Anthology series of half hour plays produced in BBC's Television Centre's studios.

A series of six plays centred on a house in Glasgow, from 1878 to the 1980s.

In the western isles of 1930s Scotland, Peter 'Para Handy' MacFarlane, captain of the puffer Vital Spark, treks around the coastal waters of west Scotland and variously schemes himself and his crew into mischief.

An elderly couple try to decide if a young woman who has come to visit would make a suitable wife for their son.

A woman runs an 'establishment' for gay servicemen during World War Two in Scotland. A Scottish and an American serviceman meet and spend the night together there.

A successful artist recalls his life in the tenements of the Glasgow slums. In flashback his recalls the events and characters he shared with in a slum tenement building.