Play for Today - Season 10

First aired: 10/11/1979 28 episodes

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Episodes

1. Long Distance Information

Aired: 10/11/1979

A fanatical Elvis Presley fan is working as a disc jockey when his idol dies

2. Cries from a Watchtower

Aired: 10/18/1979

A watchmaker finds his livelihood is threatened by cheaply imported digital watches.

3. Comedians

Aired: 10/25/1979

Budding comedians take an evening class taught by a retired performer and, for their final exam, must perform for an impresario in a nightclub.

4. Even Solomon

Aired: 11/1/1979

Stephen Piper is a quiet young man. A virgin, he shows no interest in sex, and is cruelly scorned by an aggressive female neighbour when he rebuffs her advances. He lives with his mother, an overbearing woman who mocks him for being wet. But Stephen has a secret. An accurate and heartfelt depiction of the challenges he faces and a fascinating glimpse at the gender politics of the day.

5. Just a Boy's Game

Aired: 11/8/1979

In Glasgow, a young man's sole aim is to be as tough as his dying grandfather once was

6. Billy

Aired: 11/15/1979

A 4-year-old boy is abused by his father

7. A Hole in Babylon

Aired: 11/29/1979

Exploration of the events leading up to 1975 Spaghetti House siege in London and the motivation of its three protagonists, T-Bone Wilson, Archie Pool, and Trevor Thomas.

8. The Slab-Boys

Aired: 12/6/1979

The story of a young man who works in a carpet factory

9. Katie: The Year of a Child

Aired: 12/13/1979

A teenage girl from a family of Irish Travellers is left to look after her brothers and sisters while her father is away.

10. The Network

Aired: 12/20/1979

What do Rose from Devon and Christina from Stuttgart have in common? And in what way is their fate linked to that of wealthy Fiona Dunkerley?

11. Chance of a Lifetime

Aired: 1/3/1980

A young man quits school and joins the army.

12. Keep Smiling

Aired: 1/10/1980

Family picnics should not be like this: bugging devices, men with X-ray eyes. Mary doesn't understand what terrifies Simon, nor the bizarre events of the next six months.

13. Dreams of Leaving

Aired: 1/17/1980

A journalist moves to London and gets caught up in the big city and his romance with a rich debutante.

14. Thicker Than Water

Aired: 1/24/1980

Various characters have adventures on the way to a black pudding festival in Normandy.

15. Murder Rap

Aired: 1/31/1980

An Englishman's home is his castle, and Wally aims to prove it.

16. Instant Enlightenment Including VAT

Aired: 2/7/1980

Weekend enlightenment seminars serve as a form of brainwashing.

17. No Defence

Aired: 2/14/1980

Mr. Germanou arrives from Cyprus with his family to settle in England. But on his arrival he's arrested for an historical rape with seemingly no defence.

18. That Crazy Woman

Aired: 2/21/1980

Twenty years ago, at the age of 56, this extraordinary woman became a national hero by walking from John O'Groats to Land's End. One of the last great English eccentrics (even though she was Russian) in the last days of English innocence.

19. A Gift from Nessus

Aired: 2/28/1980

The marital and career problems of a middle-aged, middle-class man in Glasgow in the 1960s

20. Kate, the Good Neighbour

Aired: 3/6/1980

A compassionate elderly woman comes to the realization that she can no longer care for herself or others.

21. Buses

Aired: 3/13/1980

A story about the regulation of the bus industry in 1930

22. Shadows on Our Skin

Aired: 3/20/1980

The problems of an 11-year-old boy living in the Catholic part of Londonderry

23. Ladies

Aired: 3/27/1980

The A Shift at the MHS department store are organising a wedding gift presentation for Elaine. But what's on Miriam's mind, and why does she seem so out of sorts?

24. The Vanishing Army

Aired: 4/3/1980

A story about the highs and lows of peacetime army life

25. Not for the Likes of Us

Aired: 4/10/1980

"I dunno, years of putting up with it, waiting on you all, for what? Eh? To become a 14-stone invisible woman?"

26. The Executioner

Aired: 4/17/1980

Jan and Meg Citron are on holiday in Germany. Their car is stopped by the police. A simple traffic offence? But their seemingly innocent past is ripped open and life will never be the same again.

27. The Imitation Game

Aired: 4/24/1980

During World War II, an idealistic young woman joins the Army Transport Service

28. A Walk in the Forest

Aired: 5/14/1980

A writer gets involved with a Soviet dissident