City '68 Season 1, Episode 2: Son of the City

The Shooting War

Some directors of a football team are rather concerned about supporters imitating the violence and bad feeling on the pitch up in the stands. They want to suspend the 'bad apple' player but its deemed an unpopular move and abandoned...Then a policeman dies in the terraces.

The Appointment

After a headmaster is killed in an accident, Sid Allan (a black teacher) puts in an application for the job, but has second thoughts when a petrol bomb is thrown through his window.

The Waiting Game

A henpecked trade union leader tries to bully and then bribe a vulnerable housing manager into letting him jump the queue and have a new council flat.

The Visitors

A good Samaritan who gives a stranded family a lift off the road, finds his life gets complicated when they move in on him.

In Memoriam

Who Pays?

After a scout troupe is tragically mowed down by a truck, responsibility passes around the driver, the poorly sited roadworks and the scout master for allowing his charges on the main road.

A Question of Priorities

The city's councillors are contemplating removing an old cemetery in order to make way for house building. A reporter warns them that there will be resistance from an unexpected source.

Love Thy Neighbour

A car sharing scheme to beat the city traffic, goes disastrously wrong when the married men drivers invite a single girl into the scheme as well.

Freedom of the City

The Jonah Site

It's Dearer After Midnight

The Old Country