Play for Today - Season 8

Play for Today - Season 8

Season 8

Network
Episodes17
DatesOct 18, 1977 - Aug 22, 1978
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Episodes

Stronger Than the Sun
Season 8Episode 175 min

Stronger Than the Sun

A worker discovers a radioactive leak at the nuclear power plant where she works and tries to make it public knowledge.
Oct 18, 1977
Come the Revolution
Season 8Episode 275 min

Come the Revolution

Mike and his commune have a performance of their musical theatre "Diver" at the local pub, and ITV's Beth Bailey is coming along to see it. But will Beth's visions for the play as an incitement to revolution please everyone?
Oct 25, 1977
Abigail's Party
Season 8Episode 375 min

Abigail's Party

Comedy of manners focusing on the bourgeois affectation and sexual frustration of a young married couple. Abigail's mother Sue is invited to take refuge from her teenage daughter's party with a neighbouring couple, Beverly and Laurence. They have also invited Angela and Tony, new arrivals in the street. Beverly plies her guests with alcohol as Sue becomes increasingly withdrawn and embarrassed by the pretentious goings-on. Slowly, marital tensions emerge and the evening is breaking up in disarray.
Nov 1, 1977
Oy Vay Maria
Season 8Episode 475 min

Oy Vay Maria

The story of the romance between a Jewish boy and an Irish Catholic girl
Nov 8, 1977
Nipper
Season 8Episode 575 min

Nipper

Teenager Jimmy's life begins to unravel after the death of his father. With his mother promiscuous and his new stepfather and stepbrother difficult to get along with, he begins to fall into a cycle of petty crime and self harm.
Nov 15, 1977
One Day at a Time
Season 8Episode 675 min

One Day at a Time

"People coming to their first AA meeting, prosperous people, sometimes, accustomed to the best. They look round the places where we meet, and you can see them thinking: what am I doing here? I owe my life to these rooms!"
Nov 22, 1977
The Mayor's Charity
Season 8Episode 775 min

The Mayor's Charity

Olive Major is determined that her year of office as Mayor will be a happy and successful one. But her appointment of Ex-Warrant Officer Higham as Attendant and Mace-bearer causes the storm-clouds to gather over Medburgh Town Hall.
Nov 29, 1977
Catchpenny Twist
Season 8Episode 875 min

Catchpenny Twist

Three schoolteachers in Belfast give up teaching to become singers/songwriters.
Dec 6, 1977
Charades
Season 8Episode 975 min

Charades

"We've just got to get it right. It'll be our little secret. When all the other servants have gone out, we'll play this little game to amuse ourselves. A sort of private charade."
Dec 13, 1977
The Thin End of the Wedge
Season 8Episode 1075 min

The Thin End of the Wedge

"Five days of darkness then. Unless you get it together we will have five days of darkness. And on the sixth day you will say, let there be light, and no doubt it'll be such an effort that on the seventh day you'll have to rest!"
Dec 20, 1977
Scully's New Year's Eve
Season 8Episode 1175 min

Scully's New Year's Eve

A Liverpool teenager has a hectic night out on New Year's Eve.
Jan 3, 1978
Licking Hitler
Season 8Episode 1275 min

Licking Hitler

During World War II, a young woman joins the propaganda department and makes radio broadcasts to Germany from a British country house.
Jan 10, 1978
Red Shift
Season 8Episode 1375 min

Red Shift

A stone axehead links three couples living at different times in the same place in Wales.
Jan 17, 1978
The Spongers
Season 8Episode 1475 min

The Spongers

The story of a single mother of four living on welfare
Jan 24, 1978
Destiny
Season 8Episode 1575 min

Destiny

A story dealing with racial tensions and fascism during a by-election in a West Midlands town
Jan 31, 1978
The After Dinner Joke
Season 8Episode 1675 min

The After Dinner Joke

Feb 14, 1978
The Legion Hall Bombing
Season 8Episode 1775 min

The Legion Hall Bombing

Aug 22, 1978

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