6.4/109 votes#1 - Pasmore
Season 11 Episode 1 - Aired 10/21/1980
Colin Pasmore tests his strength against his family ties but finds them stronger than he ever imagined.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.5/1028 votes
#2 - C2H5OH
Season 11 Episode 2 - Aired 10/28/1980
"In heaven there is no drama - drama depends on failure and conflict. My trade is a scrutiny of hell. For any proud dramatist his style is his prejudice."
Director: James Cellan Jones
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#3 - The Adventures of Frank: Everybody's Fiddling Something
Season 11 Episode 3 - Aired 11/4/1980
Writer-director John McGrath deliberately shies away from naturalism in an experiment that mixes blue screen, songs, and characters realising they're acting within a play. This first of two parts sees Frank travel to a hostile London.
Director: John McGrath
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#4 - The Adventures of Frank: Seeds of Ice
Season 11 Episode 4 - Aired 11/11/1980
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Director: John McGrath
Writer: N/A
- 7.8/109 votes
#5 - Minor Complications
Season 11 Episode 5 - Aired 11/18/1980
Kay Gilbert goes into hospital for a minor operation which goes badly wrong. This play tells the story of her fight for compensation.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 6.5/1011 votes
#6 - Number on End
Season 11 Episode 6 - Aired 11/25/1980
What could Steve Jackson's documentary film expose that must be concealed from the African leaders meeting in Brussels? Steve Jackson is on the run and the wrong decision could prove fatal.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 6.5/109 votes
#7 - Jude
Season 11 Episode 7 - Aired 12/2/1980
Twelve-year-old Jude has never met Dick, his father. One Sunday afternoon Dick impulsively engineers a meeting, which has distressing consequences.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.2/10350 votes
#8 - The Flipside of Dominick Hide
Season 11 Episode 8 - Aired 12/9/1980
Dominick Hide, a time traveller from London in the year 2130, is studying the city's transport system of 1980. Breaking the rules, he lands his craft to seek out his great-grandfather. Compared to his anaesthetised home, 80s London is filthy and polluted...and yet...it exudes an excitement that soon draws him in.
Director: N/A
Writer: Jeremy Paul
- 6.9/1016 votes
#9 - Name for the Day
Season 11 Episode 9 - Aired 12/16/1980
Clive admits himself to a psychiatric hospital after undergoing a breakdown. His wife wants him back home, but in order for Clive to be released, he has to want to be cured.
Director: Bill Bain
Writer: N/A
- 7.5/1024 votes
#10 - Jessie
Season 11 Episode 10 - Aired 12/23/1980
In Victorian times, a nanny cares for a mute boy, who becomes overly attached to her.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 6.1/1010 votes
#11 - Beyond the Pale
Season 11 Episode 11 - Aired 1/6/1981
A vacation at a seaside hotel in Ireland changes the lives of four friends.
Director: Les Blair
Writer: N/A
- 8.5/1055 votes
#12 - The Muscle Market
Season 11 Episode 12 - Aired 1/13/1981
The problems of an owner of a building contractor company in Liverpool
Director: N/A
Writer: Alan Bleasdale
- 8.4/109 votes
#13 - A Brush with Mr. Porter on the Road to El Dorado
Season 11 Episode 13 - Aired 1/20/1981
"They're nice affable gobblers and we're in the nice affable gobbling business." Tom and Gwen soon find that their gastronomical retreat from the rat race is anything but an escape when the Porters come to dine.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 6.2/109 votes
#14 - Dear Brutus
Season 11 Episode 14 - Aired 1/27/1981
"They say that in the wood you get what nearly everybody here is longing for - a second chance." J. M. Barrie's fantasy play, depicting alternative realities for its characters and their eventual return to real life.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#15 - The Cause
Season 11 Episode 15 - Aired 2/3/1981
A confused industrial dispute at a London hospital triggers off in trade unionist George Harley's mind memories of his days fighting in the Spanish Civil War, when the issues seemed so much clearer.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 6.6/1074 votes
#16 - Beloved Enemy
Season 11 Episode 16 - Aired 2/10/1981
The head of a multinational corporation wants to do business with the Soviets
Director: Alan Clarke
Writer: N/A
- 8.4/1015 votes
#17 - The Kamikaze Ground Staff Reunion Dinner
Season 11 Episode 17 - Aired 2/17/1981
A group of men hold a reunion dinner in Tokyo
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#18 - The Union
Season 11 Episode 18 - Aired 2/24/1981
You know the nuts and bolts of our policy? To penetrate the unions. To use all sorts of stratagems, manoeuvres, illegal measures, evasions, subterfuges, to carry on Communist activities inside them at all cost.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#19 - Sorry
Season 11 Episode 19 - Aired 3/3/1981
Two very different women share an office, a common enemy, and a sense of humour.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.0/108 votes
#20 - Shai Mãlã Khani: The Garland
Season 11 Episode 20 - Aired 3/10/1981
When her 17-year-old son Roy falls in love with a Muslim girl, and a Bangladeshi butcher seeks help from her husband Raji, Leela realizes that the tears and romance of Indian cinema are closer to her own life than she has ever imagined.
Director: John Gorrie
Writer: N/A
- 5.6/108 votes
#21 - The Sin Bin
Season 11 Episode 21 - Aired 3/17/1981
Six lifers living in an experimental self-rehabilitation unit attached to an ordinary prison participate in a group therapy session. All of them have spent many years in prison and have little chance of ever getting out.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#22 - Before Water Lillies
Season 11 Episode 22 - Aired 3/24/1981
An evening with the Parent-Teacher Association gets out of hand.
Director: Jack Gold
Writer: Andrew Davies
- 7.8/1013 votes
#23 - Bavarian Night
Season 11 Episode 23 - Aired 3/31/1981
When the dynamic young head-master of St Peter's Primary School decides to liven up a parents' fund-raising social by hiring a Bavarian band, he little suspects the hidden passions that are about to be unleashed.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 6.0/1012 votes
#24 - The Good Time Girls
Season 11 Episode 24 - Aired 4/7/1981
Nancy and Ella are two bored housewives starved of affection when their husbands are away on the oil rigs. The rules are simple: have some fun, just make sure nobody finds out, and you don't get emotionally involved.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 6.6/109 votes
#25 - Baby Talk
Season 11 Episode 25 - Aired 4/14/1981
It's such a simple, natural thing to have a baby, thinks Mary. But she and husband Paul are preoccupied with their careers. Can their young neighbour Tessa help - or are the emotions around a new baby more complex than anyone had expected?
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
The Best Episodes of Play for Today Season 11
Every episode of Play for Today Season 11 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Play for Today Season 11!
Play for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC1 from 1970 to 1984. During the run,...
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Network:BBC One
Season 11 Ratings Summary
"Pasmore" is the best rated episode of "Play for Today" season 11. It scored 6.4/10 based on 9 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 10/21/1980. This episode is rated 1.1 points higher than the second-best, "C2H5OH".