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The Best Episodes of Play for Today Season 7

Every episode of Play for Today Season 7 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Play for Today Season 7!

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    Play for Today Season 7 Episode 12 - Spend, Spend, Spend
    8.2/10(81 votes)

    S7:E12

    The rags-to-riches-to-rags story of a 1960s football pools winner, based on a true story

    Director:John Goldschmidt
    Writer:Jack Rosenthal

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  2. Play for Today Season 7 Episode 3 - Rocky Marciano Is Dead
    8.1/10(14 votes)

    S7:E3

    Harry Marcus is a former welterweight champion mourning the loss of the past and dreaming of a return to the glory years of boxing. When a squatter moves in next door, does he have what it takes to fulfil Harry's dreams?

    Director:Graham Evans
    Writer:Bernard Kops

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  3. Play for Today Season 7 Episode 6 - Your Man from Six Counties
    7.8/10(44 votes)

    S7:E6

    A young man from Belfast is sent south to stay with relatives in an attempt to keep him out of trouble.

    Director:Barry Davis
    Writer:Colin Welland

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  4. Play for Today Season 7 Episode 14 - The Price of Coal: Meet The People
    7.8/10(134 votes)

    S7:E14

    A pair of plays, broadcast over two weeks, about mining life: ""Meet the People,"" about a coal mining community preparing for a royal visit, and ""Back to Reality,"" about a coal mining disaster that brings tragedy to a community.

    Director:Ken Loach
    Writer:Barry Hines

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  5. Play for Today Season 7 Episode 15 - The Price of Coal: Back To Reality
    7.7/10(100 votes)

    S7:E15

    A pair of plays, broadcast over two weeks, about mining life: ""Meet the People,"" about a coal mining community preparing for a royal visit, and ""Back to Reality,"" about a coal mining disaster that brings tragedy to a community.

    Director:Ken Loach
    Writer:Barry Hines

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  6. Play for Today Season 7 Episode 16 - Gotcha
    7.7/10(25 votes)

    S7:E16

    A student holds his teacher hostage in the classroom on the last day of school.

    Director:Barry Davis
    Writers:Brian Clark, Barrie Keeffe

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  7. Play for Today Season 7 Episode 1 - The Bar Mitzvah Boy
    7.6/10(121 votes)

    S7:E1

    A story exploring the emotions of a boy undrgoing the traditional Jewish ceremony

    Director:Michael Tuchner
    Writer:Jack Rosenthal

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  8. Play for Today Season 7 Episode 4 - The Elephants' Graveyard
    7.4/10(177 votes)

    S7:E4

    Bunny’s wife thinks he is a postman, but in reality he spends his days in the Scottish hills. One day he meets Jody, a fellow walker.

    Director:John Mackenzie
    Writer:Peter McDougall

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  9. Play for Today Season 7 Episode 13 - A Photograph
    7.4/10(120 votes)

    S7:E13

    A couple receives a photograph in the mail of two girls sitting in front of a caravan and neither can identify the people or the place.

    Director:John Glenister
    Writer:John Bowen

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  10. Play for Today Season 7 Episode 17 - Campion's Interview
    7.3/10(9 votes)

    S7:E17

    A story about school.

    Director:Barry Davis
    Writers:Brian Clark, Barrie Keeffe

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  11. Play for Today Season 7 Episode 18 - A Choice of Evils
    7.3/10(31 votes)

    S7:E18

    The story of Father Borelli who in Rome during World War II must choose between freedom and his principles

    Director:Jane Howell
    Writer:Jim Allen

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  12. Play for Today Season 7 Episode 5 - Housewives' Choice
    7.2/10(19 votes)

    S7:E5

    When Joyce appears on the door-step she looks like the perfect 'kindly, respectable lady whom Marcia needs to look after her baby. But Joyce only seems to be the average housewife.

    Director:Chris Thompson
    Writer:Roy Kendall

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  13. Play for Today Season 7 Episode 11 - Do As I Say
    7.0/10(29 votes)

    S7:E11

    A quietly unhappy housewife finds a stranger in her house and is raped at knife-point by him. But when she turns to friends, neighbors and her parents-in-law for sympathy, they all seem preoccupied by other matters.

    Director:Barry Davis
    Writer:Charles Wood

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  14. Play for Today Season 7 Episode 2 - Bet Your Life
    6.9/10(20 votes)

    S7:E2

    Like alcoholism, gambling is a disease. Ches, a compulsive gambler, is sent for medical help. A wonder drug perhaps? Or hypnosis maybe? Ches finds that his psychiatrist has other ideas.

    Director:Les Blair
    Writer:Les Blair

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  15. Play for Today Season 7 Episode 9 - The Kiss of Death
    6.6/10(370 votes)

    S7:E9

    A young man's chances at romance are thwarted by his own shyness.

    Director:Mike Leigh
    Writer:Mike Leigh

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  16. Play for Today Season 7 Episode 10 - Our Flesh and Blood
    6.5/10(31 votes)

    S7:E10

    How Mums and Dads feel when they have one.

    Director:Pedr James
    Writer:Mike Stott

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  17. Play for Today Season 7 Episode 7 - Buffet
    5.8/10(15 votes)

    S7:E7

    Freddie is going through an existential crisis as everyone around him seems to doubt their own identity and the entire purpose of conversation. Surrounded by inflation and extra marital affairs, his only solace is in buffet room drinking.

    Director:Mike Newell
    Writer:Rhys Adrian

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  18. Play for Today Season 7 Episode 8 - Love on a Gunboat
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S7:E8

    In 1956 Britain staggers through crises in Suez and Cyprus while Leslie Potter pursues and marries Monica Dobbs. Twenty years later the nation has still not recovered. Neither has Leslie.

    Director:Robert Knights
    Writer:Malcolm Bradbury

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  19. Play for Today Season 7 Episode 19 - The Country Party
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S7:E19

    Richard Elkinson, the former stockbroker, is now running a country restaurant. His daughter decides to spring a surprise on him in an attempt to change his life for the better.

    Director:Barry Davis
    Writer:Brian Clark

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Season 7 Ratings Summary

"Spend, Spend, Spend" is the best rated episode of "Play for Today" season 7. It scored 8.2/10 based on 81 votes. Directed by John Goldschmidt and written by Jack Rosenthal, it aired on 3/15/1977. This episode is rated 0.1 points higher than the second-best, "Rocky Marciano Is Dead".