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228Bankrupt, The
Joss Ackland gost bust in style.
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236
Just Your Luck
Peter McD lifts off!
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249
Bouncing Boy, The
One in the oven for Patricia Brake.
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560
Shakespeare or Bust
Glover and pals go boating.
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376
Kisses at Fifty
Bill Maynard has it away
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194
Highway Robbery
John Collin fights the council when they plan to demolish his home to make way for a bypass in Michael O’Neill and...
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209
Land of Green Ginger, The
Gwen Taylor goes to Hull.
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174
Song at Twilight, A
Willis Hall’s Golden Gordon-ish tale of defiant football manager Colin Blakely (who ‘once played for England’) in terminal decline. Also with Peter...
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99
Only Make Believe
Keith Barron has a gammy hand.
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178
For Sylvia or The Air Show
John Burrows and John Harding’s two-man show transferred from the Edinburgh Fringe, examining the myths surrounding British heroism, in particular the Battle...
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347
Operation, The
George Lazenby, asset stripping and blow jobs.
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195
Access to the Children
Joss Ackland plays a reluctant divorcee, pondering chances of reuniting with his wife while taking his kids on a day trip to...
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263
Hard Labour
Liz Smith 'does'. And then doesn't.
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203
Man Above Men
Lawyers, defendants and even his own daughter all have it in for a maverick judge, Alexander Knox. David Hare’s first play for...
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264
Speech Day
Kes with cups instead of, um, birds.
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176
Steps Back
By David Halliwell. David Hill returns home to Brighouse with his new fiancee after being driven away 15 years earlier.
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176
Three’s One
By Penelope Mortimer. Couple Hywel Bennett and Caroline Mortimer are rocked by the arrival of an old flame of Mortimer’s. With Fulton...
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183
Edward G: Like the Filmstar
By John Harvey Flint. Robert Lang’s dull life takes a turn for the dramatic after he reluctantly takes on the role of...
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312
Blooming Youth
Two male students have to sort themselves out when a girl moves in with them.
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Stretch, The
Rosalind Ayres finds she can cope on her own when her husband goes to prison for two years. When he gets out...
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182
Making the Play
Barbara Ferris and James Bolam are an estranged couple still trying to reconcile with each other by sending drafts of a co-written...
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209
Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont
Celia Johnson turns in an award-winning performance as the titular new tenant in a retirement home, desperately trying to keep up appearances....
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222
Her Majesty’s Pleasure
Life-sentenced prisoners with little hope of release busy themselves with activities, in particular a panto production of Goldilocks. By ex-lag Jimmy O’Connor....
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210
Jack Point
Old and young members of a Gilbert and Sullivan society get under each other’s feet in the run-up to a special Jubilee...
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158
Emergency Channel, The
By John Bowen. Richard Pasco lives out of a suitcase in Battersea and is tormented by his rapidly fading memory of his...
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162
Mummy and Daddy
By Douglas Livingstone. A retired couple begin to find life tough going after a year in a seaside bungalow bought for them...
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195
Private Practice
By Peter Hankin. Respectable snob Priscilla Morgan is unduly worried about a visit from her daughter’s schoolfriend.
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157
Shutdown
By Tony Perrin. In a deserted Potteries factory, closed for the mass holiday excursions of Wakes Week, young electrician Freddie Fletcher arrives...
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154
Baby Blues
By Nemone Lethbridge. Zena Walker finally has a baby after receiving specialist treatment for ten years – then the problems really start.
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156
Jingle Bells
By Arthur Hopcraft. Colin Farrell’s various Christmas and Boxing Day gatherings with family and mates bring issues and problems to the surface.
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157
Lonely Man’s Lover, The
By Barry Collins. The arrival of a poet in a Yorkshire village arouses suspicion in local farmers, and sexual longing in farm...
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231
All Good Men
Bill Fraser Labours a point.
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222
Easy Go
A gang of Deptford street kids races against local dockers to retrieve a promising-looking abandoned barrel from the Thames. Devised by Brian...
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186
Joe’s Ark
It's grim in pet shops.
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227
Hot Fat
Comic drama of friendships and deals made and broken in a men’s sauna. Jack Rosenthal’s first work for the strand.
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437
Headmaster
Frank Windsor plays the titular head with an increasingly tenuous grip on his position in this first play submitted unsolicited by then...
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Penda’s Fen
Wet dreams and pagan loons.
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242
Pidgeon – Hawk or Dove?
By Michael Sadler. After a school sports day humiliation, teacher Wallace Pidgeon (Jack Shepherd) comes under pressure from all corners – his...
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421
Three for the Fancy
Third outing for Peter Terson’s trio of mining idiots-at-large from The Fishing Party – Art (Brian Glover), Ern (Ray Mort) and Abe...
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324
Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil, The
Scottish country dancing, militant style.
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381
Schmoedipus
Dennis Potter's Model World.
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166
Follower for Emily, A
By Brian Clark. A couple in an old people’s home develop a close friendship, and eventually marry.
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277
Leeds – United!
Colin Welland delves into a favourite subject of Play for Today writers, industrial relations, with a look at a strike in a...
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185
Baby Love
By David Edgar. Patti Love undergoes a traumatic stillbirth, steals a baby, is arrested and sentenced to – appropriately enough – nine...
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155
Back of Beyond
By Julia Jones. Lynne Jones develops a bond with Rachel Roberts, a reclusive widow in the Welsh mountains she delivers newspapers to.
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268
Bevellers, The
A day in the life of a basement bevelling (grinding the bevelled edges and decorative grooves into plate glass) workshop in Glasgow,...
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174
Taking Leave
By Joyce Neary. Soldier George Sweeney returns to his parents’ in Ulster after six years’ service, and finds they don’t want him...
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170
Fugitive
By Sean Walsh. Franciscan friar Stephen Rea goes on the run from the order. Based on Walsh’s real life experience. With David...
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Eleanor
Pauline Quirke pisses off.
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257
Gangsters
Immensely popular play by Philip Martin exploring the Birmingham underworld, in particular the ‘Blackbird Run’ of illegal immigrants. Maurice Colborne is an...