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BBC2 Playhouse

 (1973)

Streaming Episode Guide

Season 8 | Season 7
7.8
| Season 6 | Season 5 | Season 4
6.9
| Season 3 | Season 2
6.5
| Season 1
5.7
| Top 5 Episodes
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Season 8  
Possibilities
Episode 35 - 5-20-1983
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Imaginary Friends
Episode 34 - 4-01-1983
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Fraulein Else
Episode 33 - 1-14-1983
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A Song at Twilight
Episode 32 - 7-09-1982
A famous writer finds that a long-suppressed secret is about to be revealed by his former mistress.
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Come Into the Garden, Maud
Episode 31 - 7-07-1982
A henpecked American visiting Europe is able to throw off his ghastly wife and find love.
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Chains
Episode 30 - 6-18-1982
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Irwin Shaw Triple Bill: The Man who Married a French Wife/The Monument/The Girls
Episode 29 - 6-11-1982
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Potatohead Blues
Episode 28 - 6-04-1982
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Easy Money
Episode 27 - 5-28-1982
At a concert, Marcia picked Terry out of the crowd. So he no longer feels alone. Until he learns about her secret life and dare not tell his friends.
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Housewarming
Episode 26 - 5-21-1982
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Jake's End
Episode 25 - 5-14-1982
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Passing Through
Episode 24 - 5-07-1982
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Passing Through
Lunch
Episode 23 - 4-30-1982
Two women meet for lunch every two weeks to swap news. But this week is different.
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By George
Episode 22 - 4-23-1982
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By George
The Queen of Annagh
Episode 21 - 4-16-1982
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The Sidmouth Letters
Episode 20 - 4-02-1982
Shorty, an academic scavenger, believes he has tracked down some letters revealing an unexpected side to Miss Jane Austen's nature.
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The Guest
Episode 19 - 3-26-1982
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Keeping in Touch
Episode 18 - 3-19-1982
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A Pocketful of Dreams
Episode 17 - 3-12-1982
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The Pigman's Protege
Episode 16 - 3-05-1982
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How Many Miles to Babylon?
Episode 15 - 2-26-1982
Wealthy Alexander Moore and working-class Jerry Crowe are childhood friends and in 1914 find themselves in the same Army unit - Alex as an officer and Jerry as a private. They still remain close, however, until Jerry is court-martialed for desertion, and Alex is put in charge of the firing squad.
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The Workshop
Episode 14 - 2-19-1982
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A Shilling Life
Episode 13 - 2-12-1982
A once-famous writer, now long out of fashion, is interviewed by a disconcerting young woman.
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Out of Step
Episode 12 - 2-05-1982
A keen ballroom dancer begins to drink heavily when she discovers she's infertile.
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Preview
Episode 11 - 1-29-1982
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Aubrey
Episode 10 - 1-22-1982
A play about the brilliant, shocking Victorian artist Aubrey Beardsley, who died in his twenties.
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A Silly Little Habit
Episode 9 - 1-15-1982
A woman with an apparently happy and privileged life begins shoplifting.
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The Combination
Episode 8 - 1-08-1982
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Dancing Country
Episode 7 - 12-18-1981
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Dancing Country
Findings on a Late Afternoon
Episode 6 - 12-11-1981
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Virginia Fly Is Drowning
Episode 5 - 12-04-1981
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The Grudge Fight
Episode 4 - 11-27-1981
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Autumn Sunshine
Episode 3 - 11-13-1981
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Last Summer's Child
Episode 2 - 11-06-1981
A boy feels restless during a hot summer in prewar Cornwall.
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Last Summers Child
Mrs. Reinhardt
Episode 1 - 10-30-1981
An Englishwoman seeking to escape her marriage arrives at French hotel.
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Mrs Reinhardt
Season 7  
7.8
Marriage
Episode 29 - 7-10-1981
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Going Gently
Episode 28 - 6-05-1981
Play about two elderly cancer patients suffering in hospital.
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Random Moments in a May Garden
Episode 27 - 5-22-1981
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The Day War Broke Out
Episode 26 - 5-15-1981
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?
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Episode 25
5-01-1981
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The Man Who Almost Knew Eamonn Andrews
Episode 24 - 4-24-1981
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Elizabeth Alone: Part 3
Episode 23 - 4-17-1981
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Elizabeth Alone: Part 2
Episode 22 - 4-10-1981
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Elizabeth Alone: Part 1
Episode 21 - 4-03-1981
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Skylark
Episode 20 - 3-27-1981
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Unity
Episode 19 - 3-20-1981
Period Drama. The true story of Unity Mitford who in the 1930's went to live in Germany and was friends with Adolf Hitler.
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The Potsdam Quartet
Episode 18 - 3-13-1981
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Clapperclaw
Episode 17 - 3-06-1981
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Days
Episode 16 - 2-27-1981
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Days
Bobby Wants to Meet Me
Episode 15 - 2-20-1981
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.
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Episode 14
2-13-1981
Days at the Beach
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Journal of Bridget Hitler
Episode 13 - 2-06-1981
An Irishwoman married to a German in pre-WW1 Liverpool prepares to meet her brother-in-law, a young man named Adolf Hitler.
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A Last Visitor for Mr. Hugh Peter
Episode 12 - 1-30-1981
In prison the night before his execution, republican preacher Hugh Peter prepares to be hanged, drawn and quartered for treason.
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The Kindness of Mrs. Radcliffe
Episode 11 - 1-23-1981
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One Hundred and Eighty!!!
Episode 10 - 1-16-1981
A darts tournament is put in peril when the players' wives stage a sit-in in the pub.
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Fothergill
Episode 9 - 1-09-1981
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.
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Standing in for Henry
Episode 8 - 12-19-1980
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?
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Shaping Up
Episode 7 - 12-12-1980
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My Dear Palestrina
Episode 6 - 12-05-1980
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Grown-Ups
Episode 5 - 11-28-1980
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.
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The Happy Autumn Fields
Episode 4 - 11-21-1980
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The Black Madonna
Episode 3 - 11-14-1980
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Fatal Spring
Episode 2 - 11-07-1980
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Caught on a Train
Episode 1 - 10-31-1980
1h 20m
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...
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An Ordered Life
Episode 31 - 8-10-1980
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.
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Dalhousie's Luck
Episode 30 - 8-03-1980
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 .
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Hallelujah, Mary Plum
Episode 29 - 7-13-1980
A talented, independent artist lives by the sea with her daughter. As summer approaches, she faces two threats to her way of life: the local doctor who is in love with her and her unhappy sister who comes to stay.
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A Walk in the Forest
Episode 28 - 7-06-1980
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Freedom of the Dig
Episode 27 - 6-20-1980
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Crest of a Wave
Episode 26 - 6-20-1980
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Coming Out
Episode 25 - 6-13-1980
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Thank You Comrades
Episode 24 - 6-06-1980
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Blue Remembered Hills
Episode 23 - 5-30-1980
Repeated from Play for Today
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Electric in the City
Episode 22 - 5-23-1980
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The Unborn
Episode 21 - 5-16-1980
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.
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Games Without Frontiers
Episode 20 - 5-09-1980
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?
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Mary's Wife
Episode 19 - 5-02-1980
A married transvestite comes to terms with their true gender identity.
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Happy
Episode 18 - 4-25-1980
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The Dig
Episode 17 - 4-18-1980
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Rottingdean
Episode 16 - 3-22-1980
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In Hiding
Episode 15 - 3-15-1980
A teenager learns about life and death while staying with his aunt during the school holidays.
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The Best of Friends
Episode 14 - 3-08-1980
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Hesther for Example
Episode 13 - 2-16-1980
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.
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The Enigma
Episode 12 - 2-09-1980
An upper-class young man has rejected his affluent background, but, when a crisis comes, reverts to type pretty quickly.
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Lifelike
Episode 11 - 1-26-1980
A television play about a comprehensive school is praised for its authenticity, but the lead schoolboy actor does not agree with this assessment.
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Trouble with Gregory
Episode 10 - 1-23-1980
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Gentle Folk
Episode 9 - 1-19-1980
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Pews
Episode 8 - 1-12-1980
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.
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Speed King
Episode 7 - 12-19-1979
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.
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Sweet Wine of Youth
Episode 6 - 12-12-1979
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Home Movies
Episode 5 - 12-05-1979
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An Affinity with Dr. Still
Episode 4 - 11-28-1979
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The Brylcreem Boys
Episode 3 - 11-21-1979
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.
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Every Good Boy Deserves Favour
Episode 2 - 11-14-1979
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.
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School Play
Episode 1 - 11-07-1979
A play about the horrors of life at an English public school - with all the schoolboys played by adults.
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Season 5  
The Achurch Letters
Episode 1 - 1-12-1977
A play about the (celibate) relationship between the unknown writer George Bernard Shaw and a famous, but drug-addicted, actress.
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Season 4  
6.9
The Mind Beyond: The Man with the Power
Episode 6 - 11-03-1976
1h 0m
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The Mind Beyond: Stones
Episode 5 - 10-27-1976
1h 0m
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The Mind Beyond: The Daedalus Equations
Episode 4 - 10-20-1976
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The Mind Beyond: The Love of a Good Woman
Episode 3 - 10-13-1976
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The Mind Beyond: Double Echo
Episode 2 - 10-06-1976
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The Mind Beyond: Meriel, the Ghost Girl
Episode 1 - 9-29-1976
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 7.6/10
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Season 3  
Jumbo
Episode 9 - 5-14-1976
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Play Things
Episode 8 - 5-07-1976
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The Chauffeur
Episode 7 - 4-30-1976
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Dad
Episode 6 - 4-23-1976
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Practical Experience
Episode 5 - 4-16-1976
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The Button Man
Episode 4 - 4-09-1976
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A Martyr to the System
Episode 3 - 4-02-1976
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An Accident of Class and Sex
Episode 2 - 3-26-1976
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Kites
Episode 1 - 3-19-1976
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Season 2  
6.5
Diane
Episode 3 - 7-09-1975
Teenager Diane Weaver lives with her abusive single father. A religious local boy is the only who wants to be her friend, but she doesn't like him as much as he does her. What no one realizes is how far the abuse goes.
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Mrs. Acland's Ghosts
Episode 2 - 1-15-1975
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The Breakthrough
Episode 1 - 1-08-1975
An engineer is sent to a remote government lab to assist a scientist in his research and to report back on what exactly this consists of. He discovers that the scientist is seeking to prove the existence of a theoretical form of energy that he believes to be the source of all paranormal powers. To capture it in the lab, he plans to use a subject on the brink of death, as well as in a hypnotic trance (to be induced by the computer) and also in telepathic communication with someone else--a child who is mentally deficient but psychically gifted--who can report the dying subject's sensations posthumously. At first skeptical, then appalled, the engineer soon becomes a convert to the scientist's views, concealing the nature of the planned experiment from his own employer and fending off a visit by government officials that would prevent it. At last it takes place, and it seems to be a success...
 6.2/10
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Season 1  
5.7
The Cafeteria
Episode 3 - 8-13-1974
 5/10
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The Joke
Episode 2 - 8-06-1974
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Sizwe Bansi Is Dead
Episode 1 - 3-13-1974
 6.4/10
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The Mind Beyond: The Daedalus Equations
Episode 4 - 10-20-1976
1h 0m
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Caught on a Train
Episode 1 - 10-31-1980
1h 20m
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...
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The Mind Beyond: Meriel, the Ghost Girl
Episode 1 - 9-29-1976
1h 0m
 7.6/10
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The Mind Beyond: Double Echo
Episode 2 - 10-06-1976
1h 0m
 6.8/10
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The Mind Beyond: The Love of a Good Woman
Episode 3 - 10-13-1976
1h 0m
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