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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!

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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  1. 7.9/10(15 votes)

    #1 - Under the Hammer

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    S14:E8

    Concerning the life of the artist Vincent Van Gogh

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  2. 7.6/10(53 votes)

    #2 - Young Shoulders

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    S14:E2

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

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  3. 7.2/10(12 votes)

    #3 - Stan's Last Game

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    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.

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    Director:Gavin Millar
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  4. 7.2/10(66 votes)

    #4 - King

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    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.

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  5. 7.1/10(38 votes)

    #5 - Rainy Day Women

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    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

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  6. 6.8/10(17 votes)

    #6 - Hard Feelings

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    S14:E7

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

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  8. 6.8/10(13 votes)

    #7 - The Cry

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    S14:E13

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

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  9. 6.6/10(13 votes)

    #8 - Z for Zachariah

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    S14:E4

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

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  10. 6.5/10(13 votes)

    #9 - Moving on the Edge

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    S14:E5

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

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  11. 6.4/10(10 votes)

    #10 - Only Children

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    S14:E15

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

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  12. 6.2/10(15 votes)

    #11 - Desert of Lies

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    S14:E6

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

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  13. 6.2/10(9 votes)

    #12 - The Groundling and the Kite

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    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?

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  14. 6.1/10(119 votes)

    #13 - A Coming to Terms for Billy

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    S14:E3

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

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    Director:Paul Seed
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  15. 6.1/10(12 votes)

    #14 - Dog Ends

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    S14:E11

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

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    #15 - It Could Happen to Anybody

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    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.

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    #16 - The Amazing Miss Stella Estelle

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    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.

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Season 14 Ratings Summary

"Under the Hammer" is the best rated episode of "Play for Today" season 14. It scored 7.9/10 based on 15 votes. Directed by Richard Wilson and written by N/A, it aired on 3/27/1984. This episode is rated 0.3 points higher than the second-best, "Young Shoulders".