The Best Episodes of Play for Today Season 14

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   #1 - Stan's Last Game

   S14:E110/25/1983

   James Grout and Bert Parnaby are rival chairmen of a northern football club in the run-up to an important cup match. As tempers fray, retiring president Charles Lamb provides a calming voice of sanity.

   Director:Gavin Millar

   Writer:Unknown

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   #2 - Young Shoulders

   S14:E22/14/1984

   Cynical teenager Andrew Groves re-evaluates his attitude to life and his parents after his sister dies in a plane crash.

   Director:Silvio Narizzano

   Writers:Robert Smith, John Wain

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   Director:Silvio Narizzano

   Writers:Robert Smith, John Wain
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   #3 - A Coming to Terms for Billy

   S14:E32/21/1984

   When his father comes home to Belfast after more than 2 years in England, conflicts arise with Billy

   Director:Paul Seed

   Writer:Graham Reid

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   Writer:Graham Reid
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   #4 - Z for Zachariah

   S14:E42/28/1984

   After a nuclear holocaust, only a man and a woman survive in a Welsh valley.

   Director:Anthony Garner

   Writers:Anthony Garner, Robert C. O'Brien

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   Director:Anthony Garner

   Writers:Anthony Garner, Robert C. O'Brien
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   #5 - Moving on the Edge

   S14:E53/6/1984

   A woman in a state of personal crisis finds it hard to communicate with her husband and family.

   Director:Anthony Garner

   Writer:Rose Tremain

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   Director:Anthony Garner

   Writer:Rose Tremain
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   #6 - Desert of Lies

   S14:E63/13/1984

   An expedition tracing the path of long-lost missionaries meets with tragedy in the Kalahari Desert.

   Director:Piers Haggard

   Writer:Howard Brenton

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   Director:Piers Haggard

   Writer:Howard Brenton
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   #7 - Hard Feelings

   S14:E73/20/1984

   A group of unemployed Oxford drop-outs living in a Brixton commune get their come-uppance by one of them.

   Director:Mike Bradwell

   Writer:Doug Lucie

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   Director:Mike Bradwell

   Writer:Doug Lucie
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   #8 - Under the Hammer

   S14:E83/27/1984

   Concerning the life of the artist Vincent Van Gogh

   Director:Richard Wilson

   Writer:Stephen Fagan

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   Director:Richard Wilson

   Writer:Stephen Fagan
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   #9 - King

   S14:E94/3/1984

   A man who has had a good life in England wants to retire to Jamaica, but the celebration with his daughters doesn't go as expected.

   Director:Tony Smith

   Writer:Barrie Keeffe

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   Director:Tony Smith

   Writer:Barrie Keeffe
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    #10 - Rainy Day Women

    S14:E104/10/1984

    In 1940, during World War II, an officer is sent to investigate rumors of German spies in a sleepy village where various people are the victims of war hysteria

    Director:Ben Bolt

    Writer:David Pirie

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    Director:Ben Bolt

    Writer:David Pirie
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    #11 - Dog Ends

    S14:E117/17/1984

    In a future society where euthansia is common, a man signs papers to have his father put down

    Director:Carol Wiseman

    Writer:Richard Harris

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    Writer:Richard Harris
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    #12 - The Groundling and the Kite

    S14:E127/24/1984

    Peter is a songwriter, while his old friend Jimmy is an A and R (Artists and Repertoire) man. But when Jimmy tries to sell one of Peter's songs, Peter is furious. Can the friendship survive?

    Director:Peter Jefferies

    Writer:Leonard Preston

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    Writer:Leonard Preston
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    #13 - The Cry

    S14:E137/31/1984

    In 1959 Ulster, a journalist witnesses the beating of a youth

    Director:Christopher Menaul

    Writers:Derek Mahon, Christopher Menaul

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    Director:Christopher Menaul

    Writers:Derek Mahon, Christopher Menaul
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    #14 - It Could Happen to Anybody

    S14:E148/14/1984

    A long-suffering Glasgow housewife puts up with years of her husband's violence and drunkenness - and then something happens which makes her snap and fight back.

    Director:Laurence Moody

    Writer:Hugh McManus

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    Writer:Hugh McManus
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    #15 - Only Children

    S14:E158/21/1984

    A young woman's comfortable life is turned upside down when she has a baby.

    Director:Michael Rolfe

    Writer:Judy Forrest

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    Director:Michael Rolfe

    Writer:Judy Forrest
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    #16 - The Amazing Miss Stella Estelle

    S14:E168/28/1984

    Miss Stella Estelle is a cabaret singer in working men's clubs, and she sings songs from the 1960s to support a large and difficult family. But how long can it go on? The backdrop is a family in decay: husband out of work, wife working and still doing the domestics, daughter the singer and hopeful star, son her "manager" but in reality going nowhere. Stella plays a crummy club circuit, singing songs for oldies for £50 a night - She's never going to be a star because of her parents' short-sighted greed.

    Director:John Davis

    Writer:Leslie Stewart

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    Writer:Leslie Stewart
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    #17 - The Long March

    S14:E1711/20/1984

    A woman returns to Belfast after ten years in England and becomes involved in the Maze prison protest.

    Director:Unknown

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    #18 - Punters

    S14:E1811/27/1984

    What is the secret of Joey and Spansky's success at the races?

    Director:Unknown

    Writer:Unknown

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    #19 - Talk To Me

    S14:E1912/11/1984

    Matthew and his wife are deeply suspicious of psychoanalysis. It's not their sort of thing at all.

    Director:Unknown

    Writer:Unknown

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    #20 - Bird Fancier

    S14:E201/15/1985

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    #21 - Brigadista

    S14:E212/5/1985

    When best-selling author James Fuller Hayes comes to Glasgow to publicise his personal account of the Spanish Civil War, a surprise reunion with two of his old comrades from the Int Brigade reveals contradictory & devastating information.

    Director:Unknown

    Writer:Unknown

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