In the far future, a savage trained only to kill finds a way into the community of bored immortals that alone preserves humanity's achievements.
A young speech therapist is asked to come to a farm to make a girl speak after several years in silence. A strange family makes out for a strange summer.
A debauched young aristocrat entrusts the running of his country house to Tom, the butler, on whom he depends absolutely. Before long the servant begins to dominate his master, to the alarm of the newly hired German nanny who senses sinister, demonic intent in Tom's control of the house.
An Alcoholics Anonymous meeting
Rape is a matter which generates strong emotions. Immediate sympathies go to the victim...
A 1976 play concerning an unemployed school leaver becomes involved with professional car thieves. Part of the ITV Playhouse strand.
Today, Henry's usually dull journey to work is eventful enough to catapult him into the headlines.
Moscow is the setting for a reunion between Susan and Viktor - a reunion which leads to unforeseen complications.
' He's wasted his life and yours, Olive, on this sort of idiocy. He could have been a headmaster by now, if he'd stuck to teaching.' Jack Dunn is determined to beat the system with pen and postage stamp.
Mark Omney is a struggling writer, and has a drink problem; his wife Clare is more successful as a journalist. After a dinner-party they host ends badly, they part company the next morning on separate business. Clare becomes ill after an interview assignment, and crashes her car; meanwhile Mark meets former girlfriend Annabelle in the pub. After Clare is taken to a private clinic nearby by Good Samaritans, Mark finds she seems to have mysteriously disappeared
Robert and Jane are a middle-aged couple grieving over a dead daughter. Michael and Zonny are a young couple with a bright future ahead of them. The film dwells on their parallel lives.