Play for Today - Season 7
Season 7
Network
Episodes19
DatesSep 14, 1976 - Apr 26, 1977
Episodes
Season 7Episode 175 min
The Bar Mitzvah Boy
A story exploring the emotions of a boy undrgoing the traditional Jewish ceremony
Sep 14, 1976
Season 7Episode 275 min
Bet Your Life
Like alcoholism, gambling is a disease. Ches, a compulsive gambler, is sent for medical help. A wonder drug perhaps? Or hypnosis maybe? Ches finds that his psychiatrist has other ideas.
Sep 21, 1976
Season 7Episode 375 min
Rocky Marciano Is Dead
Harry Marcus is a former welterweight champion mourning the loss of the past and dreaming of a return to the glory years of boxing. When a squatter moves in next door, does he have what it takes to fulfil Harry's dreams?
Sep 28, 1976
Season 7Episode 475 min
The Elephants' Graveyard
Bunny’s wife thinks he is a postman, but in reality he spends his days in the Scottish hills. One day he meets Jody, a fellow walker.
Oct 12, 1976
Season 7Episode 575 min
Housewives' Choice
When Joyce appears on the door-step she looks like the perfect 'kindly, respectable lady whom Marcia needs to look after her baby. But Joyce only seems to be the average housewife.
Oct 19, 1976
Season 7Episode 675 min
Your Man from Six Counties
A young man from Belfast is sent south to stay with relatives in an attempt to keep him out of trouble.
Oct 26, 1976
Season 7Episode 775 min
Buffet
Freddie is going through an existential crisis as everyone around him seems to doubt their own identity and the entire purpose of conversation. Surrounded by inflation and extra marital affairs, his only solace is in buffet room drinking.
Nov 2, 1976
Season 7Episode 875 min
Love on a Gunboat
In 1956 Britain staggers through crises in Suez and Cyprus while Leslie Potter pursues and marries Monica Dobbs. Twenty years later the nation has still not recovered. Neither has Leslie.
Jan 4, 1977
Season 7Episode 975 min
The Kiss of Death
A young man's chances at romance are thwarted by his own shyness.
Jan 11, 1977
Season 7Episode 1075 min
Our Flesh and Blood
How Mums and Dads feel when they have one.
Jan 18, 1977
Season 7Episode 1175 min
Do as I Say
A quietly unhappy housewife finds a stranger in her house and is raped at knife-point by him. But when she turns to friends, neighbors and her parents-in-law for sympathy, they all seem preoccupied by other matters.
Jan 25, 1977
Season 7Episode 1275 min
Spend, Spend, Spend
The rags-to-riches-to-rags story of a 1960s football pools winner, based on a true story
Mar 15, 1977
Season 7Episode 1375 min
A Photograph
A couple receives a photograph in the mail of two girls sitting in front of a caravan and neither can identify the people or the place.
Mar 22, 1977
Season 7Episode 1475 min
The Price of Coal (1)
A pair of plays, broadcast over two weeks, about mining life: ""Meet the People,"" about a coal mining community preparing for a royal visit, and ""Back to Reality,"" about a coal mining disaster that brings tragedy to a community.
Mar 29, 1977
Season 7Episode 1575 min
The Price of Coal (2)
A pair of plays, broadcast over two weeks, about mining life: ""Meet the People,"" about a coal mining community preparing for a royal visit, and ""Back to Reality,"" about a coal mining disaster that brings tragedy to a community.
Apr 5, 1977
Season 7Episode 1675 min
Gotcha
A student holds his teacher hostage in the classroom on the last day of school.
Apr 12, 1977
Season 7Episode 1775 min
Campion's Interview
A story about school.
Apr 12, 1977
Season 7Episode 1875 min
A Choice of Evils
The story of Father Borelli who in Rome during World War II must choose between freedom and his principles
Apr 19, 1977
Season 7Episode 1975 min
The Country Party
Richard Elkinson, the former stockbroker, is now running a country restaurant. His daughter decides to spring a surprise on him in an attempt to change his life for the better.
Apr 26, 1977
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