Imogen Stubbs
Brief Encounters (2006)
Season 1
A series of ten short dramas from BBC Daytime - stars include Ralf Little, Keith Barron, Frances Barber and Imogen Stubbs.
Released May 8, 2006
Episode 30 min
None+
Genres: Drama
Keywords: mdblist.imdb-tv-mini-series, imdb.tv-mini-series
Network: BBC One
Country: United Kingdom
Languages:
English
S1E1 - Cake
Julie is a single mother and a checkout girl with a flash but completely undedicated boyfriend. She's fast approaching her 30th birthday when she finds a tape of her 16-year-old self, dreaming up great plans for love and life. Julie feels like her life has somehow drifted away, so what will it take to put her back on track?
May 8, 2006, midnight
S1E2 - All in a Day's Work
Steve is highly strung and heavily sarcastic. His chirpy colleague, Dorothy, has been trying to help him get over a girlfriend who left him six months ago but he's still miserable. When he loses his job, Steve's bitterness becomes unbearable. To make matters worse, Dorothy insists on taking Steve shopping to find a new love.
May 9, 2006, midnight
S1E3 - Life's Like That
When gentle spinster Edith Knight comes into some money, her avaricious relatives are round like a shot trying to get their hands on the loot. But Edith isn't quite as innocent as she appears.
May 10, 2006, midnight
S1E4 - Lost and Found
May 11, 2006, midnight
S1E5 - Hot or Not
May 12, 2006, midnight
S1E6 - Semi-Detached
May 15, 2006, midnight
S1E7 - Small Things
Simon and Natalie have just moved in together and things are going swimmingly. Until Natalie awakens one night to discover they've got a small visitor. When Simon chooses to catch 40 winks instead of a mouse, an argument begins. Soon the new guest is threatening to tear the happy household apart. But in this romantic comedy could there be something bigger at play? Small Things: it isn't about the mouse.
May 16, 2006, midnight
S1E8 - Ted
Ted is a northern comic who's seen better days. Working class, irascible, gregarious, he always has to be centre of attention. His ambitious, upwardly mobile and humourless son Daniel couldn't be more different, and relations are strained. On the day of his birthday, Ted turns up unannounced and uninvited to his son's dinner party, and sets in motion an explosive and surprising chain of events which force father and son to see their relationship in a whole new light.
May 17, 2006, midnight
S1E9 - One Night in White Satin
May 18, 2006, midnight
S1E10 - All in the Mind
Amy gets knocked over by a bike rider. After coming around in hospital, she begins hearing the thoughts of others and suspects her husband is having an affair.
May 19, 2006, midnight
Network: BBC One
Episode Runtime: 30 min.
Season Runtime: 30 min.
Released: May 8, 2006
Last Air Date: May 19, 2006, midnight
Status: Ended
Certification: NR
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