Play for Today - Season 1
1 - The Long Distance Piano Player
Air Date: October 15, 1970
A man tries to break the world's record for nonstop piano playing
2 - The Right Prospectus
Air Date: October 22, 1970
A couple look for the proper school, not for their children but for themselves.
3 - The Lie
Air Date: October 29, 1970
""The Lie"" refers to the 8-year marriage of a couple who are constantly hurting each other.
4 - Angels Are So Few
Air Date: November 5, 1970
A man claiming to be an angel enters the household of a bored housewife and teaches the family a few lessons.
5 - The Write-Off
Air Date: November 12, 1970
A man is made redundant but can't bring himself to let anyone know, plunging into a web of deceit as he keeps up the charade he is still in work.
6 - I Can't See My Little Willie
Air Date: November 19, 1970
A man has a mid-life crisis in his brother's pub where sees life as a game show
7 - A Distant Thunder
Air Date: November 26, 1970
A newly-appointed knight finds his celebrations cut short by someone who was witness to his treachery during the war.
8 - Hearts and Flowers
Air Date: December 3, 1970
A TV host and his architect brother attend their father's funeral
9 - Robin Redbreast
Air Date: December 10, 1970
A woman living in a country cottage thinks that someone is trying to get her.
10 - The Hallelujah Handshake
Air Date: December 17, 1970
A petty thief and social misfit finagles his way into a church congregation
11 - Alma Mater
Air Date: January 7, 1971
A civil servant working abroad revisits his old school
12 - Circle Line
Air Date: January 14, 1971
A cynical student has a radically different view of life from his landlady, leading to conflict. Matters come to a head when he sleeps with her fourteen-year-old brother.
13 - Hell's Angel
Air Date: January 21, 1971
A couple are distressed by the changes in their adopted teenage son when he joins a biker gang.
14 - The Piano
Air Date: January 28, 1971
An old couple refuse to move when they find out that they can't take their piano with them
15 - Billy's Last Stand
Air Date: February 4, 1971
Billy, a self-employed coal-shoveller, gains a seedy business partner and competition in the form of a rival coal-shoveller.
16 - The Rainbirds
Air Date: February 11, 1971
A man who attempted suicide by jumping out a window is saved only to live in a coma, in which he has fantasies about his relatives and nightmare creatures.
17 - Reddick
Air Date: February 18, 1971
Charges that the Rev 'Red' Reddick is exploiting his youth club members leads to an explosive confrontation.
18 - The Foxtrot
Air Date: April 29, 1971
An odd menage a trois results when a woman and her lover are visited by her long-lost husband
19 - When the Bough Breaks
Air Date: May 6, 1971
When an injured baby arrives at the hospital, a social worker looks for the parents
20 - Orkney
Air Date: May 13, 1971
A trilogy of plays--A Time to Keep, The Whaler's Return, and Celia--exploring the life of the islanders in the past and present
21 - The Rank and File
Air Date: May 20, 1971
The story of the Pilkington glass workers strike of 1970
22 - The Man in the Sidecar
Air Date: May 27, 1971
A succesful novelist Edith lives with her husband and his friend, but she decides to ask the friend to leave.
23 - Everybody Say Cheese
Air Date: June 3, 1971
The story of a disintegrating marriage told through family photos
24 - The Cellar and the Almond Tree
Air Date: June 10, 1971