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- For the BBC's WEDNESDAY PLAY series, Dennis Potter offered one of his "visitation dramas": Housewife Cynthia Nicholls is married to prudish Richard Nicholls. One day, her mundane household chores are interrupted by the arrival on her front step of scruffy, coarse Michael Biddle. He claims to be an angel, but on the face of it, he could simply be a deranged street person. She challenges the angel Michael by pointing out that he has no wings.
- A newly-appointed knight finds his celebrations cut short by someone who was witness to his treachery during the war. This edition is missing from the BBC archives.
- A TV host and his architect brother attend their father's funeral. This edition remains in the BBC archives only in black and white.
- A couple are trapped in their marriage and way of life. Locked up in their bourgeois inferno.
- A man who attempted suicide by jumping out a window is saved only to live in a coma, in which he has fantasies about his relatives and nightmare creatures.
- A civil servant working abroad revisits his old school. This edition is missing from the BBC archives.
- Frank is worried that he's over the hill when he reaches his 38th birthday. Conversations with his wife, lover and best friend do nothing to allay his concerns.
- The story of a disintegrating marriage told through family photos. This edition is missing from the BBC archives.
- The lives of Gwen and Arthur are complicated when Gwen's long-lost husband comes back on the scene, and none of them seem to notice when their situation is reflected on TV. This edition remains in the BBC archives only in black and white.
- A couple are distressed by the changes in their adopted teenage son when he joins a biker gang. This edition is missing from the BBC archives.
- Edith is a very successful writer. Her husband, Gerald, is a very much less successful one, as she never fails to remind him. This edition is missing from the BBC archives.
- Michael Regan, a working-class Irishman, is humiliated when he takes his girl out to a posh restaurant. His desire for revenge against the owner gets out of control and dominates his life.
- The wife of a headmaster discovers that he has been physically abusing his students.
- A trilogy of plays - "A Time to Keep", "The Whaler's Return" and "Celia" - exploring the life of the Orkney islanders in the past and present.
- An awkward relationship develops between the families of a trade unionist and the regional manager when the son of the former wins a university scholarship from their employer. This edition is missing from the BBC archives.
- Dishillusioned by his rich, aristocratic upbringing in Britain, top foreign office diplomat Adrian Harris became a spy for the Russians. He escaped to Moscow after being found out and it is there that, a few years later, a group of Western journalists come in search of his story. He disgusts them with his drunken ranting, but, unknown to them, he has good reason to conceal his true feelings.
- An ultra-realistic procedural drama of a social worker's investigation into the case of a battered infant received critical acclaim.
- Ellis is 50, bankrupt and showing signs of psychosis. He fantasises about killing his father, has dreams of the occult, and feels the only thing he can communicate with in life is a garden worm.
- A social worker tries to help a painfully shy young man and takes him for a visit to a country farm. This edition is missing from the BBC archives.
- An elderly general woos a shy school teacher.
- A pregnant teenager sets about wooing a sailor in a sectarian council estate in Greenock.
- The familiar story of Robinson Crusoe - this time told from the viewpoint of his companion, Friday. This edition is missing from the BBC archives.
- Two provincial newspaper reporters - one a young idealist starting out on his career, the other an embittered man who previously wrote for a failed national daily - swap views.
- A marriage can be lonely when the children have left home, as Nelson and Maud find out. Maud leaves in the middle of a unloving picnic, and Nelson follows - both sharing their stories with a series of strangers.
- Malcolmson (Joss Ackland) spends every Sunday taking his children to the zoo, reflecting on the breakdown of his marriage and the events that brought about his divorce. Is there a chance the family can be brought back together?