Play for Today - Season 14

First aired: 10/25/1983 16 episodes

Episodes

1. Stan's Last Game

Aired: 10/25/1983

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.

2. Young Shoulders

Aired: 2/14/1984

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

3. A Coming to Terms for Billy

Aired: 2/21/1984

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

4. Z for Zachariah

Aired: 2/28/1984

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

5. Moving on the Edge

Aired: 3/6/1984

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

6. Desert of Lies

Aired: 3/13/1984

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

7. Hard Feelings

Aired: 3/20/1984

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

8. Under the Hammer

Aired: 3/27/1984

Concerning the life of the artist Vincent Van Gogh

9. King

Aired: 4/3/1984

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.

10. Rainy Day Women

Aired: 4/10/1984

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

11. Dog Ends

Aired: 7/17/1984

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

12. The Groundling and the Kite

Aired: 7/24/1984

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?

13. The Cry

Aired: 7/31/1984

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

14. It Could Happen to Anybody

Aired: 8/14/1984

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.

15. Only Children

Aired: 8/21/1984

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

16. The Amazing Miss Stella Estelle

Aired: 8/28/1984

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.