Oliver's Travels (1995)

Oliver's Travels

Oliver's Travels is a five-part television serial written by Alan Plater and starring Alan Bates, Sinéad Cusack, Bill Paterson, and Miles Anderson. It first aired in the UK in 1995. Bates plays the titular Oliver, a keen word-game enthusiast and lecturer in comparative religion. After his teaching post is made redundant, he resolves to make use of his new wealth of free time by going to visit his favourite crossword compiler, 'Aristotle', with whom he has corresponded but whom he has never met. When he arrives, however, he finds Aristotle's house has been ransacked and its occupant has departed for parts unknown, and he sets out to discover why.

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Seasons

Season 1

Mini Series

Episodes season 1

  • 1x1

    Looking for aristotle

  • 1x2

    Land of my fathers

  • 1x3

    Why did we eat the frogs

  • 1x4

    The farquhar connection

  • 1x5

    Do we look like that?

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