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The Best Episodes of Play for Today Season 13

Every episode of Play for Today Season 13 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Play for Today Season 13!

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    Play for Today Season 13 Episode 1 - Soft Targets
    7.3/10(85 votes)

    #1 - Soft Targets

    S13:E1

    A story about a homesick Russian journalist in London at the end of the cold war

    Director:Charles Sturridge
    Writer:Stephen Poliakoff

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  2. Play for Today Season 13 Episode 2 - Three Minute Heroes
    7.4/10(15 votes)

    #2 - Three Minute Heroes

    S13:E2

    Out on the streets, young people looking for fun. They come together at nights to listen to their music. For as long as the song lasts, they're heroes. Three minute heroes.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. Play for Today Season 13 Episode 3 - The Remainder Man
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #3 - The Remainder Man

    S13:E3

    Jack's obsession with the possibility of nuclear war sees him usher his family down into his home made fall out shelter after a nuclear strike hits the country. Will their time in confinement draw them together or push them apart?

    Director:Richard Wilson
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. Play for Today Season 13 Episode 4 - Intensive Care
    7.4/10(21 votes)

    #4 - Intensive Care

    S13:E4

    A man holds a lonely vigil at the bedside of his dying father.

    Director:Gavin Millar
    Writer:Alan Bennett

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  5. Play for Today Season 13 Episode 5 - A Mother Like Him
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #5 - A Mother Like Him

    S13:E5

    A family of five orphaned children are going to be split up into different homes. What will happen if the eldest is officially made their foster parent?

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. Play for Today Season 13 Episode 6 - John David
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #6 - John David

    S13:E6

    After giving birth to a Down's Syndrome baby, Judith decides she doesn't want to keep him. Obliged to register the birth she arbitrarily chooses John David as the name. A few months later she learns the baby has died.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. Play for Today Season 13 Episode 7 - Aliens
    7.2/10(8 votes)

    #7 - Aliens

    S13:E7

    In June 1940 Italy entered the war. With Britain threatened by a German invasion thousands of Italians were seized and thrown into security camps, with other friendly aliens - and Nazis.

    Director:David Maloney
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. Play for Today Season 13 Episode 8 - Another Flip for Dominick
    7.3/10(158 votes)

    #8 - Another Flip for Dominick

    S13:E8

    Two years after his journey to the past, Dominick Hide has been promoted to instructor and is no longer a time traveller. Then one of his pupils, Pyrus Bonnington, goes missing during a visit to 1982 London. Hide must track him down and prevent Pyrus damaging the past, but will the temptation to re-visit his own history be too strong to resist?

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Jeremy Paul

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  9. Play for Today Season 13 Episode 9 - Last Love
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #9 - Last Love

    S13:E9

    Annabel, an upper-middle-class widow, falls in love with Jack, a self-made man of humble origins. Her grown-up children do not approve.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. Play for Today Season 13 Episode 10 - Gates of Gold
    6.8/10(8 votes)

    #10 - Gates of Gold

    S13:E10

    In 1959 County Antrim, two traveling evangelists help a mentally retarded teenager

    Director:Jon Amiel
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. Play for Today Season 13 Episode 11 - Wayne and Albert
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #11 - Wayne and Albert

    S13:E11

    Wayne goes to live with his grandfather Albert. Initial generation gap hostilities between them are eventually overcome as a mutual respect develops through a their shared love of carpentry and snooker.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. Play for Today Season 13 Episode 12 - Atlantis
    6.6/10(12 votes)

    #12 - Atlantis

    S13:E12

    Goff and Lytton have a dream - a canal boat of their own on which to cruise the inland waterways: The reality is the boatyard of Josh Adkins and a rusting hulk called Atlantis.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. Play for Today Season 13 Episode 13 - The Last Term
    6.4/10(8 votes)

    #13 - The Last Term

    S13:E13

    Devon 1940. The boys of the local public school are alerted after a German parachute drop and as members of the Local Defence Volunteers they prepare to put their youthful enthusiasm for war into practice.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. Play for Today Season 13 Episode 14 - Reluctant Chickens
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #14 - Reluctant Chickens

    S13:E14

    Malcolm is a GP wrestling with ideas of retirement, while his wife Jo is a frustrated, would-be novelist. Together they dream of a more contented life, but are hampered by the arrested development of their children who won't leave home.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. Play for Today Season 13 Episode 15 - Shall I Be Mother?
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #15 - Shall I Be Mother?

    S13:E15

    Susan and Jenny are aged 13 and 14 and in care. Jenny's mother has died, Susan hasn't seen hers for years Both influence the close, stormy relationship that develops between the two girls.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. Play for Today Season 13 Episode 16 - The Falklands Factor
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #16 - The Falklands Factor

    S13:E16

    The 18th century writer Samuel Johnson writes a political pamphlet protesting the British going to war with Spain after the 1790 invasion of the Falkland Islands.

    Director:Colin Bucksey
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. Play for Today Season 13 Episode 17 - A Matter of Choice for Billy
    7.5/10(57 votes)

    #17 - A Matter of Choice for Billy

    S13:E17

    When his father leaves Belfast to seek work in England, a young man looks after his sister

    Director:Paul Seed
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. Play for Today Season 13 Episode 18 - Floating Off
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #18 - Floating Off

    S13:E18

    A businessman tries to keep his son from finding out about an unconventional deal he and his secretary are making with a merchant bank.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Stephen Davis

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Season 13 Ratings Summary

"Soft Targets" is the best rated episode of "Play for Today" season 13. It scored 7.3/10 based on 85 votes. Directed by Charles Sturridge and written by Stephen Poliakoff, it aired on 10/19/1982. This episode is rated 0.1 points higher than the second-best, "Three Minute Heroes".