Play for Today: Season 2
Season 2 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 1.
- 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 2 Progress Shield
Traitor
Oct 14, 1971
A British aristocrat turned Russian spy is visited in Moscow by Western journalists
Edna, the Inebriate Woman
Oct 21, 1971
Edna, the Inebriate Woman is a British television drama written by Jeremy Sandford which was transmitted by the BBC as part of the Play for Today series on 21 October 1971. Directe
Evelyn
Oct 28, 1971
Frank is worried that he's over the hill when he reaches his 38th birthday. Conversations with his wife, lover and best friend do nothing to allay his concerns.
O Fat White Woman
Nov 4, 1971
The wife of a headmaster discovers that he has been physically abusing his students
Thank You Very Much
Nov 11, 1971
A social satire in which advertisers realise that having a blind beggar as the public face of charities would help make them seem more appealing to donors.
Skin Deep
Nov 25, 1971
An awkward relationship develops between the families of a trade unionist and the regional manager when the son of the former wins a university scholarship from their employer.
Pal
Dec 2, 1971
Two sworn enemies, one black and the other white, are forced to confront their prejudices when they are forced together by circumstance.
The Pigeon Fancier
Dec 9, 1971
A retired miner devotes his waking hours to his racing pigeons.
Still Waters
Jan 13, 1972
A marriage can be lonely when the children have left home, as Nelson and Maud find out. Maud leaves in the middle of an unloving picnic, and Nelson follows - both sharing their sto
Stocker's Copper
Jan 20, 1972
In Cornwall, just before World War I, a striking miner befriends a cop
The House on Highbury Hill
Jan 27, 1972
A married couple move into the house on Highbury Hill and find some eccentric neighbours.
In the Beautiful Caribbean
Feb 3, 1972
A story about unemployment and the Black Movement in Jamaica
Ackerman, Dougall and Harker
Feb 10, 1972
A salesman learns a few lessons from the locals when he goes to Yorkshire for a business course
Cows
Feb 24, 1972
A social worker tries to help a painfully shy young man and takes him for a visit to a country farm.
The Fishing Party
Jun 1, 1972
The adventures of three Derbyshire miners going fishing