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Play for Today Season 10

October. 11,1979

7.8

| Drama

Play for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC1 from 1970 to 1984. During the run, more than three hundred programmes, featuring original television plays, and adaptations of stage plays and novels, were transmitted. The individual episodes were between fifty and a hundred minutes in duration.

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Play for Today Season 10 Full Episode Guide

Episode 28 - A Walk in the Forest

First Aired: May. 14,1980

A writer gets involved with a Soviet dissident

Episode 27 - The Imitation Game

First Aired: April. 24,1980

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

Episode 26 - The Executioner

First Aired: April. 17,1980

Episode 25 - Not for the Likes of Us

First Aired: April. 10,1980

Episode 24 - The Vanishing Army

First Aired: April. 03,1980

A story about the highs and lows of peacetime army life

Episode 23 - Ladies

First Aired: March. 27,1980

Episode 22 - Shadows on Our Skin

First Aired: March. 20,1980

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

Episode 21 - Buses

First Aired: March. 13,1980

A story about the regulation of the bus industry in 1930

Episode 20 - Kate, the Good Neighbour

First Aired: March. 06,1980

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

Episode 19 - A Gift from Nessus

First Aired: February. 28,1980

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

Episode 18 - That Crazy Woman

First Aired: February. 21,1980

Episode 17 - No Defence

First Aired: February. 14,1980

Episode 16 - Instant Enlightenment Including VAT

First Aired: February. 07,1980

Weekend enlightenment seminars serve as a form of brainwashing.

Episode 15 - Murder Rap

First Aired: January. 31,1980

Episode 14 - Thicker Than Water

First Aired: January. 24,1980

Episode 13 - Dreams of Leaving

First Aired: January. 17,1980

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

Episode 12 - Keep Smiling

First Aired: January. 10,1980

Episode 11 - Chance of a Lifetime

First Aired: January. 03,1980

A young man quits school and joins the army.

Episode 10 - The Network

First Aired: December. 20,1979

Episode 9 - Katie

First Aired: December. 13,1979

Episode 8 - The Slab-Boys

First Aired: December. 06,1979

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

Episode 7 - A Hole in Babylon

First Aired: November. 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.

Episode 6 - Billy

First Aired: November. 15,1979

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

Episode 5 - Just a Boy's Game

First Aired: November. 08,1979

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

Episode 4 - Even Solomon

First Aired: November. 01,1979

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.