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Play for Today : Season 8
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Air date: 18 Oct '77 - 18 episodesPlay for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC1 from 1970 to 1984. During the run, more than three hundred programmes, featuring original television plays, and adaptations of stage plays and novels, were transmitted. The individual episodes were between fifty and a hundred minutes in duration.
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List of Episodes (18)
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Play for Today (1970)
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1. Stronger than the Sun
18 Oct '77A worker discovers a radioactive leak at the nuclear power plant where she works and tries to make it public knowledge.
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Play for Today (1970)
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2. Come the Revolution
25 Oct '77
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Play for Today (1970)
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3. Abigail's Party
01 Nov '77Comedy 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 neighbouring couple, Beverly and Laurence. They have also invited Angela and Tony, new arrivals in the street. Beverly plies her guests with alcohol as Sue becomes increasingly withdrawn and embarrassed by the pretentious goings-on. Slowly, marital tensions emerge and the evening is breaking up in disarra
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Play for Today (1970)
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4. Oy Vay Maria
08 Nov '77The story of the romance between a Jewish boy and an Irish Catholic girl
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Play for Today (1970)
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5. Nipper
15 Nov '77
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Play for Today (1970)
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6. One Day at a Time
22 Nov '77
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Play for Today (1970)
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7. The Mayor's Charity
29 Nov '77
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Play for Today (1970)
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8. Catchpenny Twist
06 Dec '77Three schoolteachers in Belfast give up teaching to become singers/songwriters.
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Play for Today (1970)
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9. Charades
13 Dec '77
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Play for Today (1970)
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10. The Thin End of the Wedge
20 Dec '77
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Play for Today (1970)
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11. Scully's New Year's Eve
03 Jan '78A Liverpool teenager has a hectic night out on New Year's Eve.
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Play for Today (1970)
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12. Licking Hitler
10 Jan '78During World War II, a young woman joins the propaganda department and makes radio broadcasts to Germany from a British country house.
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Play for Today (1970)
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13. Red Shift
17 Jan '78A stone axehead links three couples living at different times in the same place in Wales.
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Play for Today (1970)
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14. The Spongers
24 Jan '78The story of a single mother of four living on welfare
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Play for Today (1970)
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15. Destiny
31 Jan '78A story dealing with racial tensions and fascism during a by-election in a West Midlands town
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Play for Today (1970)
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16. Our Day Out
07 Feb '78
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Play for Today (1970)
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17. The After-Dinner Joke
14 Feb '78The story of a well-meaning charity worker
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Play for Today (1970)
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18. The Legion Hall Bombing
22 Aug '78The story of the trial of Willie Gallagher, convicted of bombing the Strabane British Legion Hall in 1976.
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