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Season 7

September 14, 1976 19 episodes

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The Bar Mitzvah Boy
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E1. The Bar Mitzvah Boy

75m Sep 14, 1976

A story exploring the emotions of a boy undrgoing the traditional Jewish ceremony

Bet Your Life
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E2. Bet Your Life

75m Sep 21, 1976

Like alcoholism, gambling is a disease. Ches, a compulsive gambler, is sent for medical help. A wonder drug perhaps? Or hypnosis maybe? Ches finds that his psychiatrist has other ideas.

Rocky Marciano Is Dead
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E3. Rocky Marciano Is Dead

75m Sep 28, 1976

Harry Marcus is a former welterweight champion mourning the loss of the past and dreaming of a return to the glory years of boxing. When a squatter moves in next door, does he have what it takes to fulfil Harry's dreams?

The Elephants' Graveyard
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E4. The Elephants' Graveyard

75m Oct 12, 1976

Bunny’s wife thinks he is a postman, but in reality he spends his days in the Scottish hills. One day he meets Jody, a fellow walker.

Housewives' Choice
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E5. Housewives' Choice

75m Oct 19, 1976

When Joyce appears on the door-step she looks like the perfect 'kindly, respectable lady whom Marcia needs to look after her baby. But Joyce only seems to be the average housewife.

Your Man from Six Counties
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E6. Your Man from Six Counties

75m Oct 26, 1976

A young man from Belfast is sent south to stay with relatives in an attempt to keep him out of trouble.

Buffet
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E7. Buffet

75m Nov 2, 1976

Freddie is going through an existential crisis as everyone around him seems to doubt their own identity and the entire purpose of conversation. Surrounded by inflation and extra marital affairs, his only solace is in buffet room drinking.

Love on a Gunboat
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E8. Love on a Gunboat

75m Jan 4, 1977

In 1956 Britain staggers through crises in Suez and Cyprus while Leslie Potter pursues and marries Monica Dobbs. Twenty years later the nation has still not recovered. Neither has Leslie.

The Kiss of Death
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E9. The Kiss of Death

75m Jan 11, 1977

A young man's chances at romance are thwarted by his own shyness.

Our Flesh and Blood
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E10. Our Flesh and Blood

75m Jan 18, 1977

How Mums and Dads feel when they have one.

Do As I Say
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E11. Do As I Say

75m Jan 25, 1977

A quietly unhappy housewife finds a stranger in her house and is raped at knife-point by him. But when she turns to friends, neighbors and her parents-in-law for sympathy, they all seem preoccupied by other matters.

Spend, Spend, Spend
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E12. Spend, Spend, Spend

75m Mar 15, 1977

The rags-to-riches-to-rags story of a 1960s football pools winner, based on a true story

A Photograph
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E13. A Photograph

75m Mar 22, 1977

A couple receives a photograph in the mail of two girls sitting in front of a caravan and neither can identify the people or the place.

The Price of Coal: Meet The People
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E14. The Price of Coal: Meet The People

75m Mar 29, 1977

A pair of plays, broadcast over two weeks, about mining life: ""Meet the People,"" about a coal mining community preparing for a royal visit, and ""Back to Reality,"" about a coal mining disaster that brings tragedy to a community.

The Price of Coal: Back To Reality
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E15. The Price of Coal: Back To Reality

75m Apr 5, 1977

A pair of plays, broadcast over two weeks, about mining life: ""Meet the People,"" about a coal mining community preparing for a royal visit, and ""Back to Reality,"" about a coal mining disaster that brings tragedy to a community.

Gotcha
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E16. Gotcha

75m Apr 12, 1977

A student holds his teacher hostage in the classroom on the last day of school.

Campion's Interview
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E17. Campion's Interview

75m Apr 12, 1977

A story about school.

A Choice of Evils
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E18. A Choice of Evils

75m Apr 19, 1977

The story of Father Borelli who in Rome during World War II must choose between freedom and his principles

The Country Party
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E19. The Country Party

75m Apr 26, 1977

Richard Elkinson, the former stockbroker, is now running a country restaurant. His daughter decides to spring a surprise on him in an attempt to change his life for the better.

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