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The Worst Episodes of Play for Today

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The Worst Episodes of Play for Today

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,...
  1. Background image for The Long Distance Piano Player
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    #1 - The Long Distance Piano Player

    S1:E1

    A man tries to break the world's record for nonstop piano playing

    Writer:Alan Sharp
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    #2 - The Right Prospectus

    S1:E2

    A couple look for the proper school, not for their children but for themselves.

    Director:Alan Cooke
    Writer:Unknown
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    #3 - The Lie

    S1:E3

    ""The Lie"" refers to the 8-year marriage of a couple who are constantly hurting each other.

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    #4 - Angels Are So Few

    S1:E4

    A man claiming to be an angel enters the household of a bored housewife and teaches the family a few lessons.

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    #5 - The Write-Off

    S1:E5

    A man is made redundant but can't bring himself to let anyone know, plunging into a web of deceit as he keeps up the charade he is still in work.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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    #6 - I Can't See My Little Willie

    S1:E6

    A man has a mid-life crisis in his brother's pub where sees life as a game show

    Director:Alan Clarke
    Writer:Unknown
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    #7 - A Distant Thunder

    S1:E7

    A newly-appointed knight finds his celebrations cut short by someone who was witness to his treachery during the war.

    Director:James Ferman
    Writer:Unknown
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    #8 - Hearts and Flowers

    S1:E8

    A TV host and his architect brother attend their father's funeral

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    #9 - Robin Redbreast

    S1:E9

    A woman living in a country cottage thinks that someone is trying to get her.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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    #10 - The Hallelujah Handshake

    S1:E10

    A petty thief and social misfit finagles his way into a church congregation

    Director:Alan Clarke
    Writer:Unknown
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    #11 - Alma Mater

    S1:E11

    A civil servant working abroad revisits his old school

    Director:James Ferman
    Writer:Unknown
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    #12 - Circle Line

    S1:E12

    A cynical student has a radically different view of life from his landlady, leading to conflict. Matters come to a head when he sleeps with her fourteen-year-old brother.

    Writer:Unknown
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    #13 - Hell's Angel

    S1:E13

    A couple are distressed by the changes in their adopted teenage son when he joins a biker gang.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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    #14 - The Piano

    S1:E14

    An old couple refuse to move when they find out that they can't take their piano with them

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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    #15 - Billy's Last Stand

    S1:E15

    Billy, a self-employed coal-shoveller, gains a seedy business partner and competition in the form of a rival coal-shoveller.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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    #16 - The Rainbirds

    S1:E16

    A man who attempted suicide by jumping out a window is saved only to live in a coma, in which he has fantasies about his relatives and nightmare creatures.

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    #17 - Reddick

    S1:E17

    Charges that the Rev 'Red' Reddick is exploiting his youth club members leads to an explosive confrontation.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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    #18 - The Foxtrot

    S1:E18

    An odd menage a trois results when a woman and her lover are visited by her long-lost husband

    Writer:Unknown
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    #19 - When the Bough Breaks

    S1:E19

    When an injured baby arrives at the hospital, a social worker looks for the parents

    Director:James Ferman
    Writer:Unknown
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    #20 - Orkney

    S1:E20

    A trilogy of plays--A Time to Keep, The Whaler's Return, and Celia--exploring the life of the islanders in the past and present

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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    #21 - The Rank and File

    S1:E21

    The story of the Pilkington glass workers strike of 1970

    Director:Ken Loach
    Writer:Unknown
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    #22 - The Man in the Sidecar

    S1:E22

    A succesful novelist Edith lives with her husband and his friend, but she decides to ask the friend to leave.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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    #23 - Everybody Say Cheese

    S1:E23

    The story of a disintegrating marriage told through family photos

    Director:Alan Clarke
    Writer:Unknown
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    #24 - The Cellar and the Almond Tree

    S1:E24

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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    #25 - Traitor

    S2:E1

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

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Worst Episodes Summary

"The Long Distance Piano Player" is the worst rated episode of "Play for Today". It scored /10 based on 0 votes. Directed by Philip Saville and written by Alan Sharp, it aired on 10/15/1970. This episode scored 0.0 points lower than the second lowest rated, "The Right Prospectus".