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Season 1981 · 12 episodes
  1. S1981 E01 · Rough Justice
  2. S1981 E02 · Sister Genevieve
  3. S1981 E03 · The Hijack
  4. S1981 E04 · Give Us the Vote
  5. S1981 E05 · Lol: A Bona Queen of Fabularity
  6. S1981 E06 · The Multi-Marathon Man
  7. S1981 E07 · Rocky Circus
  8. S1981 E08 · Gorilla G. Gorilla
  9. S1981 E09 · The Harrison's Don't Go to School
  10. S1981 E10 · Alison
  11. S1981 E11 · Sex, Drugs and the Vicar
  12. S1981 E12 · Children's Parties
Season 1982 · 21 episodes
  1. S1982 E01 · The Great Cover-Up
  2. S1982 E02 · Brighton Or Bust
  3. S1982 E03 · The Last Resort
  4. S1982 E04 · The George Formby Story
  5. S1982 E05 · Burgled
  6. S1982 E06 · Bomber and Brendan
  7. S1982 E07 · Mutiny
  8. S1982 E08 · Saved in the Nick of Time
  9. S1982 E09 · Birth Reborn
  10. S1982 E10 · Hunt Saboteurs
  11. S1982 E11 · Heart Transplant: Bruce Anderson's New Heart
  12. S1982 E12 · Roedean
  13. S1982 E13 · Skinheads
  14. S1982 E14 · Rabbits Don't Cry
  15. S1982 E15 · An Emotional Matter
  16. S1982 E16 · Lost in a Crowd
  17. S1982 E17 · The Cruelty Man
  18. S1982 E18 · Miners
  19. S1982 E19 · Mr. Moonlight
  20. S1982 E20 · The Lad's Night Out
  21. S1982 E21 · How Do I Look?
Season 1983 · 18 episodes
  1. S1983 E01 · Mister Perks
  2. S1983 E02 · Package Tour
  3. S1983 E03 · Something to Do with Video
  4. S1983 E04 · The Rovers
  5. S1983 E05 · Honour Thy Father and Thy Mother
  6. S1983 E06 · Freshers
  7. S1983 E07 · English Lesson
  8. S1983 E08 · Female Circumcision
  9. S1983 E09 · A Minor Incident at the Berlaymont
  10. S1983 E10 · A Gentle Way with Cancer?
  11. S1983 E11 · Mistress
  12. S1983 E12 · Bodyline
  13. S1983 E13 · Something for the Ladies
  14. S1983 E14 · House of Love
  15. S1983 E15 · Innocent Until Proved Guilty
  16. S1983 E16 · Jail Within a Jail
  17. S1983 E17 · Who's a Pretty Girl, Then?
  18. S1983 E18 · Pranks
Season 1984 · 26 episodes
  1. S1984 E01 · Nineteen Eighty-Four Voices in the City
  2. S1984 E02 · Health Farm
  3. S1984 E03 · Swiss Finishing School
  4. S1984 E04 · Divorce: Unreasonable Behaviour
  5. S1984 E05 · Divorce: The Law ...And After
  6. S1984 E06 · The Mating Season
  7. S1984 E07 · Skiffle
  8. S1984 E08 · Pigeons: Queer Facts
  9. S1984 E09 · Educating Michael
  10. S1984 E10 · Demelza's Baby
  11. S1984 E11 · A Problem with Sex
  12. S1984 E12 · The School on the Hill
  13. S1984 E13 · Animal Antiques
  14. S1984 E14 · Travelling Hopefully
  15. S1984 E15 · Sun City
  16. S1984 E16 · Bertie and the Bomb
  17. S1984 E17 · O Alien
  18. S1984 E18 · Boycott
  19. S1984 E19 · Gigolo
  20. S1984 E20 · The Happy Medium
  21. S1984 E21 · The Grendon Experiment
  22. S1984 E22 · Love in Exile
  23. S1984 E23 · On the Throne
  24. S1984 E24 · Rent Boys
  25. S1984 E25 · Asylum
  26. S1984 E26 · The Loved Ones
Season 1985 · 28 episodes
  1. S1985 E01 · The Promised Land
  2. S1985 E02 · Talking Proper
  3. S1985 E03 · Sweet FA
  4. S1985 E04 · The End of the Pier Show
  5. S1985 E05 · The Outcasts
  6. S1985 E06 · Love Story
  7. S1985 E07 · Free
  8. S1985 E08 · Whose House is it Anyway?
  9. S1985 E09 · The Eternal Triangle
  10. S1985 E12 · Union Street
  11. S1985 E13 · Whatever Happened to Baby Paul?
  12. S1985 E14 · Matters of Life and Death
  13. S1985 E15 · Star Paws
  14. S1985 E16 · Sex, Drugs and the Vicar
  15. S1985 E17 · Laughter in Gabrovo
  16. S1985 E18 · Dear Mr President
  17. S1985 E19 · Bodyline
  18. S1985 E20 · In Between Days
  19. S1985 E21 · Fifty Years On
  20. S1985 E22 · Schoolgirl Mom
  21. S1985 E23 · Johnny Oddball
  22. S1985 E24 · Forget-Me-Not
  23. S1985 E25 · Searching for a Miracle
  24. S1985 E26 · Page 3 Girls
  25. S1985 E27 · Keep Taking the Rose Petals
  26. S1985 E28 · Animal Crackers
  27. S1985 E29 · Our Man in Shanghai
  28. S1985 E30 · Pilsdon: A House of Hope
Season 1986 · 24 episodes
  1. S1986 E01 · Flight from Vatersay
  2. S1986 E02 · Student Nurse
  3. S1986 E03 · Emergency - Bloomsbury 3
  4. S1986 E04 · How to Find a Lover
  5. S1986 E05 · Cry for Home
  6. S1986 E06 · The Fishing Party
  7. S1986 E07 · The Real Life of a Hollywood Wife
  8. S1986 E08 · A Case of Malicious Wounding
  9. S1986 E09 · Come Home, Julie
  10. S1986 E10 · Nutsi
  11. S1986 E11 · Countdown to Today
  12. S1986 E12 · The Last Day
  13. S1986 E13 · A Passage to Wisbech
  14. S1986 E14 · The Gift of Life
  15. S1986 E15 · Ten Days in Holloway
  16. S1986 E16 · Dancing in the Rain
  17. S1986 E17 · Stop the Wedding!
  18. S1986 E18 · Rescue
  19. S1986 E19 · Olga Goes to Hollywood
  20. S1986 E20 · The Englishwoman's Wardrobe
  21. S1986 E21 · The Dump
  22. S1986 E22 · Botham's Out!
  23. S1986 E23 · The Chosen Few
  24. S1986 E24 · The Final Board
Season 1987 · 25 episodes
  1. S1987 E01 · 4 What It's Worth
  2. S1987 E02 · Just for William
  3. S1987 E03 · Short Stories
  4. S1987 E04 · Home From the Hill
  5. S1987 E05 · Struggle for Stonebridge
  6. S1987 E06 · Stirring Stuff
  7. S1987 E07 · Do You Still Love Me?
  8. S1987 E08 · A Cabinet of Curiosities
  9. S1987 E09 · Bad Blood
  10. S1987 E10 · Fire!
  11. S1987 E11 · The Quest for Sergeant Miller
  12. S1987 E12 · House of Spirits
  13. S1987 E13 · A New Girl
  14. S1987 E14 · The Mighty Leek
  15. S1987 E15 · Street Girls
  16. S1987 E16 · Bombay Hotel
  17. S1987 E17 · Convictions
  18. S1987 E18 · Terror
  19. S1987 E19 · Girls Apart
  20. S1987 E20 · Love at First Sight
  21. S1987 E21 · Poor Man's Eton
  22. S1987 E22 · East Side Story
  23. S1987 E23 · The Case of Sherlock Holmes
  24. S1987 E24 · Party Time
  25. S1987 E25 · Catch a Fallen Star
Season 1988 · 25 episodes
  1. S1988 E01 · If You Love Him, Let Him Go
  2. S1988 E02 · Jackpot
  3. S1988 E03 · Scarfe's Follies
  4. S1988 E04 · Thames Wallah
  5. S1988 E05 · Changing Places
  6. S1988 E06 · Diary of a Frontliner
  7. S1988 E07 · Annie Doesn't Work Here Anymore
  8. S1988 E08 · The Great North Road
  9. S1988 E09 · I, Alison
  10. S1988 E10 · Children of the Open Road
  11. S1988 E11 · Five Go to Florida
  12. S1988 E12 · Who Will Love Bill?
  13. S1988 E13 · Who Needs a Machine Gunner?
  14. S1988 E14 · Women in Black
  15. S1988 E15 · My African Farm
  16. S1988 E16 · Separate Tables
  17. S1988 E17 · Waiting
  18. S1988 E18 · Mixed Blessings
  19. S1988 E19 · Dolbusters
  20. S1988 E20 · I Want to Live
  21. S1988 E21 · The Gypsies Are Coming...
  22. S1988 E22 · Desirable Dwellings
  23. S1988 E23 · A Policewoman's Lot
  24. S1988 E25 · Greenfinches
  25. S1988 E26 · Jam Today
Season 1989 · 27 episodes
  1. S1989 E01 · To Have and to Hold
  2. S1989 E02 · The Day I Met the Queen
  3. S1989 E03 · The Kingdom of Fun
  4. S1989 E04 · Our Darren
  5. S1989 E05 · Jealousy
  6. S1989 E06 · Cairo Vets
  7. S1989 E07 · I Like the Girls Who Do
  8. S1989 E08 · Knickerbockers in Knightsbridge
  9. S1989 E09 · Ghost Train
  10. S1989 E10 · Raging Belles
  11. S1989 E11 · By Steam to Sennar Junction
  12. S1989 E12 · Wedding at Easington
  13. S1989 E13 · Violent
  14. S1989 E14 · Catwalk
  15. S1989 E15 · Two Sides of a Street
  16. S1989 E16 · Inside Broadmoor
  17. S1989 E17 · Laid Off
  18. S1989 E18 · London Lighthouse
  19. S1989 E19 · Who'll Win Jeannette
  20. S1989 E20 · Me and My Bike
  21. S1989 E21 · Crack Doctors
  22. S1989 E22 · City Parish
  23. S1989 E23 · Best Friends
  24. S1989 E24 · Heart of the Angel
  25. S1989 E25 · Bullies
  26. S1989 E26 · Out of the Ruins
  27. S1989 E27 · All About Ambridge
Season 1990 · 26 episodes
  1. S1990 E01 · Stage Struck
  2. S1990 E02 · A Place for Tom
  3. S1990 E03 · Darling, Let's Start up an Airline
  4. S1990 E04 · He's Playing Our Song
  5. S1990 E05 · Hilary's in Hiding
  6. S1990 E06 · Danger Men
  7. S1990 E07 · SA Blues
  8. S1990 E08 · Adventures in the Skin Trade
  9. S1990 E09 · A Safe Sex for a Safe Seat
  10. S1990 E10 · Green Police
  11. S1990 E11 · The Burny Mob Go Wild
  12. S1990 E12 · Many Happy Returns
  13. S1990 E13 · Tracey's Search
  14. S1990 E14 · How Could She?
  15. S1990 E15 · Mac to the User
  16. S1990 E16 · Killer Bimbos on Fleet Street
  17. S1990 E17 · Karl's Kidney - for Sale
  18. S1990 E18 · A View from a Bridge
  19. S1990 E19 · Thawing of a Cold War Warrior
  20. S1990 E20 · Fit to Drop
  21. S1990 E21 · It's Eileen
  22. S1990 E22 · A Summer in the Country
  23. S1990 E23 · Battleship Beach
  24. S1990 E24 · Brief Encounters
  25. S1990 E25 · Malika's Hotel
  26. S1990 E26 · Chocolate!
Season 1991 · 24 episodes
  1. S1991 E01 · Whatever Happened to Susi?
  2. S1991 E02 · Clever Trevor
  3. S1991 E03 · Where There's Hope
  4. S1991 E04 · The Prisoner
  5. S1991 E05 · Welcome to Surbiton
  6. S1991 E06 · A Cruel Ritual
  7. S1991 E07 · Children of the Fire
  8. S1991 E08 · A Moosehead for Momma
  9. S1991 E09 · Our Brilliant Careers
  10. S1991 E10 · Battered Men
  11. S1991 E11 · The Entertainers
  12. S1991 E12 · Beyond the Crystal Ball
  13. S1991 E13 · Video Vultures
  14. S1991 E14 · Suburbs in the Sky
  15. S1991 E15 · Fly Me to Dunoon
  16. S1991 E16 · Alec the Pole
  17. S1991 E17 · Short, Sharp and Shocking
  18. S1991 E18 · Autogeddon
  19. S1991 E19 · Anyone for Tennis?
  20. S1991 E20 · Berlin Lights
  21. S1991 E21 · Torn Apart
  22. S1991 E22 · Windermere's Burning
  23. S1991 E23 · Heads On Beds
  24. S1991 E24 · Boobs in Toyland
Season 1992 · 15 episodes
  1. S1992 E01 · When the Canaries Stop Singing
  2. S1992 E02 · Wild Men
  3. S1992 E03 · Charlotte and Abi
  4. S1992 E04 · Cowboys in the South Pacific
  5. S1992 E05 · She Married a Lifer
  6. S1992 E06 · Miami Wild
  7. S1992 E07 · Elvis in Jarrow
  8. S1992 E08 · So Much to Lose
  9. S1992 E09 · Farewell, Fab 208
  10. S1992 E10 · Soldier's Diary
  11. S1992 E11 · Get Out!
  12. S1992 E12 · Not at Their Age
  13. S1992 E13 · A Child for Hitler
  14. S1992 E14 · Dear Mr Pink
  15. S1992 E15 · Weather
Season 1993 · 21 episodes
  1. S1993 E01 · Sanctuary
  2. S1993 E02 · I Won't ...I Can't
  3. S1993 E03 · Away the Lads
  4. S1993 E04 · Mart and Mandy
  5. S1993 E05 · Will They Ring Tonight?
  6. S1993 E06 · A Change of Heart
  7. S1993 E07 · The Lady Killers
  8. S1993 E08 · Limehouse Doctor
  9. S1993 E09 · The Agony of the Ecstasy - 100 Years of Sex Advice
  10. S1993 E10 · Hostage
  11. S1993 E11 · The Importance of Being Ernie
  12. S1993 E12 · Ladies in Lines
  13. S1993 E13 · Three Big Men
  14. S1993 E14 · Rape
  15. S1993 E15 · Rape
  16. S1993 E16 · Shattered Dreams
  17. S1993 E17 · War Artist
  18. S1993 E18 · Girl Friends
  19. S1993 E19 · Police Surgeon
  20. S1993 E20 · Moscow Gold
  21. S1993 E21 · Latin Nights
Season 1994 · 15 episodes
  1. S1994 E01 · The Making of Them
  2. S1994 E02 · Caraline's Story
  3. S1994 E03 · Heads and Tales
  4. S1994 E04 · Behind the Mask
  5. S1994 E05 · Squeegies
  6. S1994 E06 · Spent Forces
  7. S1994 E07 · Why Blame the Mother
  8. S1994 E08 · Portrait of a Mid-life Crisis
  9. S1994 E09 · Manila - the Real Thing
  10. S1994 E10 · A Case of Corporate Murder
  11. S1994 E11 · After the Bomb
  12. S1994 E12 · Wonderful Land
  13. S1994 E13 · Fay Presto: Illusions of Grandeur
  14. S1994 E14 · Living in a Boom Time
  15. S1994 E15 · Times Remembered

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