Back to life after two decades in limbo

BodyShock: The Man Who Slept For 19 Years (C4)

Bloodlines (ITV1)

Sex In The 70s (C4)

AFTER her son Terry was badly injured in a car accident, Angilee Wallis refused to believe doctors who said he'd never wake up. "He's in there, he just can't communicate," she said.

She continued to treat him as one of the family - talking to him, taking him out in the car, taking him on fishing and hunting expeditions. Nineteen years later, Terry woke up and began speaking. No-one has ever been in a coma so long and recovered the power of speech.

Unlike in a Hollywood movie, you don't wake from a coma and are back to normal. Terry can't walk and his words are slurred because he has little muscle control, but he's defied medical opinion.

BodyShock followed Terry and his family as they travelled to New York for an assessment of how much improvement could be expected. Although he's 40 now, he still thinks he's 19 and that his daughter Amber is his wife (and, as a consequence, makes sexual remarks to her). His memory can't retain new thoughts.

Perhaps even more heartbreaking is the plight of Roy King, who suffered massive damage to his brain in a crash. Outwardly, he's the same man but the accident has erased the most important part of him - that spark of humanity. He lives in an emotional void, having lost the ability to love his wife and child.

The "new Roy" has difficulty censoring his basic impulses. He becomes abusive and has alienated many of the couple's friends. But wife Clare is determined to stick by him because "he deserves the best we can give him".

Another Monday and another two-part ITV1 drama about a child with a killer dad. Last week's Like Father Like Son had a teenage boy learning his father was a serial killer. This week, in Bloodlines, policewoman Emma Pierson's father is a CID officer convicted of murder when she was nine. When his wife/her mother is found murdered the week after his release from prison, guess who's the prime suspect?

The most shocking thing about the first part of this plodding drama was that Jan Francis, absent from screens for some time, was killed off in the first 15 minutes.

A feeling of deja vu also accompanied Sex In The 70s, the first of four smutty offerings from C4 on consecutive nights. Five covered some of the same ground in its recent Banned series.

C4's opener investigated a world that promised sex but only delivered weird comedy involving tits and suspenders - no, not your neighbour's bedroom but British sex movies with titles like I'm Not Feeling Myself Tonight.

The general opinion is that we Brits are fine in the drawing room but dreadful in the bedroom. Snippets from those 70s movies showed why. Robin Askwith's bobbing bare bum featured in the Confessions comedies, although describing him as "a walking erection in a denim suit" seemed a trifle unkind.

Christopher Biggins once appeared in a sextravaganza entitled Eskimo Nell. His reason for taking part had little to do with art. "Why did you do it?," he was asked.

"Money," came the honest answer.