The Play on One
The Play on One
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The Play on One

6.0 / 10
1988
4 seasons
30 episodes
Drama

A series of plays specially written for television.

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Seasons

  • Ep 1

    1.Down Where the Buffalo Go

    19-01-198875m

    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...

  • Ep 2

    2.The Dark Room

    26-01-198859m

    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...

  • Ep 3

    3.Normal Service

    02-02-198875m

    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...

  • Ep 4

    4.The Dunroamin' Rising

    09-02-198859m

    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...

  • A Wholly Healthy Glasgow

    5.A Wholly Healthy Glasgow

    16-02-198871m

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

  • Ep 6

    6.Unreported Incident

    23-02-198859m

    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...

  • Ep 7

    7.Airbase

    01-03-198859m

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

  • The Party

    8.The Party

    08-03-198859m

    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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