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Stan's Last Game E1 75 min

1. Stan's Last Game

James Grout and Bert Parnaby are rival chairmen of a northern football club in the run-up to an important cup match. As tempers fray, retiring president Charles Lamb provides a calming voice of sanity.

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Young Shoulders E2 75 min

2. Young Shoulders

Cynical teenager Andrew Groves re-evaluates his attitude to life and his parents after his sister dies in a plane crash.

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A Coming to Terms for Billy E3 75 min

3. A Coming to Terms for Billy

When his father comes home to Belfast after more than 2 years in England, conflicts arise with Billy

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Z for Zachariah E4 75 min

4. Z for Zachariah

After a nuclear holocaust, only a man and a woman survive in a Welsh valley.

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Moving on the Edge E5 75 min

5. Moving on the Edge

A woman in a state of personal crisis finds it hard to communicate with her husband and family.

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Desert of Lies E6 75 min

6. Desert of Lies

An expedition tracing the path of long-lost missionaries meets with tragedy in the Kalahari Desert.

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Hard Feelings E7 75 min

7. Hard Feelings

A group of unemployed Oxford drop-outs living in a Brixton commune get their come-uppance by one of them.

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Under the Hammer E8 75 min

8. Under the Hammer

Concerning the life of the artist Vincent Van Gogh

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King E9 75 min

9. King

A man who has had a good life in England wants to retire to Jamaica, but the celebration with his daughters doesn't go as expected.

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Rainy Day Women E10 75 min

10. Rainy Day Women

In 1940, during World War II, an officer is sent to investigate rumors of German spies in a sleepy village where various people are the victims of war hysteria

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Dog Ends E11 75 min

11. Dog Ends

In a future society where euthansia is common, a man signs papers to have his father put down

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The Groundling and the Kite E12 75 min

12. The Groundling and the Kite

Peter is a songwriter, while his old friend Jimmy is an A and R (Artists and Repertoire) man. But when Jimmy tries to sell one of Peter's songs, Peter is furious. Can the friendship survive?

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The Cry E13 75 min

13. The Cry

In 1959 Ulster, a journalist witnesses the beating of a youth

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It Could Happen to Anybody E14 75 min

14. It Could Happen to Anybody

A long-suffering Glasgow housewife puts up with years of her husband's violence and drunkenness - and then something happens which makes her snap and fight back.

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Only Children E15 75 min

15. Only Children

A young woman's comfortable life is turned upside down when she has a baby.

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The Amazing Miss Stella Estelle E16 75 min

16. The Amazing Miss Stella Estelle

Miss Stella Estelle is a cabaret singer in working men's clubs, and she sings songs from the 1960s to support a large and difficult family. But how long can it go on? The backdrop is a family in decay: husband out of work, wife working and still doing the domestics, daughter the singer and hopeful star, son her "manager" but in reality going nowhere. Stella plays a crummy club circuit, singing songs for oldies for £50 a night - She's never going to be a star because of her parents' short-sighted greed.

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The Long March E17 90 min

17. The Long March

A woman returns to Belfast after ten years in England and becomes involved in the Maze prison protest.

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Punters E18 75 min

18. Punters

What is the secret of Joey and Spansky's success at the races?

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Talk To Me E19 75 min

19. Talk To Me

Matthew and his wife are deeply suspicious of psychoanalysis. It's not their sort of thing at all.

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Bird Fancier E20 75 min

20. Bird Fancier

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Brigadista E21 75 min

21. Brigadista

When best-selling author James Fuller Hayes comes to Glasgow to publicise his personal account of the Spanish Civil War, a surprise reunion with two of his old comrades from the Int Brigade reveals contradictory & devastating information.

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Play for Today (1970)

6.6 (10) 14 Seasons 1h 15m/ep 1970-10-15 GB

Play for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC1 from 1970 to 1984. During the run, more than three hundred programmes, featuring original television plays, and adaptations of stage plays and novels, were transmitted. The individual episodes were between fifty and a hundred minutes in duration.

Genres: Drama

Stars: N/A