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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 17 - The Kamikaze Ground Staff Reunion Dinner
    8.7/10(27 votes)

    S11:E17

    A group of men hold a reunion dinner in Tokyo

    Director:Baz Taylor
    Writer:Stewart Parker

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  2. Play for Today Season 11 Episode 12 - The Muscle Market
    8.4/10(58 votes)

    S11:E12

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

    Director:Alan Dossor
    Writer:Alan Bleasdale

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  3. Play for Today Season 11 Episode 13 - A Brush with Mr. Porter on the Road to El Dorado
    8.4/10(8 votes)

    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:Baz Taylor
    Writer:Don Haworth

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  4. Play for Today Season 11 Episode 5 - Minor Complications
    8.3/10(13 votes)

    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:Moira Armstrong
    Writer:Peter Ransley

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  5. Play for Today Season 11 Episode 8 - The Flipside of Dominick Hide
    8.1/10(428 votes)

    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:Alan Gibson
    Writers:Jeremy Paul, Alan Gibson

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

    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:Jack Gold
    Writer:Andrew Davies

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  7. Play for Today Season 11 Episode 10 - Jessie
    7.6/10(26 votes)

    S11:E10

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

    Director:Bryan Forbes
    Writer:Bryan Forbes

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  8. Play for Today Season 11 Episode 26 - A Turn for the Worse
    7.5/10(17 votes)

    S11:E26

    Soldiers are subjected to a brutal and sadistic kind of psychological training exercise

    Director:Bill Hays
    Writer:Alan Bleasdale

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

    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:David Turner

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  10. Play for Today Season 11 Episode 27 - Psy-Warriors
    7.3/10(107 votes)

    S11:E27

    Soldiers are captured and interrogated by terrorists: but is it real or only a sadistic form of psychological training exercise?

    Director:Alan Clarke
    Writer:David Leland

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

    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:Horace Ové
    Writers:Horace Ové, H.O. Nazareth

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  12. Play for Today Season 11 Episode 19 - Sorry
    7.1/10(11 votes)

    S11:E19

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

    Director:Alistair Clarke
    Writer:Carol Bunyan

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  13. Play for Today Season 11 Episode 7 - Jude
    6.9/10(10 votes)

    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:Bill Craske
    Writer:Lesley Bruce

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  14. Play for Today Season 11 Episode 9 - Name for the Day
    6.8/10(15 votes)

    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:Colin Haydn Evans

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  15. Play for Today Season 11 Episode 6 - Number on End
    6.7/10(12 votes)

    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:Douglas Camfield
    Writer:Gordon Flemyng

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

    S11:E1

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

    Director:Richard Eyre
    Writers:Richard Eyre, David Storey

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  17. Play for Today Season 11 Episode 16 - Beloved Enemy
    6.6/10(79 votes)

    S11:E16

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

    Director:Alan Clarke
    Writers:Charles Levinson, David Leland

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

    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:Derek Lister
    Writer:Nigel Williams

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

    S11:E11

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

    Director:Les Blair
    Writers:Les Blair, Jon Amiel

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

    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:Alan Bridges
    Writer:J.M. Barrie

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  21. Play for Today Season 11 Episode 24 - The Good Time Girls
    6.4/10(18 votes)

    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:Gareth Davies
    Writer:Alan Clews

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  22. Play for Today Season 11 Episode 21 - The Sin Bin
    5.4/10(12 votes)

    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:John Gorrie
    Writer:Carol Bunyan

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

    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:John McGrath

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

    S11:E4

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    Director:John McGrath
    Writer:John McGrath

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

    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:Barry Davis
    Writer:Derek Lister

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Season 11 Ratings Summary

"The Kamikaze Ground Staff Reunion Dinner" is the best rated episode of "Play for Today" season 11. It scored 8.7/10 based on 27 votes. Directed by Baz Taylor and written by Stewart Parker, it aired on 2/17/1981. This episode is rated 0.3 points higher than the second-best, "The Muscle Market".