Play for TodaySeries 14Season 14 · 1983 · 21 episodesEpisodes1Stan's Last GameJames 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 calming voice of sanity.2Young ShouldersCynical teenager Andrew Groves re-evaluates his attitude to life and his parents after his sister dies in a plane crash.3A Coming to Terms for BillyWhen his father comes home to Belfast after more than 2 years in England, conflicts arise with Billy4Z for ZachariahAfter a nuclear holocaust, only a man and a woman survive in a Welsh valley.5Moving on the EdgeA woman in a state of personal crisis finds it hard to communicate with her husband and family.6Desert of LiesAn expedition tracing the path of long-lost missionaries meets with tragedy in the Kalahari Desert.7Hard FeelingsA group of unemployed Oxford drop-outs living in a Brixton commune get their come-uppance by one of them.8Under the HammerConcerning the life of the artist Vincent Van Gogh9KingA 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.10Rainy Day WomenIn 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 hysteria11Dog EndsIn a future society where euthansia is common, a man signs papers to have his father put down12The Groundling and the KitePeter 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 friendship survive?13The CryIn 1959 Ulster, a journalist witnesses the beating of a youth14It Could Happen to AnybodyA 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.15Only ChildrenA young woman's comfortable life is turned upside down when she has a baby.16The Amazing Miss Stella EstelleMiss 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 is a family in decay: husband out of work, wife working and still doing the domestics, daughter the singer and hopeful star, son her "manager" but in reality going nowhere. Stella plays a crummy club circuit, singing songs for oldies for £50 a night - She's never going to be a star because of her parents' short-sighted greed.17The Long MarchA woman returns to Belfast after ten years in England and becomes involved in the Maze prison protest.18PuntersWhat is the secret of Joey and Spansky's success at the races?19Talk To MeMatthew and his wife are deeply suspicious of psychoanalysis. It's not their sort of thing at all.20Bird Fancier21BrigadistaWhen 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 Int Brigade reveals contradictory & devastating information.Season 1Season 2Season 3Season 4Season 5Season 6Season 7Season 8Season 9Season 10Season 11Season 12Season 13
