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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!

The Best Episodes of Play for Today Season 7

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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    8.2/10(77 votes)

    #1 - Spend, Spend, Spend

    S7:E12

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

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    Director:N/A
  2. Background image for Rocky Marciano Is Dead
    7.9/10(15 votes)

    #2 - Rocky Marciano Is Dead

    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?

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    Director:N/A
    Writer:N/A
  3. Background image for The Price of Coal (1)
    7.8/10(106 votes)

    #3 - The Price of Coal (1)

    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.

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    Director:Ken Loach
    Writer:N/A
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    7.7/10(81 votes)

    #4 - The Price of Coal (2)

    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.

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    Director:Ken Loach
    Writer:N/A
  5. Background image for The Bar Mitzvah Boy
    7.6/10(112 votes)

    #5 - The Bar Mitzvah Boy

    S7:E1

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

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    7.6/10(40 votes)

    #6 - Your Man from Six Counties

    S7:E6

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

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    Director:N/A
    Writer:N/A
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    7.6/10(19 votes)

    #7 - Gotcha

    S7:E16

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

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    Director:N/A
    Writer:N/A
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    7.5/10(103 votes)

    #8 - A Photograph

    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.

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    Director:N/A
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  10. Background image for The Elephants' Graveyard
    7.4/10(172 votes)

    #9 - The Elephants' Graveyard

    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.

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    Director:N/A
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  11. Background image for Do As I Say
    7.2/10(26 votes)

    #10 - Do As I Say

    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.

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    Director:N/A
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  12. Background image for A Choice of Evils
    7.2/10(25 votes)

    #11 - A Choice of Evils

    S7:E18

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

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    Director:N/A
    Writer:N/A
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    7.1/10(18 votes)

    #12 - Housewives' Choice

    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.

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    Director:N/A
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  14. Background image for Bet Your Life
    6.8/10(16 votes)

    #13 - Bet Your Life

    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.

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    Director:Les Blair
    Writer:N/A
  15. Background image for Our Flesh and Blood
    6.8/10(28 votes)

    #14 - Our Flesh and Blood

    S7:E10

    How Mums and Dads feel when they have one.

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    Director:N/A
    Writer:N/A
  16. Background image for Campion's Interview
    6.8/10(8 votes)

    #15 - Campion's Interview

    S7:E17

    A story about school.

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    Director:N/A
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  17. Background image for The Kiss of Death
    6.6/10(349 votes)

    #16 - The Kiss of Death

    S7:E9

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

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    Director:Mike Leigh
    Writer:Mike Leigh
  18. Background image for Buffet
    6.1/10(14 votes)

    #17 - Buffet

    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.

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    Director:N/A
    Writer:N/A
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    #18 - Love on a Gunboat

    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.

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    Director:N/A
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    #19 - The Country Party

    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.

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    Director:Barry Davis

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 77 votes. Directed by N/A and written by Jack Rosenthal, it aired on 3/15/1977. This episode is rated 0.3 points higher than the second-best, "Rocky Marciano Is Dead".