TV Dad
Griff Rhys Jones stars as a writer on a popular television soap opera who falls in love with the show's leading lady but finds himself unable to break his ties with his ex-wife and their children.
his three-part miniseries begins with elderly Lady Slane (Wendy Hiller) sitting watchfully by the deathbed of her husband. Tended by her equally aged French maid Genoux (Eileen Way), who has served her faithfully for a lifetime, Lady Slane deals with a succession of advice from her large flock of middle-aged children. The family is chagrined by, but honors, her choice to live a modest country retirement at some distance, in Hampstead Heath. Lady Slane competently comes to terms to lease and restore a crumbling house, aided by an aging land agent Gervase Bucktrout (Maurice Denham). Once settled, an acquaintance from 50 years past, Mr. Fitzgeorge (Harry Andrews), visits the cottage to rekindle memories of their brief, deep, but unfulfilled brush as soul-mates in colonial India when Lady Slane was a devoted young wife and mother. Great-granddaughter Deborah (Jane Snowden), who has been trapped by a socially desirable but passionless engagement, regularly visits to confide and seek wisdom.
Mr Morland
Los Allen, un matrimonio sin hijos, invitan a Catherine Morland, hija de unos amigos, a que viaje con ellos a Bath, Inglaterra. Catherine y la Sra. Allen pasan el tiempo comprando y paseando para que las vean pues no conocen a nadie ahí.
2nd Major Domo
Sir Pierce Blakeney es un noble inglés que se relaciona con las altas esferas de una sociedad que vive con preocupación los ajusticiamientos de ingleses en la Francia revolucionaria. Para combatir este mal, Blakeney adopta una personalidad secreta, 'La Pimpinela Escarlata', bajo la cual hará numerosas incursiones en tierra francesa para rescatar a sus compatriotas condenados a muerte.
Defence
The horse Gay Future is at the centre of an Irish betting syndicate in 1974 which saw trainer Antony Collins present a poor performing horse at his stables. The betting stakes were subsequently raised, before the real horse was entered in the race.
