Play for Today - Season 14
Episodes
E1: Stan's Last Game
James Grout and Bert Parnaby are rival chairmen of a northern football club in the run-up to an impo
E2: Young Shoulders
Cynical teenager Andrew Groves re-evaluates his attitude to life and his parents after his sister di
E3: A Coming to Terms for Billy
When his father comes home to Belfast after more than 2 years in England, conflicts arise with Billy
E4: Z for Zachariah
After a nuclear holocaust, only a man and a woman survive in a Welsh valley.
E5: Moving on the Edge
A woman in a state of personal crisis finds it hard to communicate with her husband and family.
E6: Desert of Lies
An expedition tracing the path of long-lost missionaries meets with tragedy in the Kalahari Desert.
E7: Hard Feelings
A group of unemployed Oxford drop-outs living in a Brixton commune get their come-uppance by one of
E8: Under the Hammer
Concerning the life of the artist Vincent Van Gogh
E9: King
A man who has had a good life in England wants to retire to Jamaica, but the celebration with his da
E10: Rainy Day Women
In 1940, during World War II, an officer is sent to investigate rumors of German spies in a sleepy v
E11: Dog Ends
In a future society where euthansia is common, a man signs papers to have his father put down
E12: The Groundling and the Kite
Peter is a songwriter, while his old friend Jimmy is an A and R (Artists and Repertoire) man. But wh
E13: The Cry
In 1959 Ulster, a journalist witnesses the beating of a youth
E14: It Could Happen to Anybody
A long-suffering Glasgow housewife puts up with years of her husband's violence and drunkenness - an
E15: Only Children
A young woman's comfortable life is turned upside down when she has a baby.
E16: The Amazing Miss Stella Estelle
Miss Stella Estelle is a cabaret singer in working men's clubs, and she sings songs from the 1960s t
E17: The Long March
A woman returns to Belfast after ten years in England and becomes involved in the Maze prison protes
E18: Punters
What is the secret of Joey and Spansky's success at the races?
E19: Talk To Me
Matthew and his wife are deeply suspicious of psychoanalysis. It's not their sort of thing at all.
E20: Bird Fancier
E21: Brigadista
When best-selling author James Fuller Hayes comes to Glasgow to publicise his personal account of th