7.0/1010 votes#1 - Stan's Last Game
Season 14 Episode 1 - Aired 10/25/1983
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: N/A
- 7.6/1053 votes
#2 - Young Shoulders
Season 14 Episode 2 - Aired 2/14/1984
Cynical teenager Andrew Groves re-evaluates his attitude to life and his parents after his sister dies in a plane crash.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 6.1/10116 votes
#3 - A Coming to Terms for Billy
Season 14 Episode 3 - Aired 2/21/1984
When his father comes home to Belfast after more than 2 years in England, conflicts arise with Billy
Director: Paul Seed
Writer: N/A
- 6.4/1011 votes
#4 - Z for Zachariah
Season 14 Episode 4 - Aired 2/28/1984
After a nuclear holocaust, only a man and a woman survive in a Welsh valley.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 6.5/1013 votes
#5 - Moving on the Edge
Season 14 Episode 5 - Aired 3/6/1984
A woman in a state of personal crisis finds it hard to communicate with her husband and family.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 6.7/1012 votes
#6 - Desert of Lies
Season 14 Episode 6 - Aired 3/13/1984
An expedition tracing the path of long-lost missionaries meets with tragedy in the Kalahari Desert.
Director: Piers Haggard
Writer: Howard Brenton
- 7.1/1015 votes
#7 - Hard Feelings
Season 14 Episode 7 - Aired 3/20/1984
A group of unemployed Oxford drop-outs living in a Brixton commune get their come-uppance by one of them.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.9/1015 votes
#8 - Under the Hammer
Season 14 Episode 8 - Aired 3/27/1984
Concerning the life of the artist Vincent Van Gogh
Director: Richard Wilson
Writer: N/A
- 7.2/1065 votes
#9 - King
Season 14 Episode 9 - Aired 4/3/1984
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.1/1038 votes
#10 - Rainy Day Women
Season 14 Episode 10 - Aired 4/10/1984
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 5.9/1011 votes
#11 - Dog Ends
Season 14 Episode 11 - Aired 7/17/1984
In a future society where euthansia is common, a man signs papers to have his father put down
Director: Carol Wiseman
Writer: Richard Harris
- 6.2/109 votes
#12 - The Groundling and the Kite
Season 14 Episode 12 - Aired 7/24/1984
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 6.7/1010 votes
#13 - The Cry
Season 14 Episode 13 - Aired 7/31/1984
In 1959 Ulster, a journalist witnesses the beating of a youth
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#14 - It Could Happen to Anybody
Season 14 Episode 14 - Aired 8/14/1984
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 6.4/1010 votes
#15 - Only Children
Season 14 Episode 15 - Aired 8/21/1984
A young woman's comfortable life is turned upside down when she has a baby.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#16 - The Amazing Miss Stella Estelle
Season 14 Episode 16 - Aired 8/28/1984
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
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!
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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Network:BBC One
Season 14 Ratings Summary
"Stan's Last Game" is the best rated episode of "Play for Today" season 14. It scored 7/10 based on 10 votes. Directed by Gavin Millar and written by N/A, it aired on 10/25/1983. This episode is rated 0.6 points higher than the second-best, "Young Shoulders".