Video-shot on studio sets, Stars of the Roller State Disco borders on science fiction of the dystopian variety. Unemployed youngsters spend their days at the roller disco of the title, circling round and round, before being called to take up low-paid jobs as they become available. They leave the building in a wash of light, though we do not go through that door with them. For others it's a subsistence existence of vending machine food, video games, with sex and drug freely available as distractions. (Television @ The Digital Fix)
A história de John Merrick, um desafortunado cidadão da Inglaterra vitoriana que era portador do caso mais grave de neurofibromatose múltipla registrado, tendo 90% do seu corpo deformado. Esta situação tendia fazer com que ele passasse toda a sua existência se exibindo em circos de variedades como um monstro. Inicialmente era considerado um débil mental pela sua dificuldade de falar, até que um médico, Frederick Treves, o descobriu e o levou para um hospital. Lá Merrick se liberou emocionalmente e intelectualmente, além de se mostrar uma pessoa sensível ao extremo, que conseguiu recuperar sua dignidade.
John Thaw plays Vinny Mathews a small time boxing promoter who struggles with his conscience as to whether or not to provide a fighter for a Sporting Club promotion, a fighter he knows is unfit against an opponent who is way out of his league. However Mathews needs sponsorship and this would be the ideal opportunity to mix with the "frilly shirted" sportsmen who enjoy their lavish lifestyle as fighters slug it out as the steak is served!
Belfast: 'On the hike' from school, her day controlled by the unreal time of the dandelion clock, Suzy embarks on an increasingly desperate search for her absent father.
