Tessa Wyatt

Alice

Gareth Davies

George Baker, Deborah Watling

In this look at Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832-1898), aka Lewis Carroll, Dennis Potter mixed biographical drama with a psychological profile to explore the roots of Dodgson's creativity. Dodgson tells stories to ten-year-old Alice Liddell, leading to recreations of scenes adapted from ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND (1865), designed to resemble the original Sir John Tenniel illustrations.

Cows

John Gorrie

Alison Leggatt, Alan Webb

Geraldine, a psychiatric social worker, has an accident whilst in the country. The inhabitants of a nearby house come out to help her and she discovers that one of the family members prefers cows to people.

England Made Me

Peter Duffell

Peter Finch, Michael York

A young, English, ne'er-do-well who goes to stay with his sister and her wealthy fiancé/benefactor in 1930's Germany, just before the rise of the Nazi party.

Spy Story

Lindsay Shonteff

Michael Petrovitch, Philip Latham

A nuclear war specialist returns from a mission gathering data on Soviet communications and electronic warfare techniques in the Arctic Ocean to find that his flat has been broken into and mysteriously re-decorated.

The Beast in the Cellar

James Kelley

Beryl Reid, Flora Robson

Two spinsters have kept their mad brother locked up in their cellar for 30 years. Then he escapes ...

I Can't... I Can't...

Piers Haggard

Tessa Wyatt, Dennis Waterman

The tale of a young Irish Catholic bride who is devastated when her pregnant mother miscarries and dies on her wedding day. The young woman, one of seven children, blames her father’s lust for the death. When her own wedding night arrives she is terrified and refuses to consummate the marriage with her husband. Her parish priest forbids her to accept her doctor’s suggestion that she should use contraception and she is driven to desperate measures.

Paura D'amare (Povero amore mio)

Piers Haggard

Dennis Waterman, Tessa Wyatt