Play for Today - Season 14

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Stan's Last Game

1 - Stan's Last Game

Air Date: October 25, 1983

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.

Young Shoulders

2 - Young Shoulders

Air Date: February 14, 1984

Cynical teenager Andrew Groves re-evaluates his attitude to life and his parents after his sister dies in a plane crash.

A Coming to Terms for Billy

3 - A Coming to Terms for Billy

Air Date: February 21, 1984

When his father comes home to Belfast after more than 2 years in England, conflicts arise with Billy

Z for Zachariah

4 - Z for Zachariah

Air Date: February 28, 1984

After a nuclear holocaust, only a man and a woman survive in a Welsh valley.

Moving on the Edge

5 - Moving on the Edge

Air Date: March 6, 1984

A woman in a state of personal crisis finds it hard to communicate with her husband and family.

Desert of Lies

6 - Desert of Lies

Air Date: March 13, 1984

An expedition tracing the path of long-lost missionaries meets with tragedy in the Kalahari Desert.

Hard Feelings

7 - Hard Feelings

Air Date: March 20, 1984

A group of unemployed Oxford drop-outs living in a Brixton commune get their come-uppance by one of them.

Under the Hammer

8 - Under the Hammer

Air Date: March 27, 1984

Concerning the life of the artist Vincent Van Gogh

King

9 - King

Air Date: April 3, 1984

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.

Rainy Day Women

10 - Rainy Day Women

Air Date: April 10, 1984

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

Dog Ends

11 - Dog Ends

Air Date: July 17, 1984

In a future society where euthansia is common, a man signs papers to have his father put down

The Groundling and the Kite

12 - The Groundling and the Kite

Air Date: July 24, 1984

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?

The Cry

13 - The Cry

Air Date: July 31, 1984

In 1959 Ulster, a journalist witnesses the beating of a youth

It Could Happen to Anybody

14 - It Could Happen to Anybody

Air Date: August 14, 1984

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.

Only Children

15 - Only Children

Air Date: August 21, 1984

A young woman's comfortable life is turned upside down when she has a baby.

The Amazing Miss Stella Estelle

16 - The Amazing Miss Stella Estelle

Air Date: August 28, 1984

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.

The Long March

17 - The Long March

Air Date: November 20, 1984

A woman returns to Belfast after ten years in England and becomes involved in the Maze prison protest.

Punters

18 - Punters

Air Date: November 27, 1984

What is the secret of Joey and Spansky's success at the races?

Talk To Me

19 - Talk To Me

Air Date: December 11, 1984

Matthew and his wife are deeply suspicious of psychoanalysis. It's not their sort of thing at all.

Bird Fancier

20 - Bird Fancier

Air Date: January 15, 1985

Brigadista

21 - Brigadista

Air Date: February 5, 1985

When best-selling author James Fuller Hayes comes to Glasgow to publicise his personal account of the Spanish Civil War, a surprise reunion with two of his old comrades from the Int Brigade reveals contradictory & devastating information.