Play for Today - Season 13
Episodes
E1: Soft Targets
A story about a homesick Russian journalist in London at the end of the cold war
E2: Three Minute Heroes
Out on the streets, young people looking for fun. They come together at nights to listen to their mu
E3: The Remainder Man
Jack's obsession with the possibility of nuclear war sees him usher his family down into his home ma
E4: Intensive Care
A man holds a lonely vigil at the bedside of his dying father.
E5: A Mother Like Him
A family of five orphaned children are going to be split up into different homes. What will happen i
E6: John David
After giving birth to a Down's Syndrome baby, Judith decides she doesn't want to keep him. Obliged t
E7: Aliens
In June 1940 Italy entered the war. With Britain threatened by a German invasion thousands of Italia
E8: Another Flip for Dominick
Two years after his journey to the past, Dominick Hide has been promoted to instructor and is no lon
E9: Last Love
Annabel, an upper-middle-class widow, falls in love with Jack, a self-made man of humble origins. He
E10: Gates of Gold
In 1959 County Antrim, two traveling evangelists help a mentally retarded teenager
E11: Wayne and Albert
Wayne goes to live with his grandfather Albert. Initial generation gap hostilities between them are
E12: Atlantis
Goff and Lytton have a dream - a canal boat of their own on which to cruise the inland waterways: Th
E13: The Last Term
Devon 1940. The boys of the local public school are alerted after a German parachute drop and as mem
E14: Reluctant Chickens
Malcolm is a GP wrestling with ideas of retirement, while his wife Jo is a frustrated, would-be nove
E15: Shall I Be Mother?
Susan and Jenny are aged 13 and 14 and in care. Jenny's mother has died, Susan hasn't seen hers for
E16: The Falklands Factor
The 18th century writer Samuel Johnson writes a political pamphlet protesting the British going to w
E17: A Matter of Choice for Billy
When his father leaves Belfast to seek work in England, a young man looks after his sister
E18: Floating Off
A businessman tries to keep his son from finding out about an unconventional deal he and his secreta