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Premiered

Tuesday, October 21, 1980

Ended: Tuesday, May 12, 1981

When does Play for Today Season 11 come out?

Play for Today Season 11 premiered Tuesday, October 21, 1980 on BBC One and ended Tuesday, May 12, 1981. The season has 27 episodes.

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Play for Today Season 11 release schedule

Play for Today Season 11 episode release dates
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1. Pasmore

Colin Pasmore tests his strength against his family ties but finds them stronger than he ever imagined.

Tuesday · 46 years ago

2. C2H5OH

"In heaven there is no drama - drama depends on failure and conflict. My trade is a scrutiny of hell. For any proud dramatist his style is his prejudice."

Tuesday · 46 years ago

3. The Adventures of Frank: Everybody's Fiddling Something

Writer-director John McGrath deliberately shies away from naturalism in an experiment that mixes blue screen, songs, and characters realising they're acting within a play. This first of two parts sees Frank travel to a hostile London.

Tuesday · 46 years ago

4. The Adventures of Frank: Seeds of Ice

Tuesday · 46 years ago

5. Minor Complications

Kay Gilbert goes into hospital for a minor operation which goes badly wrong. This play tells the story of her fight for compensation.

Tuesday · 46 years ago

6. Number on End

What could Steve Jackson's documentary film expose that must be concealed from the African leaders meeting in Brussels? Steve Jackson is on the run and the wrong decision could prove fatal.

Tuesday · 45 years ago

7. Jude

Twelve-year-old Jude has never met Dick, his father. One Sunday afternoon Dick impulsively engineers a meeting, which has distressing consequences.

Tuesday · 45 years ago

8. The Flipside of Dominick Hide

Dominick Hide, a time traveller from London in the year 2130, is studying the city's transport system of 1980. Breaking the rules, he lands his craft to seek out his great-grandfather. Compared to his anaesthetised home, 80s London is filthy and polluted...and yet...it exudes an excitement that soon draws him in.

Tuesday · 45 years ago

9. Name for the Day

Clive admits himself to a psychiatric hospital after undergoing a breakdown. His wife wants him back home, but in order for Clive to be released, he has to want to be cured.

Tuesday · 45 years ago

10. Jessie

In Victorian times, a nanny cares for a mute boy, who becomes overly attached to her.

Tuesday · 45 years ago

11. Beyond the Pale

A vacation at a seaside hotel in Ireland changes the lives of four friends.

Tuesday · 45 years ago

12. The Muscle Market

The problems of an owner of a building contractor company in Liverpool

Tuesday · 45 years ago

13. A Brush with Mr. Porter on the Road to El Dorado

"They're nice affable gobblers and we're in the nice affable gobbling business." Tom and Gwen soon find that their gastronomical retreat from the rat race is anything but an escape when the Porters come to dine.

Tuesday · 45 years ago

14. Dear Brutus

"They say that in the wood you get what nearly everybody here is longing for - a second chance." J. M. Barrie's fantasy play, depicting alternative realities for its characters and their eventual return to real life.

Tuesday · 45 years ago

15. The Cause

A confused industrial dispute at a London hospital triggers off in trade unionist George Harley's mind memories of his days fighting in the Spanish Civil War, when the issues seemed so much clearer.

Tuesday · 45 years ago

16. Beloved Enemy

The head of a multinational corporation wants to do business with the Soviets

Tuesday · 45 years ago

17. The Kamikaze Ground Staff Reunion Dinner

A group of men hold a reunion dinner in Tokyo

Tuesday · 45 years ago

18. The Union

You know the nuts and bolts of our policy? To penetrate the unions. To use all sorts of stratagems, manoeuvres, illegal measures, evasions, subterfuges, to carry on Communist activities inside them at all cost.

Tuesday · 45 years ago

19. Sorry

Two very different women share an office, a common enemy, and a sense of humour.

Tuesday · 45 years ago

20. Shai Mãlã Khani: The Garland

When her 17-year-old son Roy falls in love with a Muslim girl, and a Bangladeshi butcher seeks help from her husband Raji, Leela realizes that the tears and romance of Indian cinema are closer to her own life than she has ever imagined.

Tuesday · 45 years ago

21. The Sin Bin

Six lifers living in an experimental self-rehabilitation unit attached to an ordinary prison participate in a group therapy session. All of them have spent many years in prison and have little chance of ever getting out.

Tuesday · 45 years ago

22. Before Water Lillies

An evening with the Parent-Teacher Association gets out of hand.

Tuesday · 45 years ago

23. Bavarian Night

When the dynamic young head-master of St Peter's Primary School decides to liven up a parents' fund-raising social by hiring a Bavarian band, he little suspects the hidden passions that are about to be unleashed.

Tuesday · 45 years ago

24. The Good Time Girls

Nancy and Ella are two bored housewives starved of affection when their husbands are away on the oil rigs. The rules are simple: have some fun, just make sure nobody finds out, and you don't get emotionally involved.

Tuesday · 45 years ago

25. Baby Talk

It's such a simple, natural thing to have a baby, thinks Mary. But she and husband Paul are preoccupied with their careers. Can their young neighbour Tessa help - or are the emotions around a new baby more complex than anyone had expected?

Tuesday · 45 years ago

26. A Turn for the Worse

Soldiers are subjected to a brutal and sadistic kind of psychological training exercise

Tuesday · 45 years ago

27. Psy-Warriors Finale

Soldiers are captured and interrogated by terrorists: but is it real or only a sadistic form of psychological training exercise?

Tuesday · 45 years ago

Play for Today Season 11 guest stars

  • Roy Boyd

    Roy Boyd

    The Other Man

  • Peter Sallis

    Peter Sallis

  • Caroline Langrishe

    Caroline Langrishe

    Jane Winters

  • Laurence Payne

    Laurence Payne

    Weaver

  • Don Henderson

    Don Henderson

  • Bob Peck

    Bob Peck

    Joe Pike

  • Nick Tate

    Nick Tate

    Steve Jackson

  • Steven Berkoff

    Steven Berkoff

  • Eric Porter

    Eric Porter

    Stanley Wilkinson

  • Carmen Silvera

    Carmen Silvera

    Sra Constanza

  • Terry Molloy

    Terry Molloy

    Clarence

  • Malcolm Terris

    Malcolm Terris

    Jim

  • Philip Latham

    Philip Latham

    Dr Millham

  • Christopher Benjamin

    Christopher Benjamin

    Mr Porter

  • Graham Crowden

    Graham Crowden

  • Christopher Ryan

    Christopher Ryan

Play for Today Season 11 FAQ

When does Play for Today Season 11 come out?

Play for Today Season 11 premiered Tuesday, October 21, 1980 on BBC One.

How many episodes are in Play for Today Season 11?

Play for Today Season 11 has 27 episodes.

Are new episodes of Play for Today Season 11 released weekly?

New episodes are released weekly.

When is the Play for Today Season 11 finale?

The Play for Today Season 11 finale (Episode 27) aired Tuesday, May 12, 1981.

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