BBC2 Play of the Week

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  • Premiered: Sep 1977
  • Episodes: 45
  • Followers: 0
  • Ended
  • BBC Two
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  • Crime Drama Mystery Romance

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Season 2
2x1
Langrishe Go Down
Episode overview
Air date
Sep 20, 1978
In the late 1930s, three reclusive middle-aged spinster sisters live on their run down family estate in Ireland. Otto Beck, a perpetual graduate student from Bavaria with a habit of .. show full overview
2x2
Fairies
Episode overview
Air date
Sep 27, 1978
'I'd stake my reputation on it. These photographs are not faked.' But how could photographs, taken on a simple camera by two Yorkshire village girls, have momentous implications for man's understanding of the world?
2x3
Fearless Frank (or Tit-bits from the Life of an Adventurer)
Episode overview
Air date
Oct 04, 1978
A dramatic romp in the company of Frank Harris , 1855-1931, the most infamous man of letters of his day, and author of the scandalous My Life and Loves, banned in this country until .. show full overview
2x4
The Lost Boys: Part 1
Episode overview
Air date
Oct 11, 1978
A trilogy by ANDREW BIRKIN starring Ian Holm as J.M. Barrie with Ann Bell as Sylvia Llewelyn Davies, Maureen O'Brien as Mary Barrie, Tim Pigott-Smith as Arthur Llewelyn Davies and Anna .. show full overview
2x5
The Lost Boys: Part 2
Episode overview
Air date
Oct 18, 1978
A trilogy by ANDREW BIRKIN starring Ian Holm. 2: Dark and sinister man 1906: Arthur is gravely ill. Sylvia turns more and more to Barrie for help. A wealthy man following the huge success of Peter Pan , Barrie is only too happy to respond.
2x6
The Lost Boys: Part 3
Episode overview
Air date
Oct 25, 1978
A trilogy by ANDREW BIRKIN Part 3: An awfully big adventure 1913. Three years have passed since Sylvia's death. George is now a man and Michael 13 years old. For the Llewelyn Davieses childhood is at an end, and illusions are about to be destroyed.
2x7
Return Fare
Episode overview
Air date
Nov 01, 1978
' If he's been locked up all these years why is it all right to let him out now? ' ' New thinking.' But what happens when new thinking comes up against the same old behaviour?
2x8
Another Day
Episode overview
Air date
Nov 22, 1978
The London of bed-sits, rundown housing, a world of the eccentric and the lonely. Since her husband walked out Eileen battles on her own to make a life for her children. She needs someone-but some people don't think George is the right man.
2x9
The Vanishing Army
Episode overview
Air date
Nov 29, 1978
Written by ROBERT HOLLES starring Bill Paterson , Ann Beach '... why don' you keep that missus of yours under control ... she ain' exactly doin' you a packet o' good, is she? If she was mine I'd bloody put her right. I'll tell yer . . . '
2x10
Night People
Episode overview
Air date
Dec 06, 1978
'It's all in the mind. Success, failure ... nothing to do with numbers on paper, words written in books ... it's all in there.'
2x11
Renoir, My Father
Episode overview
Air date
Dec 13, 1978
From the book by JEAN RENOIR Dramatised by ANDREW DAVIES An evocation of the life and work of Auguste Renoir as remembered by his son-film director, Jean Renoir. Music specially composed by CARL DAVIS and played by the NASH ENSEMBLE
2x12
On Giant's Shoulders
Episode overview
Air date
Mar 28, 1979
Dramatisation of the true story of a childless couple who adopted a Thalidomide child, Terry Wiles, and encounter scepticism and opposition from the friends. Terry Wiles plays .. show full overview
2x13
Stepping Out
Episode overview
Air date
Apr 05, 1979
Devised by SARAH PIA ANDERSON and SHEILA KELLEY A new flat and a new friend. For Emmie life would be lovely-but her daughter hardly visits any more and won't even let Mum make those .. show full overview
2x14 Show finale
A Light That Shines
Episode overview
Air date
Apr 11, 1979
' I'm a spy, you know ... I've got to report back.' Conroy has been asked by the teaching order's recruitment officer Brother Martin Jerome , to be guide and help to the most promising .. show full overview

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