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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!

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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    #1 - Pasmore

    S11:E1

    Colin Pasmore tests his strength against his family ties but finds them stronger than he ever imagined.

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    #2 - C2H5OH

    S11:E2

    "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."

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    #3 - The Adventures of Frank: Everybody's Fiddling Something

    S11:E3

    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.

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    Director:John McGrath
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    #4 - The Adventures of Frank: Seeds of Ice

    S11:E4

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    Director:John McGrath
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    #5 - Minor Complications

    S11:E5

    Kay Gilbert goes into hospital for a minor operation which goes badly wrong. This play tells the story of her fight for compensation.

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    #6 - Number on End

    S11:E6

    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.

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    #7 - Jude

    S11:E7

    Twelve-year-old Jude has never met Dick, his father. One Sunday afternoon Dick impulsively engineers a meeting, which has distressing consequences.

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    #8 - The Flipside of Dominick Hide

    S11:E8

    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.

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    #9 - Name for the Day

    S11:E9

    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.

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    Director:Bill Bain
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    #10 - Jessie

    S11:E10

    In Victorian times, a nanny cares for a mute boy, who becomes overly attached to her.

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    #11 - Beyond the Pale

    S11:E11

    A vacation at a seaside hotel in Ireland changes the lives of four friends.

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    Director:Les Blair
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    #12 - The Muscle Market

    S11:E12

    The problems of an owner of a building contractor company in Liverpool

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    #13 - A Brush with Mr. Porter on the Road to El Dorado

    S11:E13

    "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.

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    #14 - Dear Brutus

    S11:E14

    "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.

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    #15 - The Cause

    S11:E15

    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.

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    #16 - Beloved Enemy

    S11:E16

    The head of a multinational corporation wants to do business with the Soviets

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    Director:Alan Clarke
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    #17 - The Kamikaze Ground Staff Reunion Dinner

    S11:E17

    A group of men hold a reunion dinner in Tokyo

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    #18 - The Union

    S11:E18

    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.

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    #19 - Sorry

    S11:E19

    Two very different women share an office, a common enemy, and a sense of humour.

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    #20 - Shai Mãlã Khani: The Garland

    S11:E20

    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.

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    Director:John Gorrie
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    #21 - The Sin Bin

    S11:E21

    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.

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    #22 - Before Water Lillies

    S11:E22

    An evening with the Parent-Teacher Association gets out of hand.

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    Director:Jack Gold
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    #23 - Bavarian Night

    S11:E23

    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.

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    #24 - The Good Time Girls

    S11:E24

    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.

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    #25 - Baby Talk

    S11:E25

    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?

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Season 11 Ratings Summary

"Pasmore" is the best rated episode of "Play for Today" season 11. It scored N/A/10 based on 0 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 10/21/1980. This episode is rated NaN points higher than the second-best, "C2H5OH".