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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!

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    Play for Today Season 11 Episode 1 - Pasmore
    6.6/10(9 votes)

    #1 - Pasmore

    S11:E1

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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. Play for Today Season 11 Episode 2 - C2H5OH
    7.4/10(29 votes)

    #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."

    Director:James Cellan Jones
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. Play for Today Season 11 Episode 3 - The Adventures of Frank: Everybody's Fiddling Something
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #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.

    Director:John McGrath
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. Play for Today Season 11 Episode 4 - The Adventures of Frank: Seeds of Ice
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #4 - The Adventures of Frank: Seeds of Ice

    S11:E4

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    Director:John McGrath
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. Play for Today Season 11 Episode 5 - Minor Complications
    8.3/10(9 votes)

    #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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. Play for Today Season 11 Episode 6 - Number on End
    6.8/10(11 votes)

    #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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. Play for Today Season 11 Episode 7 - Jude
    7.0/10(9 votes)

    #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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. Play for Today Season 11 Episode 8 - The Flipside of Dominick Hide
    8.2/10(361 votes)

    #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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Jeremy Paul

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  9. Play for Today Season 11 Episode 9 - Name for the Day
    7.0/10(15 votes)

    #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.

    Director:Bill Bain
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. Play for Today Season 11 Episode 10 - Jessie
    7.5/10(25 votes)

    #10 - Jessie

    S11:E10

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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. Play for Today Season 11 Episode 11 - Beyond the Pale
    6.5/10(11 votes)

    #11 - Beyond the Pale

    S11:E11

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

    Director:Les Blair
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. Play for Today Season 11 Episode 12 - The Muscle Market
    8.4/10(57 votes)

    #12 - The Muscle Market

    S11:E12

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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Alan Bleasdale

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  13. Play for Today Season 11 Episode 13 - A Brush with Mr. Porter on the Road to El Dorado
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. Play for Today Season 11 Episode 14 - Dear Brutus
    6.4/10(10 votes)

    #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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. Play for Today Season 11 Episode 15 - The Cause
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. Play for Today Season 11 Episode 16 - Beloved Enemy
    6.6/10(76 votes)

    #16 - Beloved Enemy

    S11:E16

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

    Director:Alan Clarke
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. Play for Today Season 11 Episode 17 - The Kamikaze Ground Staff Reunion Dinner
    8.9/10(27 votes)

    #17 - The Kamikaze Ground Staff Reunion Dinner

    S11:E17

    A group of men hold a reunion dinner in Tokyo

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. Play for Today Season 11 Episode 18 - The Union
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. Play for Today Season 11 Episode 19 - Sorry
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #19 - Sorry

    S11:E19

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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. Play for Today Season 11 Episode 20 - Shai Mãlã Khani: The Garland
    7.2/10(9 votes)

    #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.

    Director:John Gorrie
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. Play for Today Season 11 Episode 21 - The Sin Bin
    5.3/10(10 votes)

    #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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. Play for Today Season 11 Episode 22 - Before Water Lillies
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #22 - Before Water Lillies

    S11:E22

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

    Director:Jack Gold
    Writer:Andrew Davies

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  23. Play for Today Season 11 Episode 23 - Bavarian Night
    8.0/10(14 votes)

    #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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  24. Play for Today Season 11 Episode 24 - The Good Time Girls
    6.2/10(15 votes)

    #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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  25. Play for Today Season 11 Episode 25 - Baby Talk
    6.6/10(11 votes)

    #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?

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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Season 11 Ratings Summary

"Pasmore" is the best rated episode of "Play for Today" season 11. It scored 6.6/10 based on 9 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 10/21/1980. This episode is rated 0.8 points higher than the second-best, "C2H5OH".