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The Best Episodes of Play for Today Season 12

Every episode of Play for Today Season 12 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Play for Today Season 12!

The Best Episodes of Play for Today Season 12

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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    7.0/10(99 votes)

    #1 - Country

    S12:E1

    The story of the disintegration of an aristocratic country estate after World War II

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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    6.3/10(17 votes)

    #2 - London Is Drowning

    S12:E2

    A docudrama about what would happen if London was hit by severe flooding

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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    6.4/10(9 votes)

    #3 - A Room for the Winter

    S12:E3

    James, an expatriate South African anti-apartheid fighter, deals with his nightmares and his complaining landlady in a run-down area of London, while dreaming of his lover Stephen, left behind.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  4. Background image for No Visible Scar
    6.6/10(13 votes)

    #4 - No Visible Scar

    S12:E4

    A nurse is subjected to an interrogation after giving medical treatment to a terrorist leader.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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    7.6/10(14 votes)

    #5 - Iris in the Traffic, Ruby in the Rain

    S12:E5

    In Belfast, Ruby has a cold and is caught in the rain while Iris is looking for work and gets caught in traffic

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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    6.0/10(9 votes)

    #6 - Protest

    S12:E6

    In an adaptation of Václav Havel's play, a dissident, newly released from prison for political reasons, attempts to get his well-connected friend to sign a protest. In this one man play, both the roles are played by Nigel Hawthorne.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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    8.6/10(31 votes)

    #7 - United Kingdom

    S12:E7

    Two men on a local council fight the system when forced with massive spending cuts.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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    6.7/10(14 votes)

    #8 - PQ17

    S12:E8

    During World War II, a British officer is ordered to abandon a Russian convoy.

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    Director:Frank Cox
    Writer:Unknown
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    6.3/10(21 votes)

    #9 - The Factory

    S12:E9

    A manager, a foreman, and two workers are all that remains of a factory yet labor relations stay the same

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    Director:Gerald Blake
    Writer:Unknown
  11. Background image for England's Green and Pleasant Land
    6.9/10(10 votes)

    #10 - England's Green and Pleasant Land

    S12:E10

    A planning decision must be made, and the motorway extension must go through on either the Golf Course or the Allotments - will the greens survive or the peasant lands?

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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    6.1/10(94 votes)

    #11 - A Cotswold Death

    S12:E11

    A police inspector investigates the murder of an Arab sheik who had become a village's Lord of the Manor.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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    6.0/10(10 votes)

    #12 - Under the Skin

    S12:E12

    Three women involved in different ways in the women's movement.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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    6.0/10(10 votes)

    #13 - Commitments

    S12:E13

    Politics and relationships during the last years of the Heath government

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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    6.3/10(20 votes)

    #14 - Life After Death

    S12:E14

    Meg: We were so close, we loved each other, we made a whole together. I feel cut in half.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  16. Background image for The Silly Season
    6.5/10(11 votes)

    #15 - The Silly Season

    S12:E15

    Malcolm goes through life hating the mundanity of his existence as a factory worker and an unloved husband. But when students take up summer jobs at the factory, it reawakens both his passion for political feeling and romantic urges.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  17. Background image for Too Late to Talk to Billy
    7.9/10(95 votes)

    #16 - Too Late to Talk to Billy

    S12:E16

    A family in Belfast deals with life after the death of the mother from cancer

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    Director:Paul Seed
    Writer:Unknown
  18. Background image for Willie's Last Stand
    7.8/10(22 votes)

    #17 - Willie's Last Stand

    S12:E17

    Willie and his friends notice the passage of time around them, and how society is changing as their marriages stagnate. Can Willie prove to himself that he still has it, by being able to cheat on his wife just once?

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  19. Background image for Tishoo
    6.5/10(13 votes)

    #18 - Tishoo

    S12:E18

    Frank has dedicated 19 years to researching a cure for the common cold, and is almost ready to publish a paper. Yet budget cuts and his own inability to form real relationships with those around him threaten to derail the project.

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    Director:Gerald Blake
    Writer:Unknown
  20. Background image for Home Sweet Home
    7.2/10(314 votes)

    #19 - Home Sweet Home

    S12:E19

    Home Sweet Home is a 1982 television film devised and directed by Mike Leigh, for BBC TV, 'about postmen, parenthood, social workers and sex.' It was Leigh's second collaboration with Play for Today producer Louis Marks, and cinematographer Remi Adefarasin, and with composer Carl Davis - the music score featured a quartet of basses -. It stars Timothy Spall, here working with Leigh for the first time, Eric Richard, Tim Barker, Kay Stonham, Su Elliot, Frances Barber, Sheila Kelley, and Lorraine Brunning. It was first broadcast on 16 March 1982. The film was shot on location in Hitchin, Hertfordshire. 90 minutes.

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    Director:Mike Leigh
    Writer:Mike Leigh
  21. Background image for A Sudden Wrench
    7.1/10(15 votes)

    #20 - A Sudden Wrench

    S12:E20

    "My life is over - and I just didn't notice it passing." A call to a radio helpline leads to depressed housewife Christine finding a new direction in life.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  22. Background image for Eve Set the Balls of Corruption Going
    6.9/10(13 votes)

    #21 - Eve Set the Balls of Corruption Going

    S12:E21

    Adolescents will always be obsessed by the same old subject, even when they are educated by nuns. Six ex-Classmates meet for the first time in 12 years and hilarious memories change into highly emotional situations.

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    Director:David Maloney
    Writer:Unknown
  23. Background image for Whistling Wally
    6.9/10(12 votes)

    #22 - Whistling Wally

    S12:E22

    While Wally was happy there wasn't much wrong with the world, and pints seemed a small price to pay for what he gave us. But don't forget what we gave him. We gave him the knowledge he was important, at least to us.

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    Director:Gerald Blake
    Writer:Unknown

Season 12 Ratings Summary

"Country" is the best rated episode of "Play for Today" season 12. It scored 7/10 based on 99 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 10/20/1981. This episode is rated 0.7 points higher than the second-best, "London Is Drowning".