Play for Today - Season 14

Play for Today - Season 14

Season 14

Network
Episodes16
DatesOct 25, 1983 - Aug 28, 1984
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Episodes

Stan's Last Game
Season 14Episode 175 min

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.
Oct 25, 1983
Young Shoulders
Season 14Episode 275 min

Young Shoulders

Cynical teenager Andrew Groves re-evaluates his attitude to life and his parents after his sister dies in a plane crash.
Feb 14, 1984
A Coming to Terms for Billy
Season 14Episode 375 min

A Coming to Terms for Billy

When his father comes home to Belfast after more than 2 years in England, conflicts arise with Billy
Feb 21, 1984
Z for Zachariah
Season 14Episode 475 min

Z for Zachariah

After a nuclear holocaust, only a man and a woman survive in a Welsh valley.
Feb 28, 1984
Moving on the Edge
Season 14Episode 575 min

Moving on the Edge

A woman in a state of personal crisis finds it hard to communicate with her husband and family.
Mar 6, 1984
Desert of Lies
Season 14Episode 675 min

Desert of Lies

An expedition tracing the path of long-lost missionaries meets with tragedy in the Kalahari Desert.
Mar 13, 1984
Hard Feelings
Season 14Episode 775 min

Hard Feelings

A group of unemployed Oxford drop-outs living in a Brixton commune get their come-uppance by one of them.
Mar 20, 1984
Under the Hammer
Season 14Episode 875 min

Under the Hammer

Concerning the life of the artist Vincent Van Gogh
Mar 27, 1984
King
Season 14Episode 975 min

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.
Apr 3, 1984
Rainy Day Women
Season 14Episode 1075 min

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
Apr 10, 1984
Dog Ends
Season 14Episode 1175 min

Dog Ends

In a future society where euthansia is common, a man signs papers to have his father put down
Jul 17, 1984
The Groundling and the Kite
Season 14Episode 1275 min

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?
Jul 24, 1984
The Cry
Season 14Episode 1375 min

The Cry

In 1959 Ulster, a journalist witnesses the beating of a youth
Jul 31, 1984
It Could Happen to Anybody
Season 14Episode 1475 min

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.
Aug 14, 1984
Only Children
Season 14Episode 1575 min

Only Children

A young woman's comfortable life is turned upside down when she has a baby.
Aug 21, 1984
The Amazing Miss Stella Estelle
Season 14Episode 1675 min

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.
Aug 28, 1984

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