Play for Today: Series 7
Season 7 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 6.
- 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 7 Progress Shield
The Bar Mitzvah Boy
Sep 14, 1976 · 75 min
A story exploring the emotions of a boy undrgoing the traditional Jewish ceremony
Bet Your Life
Sep 21, 1976 · 75 min
Like alcoholism, gambling is a disease. Ches, a compulsive gambler, is sent for medical help. A wonder drug perhaps? Or hypnosis maybe? Ches finds that his psychiatrist has other i
Rocky Marciano Is Dead
Sep 28, 1976 · 75 min
Harry Marcus is a former welterweight champion mourning the loss of the past and dreaming of a return to the glory years of boxing. When a squatter moves in next door, does he have
The Elephants' Graveyard
Oct 12, 1976 · 75 min
Bunny’s wife thinks he is a postman, but in reality he spends his days in the Scottish hills. One day he meets Jody, a fellow walker.
Housewives' Choice
Oct 19, 1976 · 75 min
When Joyce appears on the door-step she looks like the perfect 'kindly, respectable lady whom Marcia needs to look after her baby. But Joyce only seems to be the average housewife.
Your Man from Six Counties
Oct 26, 1976 · 75 min
A young man from Belfast is sent south to stay with relatives in an attempt to keep him out of trouble.
Buffet
Nov 2, 1976 · 75 min
Freddie is going through an existential crisis as everyone around him seems to doubt their own identity and the entire purpose of conversation. Surrounded by inflation and extra ma
Love on a Gunboat
Jan 4, 1977 · 75 min
In 1956 Britain staggers through crises in Suez and Cyprus while Leslie Potter pursues and marries Monica Dobbs. Twenty years later the nation has still not recovered. Neither has
The Kiss of Death
Jan 11, 1977 · 75 min
A young man's chances at romance are thwarted by his own shyness.
Do As I Say
Jan 25, 1977 · 75 min
A quietly unhappy housewife finds a stranger in her house and is raped at knife-point by him. But when she turns to friends, neighbors and her parents-in-law for sympathy, they all
Spend, Spend, Spend
Mar 15, 1977 · 75 min
The rags-to-riches-to-rags story of a 1960s football pools winner, based on a true story
A Photograph
Mar 22, 1977 · 75 min
A couple receives a photograph in the mail of two girls sitting in front of a caravan and neither can identify the people or the place.
The Price of Coal: Meet The People
Mar 29, 1977 · 75 min
A pair of plays, broadcast over two weeks, about mining life: ""Meet the People,"" about a coal mining community preparing for a royal visit, and ""Back to Reality,"" about a coal
The Price of Coal: Back To Reality
Apr 5, 1977 · 75 min
A pair of plays, broadcast over two weeks, about mining life: ""Meet the People,"" about a coal mining community preparing for a royal visit, and ""Back to Reality,"" about a coal
Gotcha
Apr 12, 1977 · 75 min
A student holds his teacher hostage in the classroom on the last day of school.
A Choice of Evils
Apr 19, 1977 · 75 min
The story of Father Borelli who in Rome during World War II must choose between freedom and his principles
The Country Party
Apr 26, 1977 · 75 min
Richard Elkinson, the former stockbroker, is now running a country restaurant. His daughter decides to spring a surprise on him in an attempt to change his life for the better.