Play for Today: Season 5
Season 5 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 4.
- 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 5 Progress Shield
Leeds--United!
Oct 31, 1974
About a strike in a textile factory, based on a true story
Baby Love
Nov 7, 1974
After the stillbirth of her illegitimate baby, a woman steals a baby at random and is sentenced to 9 months in prison.
Back of Beyond
Nov 14, 1974
Olwen lives in a tumbledown farm up in the mountains - a lonely widow, virtually a recluse. Her only human contact is with the occasional shopkeeper and young Rachel, who delivers
The Bevellers
Nov 21, 1974
The first (and last) day at work of a young apprentice in a bevelling shop at a Glasgow glass factory
Taking Leave
Nov 28, 1974
"Well, I hope I won'be seeing you come home in that uniform much more. Six years - that's long enough out of any man's life." Mike's time is nearly up. The army gives him a weekend
Fugitive
Dec 5, 1974
After 18 years as a friar, Peter is no longer sure of his vocation. It is a happy life, maybe too much so, and now he has met Clare. Will his doubts run away with him? Runaway fria
Eleanor
Dec 12, 1974
Eleanor is unable to communicate her inner thoughts as she's bullied at school and virtually ignored by her parents. With a mundane working existence awaiting her, she desires a ch
The After Dinner Game
Jan 16, 1975
Vice-Chancellor Bartley Humbolt has problems. His young university is almost bankrupt, his wife is threatening to leave him, his protége professor from industry is threatening to o
The Death of a Young, Young Man
Jan 30, 1975
Three young students suspended from school face various problems.
Sunset Across the Bay
Feb 20, 1975
A elderly couple become disillusioned when they retire to their favorite holiday resort.
Goodbye
Mar 6, 1975
"All I said was the gramophone's too loud." Tony and Zoe Lyle 's silly row starts like any other, but Tony finds that Zoe means it this time. She's walking out and he's got a week
Just Another Saturday
Mar 13, 1975
A young man participating in the Orange Parade in Glasgow becomes disillusioned with the pageant when he discovers its unpleasant and violent history and witnesses the participants
A Child of Hope
Apr 24, 1975
Thirty-seven men from the disputed territory of South West Africa are on trial for their lives in Pretoria, 1,000 miles from their home. They are to be tried under South Africa's T
The Saturday Party
May 1, 1975
When a stockbroker loses his job, he decides to throw a party.
Wednesday Love
May 8, 1975
Two women, looking for amusement on their afternoons off, visit a drinking club.
The Dandelion Clock
May 15, 1975
In Belfast, a girl awaits the return of her missing father.
Brassneck
May 22, 1975
England, 1945-75: Builder Alfred Bagley makes a fortune, with a little help from his friends.
The Floater
May 29, 1975
A comedy about the law - seen from the inside. All formality and procedure on the surface but not quite so convincing when you see the works.