Play for Today — Series 1

Oct 19701h 15m

A man tries to break the world's record for nonstop piano playing

Oct 19701h 15m

A couple look for the proper school, not for their children but for themselves.

Oct 19701h 15m

""The Lie"" refers to the 8-year marriage of a couple who are constantly hurting each other.

Nov 19701h 15m

A man claiming to be an angel enters the household of a bored housewife and teaches the family a few lessons.

Nov 19701h 15m

A man is made redundant but can't bring himself to let anyone know, plunging into a web of deceit as he keeps up the charade he is still in work.

Nov 19701h 15m

A man has a mid-life crisis in his brother's pub where sees life as a game show

Nov 19701h 15m

A newly-appointed knight finds his celebrations cut short by someone who was witness to his treachery during the war.

Dec 19701h 15m

A TV host and his architect brother attend their father's funeral

Dec 19701h 15m

A woman living in a country cottage thinks that someone is trying to get her.

Dec 19701h 15m

A petty thief and social misfit finagles his way into a church congregation

Jan 19711h 15m

A civil servant working abroad revisits his old school

Jan 19711h 15m

A cynical student has a radically different view of life from his landlady, leading to conflict. Matters come to a head when he sleeps with her fourteen-year-old brother.

Jan 19711h 15m

A couple are distressed by the changes in their adopted teenage son when he joins a biker gang.

Jan 19711h 15m

An old couple refuse to move when they find out that they can't take their piano with them

Feb 19711h 15m

Billy, a self-employed coal-shoveller, gains a seedy business partner and competition in the form of a rival coal-shoveller.

Feb 19711h 15m

A man who attempted suicide by jumping out a window is saved only to live in a coma, in which he has fantasies about his relatives and nightmare creatures.

Feb 19711h 15m

Charges that the Rev 'Red' Reddick is exploiting his youth club members leads to an explosive confrontation.

Apr 19711h 15m

An odd menage a trois results when a woman and her lover are visited by her long-lost husband

May 19711h 15m

When an injured baby arrives at the hospital, a social worker looks for the parents

May 19711h 15m

A trilogy of plays--A Time to Keep, The Whaler's Return, and Celia--exploring the life of the islanders in the past and present

May 19711h 15m

The story of the Pilkington glass workers strike of 1970

May 19711h 15m

A succesful novelist Edith lives with her husband and his friend, but she decides to ask the friend to leave.

Jun 19711h 15m

The story of a disintegrating marriage told through family photos

Jun 1971