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- Season 7
- Episode 4
The Elephants' Graveyard
Play for Today - 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.
Play for Today: Season 7 - 19 Episode s
7x1 - The Bar Mitzvah Boy
September 14, 1976
A story exploring the emotions of a boy undrgoing the traditional Jewish ceremony
7x2 - Bet Your Life
September 21, 1976
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.
7x3 - Rocky Marciano Is Dead
September 28, 1976
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?
7x4 - The Elephants' Graveyard
October 12, 1976
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.
7x5 - Housewives' Choice
October 19, 1976
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.
7x6 - Your Man from Six Counties
October 26, 1976
A young man from Belfast is sent south to stay with relatives in an attempt to keep him out of trouble.
7x7 - Buffet
November 2, 1976
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.
7x8 - Love on a Gunboat
January 4, 1977
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.
7x9 - The Kiss of Death
January 11, 1977
A young man's chances at romance are thwarted by his own shyness.
7x10 - Our Flesh and Blood
January 18, 1977
How Mums and Dads feel when they have one.
7x11 - Do As I Say
January 25, 1977
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.
7x12 - Spend, Spend, Spend
March 15, 1977
The rags-to-riches-to-rags story of a 1960s football pools winner, based on a true story
7x13 - A Photograph
March 22, 1977
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.
7x14 - The Price of Coal (1)
March 29, 1977
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.
7x15 - The Price of Coal (2)
April 5, 1977
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.
7x16 - Gotcha
April 12, 1977
A student holds his teacher hostage in the classroom on the last day of school.
7x17 - Campion's Interview
April 12, 1977
A story about school.
7x18 - A Choice of Evils
April 19, 1977
The story of Father Borelli who in Rome during World War II must choose between freedom and his principles
7x19 - The Country Party
April 26, 1977
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.
Play for Today: All seasons
S0: Specials
1 Episode
S1: Season 1
24 Episode s
S2: Season 2
19 Episode s
S3: Season 3
28 Episode s
S4: Season 4
22 Episode s
S5: Season 5
22 Episode s
S6: Season 6
25 Episode s
S7: Season 7
19 Episode s
S8: Season 8
18 Episode s
S9: Season 9
21 Episode s
S10: Season 10
28 Episode s
S11: Season 11
27 Episode s
S12: Season 12
22 Episode s
S13: Season 13
18 Episode s
S14: Season 14
16 Episode s