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Play for Today Season 14 Episode release dates & where to watch

Premiered

Tuesday, October 25, 1983

Ended: Tuesday, February 5, 1985

When does Play for Today Season 14 come out?

Play for Today Season 14 premiered Tuesday, October 25, 1983 on BBC One and ended Tuesday, February 5, 1985. The season has 21 episodes.

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Play for Today Season 14 release schedule

Play for Today Season 14 episode release dates
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1. Stan's Last Game

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.

Tuesday · 43 years ago

2. Young Shoulders

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

Tuesday · 42 years ago

3. A Coming to Terms for Billy

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

Tuesday · 42 years ago

4. Z for Zachariah

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

Tuesday · 42 years ago

5. Moving on the Edge

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

Tuesday · 42 years ago

6. Desert of Lies

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

Tuesday · 42 years ago

7. Hard Feelings

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

Tuesday · 42 years ago

8. Under the Hammer

Concerning the life of the artist Vincent Van Gogh

Tuesday · 42 years ago

9. King

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.

Tuesday · 42 years ago

10. Rainy Day Women

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

Tuesday · 42 years ago

11. Dog Ends

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

Tuesday · 42 years ago

12. The Groundling and the Kite

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?

Tuesday · 42 years ago

13. The Cry

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

Tuesday · 42 years ago

14. It Could Happen to Anybody

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.

Tuesday · 42 years ago

15. Only Children

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

Tuesday · 42 years ago

16. The Amazing Miss Stella Estelle Finale

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.

Tuesday · 42 years ago

17. The Long March

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

Tuesday · 41 years ago

18. Punters

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

Tuesday · 41 years ago

19. Talk To Me

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

Tuesday · 41 years ago

20. Bird Fancier

Tuesday · 41 years ago

21. Brigadista Finale

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.

Tuesday · 41 years ago

Play for Today Season 14 guest stars

  • Patrick Godfrey

    Patrick Godfrey

  • James Ellis

    James Ellis

  • Kenneth Branagh

    Kenneth Branagh

  • Cyril Cusack

    Cyril Cusack

  • Ian Hogg

    Ian Hogg

    Arne

  • Charles Dance

    Charles Dance

  • Leonard Rossiter

    Leonard Rossiter

    Arthur

  • Pat Heywood

    Beatrice

  • David Threlfall

    David Threlfall

    Robert

  • Lesley Manville

    Lesley Manville

    Vivienne

  • Bryan Pringle

    Bryan Pringle

    Henry

  • John Grillo

    John Grillo

    The Vet

  • Charles Lamb

    Grandad

  • Liz Crowther

    Liz Crowther

    Doctor

  • Eleanor Bron

    Eleanor Bron

    Camilla

  • Gary Raymond

    Gary Raymond

    Michael

Play for Today Season 14 FAQ

When does Play for Today Season 14 come out?

Play for Today Season 14 premiered Tuesday, October 25, 1983 on BBC One.

How many episodes are in Play for Today Season 14?

Play for Today Season 14 has 21 episodes.

Are new episodes of Play for Today Season 14 released weekly?

New episodes are released weekly.

When is the Play for Today Season 14 finale?

The Play for Today Season 14 finale (Episode 16) aired Tuesday, August 28, 1984.

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