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The Best Episodes of Play for Today Season 14

Every episode of Play for Today Season 14 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Play for Today Season 14!

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    Play for Today Season 14 Episode 8 - Under the Hammer
    8.2/10(15 votes)

    S14:E8

    Concerning the life of the artist Vincent Van Gogh

    Director:Richard Wilson
    Writer:Stephen Fagan

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  2. Play for Today Season 14 Episode 2 - Young Shoulders
    7.7/10(54 votes)

    S14:E2

    Cynical teenager Andrew Groves re-evaluates his attitude to life and his parents after his sister dies in a plane crash.

    Director:Silvio Narizzano
    Writers:Robert Smith, John Wain

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  3. Play for Today Season 14 Episode 1 - Stan's Last Game
    7.6/10(13 votes)

    S14:E1

    James Grout and Bert Parnaby are rival chairmen of a northern football club in the run-up to an important cup match. As tempers fray, retiring president Charles Lamb provides a calming voice of sanity.

    Director:Gavin Millar
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. Play for Today Season 14 Episode 9 - King
    7.2/10(66 votes)

    S14:E9

    A man who has had a good life in England wants to retire to Jamaica, but the celebration with his daughters doesn't go as expected.

    Director:Tony Smith
    Writer:Barrie Keeffe

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  5. Play for Today Season 14 Episode 10 - Rainy Day Women
    7.1/10(40 votes)

    S14:E10

    In 1940, during World War II, an officer is sent to investigate rumors of German spies in a sleepy village where various people are the victims of war hysteria

    Director:Ben Bolt
    Writer:David Pirie

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  6. Play for Today Season 14 Episode 13 - The Cry
    7.1/10(19 votes)

    S14:E13

    In 1959 Ulster, a journalist witnesses the beating of a youth

    Director:Christopher Menaul
    Writers:Derek Mahon, Christopher Menaul

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  7. Play for Today Season 14 Episode 7 - Hard Feelings
    7.0/10(17 votes)

    S14:E7

    A group of unemployed Oxford drop-outs living in a Brixton commune get their come-uppance by one of them.

    Director:Mike Bradwell
    Writer:Doug Lucie

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  8. Play for Today Season 14 Episode 4 - Z for Zachariah
    6.8/10(12 votes)

    S14:E4

    After a nuclear holocaust, only a man and a woman survive in a Welsh valley.

    Director:Anthony Garner
    Writers:Anthony Garner, Robert C. O'Brien

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  9. Play for Today Season 14 Episode 15 - Only Children
    6.8/10(11 votes)

    S14:E15

    A young woman's comfortable life is turned upside down when she has a baby.

    Director:Michael Rolfe
    Writer:Judy Forrest

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  10. Play for Today Season 14 Episode 5 - Moving on the Edge
    6.6/10(12 votes)

    S14:E5

    A woman in a state of personal crisis finds it hard to communicate with her husband and family.

    Director:Anthony Garner
    Writer:Rose Tremain

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  11. Play for Today Season 14 Episode 6 - Desert of Lies
    6.6/10(20 votes)

    S14:E6

    An expedition tracing the path of long-lost missionaries meets with tragedy in the Kalahari Desert.

    Director:Piers Haggard
    Writer:Howard Brenton

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  12. Play for Today Season 14 Episode 12 - The Groundling and the Kite
    6.4/10(10 votes)

    S14:E12

    Peter is a songwriter, while his old friend Jimmy is an A and R (Artists and Repertoire) man. But when Jimmy tries to sell one of Peter's songs, Peter is furious. Can the friendship survive?

    Director:Peter Jefferies
    Writer:Leonard Preston

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  13. Play for Today Season 14 Episode 14 - It Could Happen to Anybody
    6.4/10(8 votes)

    S14:E14

    A long-suffering Glasgow housewife puts up with years of her husband's violence and drunkenness - and then something happens which makes her snap and fight back.

    Director:Laurence Moody
    Writer:Hugh McManus

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  14. Play for Today Season 14 Episode 3 - A Coming to Terms for Billy
    6.3/10(121 votes)

    S14:E3

    When his father comes home to Belfast after more than 2 years in England, conflicts arise with Billy

    Director:Paul Seed
    Writer:Graham Reid

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  15. Play for Today Season 14 Episode 11 - Dog Ends
    6.3/10(14 votes)

    S14:E11

    In a future society where euthansia is common, a man signs papers to have his father put down

    Director:Carol Wiseman
    Writer:Richard Harris

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  16. Play for Today Season 14 Episode 16 - The Amazing Miss Stella Estelle
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S14:E16

    Miss Stella Estelle is a cabaret singer in working men's clubs, and she sings songs from the 1960s to support a large and difficult family. But how long can it go on? The backdrop is a family in decay: husband out of work, wife working and still doing the domestics, daughter the singer and hopeful star, son her "manager" but in reality going nowhere. Stella plays a crummy club circuit, singing songs for oldies for £50 a night - She's never going to be a star because of her parents' short-sighted greed.

    Director:John Davis
    Writer:Leslie Stewart

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  17. Play for Today Season 14 Episode 17 - The Long March
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S14:E17

    A woman returns to Belfast after ten years in England and becomes involved in the Maze prison protest.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. Play for Today Season 14 Episode 18 - Punters
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S14:E18

    What is the secret of Joey and Spansky's success at the races?

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. Play for Today Season 14 Episode 19 - Talk To Me
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S14:E19

    Matthew and his wife are deeply suspicious of psychoanalysis. It's not their sort of thing at all.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. Play for Today Season 14 Episode 20 - Bird Fancier
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S14:E20

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. Play for Today Season 14 Episode 21 - Brigadista
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S14:E21

    When best-selling author James Fuller Hayes comes to Glasgow to publicise his personal account of the Spanish Civil War, a surprise reunion with two of his old comrades from the Int Brigade reveals contradictory & devastating information.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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Season 14 Ratings Summary

"Under the Hammer" is the best rated episode of "Play for Today" season 14. It scored 8.2/10 based on 15 votes. Directed by Richard Wilson and written by Stephen Fagan, it aired on 3/27/1984. This episode is rated 0.5 points higher than the second-best, "Young Shoulders".