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- On the death of her mother, a young woman in northern England learns that her father is actually her step-father. She embarks on a search for her birth father, finds him running a jazz club in London, and learns a lot of happy and sad things about her family that she didn't know before. The title of the film is the classic jazz piece, "Misterioso," by Thelonious Monk, which features prominently in it.
- When Sarah, a New York actress, calls Joe, a London playwright they begin a very special relationship conducted through trans-Antlantic phone calls. And both Sarah and Joe have very special conditions they both have to fight to overcome their separation.
- When strange things start to happen, Jock suspects his high-rise is haunted.
- Story of Jack and his farming family in West Wales. They have built up their dairy herd with vast loans and are then told they must cut back on milk production and slaughter some of the herd. The community launches a campaign against the quotas, but Jack takes the law into his own hands.
- TV play about a video director.
- Down Where The Buffalo Go is a drama made for television by BBC Scotland. It follows the life of a US Marine (played by Keitel) based at the Holy Loch naval base and the local girl he married. Their relationship is at straining point - she wants to leave Scotland and settle in America while he wants to remain in Scotland.
- Britain in the very near future. In an abandoned hotel, a young female doctor and a middle-aged male scientist are interrogated separately. The question they are both asked is 'Where is Martin Pitt?'
- Lydia has had her heart broken and retreats to the Welsh hills for a consoling visit to her old friend Betty. But things may not be as amiable as they seem.
- An elderly lady suffers from the mysterious condition of spontaneous combustion.
- In this comedy drama a Scottish TV station prepare for the broadcast of the 1964 election results. But as it gets nearer to transmission time, the pressure, anxieties and secret resentments among some of the staff become all too palpable.
- During World War I, a hospitalized amputee falls in love with one of his nurses.
- The true story of a daring prison break. Wycliffe Kato, Director of Civil Aviation in Idi Amin's Uganda was at the airport to catch a flight to Canada for a conference when he was arrested by Amin's secret police, members of the notorious Sate Research Bureau, and thrown into the Nakasero prison. This should have meant certain death, but, along with his cell mates, army officers who had come under suspicion of organizing a coup, he escaped and made it on foot to Nairobi. This TV movie is based on Wycliffe Kato's own account in his book "Escape From Idi Amin's Slaughterhouse".
- A comedy about two Scottish women, doing a feminist cabaret act in a seedy pub, who have to choose between principle and profit when success on the alternative cabaret circuit beckons.
- Two old men in a nursing home engage in an ongoing competition.
- Harry Clark is a social worker on the verge of cracking up. His job is to help other people: who is there to help him?
- An former firebrand socialist finds himself in a care home after a fall leaves him unable to look after himself. But after learning that the catering staff are to be sacked for economic reasons he rallies the residents to fight against it.
- Robert and Gordon, two talented teenage footballers from Wick, are invited to Glasgow for a week's trial with a big club. It is their first taste of professional football, but both the game and the city upset their expectations.
- In the women's cancer ward of a large Glasgow hospital, a group of patients share their hopes and dreams for the future.
- A black comedy about two pensioners struggling to survive in a high-rise flat.
- A reclusive couple live in a block of flats with their baby son in Scotland. But it becomes apparent there is something strangely odd about the whole situation and the wife is on the point of a breakdown. But just what is their secret?