Johnny Jarvis

Episode 01

1977-1978

Nov 10, 1983 · 50 min

The unlikely friendship between Johnny Jarvis and Alan Lipton begins in their last year at a comprehensive in Hackney. Jarvis, the loveable clown with a surprising talent for welding…Lipton, the apparently talentless reject, fantasising about the future and the father he has never met. At the end of the year they have to confront the adult world

Episode 02

1978-1979

Nov 17, 1983 · 50 min

Lipton and Jarvis encounter the amazing Stella for the first time. Turner finds work - of a fairly eccentric kind. Jake remains mysterious and evasive. For both Lipton and Jarvis their relationships with their fathers take a dramatic turn.

Episode 03

1979-1980

Nov 24, 1983 · 50 min

Life at the squat for Stella and Lipton isn't easy. Jake has disappeared again. Both Lipton and the mysterious "Colonel" want to find him - and the Colonel isn't too fussy about his methods. However, Turner is in work - if not earning money; and Jarvis is busy at Technical College, where he acquires a girlfriend.

Episode 04

1980-1981

Dec 1, 1983 · 50 min

Lipton and Guy become the self-appointed leaders of a band at the hostel, singing Alan's songs. Stella moves in to live with Johnny - and his mother. Then a surprising newcomer turns up at the hostel

Episode 05

1981-1982

Dec 8, 1983 · 50 min

Having begun as a sort of serial for Grange Hill graduates, this tale of two lads from London's East End has taken off on an almost surreal tangent, with a shadowy drug dealer called The Colonel holding the rock writer Lipton a prisoner in his mother's council flat. Jarvis is also flat-bound, and flat-broke, compelled to baby-sit while Stella goes out to work

Episode 06

1982-1983

Dec 12, 1983 · 50 min

Johnny and Stella move in to live with Alan in his new flat. But it's not easy to revive old friendships, and the tensions run high.