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The Best Episodes of Play for Today Season 6

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    Play for Today Season 6 Episode 1 - Plaintiffs and Defendants
    6.7/10(24 votes)

    #1 - Plaintiffs and Defendants

    S6:E1

    A married barrister's life begins to unravel when it seems that his high-strung mistress may reveal all.

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  2. Play for Today Season 6 Episode 2 - Two Sundays
    7.2/10(31 votes)

    #2 - Two Sundays

    S6:E2

    An author tells an old school chum that he is about to publish a novel revealing their old relationship.

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  3. Play for Today Season 6 Episode 3 - Moss
    8.0/10(12 votes)

    #3 - Moss

    S6:E3

    Moss is a miser whose only love is his grandson. Then tragedy strikes, and Moss is "reborn."

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. Play for Today Season 6 Episode 4 - 84 Charing Cross Road
    7.7/10(77 votes)

    #4 - 84 Charing Cross Road

    S6:E4

    An American woman corresponds with a London bookshop owner over a period of 20 years

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  5. Play for Today Season 6 Episode 5 - Keep an Eye on Albert
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #5 - Keep an Eye on Albert

    S6:E5

    Terry has begun to neglect his wife for a life of drinking, weight lifting, pigeon racing and other women. But when his best friend Albert returns from the navy and begins to pay Terry's wife some attention, what will be the outcome?

    Writer:Unknown

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  6. Play for Today Season 6 Episode 6 - Children of the Sun
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #6 - Children of the Sun

    S6:E6

    "You expect to face a bit of danger when you travel. Half the fun of it. But you keep cool and bluff your way out. After all, we're all British aren't we?"

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. Play for Today Season 6 Episode 7 - After the Solo
    6.8/10(8 votes)

    #7 - After the Solo

    S6:E7

    A boy enjoys success in the choir until his voice breaks at puberty.

    Writer:Unknown

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  9. Play for Today Season 6 Episode 8 - Through the Night
    7.8/10(15 votes)

    #8 - Through the Night

    S6:E8

    A woman goes into hospital to receive treatment for breast cancer.

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  10. Play for Today Season 6 Episode 9 - A Passage to England
    7.7/10(41 votes)

    #9 - A Passage to England

    S6:E9

    A group of Asians plans to sneak into England using a fishing boat

    Director:Unknown

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  11. Play for Today Season 6 Episode 10 - Rumpole of the Bailey
    8.2/10(170 votes)

    #10 - Rumpole of the Bailey

    S6:E10

    Rumpole defends a young West Indian boy accused of attempted murder.

    Director:John Gorrie

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  12. Play for Today Season 6 Episode 11 - The Other Woman
    7.5/10(31 votes)

    #11 - The Other Woman

    S6:E11

    An aggressive lesbian disrupts the lives of those around her.

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  13. Play for Today Season 6 Episode 12 - Nuts in May
    7.8/10(2234 votes)

    #12 - Nuts in May

    S6:E12

    Smug married couple Keith and Candice Marie “keen exponents of their belief in organic health food, exercise and the environment” are on a camping holiday, where they find that it is not always easy to be tolerant of others when they don't share the same enthusiasms.

    Director:Mike Leigh
    Writer:Mike Leigh

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  14. Play for Today Season 6 Episode 13 - Doran's Box
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #13 - Doran's Box

    S6:E13

    A long-distance lorry driver; a spaceman; a volunteer under reduced environmental conditions; a man in solitary confinement: the discomfort of these people is shared by Doran - when he can't put his finger on the panic button.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. Play for Today Season 6 Episode 14 - Packman's Barn
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #14 - Packman's Barn

    S6:E14

    John Barrett returns to his remote hill farm after 20 years to deal with some unfinished business, and finds himself once again in conflict with the locals.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. Play for Today Season 6 Episode 15 - A Story to Frighten the Children
    6.4/10(10 votes)

    #15 - A Story to Frighten the Children

    S6:E15

    A woman encounters trouble when she arrives home late at night, but her neighbors on a nearby estate claim to have seen and heard nothing.

    Director:Herbert Wise

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  17. Play for Today Season 6 Episode 16 - The Happy Hunting Ground
    6.6/10(11 votes)

    #16 - The Happy Hunting Ground

    S6:E16

    The fish quay is a happy hunting ground for an ambitious young rogue like Bob, who has an eye on the boss's business - and all that goes with it.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. Play for Today Season 6 Episode 17 - The Jumping Bean Bag
    7.1/10(19 votes)

    #17 - The Jumping Bean Bag

    S6:E17

    An end-of-term play with a difference as Ozzie and the boys break into a hard rock number. But even though they make the big time, success has its darker side.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. Play for Today Season 6 Episode 18 - Clay, Smeddum and Greenden
    7.3/10(51 votes)

    #18 - Clay, Smeddum and Greenden

    S6:E18

    A play based on three short stories about the Scottish people and their relationship with the land: ""Clay"" concerns a farmer's obsession with his fields to the exclusion of his dying wife; ""Smeddum"" is about an indomitable woman and her large family; and ""Greenden"" tells the story of an unhappy woman from the city living with her indifferent husband in the country.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. Play for Today Season 6 Episode 19 - Love Letters on Blue Paper
    7.1/10(11 votes)

    #19 - Love Letters on Blue Paper

    S6:E19

    Why has Sonia taken to writing letters to her husband, posted to him in the letter-box just outside their house - love letters, on blue paper, recalling with increasing vividness the early days of their courtship and marriage?

    Director:Waris Hussein
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. Play for Today Season 6 Episode 20 - Willie Rough
    7.4/10(8 votes)

    #20 - Willie Rough

    S6:E20

    A story depicting life in a shipyard

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. Play for Today Season 6 Episode 21 - Tiptoe through the Tulips
    7.7/10(12 votes)

    #21 - Tiptoe through the Tulips

    S6:E21

    A divorced woman is introduced to a separated man at an awkward dinner party.

    Writer:Unknown

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  23. Play for Today Season 6 Episode 22 - The Peddler
    7.0/10(13 votes)

    #22 - The Peddler

    S6:E22

    One pill, and you're floating on air. A different one, and you're full of lead. Married, mortgaged, broke, a love-affair gone sour - which drug can help Alec?

    Writer:Unknown

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  24. Play for Today Season 6 Episode 23 - Early Struggles
    7.0/10(12 votes)

    #23 - Early Struggles

    S6:E23

    A story about a father's attempts at single parenthood

    Writer:Unknown

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  25. Play for Today Season 6 Episode 24 - Double Dare
    7.7/10(50 votes)

    #24 - Double Dare

    S6:E24

    A playwright spends an afternoon in a hotel room with an actress who takes on the role of call girl for research purposes.

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  26. Play for Today Season 6 Episode 25 - The House of Bernarda Alba
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #25 - The House of Bernarda Alba

    S6:E25

    The eldest daughter of a domineering, overprotective mother becomes engaged to an unprincipled young man who has money.

    Writer:Unknown

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Season 6 Ratings Summary

"Plaintiffs and Defendants" is the best rated episode of "Play for Today" season 6. It scored 6.7/10 based on 24 votes. Directed by Michael Lindsay-Hogg and written by Unknown, it aired on 10/14/1975. This episode is rated 0.5 points higher than the second-best, "Two Sundays".