One Summer

Season

1983

8.3

Two teenagers, Icky and Billy, grow tired of their life in Liverpool and decide to run away to North Wales. But it's not long before their past catches up with them.

Episode List

S1 • E1

Episode #1.1

Billy lives in poverty and has only has one real friend Icky. Billy and Icky survive a knife attack from the Swanjack gang but damage their assailant. Needing to get out, Billy takes his mother's Bingo winnings and the pair head for Wales.

S1 • E2

Episode #1.2

Billy and Icky jump from the train in the middle of a nowhere. Stealing a tractor the pair head through tiny villages and back lanes looking for Penllech. After a night in the rain they are taken in by Mrs. Roberts but the police arrive.

S1 • E3

Episode #1.3

Billy and Icky find an old cottage but it is already occupied by Kidder. After a meal, Billy asks to stay but Icky is homesick for Liverpool. Kidder agrees to let them do odd jobs in the cottage but the locals are less pleased to see them.

S1 • E4

Episode #1.4

Icky is unable to read and write so former teacher Kidder attempts to teach him however getting Billy open up about his life is more difficult. Billy and Icky have fun, at the expence, of their school mates, who are on a camping nearby.

S1 • E5

Episode #1.5

Icky returns to Liverpool and joins up with Rabbit. Jo invites Billy to go swimming with her. PC Dickson comes looking for Billy, to report that Icky has died, but first questions Kidder about going jail for having sex with a minor.