Play for Today — Series 14

01 Stan's Last Game

Oct 25, 19831h 15m

James Grout and Bert Parnaby are rival chairmen of a northern football club in the run-up to an important cup match. As tempers fray, retiring president Charles Lamb provides a calming voice of sanity.

02 Young Shoulders

Feb 14, 19841h 15m

Cynical teenager Andrew Groves re-evaluates his attitude to life and his parents after his sister dies in a plane crash.

03 A Coming to Terms for Billy

Feb 21, 19841h 15m

When his father comes home to Belfast after more than 2 years in England, conflicts arise with Billy

04 Z for Zachariah

Feb 28, 19841h 15m

After a nuclear holocaust, only a man and a woman survive in a Welsh valley.

05 Moving on the Edge

Mar 6, 19841h 15m

A woman in a state of personal crisis finds it hard to communicate with her husband and family.

06 Desert of Lies

Mar 13, 19841h 15m

An expedition tracing the path of long-lost missionaries meets with tragedy in the Kalahari Desert.

07 Hard Feelings

Mar 20, 19841h 15m

A group of unemployed Oxford drop-outs living in a Brixton commune get their come-uppance by one of them.

08 Under the Hammer

Mar 27, 19841h 15m

Concerning the life of the artist Vincent Van Gogh

09 King

Apr 3, 19841h 15m

A man who has had a good life in England wants to retire to Jamaica, but the celebration with his daughters doesn't go as expected.

10 Rainy Day Women

Apr 10, 19841h 15m

In 1940, during World War II, an officer is sent to investigate rumors of German spies in a sleepy village where various people are the victims of war hysteria

11 Dog Ends

Jul 17, 19841h 15m★ 7.0

In a future society where euthansia is common, a man signs papers to have his father put down

12 The Groundling and the Kite

Jul 24, 19841h 15m

Peter is a songwriter, while his old friend Jimmy is an A and R (Artists and Repertoire) man. But when Jimmy tries to sell one of Peter's songs, Peter is furious. Can the friendship survive?

13 The Cry

Jul 31, 19841h 15m

In 1959 Ulster, a journalist witnesses the beating of a youth

14 It Could Happen to Anybody

Aug 14, 19841h 15m

A long-suffering Glasgow housewife puts up with years of her husband's violence and drunkenness - and then something happens which makes her snap and fight back.

15 Only Children

Aug 21, 19841h 15m

A young woman's comfortable life is turned upside down when she has a baby.

16 The Amazing Miss Stella Estelle

Aug 28, 19841h 15m

Miss Stella Estelle is a cabaret singer in working men's clubs, and she sings songs from the 1960s to support a large and difficult family. But how long can it go on? The backdrop is a family in decay: husband out of work, wife working and still doing the domestics, daughter the singer and hopeful star, son her "manager" but in reality going nowhere. Stella plays a crummy club circuit, singing songs for oldies for £50 a night - She's never going to be a star because of her parents' short-sighted greed.

17 The Long March

Nov 20, 19841h 30m

A woman returns to Belfast after ten years in England and becomes involved in the Maze prison protest.

18 Punters

Nov 27, 19841h 15m

What is the secret of Joey and Spansky's success at the races?

19 Talk To Me

Dec 11, 19841h 15m

Matthew and his wife are deeply suspicious of psychoanalysis. It's not their sort of thing at all.

20 Bird Fancier

Jan 15, 19851h 15m

21 Brigadista

Feb 5, 19851h 15m

When best-selling author James Fuller Hayes comes to Glasgow to publicise his personal account of the Spanish Civil War, a surprise reunion with two of his old comrades from the Int Brigade reveals contradictory & devastating information.