 15, 1974

Season 8

Season 9

Season 10

  • S10E01 The Case of Cruelty to Prawns

    • February 27, 1979
    • ITV1

  • S10E02 I'm a Dreamer Montreal

    • March 6, 1979
    • ITV1

  • S10E03 Where the Heart Is

    • March 13, 1979
    • ITV1

  • S10E04 The Reaper

    • March 20, 1979
    • ITV1

  • S10E05 No, Mama, No

    • March 27, 1979
    • ITV1

  • S10E06 The Winkler

    • April 3, 1979
    • ITV1

  • S10E07 The Blacktoft Diaries: True or False?

    • April 10, 1979
    • ITV1

  • S10E08 Village Wooing

    • April 17, 1979
    • ITV1

  • S10E09 Casting the Runes

    • April 24, 1979
    • ITV1

    This adaptation of the M.R. James classic ghost story dates from 1979 and was made as a contemporary drama rather than a period one like the earlier BBC M.R. James adaptations. Made by Yorkshire Television in 1978, they used a TV station as the setting for their drama, allowing Yorkshire Television to use their own studios as the location, along with a number of other locations around a very wintry Leeds. Presumably the weather conditions were just a fluke, but the snowy inner ring road motorway in central Leeds as the setting for scenes where Prudence realises the grim reality of the situation she's in work wonderfully well and give it a suitably gothic feel. The central character of Prudence Dunning (Jan Francis) is based on Edward Dunning in the original story. Many of the scenes are close to those in the book with a more modern setting (TV station instead of academic society, airport instead of railway station). Some of the dialogue from the book is even used almost verbatim.

  • S10E10 The Daughters of Albion

    • May 1, 1979
    • ITV1

  • S10E11 The Beast

    • May 8, 1979
    • ITV1

  • S10E12 The Winter Ladies

    • May 15, 1979
    • ITV1

  • S10E13 Saint Vitus' Dance

    • July 10, 1979
    • ITV1

  • S10E14 Getting in on Concorde

    • July 17, 1979
    • ITV1
  • S10E15 Going Back

    • July 24, 1979
    • ITV1

  • S10E16 You're Not Watching Me, Mummy

    • August 30, 1979
    • ITV1

Season 11

Season 12

Season 13

  • S13E01 Something's Got To Give

    • June 19, 1982
    • ITV1

  • S13E02 The Houseboy

    • July 3, 1982
    • ITV1

  • S13E03 The Reunion

    • July 10, 1982
    • ITV1

  • S13E04 The Breadwinner

    • July 17, 1982
    • ITV1

  • S13E05 Dogfood Dan And The Carmarthen Cowboy

    • July 24, 1982
    • ITV1

    Dogfood Dan And The Carmarthen Cowboy was a tale of two long-distance dogfood-carrying lorry drivers who, to the other's ignorance, are each having affairs with the other's wife. Although the men meet up on the road, exchange stories of their sexual escapades, and often talk to their wives about their travelling friend, the lies they spin and the false names they invent mean that neither the husbands nor the wives cotton on to the convoluted situation. Aubrey Owen likes to pass himself off as an MP, 'Aneurin', during his visits with Helen, while Dan claims he is carrying top secret 'abnormal' loads when pursuing the passionate Myfanwy. Made by Yorkshire Television for the ITV Network.

  • S13E06 Skirmishes

    • July 27, 1982
    • ITV1

  • S13E07 The Boxwallah

    • July 31, 1982
    • ITV1

  • S13E08 Nightlife

    • August 3, 1982
    • ITV1

  • S13E09 Grandad

    • August 7, 1982
    • ITV1

  • S13E10 The Glory Hole

    • August 10, 1982
    • ITV1