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Play for Today

Season 6 1975 - 1976

  • 1975-10-14T11:00:00Z on BBC One
  • 1h 15m
  • 1d 8h 26m (26 episodes)
  • United Kingdom
  • English
  • Drama
Single drama's potential to engage mass audiences with social comment and artistic experimentation.

26 episodes

Season Premiere

1975-10-14T11:00:00Z

6x01 Plaintiffs and Defendants

Season Premiere

6x01 Plaintiffs and Defendants

  • 1975-10-14T11:00:00Z1h 15m

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

1975-10-21T11:00:00Z

6x02 Two Sundays

6x02 Two Sundays

  • 1975-10-21T11:00:00Z1h 15m

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

1975-10-28T12:00:00Z

6x03 Moss

6x03 Moss

  • 1975-10-28T12:00:00Z1h 15m

1975-11-04T12:00:00Z

6x04 84 Charing Cross Road

6x04 84 Charing Cross Road

  • 1975-11-04T12:00:00Z1h 15m

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

1975-11-11T12:00:00Z

6x05 Keep an Eye on Albert

6x05 Keep an Eye on Albert

  • 1975-11-11T12:00:00Z1h 15m

1975-11-18T12:00:00Z

6x06 Children of the Sun

6x06 Children of the Sun

  • 1975-11-18T12:00:00Z1h 15m

1975-11-25T12:00:00Z

6x07 After the Solo

6x07 After the Solo

  • 1975-11-25T12:00:00Z1h 15m

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

1975-12-02T12:00:00Z

6x08 Through the Night

6x08 Through the Night

  • 1975-12-02T12:00:00Z1h 15m

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

1975-12-09T12:00:00Z

6x09 A Passage to England

6x09 A Passage to England

  • 1975-12-09T12:00:00Z1h 15m

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

1975-12-16T12:00:00Z

6x10 Rumpole of the Bailey

6x10 Rumpole of the Bailey

  • 1975-12-16T12:00:00Z1h 15m

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

1976-01-06T12:00:00Z

6x11 The Other Woman

6x11 The Other Woman

  • 1976-01-06T12:00:00Z1h 11m

An aggressive lesbian disrupts the lives of those around her.

1976-01-13T12:00:00Z

6x12 Nuts in May

6x12 Nuts in May

  • 1976-01-13T12:00:00Z1h 15m

Smug married couple Keith and Candice Marie are keen exponents of their belief in organic health food, exercise and the environment. They 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.

1976-01-20T12:00:00Z

6x13 Doran's Box

6x13 Doran's Box

  • 1976-01-20T12:00:00Z1h 15m

1976-01-27T12:00:00Z

6x14 Packman's Barn

6x14 Packman's Barn

  • 1976-01-27T12:00:00Z1h 15m

6x15 A Story to Frighten the Children

  • 1976-02-03T12:00:00Z1h 15m

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.

1976-02-10T12:00:00Z

6x16 The Happy Hunting Ground

6x16 The Happy Hunting Ground

  • 1976-02-10T12:00:00Z1h 15m

In The Happy Hunting Ground, which is set amongst the fishing quaysides of the North East of England, manipulative Bob is first able to wangle his way into a prominent position within a fish distribution firm. It isn’t long before he has his sights not only on the boss’s job but also his wife as well.

1976-02-17T12:00:00Z

6x17 The Jumping Bean Bag

6x17 The Jumping Bean Bag

  • 1976-02-17T12:00:00Z1h 15m

6x18 Clay, Smeddum and Greenden

  • 1976-02-24T12:00:00Z1h 15m

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.

6x19 Love Letters on Blue Paper

  • 1976-03-02T12:00:00Z1h 15m

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?

1976-03-09T12:00:00Z

6x20 Willie Rough

6x20 Willie Rough

  • 1976-03-09T12:00:00Z1h 15m

A story depicting life in a shipyard

1976-03-16T12:00:00Z

6x21 Tiptoe through the Tulips

6x21 Tiptoe through the Tulips

  • 1976-03-16T12:00:00Z1h 15m

1976-03-23T11:00:00Z

6x22 The Peddler

6x22 The Peddler

  • 1976-03-23T11:00:00Z1h 15m

1976-03-30T11:00:00Z

6x23 Early Struggles

6x23 Early Struggles

  • 1976-03-30T11:00:00Z1h 15m

A story about a father's attempts at single parenthood

1976-04-06T11:00:00Z

6x24 Double Dare

6x24 Double Dare

  • 1976-04-06T11:00:00Z1h 15m

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

Season Finale

1976-04-21T11:00:00Z

6x25 Where Adam Stood

Season Finale

6x25 Where Adam Stood

  • 1976-04-21T11:00:00Z1h 15m

Written by Dennis Potter, this play is an adaptation of Edmund Gosse's autobiographical book Father and Son (1907)

6x26 The House of Bernarda Alba

  • 1976-07-28T11:00:00Z1h 15m

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

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