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Season 11

1975 · 8 episodes

  1. 1. Chips with Everything

    1975-09-28

    Pip is a socialist who has seen the squalor of the East End, typified by greasy cafés offering 'chips with everything'. Pip is also the only privately-educated recruit in a draft of other National Service recruits. He's tried to buck the system by not applying for an officer's commission.

  2. 2. The Little Minister

    1975-11-02 · 102m

    In rural 1840s Scotland, Gavin Dishart arrives to become the new 'little minister' of Thrums's Auld Licht church. He meets a mysterious young gypsy girl in the dens and to his horror Babbie draws him into her escape from the soldiers after she incites a Luddite riot. But unknown to Gavin, Babbie is more than she seems, and they must overcome her secret, the villagers' fears of her, and--worst of all--Gavin's devotion to his mother's sensibilities, before they can openly declare their love.

  3. 3. Love's Labour's Lost

    1975-12-14 · 120m

    A scholarly king and his three companions swear off the society of women for three years, only to have a diplomatic visit from a French princess and her three ladies-in-waiting thwart their intentions.

  4. 4. When We Are Married

    1975-12-29 · 75m

    At the turn of the 20th century, a set of long-married couples discover that due to a bureaucratic quirk they have never actually been married.

  5. 5. Trilby

    1976-01-24

    Trilby, a young Irish girl in Paris, falls under the influence of the sinister hypnotist Svengali.

  6. 6. Loyalties

    1976-02-28

  7. 7. The Chester Mystery Cycle

    1976-04-18 · 90m

    A quartet of mystery plays originally based in Chester.

  8. 8. French Without Tears

    1976-05-16 · 94m

    The romantic and comic adventures of a quintet of young Englishmen in France, on a course to learn the language.

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