Play for Today - Season 12

Play for Today - Season 12

Season 12

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Episodes22
DatesOct 20, 1981 - Apr 6, 1982
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Episodes

Country
Season 12Episode 175 min

Country

The story of the disintegration of an aristocratic country estate after World War II
Oct 20, 1981
London Is Drowning
Season 12Episode 275 min

London Is Drowning

A docudrama about what would happen if London was hit by severe flooding
Oct 27, 1981
A Room for the Winter
Season 12Episode 375 min

A Room for the Winter

James, an expatriate South African anti-apartheid fighter, deals with his nightmares and his complaining landlady in a run-down area of London, while dreaming of his lover Stephen, left behind.
Nov 3, 1981
No Visible Scar
Season 12Episode 475 min

No Visible Scar

A nurse is subjected to an interrogation after giving medical treatment to a terrorist leader.
Nov 17, 1981
Iris in the Traffic, Ruby in the Rain
Season 12Episode 575 min

Iris in the Traffic, Ruby in the Rain

In Belfast, Ruby has a cold and is caught in the rain while Iris is looking for work and gets caught in traffic
Nov 24, 1981
Protest
Season 12Episode 675 min

Protest

In an adaptation of Václav Havel's play, a dissident, newly released from prison for political reasons, attempts to get his well-connected friend to sign a protest. In this one man play, both the roles are played by Nigel Hawthorne.
Dec 1, 1981
United Kingdom
Season 12Episode 775 min

United Kingdom

Two men on a local council fight the system when forced with massive spending cuts.
Dec 8, 1981
PQ17
Season 12Episode 875 min

PQ17

During World War II, a British officer is ordered to abandon a Russian convoy.
Dec 15, 1981
The Factory
Season 12Episode 975 min

The Factory

A manager, a foreman, and two workers are all that remains of a factory yet labor relations stay the same
Dec 22, 1981
England's Green and Pleasant Land
Season 12Episode 1075 min

England's Green and Pleasant Land

A planning decision must be made, and the motorway extension must go through on either the Golf Course or the Allotments - will the greens survive or the peasant lands?
Jan 5, 1982
A Cotswold Death
Season 12Episode 1175 min

A Cotswold Death

A police inspector investigates the murder of an Arab sheik who had become a village's Lord of the Manor.
Jan 12, 1982
Under the Skin
Season 12Episode 1275 min

Under the Skin

Three women involved in different ways in the women's movement.
Jan 19, 1982
Commitments
Season 12Episode 1375 min

Commitments

Politics and relationships during the last years of the Heath government
Jan 26, 1982
Life After Death
Season 12Episode 1475 min

Life After Death

Meg: We were so close, we loved each other, we made a whole together. I feel cut in half.
Feb 2, 1982
The Silly Season
Season 12Episode 1575 min

The Silly Season

Malcolm goes through life hating the mundanity of his existence as a factory worker and an unloved husband. But when students take up summer jobs at the factory, it reawakens both his passion for political feeling and romantic urges.
Feb 9, 1982
Too Late to Talk to Billy
Season 12Episode 1675 min

Too Late to Talk to Billy

A family in Belfast deals with life after the death of the mother from cancer
Feb 16, 1982
Willie's Last Stand
Season 12Episode 1775 min

Willie's Last Stand

Willie and his friends notice the passage of time around them, and how society is changing as their marriages stagnate. Can Willie prove to himself that he still has it, by being able to cheat on his wife just once?
Feb 23, 1982
Tishoo
Season 12Episode 1875 min

Tishoo

Frank has dedicated 19 years to researching a cure for the common cold, and is almost ready to publish a paper. Yet budget cuts and his own inability to form real relationships with those around him threaten to derail the project.
Mar 9, 1982
Home Sweet Home
Season 12Episode 1975 min

Home Sweet Home

Home Sweet Home is a 1982 television film devised and directed by Mike Leigh, for BBC TV, 'about postmen, parenthood, social workers and sex.' It was Leigh's second collaboration with Play for Today producer Louis Marks, and cinematographer Remi Adefarasin, and with composer Carl Davis - the music score featured a quartet of basses -. It stars Timothy Spall, here working with Leigh for the first time, Eric Richard, Tim Barker, Kay Stonham, Su Elliot, Frances Barber, Sheila Kelley, and Lorraine Brunning. It was first broadcast on 16 March 1982. The film was shot on location in Hitchin, Hertfordshire. 90 minutes.
Mar 16, 1982
A Sudden Wrench
Season 12Episode 2075 min

A Sudden Wrench

"My life is over - and I just didn't notice it passing." A call to a radio helpline leads to depressed housewife Christine finding a new direction in life.
Mar 23, 1982
Eve Set the Balls of Corruption Going
Season 12Episode 2175 min

Eve Set the Balls of Corruption Going

Adolescents will always be obsessed by the same old subject, even when they are educated by nuns. Six ex-Classmates meet for the first time in 12 years and hilarious memories change into highly emotional situations.
Mar 30, 1982
Whistling Wally
Season 12Episode 2275 min

Whistling Wally

While Wally was happy there wasn't much wrong with the world, and pints seemed a small price to pay for what he gave us. But don't forget what we gave him. We gave him the knowledge he was important, at least to us.
Apr 6, 1982

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