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2 indicações ao BAFTA TV AWARDS® em 1978
Episódios
- T1 EP.1 — A Land Fit for Heroes and Idiots7 de janeiro de 197651minIn 1919 Sergeant Jack Ford returns to Gallowshield on discharge leave from the army. He meets Jessie Seaton, a schoolteacher, her brother Tom and his fiancée Mary. Will Scrimgour, a shell-shocked ex-soldier, beats a child who was tormenting him. He is arrested and committed for trial despite Jack's evidence about his conditionDisponível para compra
- T1 EP.2 — Say Hello....Say Tirra15 de janeiro de 197651minBella takes in Harry, a young boy whose mother has died. Harry steals 10 shillings from a fruit seller. Father Keenley, a local priest, arranges for the boy to be sent on an emigration scheme to Australia; Bella reluctantly agrees.Disponível para compra
- T1 EP.3 — Fish in Wolly Jumpers22 de janeiro de 197652minTimes are hard as the miners strike. Jack now engaged to Jessie still has money. Tom is desperate for money because Mary is suffering from tuberculosis. He borrows from Jack. Jack sleeps with Dolly, the widowed sister of his war comrade, Matt Headley. Tom threatens to expose him unless he can join Jack's sheep-rustling gang. Jack agrees. Against Jack's expectations, Jessie condones his activities.Disponível para compra
- T1 EP.4 — Swords and Pickhandles29 de janeiro de 197652minJack visits Sir Horatio Manners, father of his late commanding officer and gives him a present of a sword. Manners offers him a job. Tom is scabbing to get money for Mary. Jack saves him from a beating. Tom then turns to theft.Disponível para compra
- T1 EP.5 — Coal Comfort4 de fevereiro de 197651minAs the strike continues, Bill works out that an abandoned coal seam runs under his house and digs for coal in the front room. Tom pursues two children who have stolen leeks from his allotment, but takes pity on them when he discovers that their mother is a war widow with no pension.Disponível para compra
- T1 EP.6 — Empire Day on the Slag Heap11 de fevereiro de 197653minThe strike ends with no concessions won by the miners. Jessie's headmaster, Arthur Ashton, proposes to her. Matt tells Jack that Dolly is pregnant and he agrees to marry her. Bill is crippled in an accident at the pit. Jack prevents the mine owner from defrauding him of proper compensation. Jack tells Jessie that he has to marry Dolly. After he leaves, she breaks down in tears.Disponível para compra
- T1 EP.7 — A First Time for Everything19 de fevereiro de 197652minBella turns the front of the house into a shop using Bill's compensation. Bill, confined to a wheelchair, is initially hostile to the plan. Jessie is impressed by the talent and intelligence of fourteen year old pupil, Ronnie Fairburn, and tries to dissuade him from working in the mines. But his widowed mother needs the money and Ronnie wants to become a man.Disponível para compra
- T1 EP.8 — Paddy Boyle`s Discharge26 de fevereiro de 197651minMary has died. Jack meets an old comrade, Sid Hepburn, who is still in the army. Hepburn is with the Black and Tans in Ireland on very good pay. Hepburn and his colleague, Harry Bartram take Jack to see Captain Leslie who tries to recruit him. Paddy Boyle, an Irish member of Jack's sheep-stealing gang, is a member of Sinn Féin.Disponível para compra
- T1 EP.9 — Angel on Horseback3 de março de 197652minTom falls for a nurse, Rosie Trotter. Just before he dies, Mick Murphy, Bella's uncle, places a bet in Bella's name with his nephew, Ralph, a bookie's runner. Mick's funeral is well-attended, but the winning bet was never placed because Ralph was arrested.Disponível para compra
- T1 EP.10 — King for a Day10 de março de 197652minJack agreed to help Manners buy a house from Lord Calderbeck by acting as front man. At Calderbeck's house, he meets his nephew Freddy who wants to marry Jane Cromer, a wealthy young widow. Jane sleeps with Jack, but eventually decides to marry Freddy. Billy, who is working on a nearby farm, helps Jack obtain inside information and learns that Dolly has had a miscarriage.Disponível para compra
- T1 EP.11 — Happy New Year, Some Say18 de março de 197652minJack is looking after Glaswegian socialist lecturer, Sandy Lewis, who is speaking at the Co-Op Hall. There is also a Tory meeting at the George Hotel, and Tom avoids capture having stolen from the cloakroom. Billy takes Bill to a New Year's party at Jessie's against his will. Jack turns up with Sandy who needs somewhere to stay the night.Disponível para compra
- T1 EP.12 — Heads You Win, Tails I Lose25 de março de 197652minTom is threatened by two local ruffians from whom he has won money. Jessie tries to persuade widow, Lizzie Armstrong, to let her son, Robert, take up a grammar school scholarship, but Lizzie needs him to leave school to earn money. Matt proposes to Lizzie who refuses him. Jack helps Tom take on the ruffians, who are then humiliated by a 'tin-panning' by local women arranged by Lizzie.Disponível para compra
- T1 EP.13 — Kind Hearted Rat with a Lifebelt1 de abril de 197652minLes Mallow, the local branch chairman, asks Jack to help him become district secretary of the fitters union. Jack refuses. He then persuades the branch to vote against a strike and to provide financial help to Mrs Downey, the widow of union member. Jack helps her recover her furniture by breaking into her flat. He then lets himself be arrested.Disponível para compra
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- English
- Legendas
- English [CC]
- Produtores
- Andrew OsbornLeonard Lewis
- Atores principais
- James BolamJames GarbuttJean Haywood
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- BBC
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