Episode List: Play for Today (1970-1984)

A British television anthology drama series that aired on BBC1 between 1970 and 1984.

Seasons: 10, Episodes: 18

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The Kiss of Death (1977) - Season 7, Episode 9

Trevor, a painfully shy undertaker's assistant, is introduced to the more extroverted Linda by his friends. They struggle to manage a relationship due to quite how much of a social misfit Trevor is.

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The Price of Coal: Part 1 - Meet the People (1977) - Season 7, Episode 14

The workers of Milton Colliery prepare for a royal visit by H.R.H. Prince Charles. (imdb)

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The Price of Coal: Part 2 - Back to Reality (1977) - Season 7, Episode 15

A month after the royal visit, the workers at Milton Colliery are brought crashing back down to earth by an underground explosion. (imdb)

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The Price of Coal: Part 1 - Meet the People - S07 E14

The workers of Milton Colliery prepare for a royal visit by H.R.H. Prince Charles. (imdb)

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Edna, the Inebriate Woman - S02 E02

Edna is a drunk, and a homeless one. The play follows her through the streets, the police station, the psychiatric ward and a hostel, which for a while looks like it may become somewhere she can stay.

Average Percentile: 72.03

Abigail's Party - S08 E03

A TV play based on the Hampstead Theatre production. Beverly has invited her new neighbours, Angela and Tony, over for drinks. She has also asked her divorced neighbour, Sue, because Sue's fifteen year-old daughter, Abigail, was holding a party in their house. Beverly's husband, Lawrence comes home late from work, just before the guests arrive. The gathering starts off in a stiff insensitive British middle class way with people who do not know each other, until Beverly and Lawrence start sniping (Will Gilbert, imdb)

Average Percentile: 70.83

Penda's Fen - S04 E16

Through a series of real and imagined encounters with angels, demons, and England's pagan past, a pastor's son begins to question his religion and politics, and comes to terms with his sexuality. (imdb)

Average Percentile: 67.03

Nuts in May - S06 E12

A bourgeois couple take a camping trip into the country, only to find their tent neighbors unsatisfactory and distinctly crass. Tensions flare between campers in this mild mannered comedy on class.

Average Percentile: 66.91