January 11, 1969
Young Frank Brady falls in love with a woman he has only seen from a distance. He enlists his friend Peg to help him win the woman's love.
January 18, 1969
A rugby team's annual tour descends into chaos when Tommy and Jack have a fall out with their brother-in-law.
January 25, 1969
February 1, 1969
Carpenter and widower MacNeil takes a blunt approach in making advances to lady executive Miss Saville who works in the same firm as himself. His belief in his instincts regarding women is contradicted by his daughter Mary, who knows him better than he thinks.
February 8, 1969
February 15, 1969
Mary MacNeil drifts into a complex relationship with a Welsh barrister.
February 22, 1969
Fed up with having his car stolen, Williams decides it's time to take the law into his own hands, but there is a price to pay.
March 1, 1969
March 1, 1969
March 8, 1969
March 15, 1969
An effete television producer and his beautiful wife move into an old terraced house.In the basement is a sitting tenant they cannot move.The tenant starts to invade their life with increasing voracity, leading to him eventually beating up the young wife and then becoming her afternoon lover.
March 22, 1969
Two people (one rich, one poor) have failing kidneys, an expensive kidney machine would save them.
April 5, 1969
Michael Vint, an embittered hack reporter from a Sunday newspaper, is sent down into the country to find a story in the love life of an aging has-been writer and his new glamorous young film star wife. The writer is annoyed about the intrusion into his private life, but his wife sees it as an opportunity.
April 12, 1969 · 52 min
Writing for ITV Saturday Night Theatre (1969), Dennis Potter introduced the notion that popular music expresses the yearning of the human spirit for a better world. A troubled young man, David Peters (Ian Holm), claims, "Once dreams were possible, that's what the popular songs told us." Rejecting rock music of the day, Peters is immersed in the tunes of Thirties crooner Al Bowlly (killed during the London blitz). He collects Bowlly memorabilia, publishes the Bowlly fan-club newsletter, and finds pleasure in lip-synching Bowlly records but his obsession with Bowlly masks certain darker events in his past.
April 19, 1969
April 26, 1969
Steve's maverick personality costs him his teaching job. He drops out of conventional society and earns a living by roguish means. Then he meets Paula, who makes him question his ideals and life.
May 3, 1969
May 10, 1969
May 17, 1969
May 24, 1969
May 31, 1969
June 7, 1969
June 14, 1969
June 21, 1969
June 28, 1969
Young Cathy asks her teacher Kate for help with her father Rolf who is still withdrawn and depressed after his wife's fatal car crash sometime ago. However, the line between fantasy and reality complicates matters.
July 5, 1969
July 12, 1969
July 19, 1969
An innocent man is wrongly picked from an identity parade after a factory robbery because he is black.
July 19, 1969
In the basement of a department store after the last bomb of World War Three. A bag lady, calls herself ' the queen ' and exercises complete authority over two befuddled men. That is until an astronaut (who was in space when the bomb fell) finds them.
July 26, 1969
Suddenly and inexplicably Mother and Father find that their previously well behaved adolescent sons are completely unmanageable, reversing the standard family dynamics.
July 26, 1969
August 2, 1969
August 2, 1969
August 9, 1969
August 16, 1969
August 23, 1969
A couple return from their holiday to find their house burnt down. Having no insurance, the husband has no option but to rebuild it himself with the help of local handyman Arthur. Local council bureaucracy hinders all the way.
August 30, 1969
