Episode list

For the infantrymen, old hands and raw recruits, 36 hours of forced march and a night in pouring rain are followed by a day in a muddy cornfield, facing cannon, cavalry, and infantry. If they're still standing as the day ends, they've won.

Two husbands have decisions to make about their wives.

Julie and Mandy meet on Euston Station. They find themselves in a city of sharks and shelters, of pimps and pills. Homeless and penniless, the first priority for kids in the night is a place to sleep. With Tim and Mike they discover friendship and enjoyment and begin to build a home and a life together.

Mambu, Baku and Obode live alone and trouble-free on their paradise island. Roger Savage, a young anthropologist, arrives on the island to dabble at his university thesis, bringing with him a couple of books, a few records and a mysterious luxury packing case. He tells them about an obscure anthropological theory, the Cargo Cult. Very soon they are in London, putting this odd idea into amazing practice.

Dan and Carol are hitching round the world. They reach Tokyo where, to pay for their journey, Carol gets some modelling and Dan teaches English. Dan's passion for the country and its culture becomes focused on one of his pupils, a young Japanese woman. But what are her real feelings? What indeed are his?