Play for Today - Season 14
Season 14
Network
Episodes16
DatesOct 25, 1983 - Aug 28, 1984
Episodes
Season 14Episode 175 min
Stan's Last Game
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.
Oct 25, 1983
Season 14Episode 275 min
Young Shoulders
Cynical teenager Andrew Groves re-evaluates his attitude to life and his parents after his sister dies in a plane crash.
Feb 14, 1984
Season 14Episode 375 min
A Coming to Terms for Billy
When his father comes home to Belfast after more than 2 years in England, conflicts arise with Billy
Feb 21, 1984
Season 14Episode 475 min
Z for Zachariah
After a nuclear holocaust, only a man and a woman survive in a Welsh valley.
Feb 28, 1984
Season 14Episode 575 min
Moving on the Edge
A woman in a state of personal crisis finds it hard to communicate with her husband and family.
Mar 6, 1984
Season 14Episode 675 min
Desert of Lies
An expedition tracing the path of long-lost missionaries meets with tragedy in the Kalahari Desert.
Mar 13, 1984
Season 14Episode 775 min
Hard Feelings
A group of unemployed Oxford drop-outs living in a Brixton commune get their come-uppance by one of them.
Mar 20, 1984
Season 14Episode 875 min
Under the Hammer
Concerning the life of the artist Vincent Van Gogh
Mar 27, 1984
Season 14Episode 975 min
King
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.
Apr 3, 1984
Season 14Episode 1075 min
Rainy Day Women
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
Apr 10, 1984
Season 14Episode 1175 min
Dog Ends
In a future society where euthansia is common, a man signs papers to have his father put down
Jul 17, 1984
Season 14Episode 1275 min
The Groundling and the Kite
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?
Jul 24, 1984
Season 14Episode 1375 min
The Cry
In 1959 Ulster, a journalist witnesses the beating of a youth
Jul 31, 1984
Season 14Episode 1475 min
It Could Happen to Anybody
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.
Aug 14, 1984
Season 14Episode 1575 min
Only Children
A young woman's comfortable life is turned upside down when she has a baby.
Aug 21, 1984
Season 14Episode 1675 min
The Amazing Miss Stella Estelle
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.
Aug 28, 1984
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