Tom, a sensitive Liverpool student, takes a job on a loading dock in a Lancashire factory town. He's smitten with a girl named Lena who works in a machine shop next door and takes her out despite a bullying driver claiming her for himself.

• ITV
• ABC Weekend Television
• Billie Whitelaw
• Peter McEnery
• Scott Forbes
• Jeanne Hepple
• Colin Blakely
• Patrick O'Connell
• Keith Smith
• Clifford Elkin