Play for Today - Season 7

Play for Today - Season 7

Season 7

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Episodes19
Datessept. 14, 1976 - avr. 26, 1977
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Episodes

The Bar Mitzvah Boy
Season 7Episode 175 min

The Bar Mitzvah Boy

A story exploring the emotions of a boy undrgoing the traditional Jewish ceremony
sept. 14, 1976
Bet Your Life
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.
sept. 21, 1976
Rocky Marciano Is Dead
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?
sept. 28, 1976
The Elephants' Graveyard
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
Housewives' Choice
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
Your Man from Six Counties
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
Buffet
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
Love on a Gunboat
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.
janv. 4, 1977
The Kiss of Death
Season 7Episode 975 min

The Kiss of Death

A young man's chances at romance are thwarted by his own shyness.
janv. 11, 1977
Our Flesh and Blood
Season 7Episode 1075 min

Our Flesh and Blood

How Mums and Dads feel when they have one.
janv. 18, 1977
Do as I Say
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.
janv. 25, 1977
Spend, Spend, Spend
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
mars 15, 1977
A Photograph
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.
mars 22, 1977
The Price of Coal (1)
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.
mars 29, 1977
The Price of Coal (2)
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.
avr. 5, 1977
Gotcha
Season 7Episode 1675 min

Gotcha

A student holds his teacher hostage in the classroom on the last day of school.
avr. 12, 1977
Campion's Interview
Season 7Episode 1775 min

Campion's Interview

A story about school.
avr. 12, 1977
A Choice of Evils
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
avr. 19, 1977
The Country Party
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.
avr. 26, 1977

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