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Play for Today

Season 7 1976 - 1977

  • 1976-09-14T11:00:00Z on BBC One
  • 1h 15m
  • 23h 45m (19 episodes)
  • United Kingdom
  • English
  • Drama
Single drama's potential to engage mass audiences with social comment and artistic experimentation.

19 episodes

Season Premiere

1976-09-14T11:00:00Z

7x01 The Bar Mitzvah Boy

Season Premiere

7x01 The Bar Mitzvah Boy

  • 1976-09-14T11:00:00Z1h 15m

Starring Jeremy Steyn, Kim Clifford, Mark Herman, Adrienne Posta, Maria Charles, Pamela Manson and Bernard Spear, the play tells the story of a young Jewish boy, Eliott Green (Steyn), in a working class family living in North East London of the 1970s, and the apprehensions the boy feels over his forthcoming Bar Mitzvah. Meanwhile, the family prepares for the celebration, preoccupied with their own preparations for the b'nai mitzvah.

1976-09-21T11:00:00Z

7x02 Bet Your Life

7x02 Bet Your Life

  • 1976-09-21T11:00:00Z1h 15m

1976-09-28T11:00:00Z

7x03 Rocky Marciano Is Dead

7x03 Rocky Marciano Is Dead

  • 1976-09-28T11:00:00Z1h 15m

1976-10-12T11:00:00Z

7x04 The Elephants' Graveyard

7x04 The Elephants' Graveyard

  • 1976-10-12T11:00:00Z1h 15m

Two men supposedly at work go to the Scottish hillsides every day instead.

1976-10-19T11:00:00Z

7x05 Housewive's Choice

7x05 Housewive's Choice

  • 1976-10-19T11:00:00Z1h 15m

7x06 Your Man from Six Counties

  • 1976-10-26T12:00:00Z1h 15m

A young man from Belfast is sent south to stay with relatives in an attempt to keep him out of trouble.

1976-11-02T12:00:00Z

7x07 Buffet

7x07 Buffet

  • 1976-11-02T12:00:00Z1h 15m

1977-01-04T12:00:00Z

7x08 Love on a Gunboat

7x08 Love on a Gunboat

  • 1977-01-04T12:00:00Z1h 15m

1977-01-11T12:00:00Z

7x09 The Kiss of Death

7x09 The Kiss of Death

  • 1977-01-11T12:00:00Z1h 15m

A young man's chances at romance are thwarted by his own shyness.

1977-01-18T12:00:00Z

7x10 Our Flesh and Blood

7x10 Our Flesh and Blood

  • 1977-01-18T12:00:00Z1h 15m

1977-01-25T12:00:00Z

7x11 Do As I Say

7x11 Do As I Say

  • 1977-01-25T12:00:00Z1h 15m

1977-03-15T12:00:00Z

7x12 Spend, Spend, Spend

7x12 Spend, Spend, Spend

  • 1977-03-15T12:00:00Z1h 15m

The rags-to-riches-to-rags story of a 1960s football pools winner, based on a true story

1977-03-22T11:00:00Z

7x13 A Photograph

7x13 A Photograph

  • 1977-03-22T11:00:00Z1h 15m

Michael Otway has everything to live for, but he is going to die. His life is elegant, his marriage comfortable, his career successful. But from the moment an inexplicable photograph arrives in the morning post all that world is to be turned upside down.

1977-03-29T11:00:00Z

7x14 The Price of Coal (1)

7x14 The Price of Coal (1)

  • 1977-03-29T11:00:00Z1h 15m

A pair of plays, broadcast over two weeks, about mining life: ""Meet the People,"" about a coal mining community preparing for a royal visit, and ""Back to Reality,"" about a coal mining disaster that brings tragedy to a community.

1977-04-05T11:00:00Z

7x15 The Price of Coal (2)

7x15 The Price of Coal (2)

  • 1977-04-05T11:00:00Z1h 15m

A pair of plays, broadcast over two weeks, about mining life: ""Meet the People,"" about a coal mining community preparing for a royal visit, and ""Back to Reality,"" about a coal mining disaster that brings tragedy to a community.

1977-04-12T11:00:00Z

7x16 Gotcha

7x16 Gotcha

  • 1977-04-12T11:00:00Z1h 15m

A student holds his teacher hostage in the classroom on the last day of school.

1977-04-12T11:00:00Z

7x17 Campion's Interview

7x17 Campion's Interview

  • 1977-04-12T11:00:00Z1h 15m

A headmaster takes on the Education Authorities on behalf of his pupils, exposing the political pressures behind the creation of a comprehensive school.

1977-04-19T11:00:00Z

7x18 A Choice of Evils

7x18 A Choice of Evils

  • 1977-04-19T11:00:00Z1h 15m

The story of Father Borelli who in Rome during World War II must choose between freedom and his principles

Season Finale

1977-04-26T11:00:00Z

7x19 The Country Party

Season Finale

7x19 The Country Party

  • 1977-04-26T11:00:00Z1h 15m

Richard Elkinson, the former stockbroker, is now running a country restaurant. His daughter decides to spring a surprise on him in an attempt to change his life for the better.

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