Play for Today - Season 8
18 episodes
Episode 1
Stronger than the Sun
A worker discovers a radioactive leak at the nuclear power plant where she works and tries to make it public knowledge.
Episode 2
Come the Revolution
Mike and his commune have a performance of their musical theatre "Diver" at the local pub, and ITV's Beth Bailey is coming along to see it. But will Beth's visions for the play as an incitement to rev
Episode 3
Abigail's Party
Comedy of manners focusing on the bourgeois affectation and sexual frustration of a young married couple. Abigail's mother Sue is invited to take refuge from her teenage daughter's party with a neighb
Episode 4
Oy Vay Maria
The story of the romance between a Jewish boy and an Irish Catholic girl
Episode 5
Nipper
Teenager Jimmy's life begins to unravel after the death of his father. With his mother promiscuous and his new stepfather and stepbrother difficult to get along with, he begins to fall into a cycle of
Episode 6
One Day at a Time
"People coming to their first AA meeting, prosperous people, sometimes, accustomed to the best. They look round the places where we meet, and you can see them thinking: what am I doing here? I owe my
Episode 7
The Mayor's Charity
Olive Major is determined that her year of office as Mayor will be a happy and successful one. But her appointment of Ex-Warrant Officer Higham as Attendant and Mace-bearer causes the storm-clouds to
Episode 8
Catchpenny Twist
Three schoolteachers in Belfast give up teaching to become singers/songwriters.
Episode 9
Charades
"We've just got to get it right. It'll be our little secret. When all the other servants have gone out, we'll play this little game to amuse ourselves. A sort of private charade."
Episode 10
The Thin End of the Wedge
"Five days of darkness then. Unless you get it together we will have five days of darkness. And on the sixth day you will say, let there be light, and no doubt it'll be such an effort that on the seve
Episode 11
Scully's New Year's Eve
A Liverpool teenager has a hectic night out on New Year's Eve.
Episode 12
Licking Hitler
During World War II, a young woman joins the propaganda department and makes radio broadcasts to Germany from a British country house.
Episode 13
Red Shift
A stone axehead links three couples living at different times in the same place in Wales.
Episode 14
The Spongers
The story of a single mother of four living on welfare
Episode 15
Destiny
A story dealing with racial tensions and fascism during a by-election in a West Midlands town
Episode 16
Our Day Out
When a teacher takes a group of troubled school children on a school trip to Conwy in Wales, the children understand life outside of Liverpool.
Episode 17
The After-Dinner Joke
The story of a well-meaning charity worker
Episode 18
The Legion Hall Bombing
The story of the trial of Willie Gallagher, convicted of bombing the Strabane British Legion Hall in 1976.