25 episodes

Play for Today - Series 6

First aired Oct 13, 1975Season 6

Browse all 25 episodes in this season, including available images, air dates, runtimes, ratings and episode summaries from TMDB.

Episodes

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Episode 1

Plaintiffs and Defendants

NR
Oct 14, 197575 min

A married barrister's life begins to unravel when it seems that his high-strung mistress may reveal all.

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Episode 2

Two Sundays

NR
Oct 21, 197575 min

An author tells an old school chum that he is about to publish a novel revealing their old relationship.

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Episode 3

Moss

NR
Oct 28, 197575 min

Moss is a miser whose only love is his grandson. Then tragedy strikes, and Moss is "reborn."

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Episode 4

84 Charing Cross Road

NR
Nov 4, 197575 min

An American woman corresponds with a London bookshop owner over a period of 20 years

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Episode 5

Keep an Eye on Albert

NR
Nov 11, 197575 min

Terry has begun to neglect his wife for a life of drinking, weight lifting, pigeon racing and other women. But when his best friend Albert returns from the navy and begins to pay Terry's wife some attention, what will be the outcome?

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Episode 6

Children of the Sun

NR
Nov 18, 197575 min

"You expect to face a bit of danger when you travel. Half the fun of it. But you keep cool and bluff your way out. After all, we're all British aren't we?"

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Episode 7

After the Solo

NR
Nov 25, 197575 min

A boy enjoys success in the choir until his voice breaks at puberty.

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Episode 8

Through the Night

NR
Dec 2, 197575 min

A woman goes into hospital to receive treatment for breast cancer.

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Episode 9

A Passage to England

NR
Dec 9, 197575 min

A group of Asians plans to sneak into England using a fishing boat

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Episode 10

Rumpole of the Bailey

NR
Dec 16, 197575 min

Rumpole defends a young West Indian boy accused of attempted murder.

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Episode 11

The Other Woman

NR
Jan 6, 197671 min

An aggressive lesbian disrupts the lives of those around her.

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Episode 12

Nuts in May

NR
Jan 13, 197675 min

Smug married couple Keith and Candice Marie “keen exponents of their belief in organic health food, exercise and the environment” are on a camping holiday, where they find that it is not always easy to be tolerant of others when they don't share the same enthusiasms.

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Episode 13

Doran's Box

NR
Jan 20, 197675 min

A long-distance lorry driver; a spaceman; a volunteer under reduced environmental conditions; a man in solitary confinement: the discomfort of these people is shared by Doran - when he can't put his finger on the panic button.

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Episode 14

Packman's Barn

NR
Jan 27, 197675 min

John Barrett returns to his remote hill farm after 20 years to deal with some unfinished business, and finds himself once again in conflict with the locals.

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Episode 15

A Story to Frighten the Children

NR
Feb 3, 197675 min

A woman encounters trouble when she arrives home late at night, but her neighbors on a nearby estate claim to have seen and heard nothing.

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Episode 16

The Happy Hunting Ground

NR
Feb 10, 197675 min

The fish quay is a happy hunting ground for an ambitious young rogue like Bob, who has an eye on the boss's business - and all that goes with it.

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Episode 17

The Jumping Bean Bag

NR
Feb 17, 197675 min

An end-of-term play with a difference as Ozzie and the boys break into a hard rock number. But even though they make the big time, success has its darker side.

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Episode 18

Clay, Smeddum and Greenden

NR
Feb 24, 197675 min

A play based on three short stories about the Scottish people and their relationship with the land: ""Clay"" concerns a farmer's obsession with his fields to the exclusion of his dying wife; ""Smeddum"" is about an indomitable woman and her large family; and ""Greenden"" tells the story of an unhappy woman from the city living with her indifferent husband in the country.

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Episode 19

Love Letters on Blue Paper

NR
Mar 2, 197675 min

Why has Sonia taken to writing letters to her husband, posted to him in the letter-box just outside their house - love letters, on blue paper, recalling with increasing vividness the early days of their courtship and marriage?

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Episode 20

Willie Rough

NR
Mar 9, 197675 min

A story depicting life in a shipyard

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Episode 21

Tiptoe through the Tulips

NR
Mar 16, 197675 min

A divorced woman is introduced to a separated man at an awkward dinner party.

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Episode 22

The Peddler

NR
Mar 23, 197675 min

One pill, and you're floating on air. A different one, and you're full of lead. Married, mortgaged, broke, a love-affair gone sour - which drug can help Alec?

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Episode 23

Early Struggles

NR
Mar 30, 197675 min

A story about a father's attempts at single parenthood

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Episode 24

Double Dare

NR
Apr 6, 197675 min

A playwright spends an afternoon in a hotel room with an actress who takes on the role of call girl for research purposes.

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Episode 25

The House of Bernarda Alba

NR
Jul 28, 197675 min

The eldest daughter of a domineering, overprotective mother becomes engaged to an unprincipled young man who has money.