Play for Today - Season 11

Play for Today - Season 11

Season 11

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Episodes27
DatesOct 21, 1980 - May 12, 1981
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Episodes

Pasmore
Season 11Episode 175 min

Pasmore

Colin Pasmore tests his strength against his family ties but finds them stronger than he ever imagined.
Oct 21, 1980
C2H5OH
Season 11Episode 275 min

C2H5OH

"In heaven there is no drama - drama depends on failure and conflict. My trade is a scrutiny of hell. For any proud dramatist his style is his prejudice."
Oct 28, 1980
The Adventures of Frank: Everybody's Fiddling Something
Season 11Episode 375 min

The Adventures of Frank: Everybody's Fiddling Something

Writer-director John McGrath deliberately shies away from naturalism in an experiment that mixes blue screen, songs, and characters realising they're acting within a play. This first of two parts sees Frank travel to a hostile London.
Nov 4, 1980
The Adventures of Frank: Seeds of Ice
Season 11Episode 475 min

The Adventures of Frank: Seeds of Ice

Nov 11, 1980
Minor Complications
Season 11Episode 575 min

Minor Complications

Kay Gilbert goes into hospital for a minor operation which goes badly wrong. This play tells the story of her fight for compensation.
Nov 18, 1980
Number on End
Season 11Episode 675 min

Number on End

What could Steve Jackson's documentary film expose that must be concealed from the African leaders meeting in Brussels? Steve Jackson is on the run and the wrong decision could prove fatal.
Nov 25, 1980
Jude
Season 11Episode 775 min

Jude

Twelve-year-old Jude has never met Dick, his father. One Sunday afternoon Dick impulsively engineers a meeting, which has distressing consequences.
Dec 2, 1980
The Flipside of Dominick Hyde
Season 11Episode 875 min

The Flipside of Dominick Hyde

Dominick Hide, a time traveller from London in the year 2130, is studying the city's transport system of 1980. Breaking the rules, he lands his craft to seek out his great-grandfather. Compared to his anaesthetised home, 80s London is filthy and polluted...and yet...it exudes an excitement that soon draws him in.
Dec 9, 1980
Name for the Day
Season 11Episode 975 min

Name for the Day

Clive admits himself to a psychiatric hospital after undergoing a breakdown. His wife wants him back home, but in order for Clive to be released, he has to want to be cured.
Dec 16, 1980
Jessie
Season 11Episode 1075 min

Jessie

In Victorian times, a nanny cares for a mute boy, who becomes overly attached to her.
Dec 23, 1980
Beyond the Pale
Season 11Episode 1175 min

Beyond the Pale

A vacation at a seaside hotel in Ireland changes the lives of four friends.
Jan 6, 1981
The Muscle Market
Season 11Episode 1275 min

The Muscle Market

The problems of an owner of a building contractor company in Liverpool
Jan 13, 1981
A Brush with Mr. Porter on the Road to El Dorado
Season 11Episode 1375 min

A Brush with Mr. Porter on the Road to El Dorado

"They're nice affable gobblers and we're in the nice affable gobbling business." Tom and Gwen soon find that their gastronomical retreat from the rat race is anything but an escape when the Porters come to dine.
Jan 20, 1981
Dear Brutus
Season 11Episode 1475 min

Dear Brutus

"They say that in the wood you get what nearly everybody here is longing for - a second chance." J. M. Barrie's fantasy play, depicting alternative realities for its characters and their eventual return to real life.
Jan 27, 1981
The Cause
Season 11Episode 1575 min

The Cause

A confused industrial dispute at a London hospital triggers off in trade unionist George Harley's mind memories of his days fighting in the Spanish Civil War, when the issues seemed so much clearer.
Feb 3, 1981
Beloved Enemy
Season 11Episode 1675 min

Beloved Enemy

The head of a multinational corporation wants to do business with the Soviets
Feb 10, 1981
The Kamikaze Ground Staff Reunion Dinner
Season 11Episode 1775 min

The Kamikaze Ground Staff Reunion Dinner

A group of men hold a reunion dinner in Tokyo
Feb 17, 1981
The Union
Season 11Episode 1875 min

The Union

You know the nuts and bolts of our policy? To penetrate the unions. To use all sorts of stratagems, manoeuvres, illegal measures, evasions, subterfuges, to carry on Communist activities inside them at all cost.
Feb 24, 1981
Sorry
Season 11Episode 1975 min

Sorry

Two very different women share an office, a common enemy, and a sense of humour.
Mar 3, 1981
The Garland
Season 11Episode 2075 min

The Garland

When her 17-year-old son Roy falls in love with a Muslim girl, and a Bangladeshi butcher seeks help from her husband Raji, Leela realizes that the tears and romance of Indian cinema are closer to her own life than she has ever imagined.
Mar 10, 1981
The Sin Bin
Season 11Episode 2175 min

The Sin Bin

Six lifers living in an experimental self-rehabilitation unit attached to an ordinary prison participate in a group therapy session. All of them have spent many years in prison and have little chance of ever getting out.
Mar 17, 1981
Before Water Lillies
Season 11Episode 2275 min

Before Water Lillies

An evening with the Parent-Teacher Association gets out of hand.
Mar 24, 1981
Bavarian Night
Season 11Episode 2375 min

Bavarian Night

When the dynamic young head-master of St Peter's Primary School decides to liven up a parents' fund-raising social by hiring a Bavarian band, he little suspects the hidden passions that are about to be unleashed.
Mar 31, 1981
The Good Time Girls
Season 11Episode 2475 min

The Good Time Girls

Nancy and Ella are two bored housewives starved of affection when their husbands are away on the oil rigs. The rules are simple: have some fun, just make sure nobody finds out, and you don't get emotionally involved.
Apr 7, 1981
Baby Talk
Season 11Episode 2575 min

Baby Talk

It's such a simple, natural thing to have a baby, thinks Mary. But she and husband Paul are preoccupied with their careers. Can their young neighbour Tessa help - or are the emotions around a new baby more complex than anyone had expected?
Apr 14, 1981
A Turn for the Worse
Season 11Episode 2675 min

A Turn for the Worse

Soldiers are subjected to a brutal and sadistic kind of psychological training exercise
Apr 28, 1981
Psy-Warriors
Season 11Episode 2775 min

Psy-Warriors

Soldiers are captured and interrogated by terrorists: but is it real or only a sadistic form of psychological training exercise?
May 12, 1981

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