BBC2 Play of the Week (Season 2)

Langrishe Go Down (Episode 1)

Writer: Harold Pinter

Air date: 1978-09-20

Runtime: 105 min

Overview: In the late 1930s, three reclusive middle-aged spinster sisters live on their run down family estate in Ireland. Otto Beck, a perpetual graduate student from Bavaria with a habit of making pompous declamations, rents the back lodge to work on his esoteric thesis. Imogen Langrishe, the least repressed of the sisters, begins an affair with Otto. Imogen takes the love affair seriously, but Otto just enjoys the cheap lodging and the comfort of Imogen.

Fairies (Episode 2)

Writer: Geoffrey Case

Air date: 1978-09-27

Runtime: 66 min

Overview: How could photographs, taken on a simple camera by two Yorkshire village girls, have momentous implications for man's understanding of the world?

Fearless Frank (Episode 3)

Writer: Andrew Davies

Air date: 1978-10-04

Overview: The outrageous – and not entirely reliable – memoirs of Irish writer Frank Harris, sometime cowboy in the Old West, friend to the famous in the literary world, essayist and critic, and seducer of beautiful women.

The Lost Boys: Part 1 – We Set Out to Be Wrecked (Episode 4)

Writer: Andrew Birkin

Air date: 1978-10-11

Runtime: 100 min

Overview: 1897: A quiet afternoon in Kensington Gardens. A little boy in a red tam-o'-shanter realises he is being watched by a small man with a huge St. Bernard. The man is J. M. Barrie...

The Lost Boys: Part 2 – Dark and Sinister Man (Episode 5)

Writer: Andrew Birkin

Air date: 1978-10-18

Runtime: 100 min

Overview: 1906: Arthur is gravely ill. Sylvia turns more and more to Barrie for help. A wealthy man following the huge success of Peter Pan, Barrie is only too happy to respond.

The Lost Boys: Part 3 – An Awfully Big Adventure (Episode 6)

Writer: Andrew Birkin

Air date: 1978-10-25

Runtime: 100 min

Overview: 1913: Three years have passed since Sylvia's death. George is now a man and Michael, 13 years old. For the Llewelyn Davieses, childhood is at an end, and illusions are about to be destroyed.

Return Fare (Episode 7)

Writer: David Pownall

Air date: 1978-11-01

Runtime: 89 min

Overview: A man adjusts to freedom after years incarcerated.

Another Day (Episode 8)

Writer: Susan Boyd

Air date: 1978-11-22

Overview: Abandoned by her husband, Eileen tries to make the best of bringing up her children in a rundown bed-sit. A man called George shows her attention, but others are suspicious of his motives.

The Vanishing Army (Episode 9)

Writer: Robert Holles

Air date: 1978-11-29

Runtime: 75 min

Overview: The promotion of an ambitious, decorated NCO is put in jeopardy when he marries an unconventional wife and faces the snobbery of his superiors and their families.

Night People (Episode 10)

Writer: Alan Plater

Air date: 1978-12-06

Overview: A classical string quartet stop at a motorway cafe in the early hours. Among the people they meet are a football supporter, a travelling salesman and an elderly couple who are going to Gretna Green to get married.

Renoir, My Father (Episode 11)

Writer: Andrew Davies

Air date: 1978-12-13

Overview: A dramatisation of the life and work of the artist Auguste Renoir, based on the book by his filmmaker son, Jean Renoir.

On Giant's Shoulders (Episode 12)

Writer: Anthony Simmons

Air date: 1979-03-28

Runtime: 90 min

Overview: A middle-aged childless couple on a remote farm adopt a Black boy with no limbs due to the effects of Thalidomide. They encounter a great deal of resistance and scepticism from their friends and neighbours.

Stepping Out (Episode 13)

Writer: Sarah Pia Anderson

Air date: 1979-04-04

Overview: A middle-aged woman who enjoys making lavish ballgowns wishes her daughter would visit more often.

A Light That Shines (Episode 14)

Writer: Colin Tucker

Air date: 1979-04-11

Overview: At a teaching Order, Conroy is asked to mentor promising student Stephen, who is feeling pressured.

In England's Green and Pleasant Land (Episode 15)

Writer: Andrew Carr

Air date: 1979-05-16

Overview: Authorities must decide if the repentance of a reformed convicted murderer is genuine so he can be prepared for release.