Episode 1 - Chips with Everything

Pip is a socialist who has seen the squalor of the East End, typified by greasy cafés offering 'chips with everything'. Pip is also the only privately-educated recruit in a draft of other National Service recruits. He's tried to buck the system by not applying for an officer's commission.

Episode 2 - The Little Minister

In rural 1840s Scotland, Gavin Dishart arrives to become the new 'little minister' of Thrums's Auld Licht church. He meets a mysterious young gypsy girl in the dens and to his horror Babbie draws him into her escape from the soldiers after she incites a Luddite riot. But unknown to Gavin, Babbie is more than she seems, and they must overcome her secret, the villagers' fears of her, and--worst of all--Gavin's devotion to his mother's sensibilities, before they can openly declare their love.

Episode 3 - Love's Labour's Lost

A scholarly king and his three companions swear off the society of women for three years, only to have a diplomatic visit from a French princess and her three ladies-in-waiting thwart their intentions.

Episode 4 - When We Are Married

At the turn of the 20th century, a set of long-married couples discover that due to a bureaucratic quirk they have never actually been married.

Episode 5 - Trilby

Trilby, a young Irish girl in Paris, falls under the influence of the sinister hypnotist Svengali.

Episode 6 - Loyalties

Episode 7 - The Chester Mystery Cycle

A quartet of mystery plays originally based in Chester.

Episode 8 - French Without Tears

The romantic and comic adventures of a quintet of young Englishmen in France, on a course to learn the language.