ITV Saturday Night Theatre Season 1, Episode 31: Takeover

Park People

Young Frank Brady falls in love with a woman he has only seen from a distance. He enlists his friend Peg to help him win the woman's love.

Bangelstein's Boys

A rugby team's annual tour descends into chaos when Tommy and Jack have a fall out with their brother-in-law.

My Bonnie Jean

MacNeil

Carpenter and widower MacNeil takes a blunt approach in making advances to lady executive Miss Saville who works in the same firm as himself. His belief in his instincts regarding women is contradicted by his daughter Mary, who knows him better than he thinks.

Cornelius

Emlyn

Mary MacNeil drifts into a complex relationship with a Welsh barrister.

Tiger Trap in the Street

Fed up with having his car stolen, Williams decides it's time to take the law into his own hands, but there is a price to pay.

An Hour of Love #1: The Bind

An Hour of Love #2: Anatomy of a Divorce

The Piano Tuner

Pig in a Poke

An effete television producer and his beautiful wife move into an old terraced house.In the basement is a sitting tenant they cannot move.The tenant starts to invade their life with increasing voracity, leading to him eventually beating up the young wife and then becoming her afternoon lover.

Machine

Two people (one rich, one poor) have failing kidneys, an expensive kidney machine would save them.

The Dirt on Lucy Lane

Michael Vint, an embittered hack reporter from a Sunday newspaper, is sent down into the country to find a story in the love life of an aging has-been writer and his new glamorous young film star wife. The writer is annoyed about the intrusion into his private life, but his wife sees it as an opportunity.

Moonlight on the Highway

Writing for ITV Saturday Night Theatre (1969), Dennis Potter introduced the notion that popular music expresses the yearning of the human spirit for a better world. A troubled young man, David Peters (Ian Holm), claims, "Once dreams were possible, that's what the popular songs told us." Rejecting rock music of the day, Peters is immersed in the tunes of Thirties crooner Al Bowlly (killed during the London blitz). He collects Bowlly memorabilia, publishes the Bowlly fan-club newsletter, and finds pleasure in lip-synching Bowlly records but his obsession with Bowlly masks certain darker events in his past.

52 min

Hazel and Her New Gas Cooker

Steve

Steve's maverick personality costs him his teaching job. He drops out of conventional society and earns a living by roguish means. Then he meets Paula, who makes him question his ideals and life.

Toys

Rogues Gallery: The Bright Eyed Body Snatcher

Rogues Gallery: The Wicked Stage

Rogues Gallery: The Timorous Rake

Rogues Gallery: The Fearful Image

Rogues Gallery: A Bed Full of Miracles

Rogues Gallery: The Prude Pursued

The Innocent Ceremony

The Haunting

Young Cathy asks her teacher Kate for help with her father Rolf who is still withdrawn and depressed after his wife's fatal car crash sometime ago. However, the line between fantasy and reality complicates matters.

A Measure of Malice

Better Dead

Every Day of the Life Man

An innocent man is wrongly picked from an identity parade after a factory robbery because he is black.

Salve Regina

In the basement of a department store after the last bomb of World War Three. A bag lady, calls herself ' the queen ' and exercises complete authority over two befuddled men. That is until an astronaut (who was in space when the bomb fell) finds them.

Two Hundred Miles by Train

The Funeral of Queen Victoria

The Garbler Strategy

Travelling Where?

Two Feet Off the Ground

Fly Away Home

A couple return from their holiday to find their house burnt down. Having no insurance, the husband has no option but to rebuild it himself with the help of local handyman Arthur. Local council bureaucracy hinders all the way.

The Talking Head