
Play for Today
Series 1
197024 episodes
Episodes
E1The Long Distance Piano Player
1970-10-15 · 75m
A man tries to break the world's record for nonstop piano playing
E2The Right Prospectus
1970-10-22 · 75m
A couple look for the proper school, not for their children but for themselves.
E3The Lie
1970-10-29 · 75m
""The Lie"" refers to the 8-year marriage of a couple who are constantly hurting each other.
E4Angels Are So Few
1970-11-05 · 75m
A man claiming to be an angel enters the household of a bored housewife and teaches the family a few lessons.
- E5
The Write-Off
1970-11-12 · 75m
A man is made redundant but can't bring himself to let anyone know, plunging into a web of deceit as he keeps up the charade he is still in work.
- E6
I Can't See My Little Willie
1970-11-19 · 75m
A man has a mid-life crisis in his brother's pub where sees life as a game show
- E7
A Distant Thunder
1970-11-26 · 75m
A newly-appointed knight finds his celebrations cut short by someone who was witness to his treachery during the war.
- E8
Hearts and Flowers
1970-12-03 · 75m
A TV host and his architect brother attend their father's funeral
E9Robin Redbreast
1970-12-10 · 75m
A woman living in a country cottage thinks that someone is trying to get her.
- E10
The Hallelujah Handshake
1970-12-17 · 75m
A petty thief and social misfit finagles his way into a church congregation
- E11
Alma Mater
1971-01-07 · 75m
A civil servant working abroad revisits his old school
- E12
Circle Line
1971-01-14 · 75m
A cynical student has a radically different view of life from his landlady, leading to conflict. Matters come to a head when he sleeps with her fourteen-year-old brother.
- E13
Hell's Angel
1971-01-21 · 75m
A couple are distressed by the changes in their adopted teenage son when he joins a biker gang.
- E14
The Piano
1971-01-28 · 75m
An old couple refuse to move when they find out that they can't take their piano with them
- E15
Billy's Last Stand
1971-02-04 · 75m
Billy, a self-employed coal-shoveller, gains a seedy business partner and competition in the form of a rival coal-shoveller.
- E16
The Rainbirds
1971-02-11 · 75m
A man who attempted suicide by jumping out a window is saved only to live in a coma, in which he has fantasies about his relatives and nightmare creatures.
- E17
Reddick
1971-02-18 · 75m
Charges that the Rev 'Red' Reddick is exploiting his youth club members leads to an explosive confrontation.
- E18
The Foxtrot
1971-04-29 · 75m
An odd menage a trois results when a woman and her lover are visited by her long-lost husband
- E19
When the Bough Breaks
1971-05-06 · 75m
When an injured baby arrives at the hospital, a social worker looks for the parents
- E20
Orkney
1971-05-13 · 75m
A trilogy of plays--A Time to Keep, The Whaler's Return, and Celia--exploring the life of the islanders in the past and present
- E21
The Rank and File
1971-05-20 · 75m
The story of the Pilkington glass workers strike of 1970
- E22
The Man in the Sidecar
1971-05-27 · 75m
A succesful novelist Edith lives with her husband and his friend, but she decides to ask the friend to leave.
- E23
Everybody Say Cheese
1971-06-03 · 75m
The story of a disintegrating marriage told through family photos
- E24
The Cellar and the Almond Tree
1971-06-10
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