Play for Today — Series 14

Oct 25, 1983 · 1h 15m

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.

Feb 14, 1984 · 1h 15m

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

Feb 21, 1984 · 1h 15m

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

Feb 28, 1984 · 1h 15m

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

Mar 6, 1984 · 1h 15m

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

Mar 13, 1984 · 1h 15m

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

Mar 20, 1984 · 1h 15m

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

Mar 27, 1984 · 1h 15m

Concerning the life of the artist Vincent Van Gogh

Apr 3, 1984 · 1h 15m

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.

Apr 10, 1984 · 1h 15m

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

Jul 17, 1984 · 1h 15m

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

Jul 24, 1984 · 1h 15m

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?

Jul 31, 1984 · 1h 15m

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

Aug 14, 1984 · 1h 15m

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.

Aug 21, 1984 · 1h 15m

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

Aug 28, 1984 · 1h 15m

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.

Nov 20, 1984 · 1h 30m

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

Nov 27, 1984 · 1h 15m

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

Dec 11, 1984 · 1h 15m

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

Jan 15, 1985 · 1h 15m

Feb 5, 1985 · 1h 15m

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.