1970

S8.E1 ∙ Stronger Than the Sun

Mon, Oct 17, 1977

Kate works in the nuclear industry. She is concerned about the way things are being run. So she smuggles out some Plutonium to prove how easy it is. She tries to pass it on to protest groups, but nobody is interested as they have their own agendas.

7.3 /10

S8.E2 ∙ Come the Revolution

Mon, Oct 24, 1977

Mike and his commune have a performance of their musical theatre "Diver" at the local pub, and ITV's Beth Bailey is coming along to see it. But will Beth's visions for the play as an incitement to revolution please everyone?

6.1 /10

S8.E3 ∙ Abigail's Party

Mon, Oct 31, 1977

Arguably the most famous edition of Play For Today, and one of the most beloved, as Mike Leigh directs a comedy of manners. Middle-class suburbia gets to reveal its darker side over the course of an increasingly uncomfortable drinks party.

7.9 /10

S8.E4 ∙ Oy Vay Maria

Mon, Nov 07, 1977

Jewish boy loves Catholic girl - will love triumph over family objections?

7.7 /10

S8.E5 ∙ Nipper

Mon, Nov 14, 1977

Teenager Jimmy's life begins to unravel after the death of his father. With his mother promiscuous and his new stepfather and stepbrother difficult to get along with, he begins to fall into a cycle of petty crime and self harm.

8.1 /10

S8.E6 ∙ One Day at a Time

Mon, Nov 21, 1977

"People coming to their first AA meeting, prosperous people, sometimes, accustomed to the best. They look round the places where we meet, and you can see them thinking: what am I doing here? I owe my life to these rooms!"

7.8 /10

S8.E7 ∙ The Mayor's Charity

Mon, Nov 28, 1977

Olive Major is determined that her year of office as Mayor will be a happy and successful one. But her appointment of Ex-Warrant Officer Higham as Attendant and Mace-bearer causes the storm-clouds to gather over Medburgh Town Hall.

6.3 /10

S8.E8 ∙ Catchpenny Twist

Sun, Dec 04, 1977

Roy and Martyn want to write the next Irish winner for the Eurovision Song Contest. So who thinks they are working for British Army Intelligence? Why has someone sent them two bullets through the post?

0 /10

S8.E9 ∙ Charades

Mon, Dec 12, 1977

"We've just got to get it right. It'll be our little secret. When all the other servants have gone out, we'll play this little game to amuse ourselves. A sort of private charade."

6.1 /10

S8.E10 ∙ The Thin End of the Wedge

Mon, Dec 19, 1977

"Five days of darkness then. Unless you get it together we will have five days of darkness. And on the sixth day you will say, let there be light, and no doubt it'll be such an effort that on the seventh day you'll have to rest!"

0 /10

S8.E11 ∙ Scully's New Year's Eve

Mon, Jan 02, 1978

Bernadette Scully is determined to celebrate New Year's Eve with her family, even though none of them want to be there. As the party unfolds, it reveals a series of catastrophes and bitter resentments.

7.3 /10

S8.E12 ∙ Licking Hitler

Mon, Jan 09, 1978

1941 and Anna Seaton (Kate Nelligan) is hired as part of a radio propaganda project, creating disinformation about the Nazi war effort. But tensions between her and writer Archie MacLean (Bill Paterson) threaten to undermine the work.

7.5 /10

S8.E13 ∙ Red Shift

Mon, Jan 16, 1978

Three men at three different times in history come to Mow Cop Hill in search of sanctuary from their troubles: a Roman soldier, an English Civil War rebel and a 1970s teenager. Somehow they seem to be linked through an energy within the hill and an axe. Is history doomed to repeat itself or can loving another person free them?

6.6 /10

S8.E14 ∙ The Spongers

Mon, Jan 23, 1978

Set against the backdrop of the Silver Jubilee of Elizabeth II, the play depicts a single mother's struggles in this highly polemical and unremittingly bleak diatribe against government welfare cuts from the poor and disabled.

8.5 /10

S8.E15 ∙ Destiny

Mon, Jan 30, 1978

In a play mirroring real-life events, the fictional borough of Taddley is holding a by-election. Despite the concerns of the major parties, support for the far-right organisation "Nation First" is growing among the electorate.

8.1 /10

S8.E16 ∙ Our Day Out

Mon, Feb 06, 1978

When a teacher takes a group of troubled school children on a school trip to Conwy in Wales, the children understand life outside of Liverpool.

8 /10

S8.E17 ∙ The After Dinner Joke

Mon, Feb 13, 1978

A satire on charity and politics that plays deliberate games with naturalistic presentation. Paula Wilcox stars as a charity worker who travels the world via bluescreen.

5.5 /10