• 1977
  • 1h 40m

Episode list

BBC2 Play of the Week
On Giant's Shoulders
Tue, Mar 27, 1979
  • S2.E12
  • On Giant's Shoulders
Len and Hazel Wiles, a middle-aged childless couple who live on a remote farm, decide to adopt a coloured boy, Terry, who has no limbs because of the effects of Thalidomide. They encounter a great deal of resistance and scepticism from their friends and neighbours. Terry Wiles plays himself in this play.
8.6 /10
Langrishe Go Down
Tue, Sep 19, 1978
  • S2.E1
  • Langrishe Go Down
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.
6.5 /10
Renoir, My Father
Tue, Dec 12, 1978
  • S2.E11
  • Renoir, My Father
A play about the life and work of the artist Auguste Renoir, based on the book by his film director son, Jean Renoir.
0 /10
Langrishe Go Down

S2.E1 ∙ Langrishe Go Down

Tue, Sep 19, 1978
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.
6.5 /10
Fairies

S2.E2 ∙ Fairies

Tue, Sep 26, 1978
Are there really fairies at the bottom of the garden? Two young girls insist it's true, and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle believes them.
0 /10
Fearless Frank

S2.E3 ∙ Fearless Frank

Tue, Oct 03, 1978
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.
0 /10
Renoir, My Father

S2.E11 ∙ Renoir, My Father

Tue, Dec 12, 1978
A play about the life and work of the artist Auguste Renoir, based on the book by his film director son, Jean Renoir.
0 /10
On Giant's Shoulders

S2.E12 ∙ On Giant's Shoulders

Tue, Mar 27, 1979
Len and Hazel Wiles, a middle-aged childless couple who live on a remote farm, decide to adopt a coloured boy, Terry, who has no limbs because of the effects of Thalidomide. They encounter a great deal of resistance and scepticism from their friends and neighbours. Terry Wiles plays himself in this play.
8.6 /10
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Chicago

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