Play for Today - Season 13

Play for Today - Season 13

Season 13

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Episodes18
DatesOct 19, 1982 - Aug 24, 1983
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Episodes

Soft Targets
Season 13Episode 175 min

Soft Targets

A story about a homesick Russian journalist in London at the end of the cold war
Oct 19, 1982
Three Minute Heroes
Season 13Episode 275 min

Three Minute Heroes

Out on the streets, young people looking for fun. They come together at nights to listen to their music. For as long as the song lasts, they're heroes. Three minute heroes.
Oct 26, 1982
The Remainder Man
Season 13Episode 375 min

The Remainder Man

Jack's obsession with the possibility of nuclear war sees him usher his family down into his home made fall out shelter after a nuclear strike hits the country. Will their time in confinement draw them together or push them apart?
Nov 2, 1982
Intensive Care
Season 13Episode 475 min

Intensive Care

A man holds a lonely vigil at the bedside of his dying father.
Nov 9, 1982
A Mother Like Him
Season 13Episode 575 min

A Mother Like Him

A family of five orphaned children are going to be split up into different homes. What will happen if the eldest is officially made their foster parent?
Nov 16, 1982
John David
Season 13Episode 675 min

John David

After giving birth to a Down's Syndrome baby, Judith decides she doesn't want to keep him. Obliged to register the birth she arbitrarily chooses John David as the name. A few months later she learns the baby has died.
Nov 23, 1982
Aliens
Season 13Episode 775 min

Aliens

In June 1940 Italy entered the war. With Britain threatened by a German invasion thousands of Italians were seized and thrown into security camps, with other friendly aliens - and Nazis.
Nov 30, 1982
Another Flip for Dominick
Season 13Episode 875 min

Another Flip for Dominick

Two years after his journey to the past, Dominick Hide has been promoted to instructor and is no longer a time traveller. Then one of his pupils, Pyrus Bonnington, goes missing during a visit to 1982 London. Hide must track him down and prevent Pyrus damaging the past, but will the temptation to re-visit his own history be too strong to resist?
Dec 14, 1982
Last Love
Season 13Episode 975 min

Last Love

Annabel, an upper-middle-class widow, falls in love with Jack, a self-made man of humble origins. Her grown-up children do not approve.
Mar 1, 1983
Gates of Gold
Season 13Episode 1075 min

Gates of Gold

In 1959 County Antrim, two traveling evangelists help a mentally retarded teenager
Mar 8, 1983
Wayne and Albert
Season 13Episode 1175 min

Wayne and Albert

Wayne goes to live with his grandfather Albert. Initial generation gap hostilities between them are eventually overcome as a mutual respect develops through a their shared love of carpentry and snooker.
Mar 15, 1983
Atlantis
Season 13Episode 1275 min

Atlantis

Goff and Lytton have a dream - a canal boat of their own on which to cruise the inland waterways: The reality is the boatyard of Josh Adkins and a rusting hulk called Atlantis.
Mar 22, 1983
The Last Term
Season 13Episode 1375 min

The Last Term

Devon 1940. The boys of the local public school are alerted after a German parachute drop and as members of the Local Defence Volunteers they prepare to put their youthful enthusiasm for war into practice.
Apr 5, 1983
Reluctant Chickens
Season 13Episode 1475 min

Reluctant Chickens

Malcolm is a GP wrestling with ideas of retirement, while his wife Jo is a frustrated, would-be novelist. Together they dream of a more contented life, but are hampered by the arrested development of their children who won't leave home.
Apr 12, 1983
Shall I Be Mother?
Season 13Episode 1575 min

Shall I Be Mother?

Susan and Jenny are aged 13 and 14 and in care. Jenny's mother has died, Susan hasn't seen hers for years Both influence the close, stormy relationship that develops between the two girls.
Apr 19, 1983
The Falklands Factor
Season 13Episode 1675 min

The Falklands Factor

The 18th century writer Samuel Johnson writes a political pamphlet protesting the British going to war with Spain after the 1790 invasion of the Falkland Islands.
Apr 26, 1983
A Matter of Choice for Billy
Season 13Episode 1775 min

A Matter of Choice for Billy

When his father leaves Belfast to seek work in England, a young man looks after his sister
May 10, 1983
Floating Off
Season 13Episode 1875 min

Floating Off

A businessman tries to keep his son from finding out about an unconventional deal he and his secretary are making with a merchant bank.
Aug 24, 1983

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