Dramarama(1983–1989)

Night of the Narrow Boats

Fowl Pest

Chaos results when Amy gives her mother a birthday present of four chickens.

Dodger, Bonzo and the Rest

When they overhear that their children's home may be closed, the youngsters hatch a series of plans, not all totally above board, to raise money to keep it open.

Que Sera

Fortune teller Rose is trying to teach young Stella the tricks of her trade when the new owner of the Pleasure Palace threatens her professional existence with his future business plans. Clairvoyance is urgently needed, but maybe one of them has real paranormal talents?

Stalemate

Snoop!

Colin Egan, a cub reporter, is sent on an apparently boring assignment. Events, however, soon take a dramatic turn.

Mr. Stabs

Mr Stabs is summoned to the City of Shadows, where he must perform various heroic deeds in order to defeat the evil Polandi, and ultimately face mortal, magical combat with Melchisedek.

Josephine-Jo

The Purple People Eater

On Your Tod

18-year-old Ben seems to have all the luck. In reality, he is bored and lonely - and it takes a gate-crasher at his party to force him to acknowledge his problems.

The Old Firm: Two for Starters

The Come-Uppance of Captain Katt

Ludo French stars in a sci-fi series, but working with the arrogant, conceited, always dissatisfied man pushes the production to its limits.

A Couple of Charlies

A play about a neglected boy on a school pet day, this edition was awarded the Special UNICEF Prize at Prix Jeunesse, Munich.

Wayfarers

Play Acting

Last Days at Black Bert's

Things aren't looking good at the run-down hikers' hostel "Black Bert's." A health inspector has been announced, ordering a committee to close the place down. On top of that, everything is about to fall apart-but perhaps the new waitress can help?

Maureen Reid, Where Are You?

Flashback

Film material from the Second World War is leaked to two young people. The film stars a schoolboy who obviously doesn't belong there. Who is the boy and when did this happen?

Direct Action

Young Dawn seems to lack perseverance in her jobs. Things seem to be going better at Helliwell's toy store until the boss orders the same Christmas music to be played for months. Since everyone is dissatisfied, Dawn organizes a staff meeting. But there are still a few lessons waiting for her.

Waiting for Elvis

In 1960, Elvis Presley returns to the USA from Germany by plane, and there will be a stopover in Scotland. That evening, the paths of six people cross in the waiting lounge, each with a different hope for this event: a journalist, a fan, a beauty queen, her jealous boyfriend, an agent, and his protégé, whom he hopes to make a star.

Just a Game

A school quiz broadcast on the radio is a huge success until two students from a losing team realize that their teacher is helping the competition. Proving the cheating and convincing their teachers and parents proves difficult. And the station doesn't want to be in the headlines either.

Flyaway Friend

Jennie is new at school, misses her father and has no friends. But there is her imaginary friend Tom, who has similar concerns. But is he really imaginary?

Pig Ignorance

Little crook Darryl has to do community service on an inner-city farm. Most of the time he doesn't care about the work, but when the owners have to sell the only pig for lack of money, his attitude changes.

Jessie's Place

A girl from a snobbish middle class family is desperate to break free, and ends up forging an unlikely friendship with a younger working class boy

Easy

Neil is a good footballer, but his father wants him to only develop his talent for the violin. But the concert of a great virtuoso changes everything.

The Coal Princess

Look At Me

Two children, one deaf and one hearing, are brought together by an accident involving the deaf boy's beloved dog.

A Young Person's Guide to Going Backwards In The World

Charlie is facing his exam and is suffering greatly under the pressure of expectations. Then the mysterious Mentora makes him a tempting offer: he can simply pass. But the pact takes him to a fantastical world, to the "Mouth," behind which lurks consequences for those who don't think and decide for themselves.

The Audition

The Universe Downstairs

Vincent and his parents move into an old house. When they hear noises coming from the cellar he goes down to investigate and finds a whole new world, Cosmos, with its own unique people.

A Proper Little Nooryeff

Frog

A satirical, political play as an enclosed garden represents the whole western world. Inhabiting the garden are various animals who speak directly to the viewers in rhyme and song, including a frog who has stolen all the water.

Private Eye

Emily

Silver

The Golden Conch

Forever Young

The Macramé Man

The Wrong Button

A school art class visits a noble country estate, with a disused fairground next door. At the same time, a devil-in-training causes chaos among the visitors. But a rascal student can see him and brings his two best friends for a ride.

Bubbles

Blackbird Singing in the Dead of Night

Kim, a girl rendered deaf by an accident, has to return to the children's ward for a second time when the first operation fails. Whilst there, she befriends a boy who is immature on the outside, but has a good hear

Big T for Trouble

Jackie's outrageous lies always get her into trouble, but she can't escape her job as a bridesmaid in pink.

Room for One More

Making Waves

Just a Normal Girl

Sandy is left paraplegic as a result of a car accident, but finds courage through meeting other disabled children.

Now You See Them

Bogeymen

New neighbours in the street - a scary thing for four children, because the newcomers are from the West Indies. Their wild imagination brings them to break into the neighbours court.

The Alien

The Secret of Croftmore

A teenage Scottish boy named Calum Gillies, who does not want to leave his beloved Croftmore in the Highlands to move to Edinburgh, receives assistance from the ghosts of his distant relatives.

The Bubblegum Brigade

Playing for Wales

Codzmorf

A father spends a Saturday turning household objects into live animals, things go wrong when he transforms himself and his son has to retrieve the spell book for the reverse spell

Ghost Story

Badger

Back to Front

We all know that mirrors take real life and reflect it back to us the other way. But what if the mirror's world goes beyond the pane of glass?

Monstrous

A friendly and familiar group of monsters, witches and ghostly figures live and work in a "Tunnel of Horror" at the fairground. On this day, an envious authority wants to close the fairground and sends its employees out.

The Pisces Connection

Rosie the Great

Once learned their island is free from British rule, the leader sought ways of getting the island on the map, until a researcher informed them the island is really a monarchy under the control of their local girl Rosie.

Snakes and Loofahs

Three girls set up a neighbourhood watch, but their "cases" soon annoy the police. But the discovery of a constrictor and a strange burglar soon change that.

Just Wild About Harry

Mitchin

Two boys skip school aka "mitchin" one boy is hiding from something curious

Cannondrum

Snap

Peter's dad reluctantly gives him a lift to some marshlands for a school photography project. Yet why is Peter able to see a mysterious hooded figure at the site, but it's unseen by his dad?

The Horrible Story

Bobby is given a tent from his uncle, and plans to sleep in it overnight with his friend Allan. Yet their plans are disrupted by Bobby's younger brother Christopher tagging along, so they try to scare him away with a "horrible story".

My Friend Julie

A story told entirely in song of the difficult friendship between two teenage girls who both love the same boy.

The Creature Beyond Torches' End

Because his parents are constantly arguing, Henry takes his desire for adventure and dinosaurs into his own hands. He follows the path under his bedclothes into a fantastic world.

My Mum's a Courgette

Brainwaves

Karen has enrolled on a communications course in a college for school underachievers. She spends her nights fantasising about a rebellious classmate, but her epilepsy causes her problems fitting in with the rest of her class.

Undertow of the Armada

Stan's First Night

In 1906, Stan Jefferson is given the chance to perform on stage for the first time ever at a theatre in Glasgow. The events of this night set Stan on a path that will eventually lead to becoming the Stan Laurel we know and love of Laurel & Hardy fame.

Living Doll

When Dawn's mother wants to work full-time, it leads to arguments between her parents. So, in her imagination, she creates the perfect couple out of her dolls. Or so she thinks.

Peter

Since the death of his father in the Falklands War, Paul has become increasingly withdrawn. One day, while fishing, he meets a strange boy named Peter who challenges him.

The Halt

Football hooligans get their comeuppance when they find themselves abandoned on a deserted railway station where strange things happen and voices make arrival announcements for trains that never come.

Mr Magus is Waiting for You

A repeat screening of a three-part "Middle English" story from 1986, repackaged as a single episode and presented under the Dramarama banner.

A Spirited Performance

Two boys stumble into a chaotic medieval film production and help out. But then they should look for a mystical sword.

Badger on the Barge

Mighty Mum and the Petnappers

Rip It Up

The Venchie

Matt begins a new job as a play worker for an adventure playground - a "venchie". Despite being warned that the kids there are hooligans, Matt believes they just need to be given a chance and understanding

Jack and the Computer

Because I Say So

When a boy is injured in a classroom fight, his teacher and headmaster try to get at the truth of what happened.

Bully for Cosmo

Cosmo is being bullied in class by Sylvia after he refuses to take a note from her in the middle of a lesson. After a fight almost breaks out, the teacher calls in Cosmo's father and Sylvia's mother to attempt to resolve things.

Messages

The Young Person's Guide to Getting Their Ball Back