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The Best Episodes of Play for Today Season 2

Every episode of Play for Today Season 2 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Play for Today Season 2!

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    Play for Today Season 2 Episode 18 - A Time to Keep
    8.4/10(103 votes)

    S2:E18

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    Director:Michael Simpson
    Writer:Peter Terson

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  2. Play for Today Season 2 Episode 2 - Edna, the Inebriate Woman
    7.8/10(245 votes)

    S2:E2

    Edna, the Inebriate Woman is a British television drama written by Jeremy Sandford which was transmitted by the BBC as part of the Play for Today series on 21 October 1971. Directed by Ted Kotcheff, Irene Shubik produced it. The play deals with an elderly woman, Edna, who wanders through life in an alcoholic haze without a home, a job or any money. A rambling, pathetic yet defiant woman, Edna sleeps rough and begs for food and shelter and the drama follows her progress as she moves from hostel to hostel, going to a psychiatric ward and then prison along the way. Jeremy Sandford, who had previously written Cathy Come Home, researched the play by living rough himself for two weeks. A great deal of the dialogue and the incidents in the play come from the book, 'Down and Out in Britain' published by Jeremy Sandford in 1971; although the majority of the speakers in the book are male, Jeremy Sandford puts much of their speech into the mouth of the female character.

    Director:Ted Kotcheff
    Writer:Jeremy Sandford

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  3. Play for Today Season 2 Episode 10 - Home
    7.8/10(76 votes)

    S2:E10

    A story about four elderly "loonies" living in a rest home

    Director:Lindsay Anderson
    Writer:David Storey

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  4. Play for Today Season 2 Episode 1 - Traitor
    7.6/10(122 votes)

    S2:E1

    A British aristocrat turned Russian spy is visited in Moscow by Western journalists

    Director:Alan Bridges
    Writer:Dennis Potter

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  5. Play for Today Season 2 Episode 11 - Still Waters
    7.4/10(22 votes)

    S2:E11

    A marriage can be lonely when the children have left home, as Nelson and Maud find out. Maud leaves in the middle of an unloving picnic, and Nelson follows - both sharing their stories with a series of strangers.

    Director:James MacTaggart
    Writer:Julia Jones

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  6. Play for Today Season 2 Episode 12 - Stocker's Copper
    7.4/10(49 votes)

    S2:E12

    In Cornwall, just before World War I, a striking miner befriends a cop

    Director:Jack Gold
    Writer:Tom Clarke

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  7. Play for Today Season 2 Episode 16 - The Villa Maroc
    7.4/10(19 votes)

    S2:E16

    A couple and their daughter take a trip to Africa

    Director:Herbert Wise
    Writer:Willis Hall

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  8. Play for Today Season 2 Episode 4 - O Fat White Woman
    7.2/10(21 votes)

    S2:E4

    The wife of a headmaster discovers that he has been physically abusing his students

    Director:Philip Saville
    Writer:William Trevor

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  9. Play for Today Season 2 Episode 3 - Evelyn
    6.9/10(31 votes)

    S2:E3

    Frank is worried that he's over the hill when he reaches his 38th birthday. Conversations with his wife, lover and best friend do nothing to allay his concerns.

    Director:Piers Haggard
    Writer:Rhys Adrian

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  10. Play for Today Season 2 Episode 5 - Thank You Very Much
    5.8/10(10 votes)

    S2:E5

    A social satire in which advertisers realise that having a blind beggar as the public face of charities would help make them seem more appealing to donors.

    Director:Claude Whatham
    Writer:N.F. Simpson

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  11. Play for Today Season 2 Episode 6 - Michael Regan
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S2:E6

    A man gets revenge on a pub owner

    Director:John Gorrie
    Writer:Robert Holles

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  12. Play for Today Season 2 Episode 7 - Skin Deep
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S2:E7

    An awkward relationship develops between the families of a trade unionist and the regional manager when the son of the former wins a university scholarship from their employer.

    Director:Michael Lindsay-Hogg
    Writers:Jeremy Seabrook, Michael O'Neill

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  13. Play for Today Season 2 Episode 8 - Pal
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S2:E8

    Two sworn enemies, one black and the other white, are forced to confront their prejudices when they are forced together by circumstance.

    Director:Silvio Narizzano
    Writer:Alun Owen

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  14. Play for Today Season 2 Episode 9 - The Pigeon Fancier
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S2:E9

    A retired miner devotes his waking hours to his racing pigeons.

    Director:James Ferman
    Writer:Peter Hankin

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  15. Play for Today Season 2 Episode 13 - The House on Highbury Hill
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S2:E13

    A married couple move into the house on Highbury Hill and find some eccentric neighbours.

    Director:John Glenister
    Writer:Piers Paul Read

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  16. Play for Today Season 2 Episode 14 - In the Beautiful Caribbean
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S2:E14

    A story about unemployment and the Black Movement in Jamaica

    Director:Philip Saville
    Writer:Barry Reckord

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  17. Play for Today Season 2 Episode 15 - Ackerman, Dougall and Harker
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S2:E15

    A salesman learns a few lessons from the locals when he goes to Yorkshire for a business course

    Director:Ted Kotcheff
    Writer:Don Shaw

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  18. Play for Today Season 2 Episode 17 - Cows
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S2:E17

    A social worker tries to help a painfully shy young man and takes him for a visit to a country farm.

    Director:John Gorrie
    Writer:Howard Barker

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  19. Play for Today Season 2 Episode 19 - The Fishing Party
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S2:E19

    The adventures of three Derbyshire miners going fishing

    Director:Michael Simpson
    Writer:Unknown

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Season 2 Ratings Summary

"A Time to Keep" is the best rated episode of "Play for Today" season 2. It scored 8.4/10 based on 103 votes. Directed by Michael Simpson and written by Peter Terson, it aired on 4/27/1972. This episode is rated 0.6 points higher than the second-best, "Edna, the Inebriate Woman".