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- Masterpiece Episode: "All for Love: Mona" Season 14, Episode 23 Episode Synopsis: "All for Love: Mona" concerns a teenager (Deborah Stokes) who takes care of a former soldier (Frank Finlay) suffering from the effects of being gassed in World War I. Adapted from a short story by Francis King. Mrs. Sweet-Hannaby: Fanny Rowe.
- A British woman falls for a German prisoner of war, despite the fact that her fiancee was killed by Germans during the war.
- Diffident and perpetually flustered mother tries to keep the affections of her son, continually embarrassing him in front of school mates and teachers, while he sees his (jolly)father in a stable and calm relationship with his new wife. She struggles to find her own identity.
- A workaholic persuades a lonely unmarried lady to pose as his wife. Soon she starts wondering about his past, and things start to go downhill.
- A lonely shop girl from Manchester saves all year for a luxury vacation in France among the rich, using her favorite fashion/lifestyle magazine as a guide to sewing her wardrobe and the manners she thinks are necessary to pass for a wealthy woman. One summer, things take a sudden unexpected turn.
- The possessive mother of a 30-year-old is constantly pushing him into marriage. He isn't interested. He is living with a man, a hard fact that his mother must recognize and understand.
- A young girl and her mother stay at a shabby guesthouse. She's enchanted by her holidays, and in particular by Miss Alliott who shares the cottage with a companion, Miss Martin.
- A bittersweet tale of timid, gentle lovers, one of whom is unhappily married, who conduct a clandestine affair.
- This dramitisation of a short story by Susan Hill tells the tale of Esme Fanshow (June Ritchie) a librarian who has lived all 40 years of her life with her mother. Mrs. Fanshow (Evelyn Laye) is an overbearing woman who ruled her daughter's life with an iron hand. When her mother dies, leaving Esme her substantial fortune, Esme attempts to spread her wings. She tries doing things her mother wouldn't have approved of such as using butter and cream at every meal. But her freedom is interrupted by her mother's ghost who continually appears with mocking words. A bit of adventure comes her way when Mr. Curry (Benjamin Whitrow) mistakenly shows up in her garden looking for "a room to rent with breakfast". Esme decides to rent him her mother's old room. She enjoys playing landlady to the rather mysterious gentleman who her mother's ghost warns her to distrust. One day Esme decides to follow Mr. Curry to find out what kind of work he actually does. She discovers he's only a common street entertainer. But what is life without "A Bit of Singing and Dancing"?
- The Colonel is in search of health, not romance, when he visits the Elm Park Hydro, for rest and exercise. Things change when he meets Ms Mackay.
- The story involves the tension between a young girl preparing to enter a convent and her mother, who plans a cruel going away party. Based on a short story by Rumer Godden.
- A farm family catch a young man stealing eggs from their barn. Seemingly homeless, the man stays with them. Daughter Grace is disgusted by the stranger at first. The relationship between the outsider and the family changes course.