Friday, 5th February 1982 PICK OF THE DAY 7.00pm FAMILY FORTUNES, ITV The mighty Monkhouse boots up Mr Babbage once more to...
GENERAL COLLAPSE of secondary education.
ADAPTED FROM John Wyndham books that nobody read
All the underage poacher-thwarting antics worthy of the initials CFF.
The soup-to-nuts of educational broadcasting in five integrated modules.
By Frances Galleymore. Five orphaned children are split up, with the eldest (Perry Fenwick) put in charge. Featuring Nicholas Lyndhurst as a...
A wartime countryside idyll (closely modelled, of course, on Dennis Potter’s Forest of Dean domain) is populated by seven-year-old children playing in...
Too much Hammer!
This Willy Russell musical ensemble piece isn’t usually counted as a ‘true’ Play for Today because it wasn’t billed as such, but...
The first TV glimpse of Alan Bleasdale’s alienated, down-at-heel scouse youth Franny Scully, as he invites his mates to gatecrash his mum’s...
Which version's best? There's only one way to find out...
By Barrie Keeffe. 13 year old John Fowler, with a dead father and a mum more interested in getting her end away...
A gang of Deptford street kids races against local dockers to retrieve a promising-looking abandoned barrel from the Thames. Devised by Brian...
By Peter Hankin. Respectable snob Priscilla Morgan is unduly worried about a visit from her daughter’s schoolfriend.
Kes with cups instead of, um, birds.
BY THE KIDS, for the kids!
DRAMATISED SERIES BASED on a Bernard Ashley novel.
WRONGED SCHOOLKID decides to clear his name by writing about it, only evil staffroom bastards won't let him use the existing school...
FROM THE DESK OF DOIG.
MORE TEATIME travails in same lineage and above average quality as BAD BOYES and WHO SIR ME SIR
AGAIN WITH the let's-give-the-kids-something-to-scare-them-shitless.
KID GANGS from the Clyde arse around a bit on obligatory patch of waste ground.
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