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Talking Heads

  • 1988 – 1998
  • Ended
  • Drama · Comedy
  • ~35m / ep
  • 2 seasons
  • 6.7/10

Six monologues tell the stories of six different repressed souls: a man dominated by his mother, a vicar's wife, an inveterate letter writer, a hopeful actress, a recently widowed woman, and an elderly shut-in.

Latest: Series 2 · 1998

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  1. E1. Miss Fozzard Finds Her Feet

    Oct 6, 1998 · 43m

    Miss Fozzard is a lonely, middle-aged department store clerk in the Soft Furnishings Department whose free time is mostly spent caring for her brother after he suffers a stroke.

  2. E2. The Hand of God

    Oct 13, 1998 · 33m

    Celia is a covetous antiques dealer who brazenly aids elderly neighbours for the sole purpose of being in a good position to buy their treasures on the cheap when they die.

  3. E3. Playing Sandwiches

    Oct 20, 1998 · 36m

    Wilfred is, we discover over time, a reformed paedophile living under a false identity and working as a much-praised maintenance man in a public park.

  4. E4. The Outside Dog

    Oct 27, 1998 · 31m

    Clean freak Marjory gradually comes to realise that her partner, who works in a slaughterhouse, is using his employment to cover the fact that he's a particularly evil criminal.

  5. E5. Nights in the Gardens of Spain

    Nov 3, 1998 · 40m

    Rosemary is a lonely woman who takes it upon herself to tend to a female neighbour's garden after the latter is arrested for murdering her abusive husband.

  6. E6. Waiting for the Telegram

    Nov 11, 1998 · 29m

    Violet is a confused, elderly woman in a nursing home who has been told by the excited staff she will soon be receiving a congratulatory telegram from the Queen in honour of her one hundredth birthday.

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