Season 17

Prevented by health reasons from joining the Army, a man lives out his military fantasies by leading a failing marching band. His life changes when he discovers his beloved ex-Army father has a secret.

A couple invite an old school friend for a reunion dinner, it is during the conversation (with the friend now an eminent surgeon) the couple come to the stark realization that their son is showing symptoms of a looming brain tumour.

A man meets a woman at a wedding and manages to sweet talk her, only to end up inadvertently helping out another male.

Two scout patrols from London's East End, meet up on a holiday in Kent and find it was not what they were expecting at all.

A repressed junior librarian, frustrated with looking after her sick father, finds herself drawn into a dangerous relationship with the man who might have murdered her mean-spirited grandmother.

An army private decides one day that he's not taking any more orders, precipitating a crisis of confidence for the Medical Corps major assigned to investigate his case.

An affluent, happy and conventionally married couple have their preconceptions about life questioned by their guest (an underground American film maker) as they get more and more involved in his latest project.

A housewife, at first reluctant to have a girl lodger, finds the girl disturbs the home in a totally unexpected way.

It's 1865, Fiodor in St, Petersburg is reluctantly supporting his dead wife's family, when he meets new love in the form of Anna and a new life beckons escaping away and traveling Europe.

At the gathering of a North Country wedding, the prospective husband starts to have doubts about going ahead as he observes what marriage has done to the guests.