Play for Today: Series 14
Season 14 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of Play for Today Season 13.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
Season 14 Progress Shield
Stan's Last Game
Oct 25, 1983 · 75 min
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 cal
Young Shoulders
Feb 14, 1984 · 75 min
Cynical teenager Andrew Groves re-evaluates his attitude to life and his parents after his sister dies in a plane crash.
A Coming to Terms for Billy
Feb 21, 1984 · 75 min
When his father comes home to Belfast after more than 2 years in England, conflicts arise with Billy
Z for Zachariah
Feb 28, 1984 · 75 min
After a nuclear holocaust, only a man and a woman survive in a Welsh valley.
Moving on the Edge
Mar 6, 1984 · 75 min
A woman in a state of personal crisis finds it hard to communicate with her husband and family.
Desert of Lies
Mar 13, 1984 · 75 min
An expedition tracing the path of long-lost missionaries meets with tragedy in the Kalahari Desert.
Hard Feelings
Mar 20, 1984 · 75 min
A group of unemployed Oxford drop-outs living in a Brixton commune get their come-uppance by one of them.
Under the Hammer
Mar 27, 1984 · 75 min
Concerning the life of the artist Vincent Van Gogh
King
Apr 3, 1984 · 75 min
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.
Rainy Day Women
Apr 10, 1984 · 75 min
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
Dog Ends
Jul 17, 1984 · 75 min
In a future society where euthansia is common, a man signs papers to have his father put down
The Groundling and the Kite
Jul 24, 1984 · 75 min
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 friendshi
The Cry
Jul 31, 1984 · 75 min
In 1959 Ulster, a journalist witnesses the beating of a youth
It Could Happen to Anybody
Aug 14, 1984 · 75 min
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.
Only Children
Aug 21, 1984 · 75 min
A young woman's comfortable life is turned upside down when she has a baby.
The Amazing Miss Stella Estelle
Aug 28, 1984 · 75 min
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
The Long March
Nov 20, 1984 · 90 min
A woman returns to Belfast after ten years in England and becomes involved in the Maze prison protest.
Punters
Nov 27, 1984 · 75 min
What is the secret of Joey and Spansky's success at the races?
Talk To Me
Dec 11, 1984 · 75 min
Matthew and his wife are deeply suspicious of psychoanalysis. It's not their sort of thing at all.
Brigadista
Feb 5, 1985 · 75 min
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 In