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Play for Today

Season 12 1981 - 1982

  • 1981-10-20T11:00:00Z on BBC One
  • 1h 15m
  • 1d 3h 30m (22 episodes)
  • United Kingdom
  • English
  • Drama
Single drama's potential to engage mass audiences with social comment and artistic experimentation.

22 episodes

Season Premiere

1981-10-20T11:00:00Z

12x01 Country

Season Premiere

12x01 Country

  • 1981-10-20T11:00:00Z1h 15m

A family gathering, a christening and a dance. But it's 1945 and there are plans to be made, family wealth to protect and peace to be won.

1981-10-27T12:00:00Z

12x02 London Is Drowning

12x02 London Is Drowning

  • 1981-10-27T12:00:00Z1h 15m

'Many areas of London might be under water for days. For example, the Isle of Dogs could be under eight feet of water for six days. River engineers believe that it is not a matter of if there is a flood, but when the flood comes.' (GLC)

1981-11-03T12:00:00Z

12x03 A Room for the Winter

12x03 A Room for the Winter

  • 1981-11-03T12:00:00Z1h 15m

James, an expatriate South African anti-apartheid fighter, deals with his nightmares and his complaining landlady in a run-down area of London, while dreaming of his lover Stephen, left behind.

1981-11-17T12:00:00Z

12x04 No Visible Scar

12x04 No Visible Scar

  • 1981-11-17T12:00:00Z1h 15m

A wounded member of a rebel terrorist organisation is tended by an English nurse ... She is imprisoned, interrogated, then released to face another form of interrogation.

In Belfast, Ruby has a cold and is caught in the rain while Iris is looking for work and gets caught in traffic

1981-12-01T12:00:00Z

12x06 Protest

12x06 Protest

  • 1981-12-01T12:00:00Z1h 15m

Vaclav Havel, a leading Czechoslovakian playwright, at this time imprisoned for his beliefs, wrote "Protest" as a dramatic expression of the ambiguities of being a writer working in an oppressive regime.

1981-12-08T12:00:00Z

12x07 United Kingdom

12x07 United Kingdom

  • 1981-12-08T12:00:00Z1h 15m

Two men on a local council fight the system when forced with massive spending cuts.

1981-12-15T12:00:00Z

12x08 PQ17

12x08 PQ17

  • 1981-12-15T12:00:00Z1h 15m

During World War II, a British officer is ordered to abandon a Russian convoy.

1981-12-22T12:00:00Z

12x09 The Factory

12x09 The Factory

  • 1981-12-22T12:00:00Z1h 15m

A manager, a foreman, and two workers are all that remains of a factory yet labor relations stay the same

12x10 England's Green and Pleasant Land

  • 1982-01-05T12:00:00Z1h 15m

Local Government Elections 1982
A motorway extension is to be built - the route will be through either the local golf course or the allotments.
Which will go, the golfer's beloved greens or the allotment holders' precious land?
' Watergate ' comes to South Yorkshire.

1982-01-12T12:00:00Z

12x11 A Cotswold Death

12x11 A Cotswold Death

  • 1982-01-12T12:00:00Z1h 15m

A police inspector investigates the murder of an Arab sheik who had become a village's Lord of the Manor.

1982-01-19T12:00:00Z

12x12 Under the Skin

12x12 Under the Skin

  • 1982-01-19T12:00:00Z1h 15m

"When you get to a man in the case,
They're like as a row of pins -
For the colonel's lady an' Judy O'Grady
Are sisters under their skins."
(Rudyard Kipling)

1982-01-26T12:00:00Z

12x13 Commitments

12x13 Commitments

  • 1982-01-26T12:00:00Z1h 15m

Politics and relationships during the last years of the Heath government

1982-02-02T12:00:00Z

12x14 Life After Death

12x14 Life After Death

  • 1982-02-02T12:00:00Z1h 15m

Meg: We were so close, we loved each other, we made a whole together. I feel cut in half.

1982-02-09T12:00:00Z

12x15 The Silly Season

12x15 The Silly Season

  • 1982-02-09T12:00:00Z1h 15m

Four students working in a factory cause emotional, as well as industrial catastrophe, for when theory and reality meet it is the 'Silly Season'.

12x16 Too Late to Talk to Billy

  • 1982-02-16T12:00:00Z1h 15m

A family in Belfast deals with life after the death of the mother from cancer

1982-02-23T12:00:00Z

12x17 Willie's Last Stand

12x17 Willie's Last Stand

  • 1982-02-23T12:00:00Z1h 15m

A comedy by JIM ALLEN
Every man needs just one night out, off the leash. Willie's attempt to prove himself provides a painfully funny and painfully sad comment on the battle of the sexes.

1982-03-09T12:00:00Z

12x18 Tishoo

12x18 Tishoo

  • 1982-03-09T12:00:00Z1h 15m

It is the mid-1980s. The Economy has not improved. For 17 years Professor Frank Merrick has been ensconced in a Research Lab of a Provincial University working on a cure for the common cold.
He is very near success. Can he avoid becoming yet another victim of the eternal cutbacks?

1982-03-16T12:00:00Z

12x19 Home Sweet Home

12x19 Home Sweet Home

  • 1982-03-16T12:00:00Z1h 15m

A story about the lives of three postal sorters and their dysfunctional families.

1982-03-23T12:00:00Z

12x20 A Sudden Wrench

12x20 A Sudden Wrench

  • 1982-03-23T12:00:00Z1h 15m

Christine takes up an unusual line of work and proves she is not just another bored housewife.

Adolescents will always be obsessed by the same old subject, even when they are educated by nuns. Six ex-Classmates meet for the first time in 12 years and hilarious memories change into highly emotional situations.

Season Finale

1982-04-06T11:00:00Z

12x22 Whistling Wally

Season Finale

12x22 Whistling Wally

  • 1982-04-06T11:00:00Z1h 15m

' While Wally was happy there wasn't much wrong with the world, and pints seemed a small price to pay for what he gave us. But don't forget what we gave him. We gave him the knowledge he was important, at least to us.....

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