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The Play on One: Season 1

8 episodes Premiered Jan 19, 1988
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Season 1 Episodes

Episode Guide

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S1·E1 Mytharc

Down Where the Buffalo Go

Jan 19, 1988

Based at the Holy Loch naval base, the holy union of US Marine Carl and local girl Rachel is on the rocks, as she wants to leave Scotland and settle in America while he wants to re

S1·E2 Core

The Dark Room

Jan 26, 1988

A reclusive couple live on a Scotland block with their infant son. But it soon becomes apparent there's something strange about their situation and the wife is on the verge of a br

S1·E3 Core

Normal Service

Feb 2, 1988

It's General Election Day 1964, and the resources of Forth and Clyde Television are under stress. Too many shows want too many things done too quickly. Some of the design and graph

S1·E4 Core

The Dunroamin' Rising

Feb 9, 1988

A former firebrand socialist finds himself in a care home after a fall renders him unable to look after himself. But after learning that the staff are to be sacked for economic rea

S1·E5 Core

A Wholly Healthy Glasgow

Feb 16, 1988

A new, idealistic gym instructor threatens the seedy lifestyle of the current employees of the Adonis Health Club in Glasgow.

S1·E6 Core

Unreported Incident

Feb 23, 1988

Once enemies at opposite ends of a gun on the Irish border, Jack Lawrence and Jimmy Dunne wound up with lives inextricably entwined. Chat show host Michael Flynn wants a sob story

S1·E7 Mytharc

Airbase

Mar 1, 1988

Madeline Kohler, a young female American Air Force officer, is posted to the all-male world of a U.S. airbase in Britain.

S1·E8 Mytharc

The Party

Mar 8, 1988

While Paris students protest in May 1968, television producer Joe Shawcross hosts a discussion of Socialist beliefs and actions in his fashionable London home, only to realise that

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