The Worst Episodes of Play for Today

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.

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

Director: Alan Clarke

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

Director: James Ferman

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A civil servant working abroad revisits his old school

Director: James Ferman

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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.

Director: Claude Whatham

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

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

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

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

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The story of a disintegrating marriage told through family photos

Director: Alan Clarke

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A man gets revenge on a pub owner

Director: John Gorrie

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An awkward relationship develops between the families of a trade unionist and the regional manager when the son of the former wins a university scholarship from their employer.

Director: Michael Lindsay-Hogg

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Two sworn enemies, one black and the other white, are forced to confront their prejudices when they are forced together by circumstance.

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Writer: Alun Owen

A retired miner devotes his waking hours to his racing pigeons.

Director: James Ferman

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A married couple move into the house on Highbury Hill and find some eccentric neighbours.

Director: John Glenister

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A story about unemployment and the Black Movement in Jamaica

Director: Philip Saville

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A salesman learns a few lessons from the locals when he goes to Yorkshire for a business course

Director: Ted Kotcheff

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A social worker tries to help a painfully shy young man and takes him for a visit to a country farm.

Director: John Gorrie

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The adventures of three Derbyshire miners going fishing

Director: Michael Simpson

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The story of a man serving a 30-year prison sentence for killing a cop

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The story of Robinson Crusoe from Man Friday's viewpoint

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A hippie breaks into the house of a middle-aged couple and forms a relationship with them

Director: Alan Cooke

Writer: David Halliwell

A man celebrating his birthday comes to appreciate the difference between media fantasy and mundane reality.

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Writer: John Elliot

A man fights council plans to demolish his home to make way for a new bypass.

Director: Michael Apted

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