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The Best Episodes of Play for Today Season 5

Every episode of Play for Today Season 5 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Play for Today Season 5!

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,...
Genre:Drama
Network:BBC One

Season 5 Ratings Summary

"Leeds--United!" is the best rated episode of "Play for Today" season 5. It scored 8.1/10 based on 75 votes. Directed by Roy Battersby and written by N/A, it aired on 10/31/1974. This episode is rated NaN points higher than the second-best, "Baby Love".

  • Leeds--United!
    8.1/1075 votes

    #1 - Leeds--United!

    Season 5 Episode 1 - Aired 10/31/1974

    About a strike in a textile factory, based on a true story

    Director: Roy Battersby

    Writer: N/A

  • Baby Love
    NaN/100 votes

    #2 - Baby Love

    Season 5 Episode 2 - Aired 11/7/1974

    After the stillbirth of her illegitimate baby, a woman steals a baby at random and is sentenced to 9 months in prison.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Back of Beyond
    7.4/1048 votes

    #3 - Back of Beyond

    Season 5 Episode 3 - Aired 11/14/1974

    Olwen lives in a tumbledown farm up in the mountains - a lonely widow, virtually a recluse. Her only human contact is with the occasional shopkeeper and young Rachel, who delivers her papers. For Rachel, her visits to Olwen are half adventure, half honest friendship. But they also mean a time to 'put aside childish things.'

    Director: Desmond Davis

    Writer: N/A

  • The Bevellers
    6.5/1014 votes

    #4 - The Bevellers

    Season 5 Episode 4 - Aired 11/21/1974

    The first (and last) day at work of a young apprentice in a bevelling shop at a Glasgow glass factory

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Taking Leave
    7.4/108 votes

    #5 - Taking Leave

    Season 5 Episode 5 - Aired 11/28/1974

    "Well, I hope I won'be seeing you come home in that uniform much more. Six years - that's long enough out of any man's life." Mike's time is nearly up. The army gives him a weekend pass so he's home from Ulster to decide whether to sign on again. His parents want him to stay but he's wondering whether the family's own flare-ups aren't a bit too like the Troubles he has left behind.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Fugitive
    NaN/100 votes

    #6 - Fugitive

    Season 5 Episode 6 - Aired 12/5/1974

    After 18 years as a friar, Peter is no longer sure of his vocation. It is a happy life, maybe too much so, and now he has met Clare. Will his doubts run away with him? Runaway friars are officially "fugitives" who must be persuaded back to their order.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Eleanor
    6.9/1011 votes

    #7 - Eleanor

    Season 5 Episode 7 - Aired 12/12/1974

    Eleanor is unable to communicate her inner thoughts as she's bullied at school and virtually ignored by her parents. With a mundane working existence awaiting her, she desires a chance at another life - but at what cost?

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Gangsters
    8.1/1058 votes

    #8 - Gangsters

    Season 5 Episode 8 - Aired 1/9/1975

    A story exploring the Birmingham underworld

    Director: Philip Saville

    Writer: Philip Martin

  • The After Dinner Game
    NaN/100 votes

    #9 - The After Dinner Game

    Season 5 Episode 9 - Aired 1/16/1975

    Vice-Chancellor Bartley Humbolt has problems. His young university is almost bankrupt, his wife is threatening to leave him, his protége professor from industry is threatening to overshadow him, and his prestigious professor of history is threatening to resign. But Bartley is a born manipulator. And when he gives a dinner party, he has something very special in mind - for afters.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Breath
    NaN/100 votes

    #10 - Breath

    Season 5 Episode 10 - Aired 1/23/1975

    A story about an asthma sufferer

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Death of a Young, Young Man
    5.8/108 votes

    #11 - The Death of a Young, Young Man

    Season 5 Episode 11 - Aired 1/30/1975

    Three young students suspended from school face various problems.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Sunset Across the Bay
    7.6/10144 votes

    #12 - Sunset Across the Bay

    Season 5 Episode 12 - Aired 2/20/1975

    A elderly couple become disillusioned when they retire to their favorite holiday resort.

    Director: Stephen Frears

    Writer: Alan Bennett

  • Funny Farm
    7.0/1073 votes

    #13 - Funny Farm

    Season 5 Episode 13 - Aired 2/27/1975

    One day in the life a nurse in a mental hospital

    Director: Alan Clarke

    Writer: N/A

  • Goodbye
    7.7/109 votes

    #14 - Goodbye

    Season 5 Episode 14 - Aired 3/6/1975

    "All I said was the gramophone's too loud." Tony and Zoe Lyle 's silly row starts like any other, but Tony finds that Zoe means it this time. She's walking out and he's got a week to save a marriage that he hasn't looked at in 18 years, and with it all the trappings of a good life in Maida Vale.

    Director: Gavin Millar

    Writer: N/A

  • Just Another Saturday
    7.8/10163 votes

    #15 - Just Another Saturday

    Season 5 Episode 15 - Aired 3/13/1975

    A young man participating in the Orange Parade in Glasgow becomes disillusioned with the pageant when he discovers its unpleasant and violent history and witnesses the participants' attacks on Catholics.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • A Child of Hope
    NaN/100 votes

    #16 - A Child of Hope

    Season 5 Episode 16 - Aired 4/24/1975

    Thirty-seven men from the disputed territory of South West Africa are on trial for their lives in Pretoria, 1,000 miles from their home. They are to be tried under South Africa's Terrorism Act despite the UN ruling that South Africa must abandon its "illegal administration" of their country.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: John Elliot

  • The Saturday Party
    8.2/1024 votes

    #17 - The Saturday Party

    Season 5 Episode 17 - Aired 5/1/1975

    When a stockbroker loses his job, he decides to throw a party.

    Director: Barry Davis

    Writer: Brian Clark

  • Wednesday Love
    7.4/1016 votes

    #18 - Wednesday Love

    Season 5 Episode 18 - Aired 5/8/1975

    Two women, looking for amusement on their afternoons off, visit a drinking club.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Dandelion Clock
    NaN/100 votes

    #19 - The Dandelion Clock

    Season 5 Episode 19 - Aired 5/15/1975

    In Belfast, a girl awaits the return of her missing father.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Brassneck
    6.3/1011 votes

    #20 - Brassneck

    Season 5 Episode 20 - Aired 5/22/1975

    England, 1945-75: Builder Alfred Bagley makes a fortune, with a little help from his friends.

    Director: Mike Newell

    Writer: Howard Brenton

  • The Floater
    NaN/100 votes

    #21 - The Floater

    Season 5 Episode 21 - Aired 5/29/1975

    A comedy about the law - seen from the inside. All formality and procedure on the surface but not quite so convincing when you see the works.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • By Common Consent
    NaN/100 votes

    #22 - By Common Consent

    Season 5 Episode 22 - Aired 6/5/1975

    Political fantasy about a fascist regime

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A