Sarah Pia Anderson
Director
BBC2 Play of the Week (1977)
Season 2
An anthology of plays and novels adapted into feature length TV movies, broadcast on BBC2 from September 1977 to April 1979.
Released Sept. 20, 1977
Episode 100 min
None+
Genres: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Keywords: imdb.anthology, imdb.based-on-novel, imdb.based-on-play, imdb.true-crime, tmdb.based-on-novel-or-book, tmdb.anthology, tmdb.based-on-play-or-musical, tmdb.adaptation
Production Companies: BBC
Network: BBC Two
Country: United Kingdom
Languages:
English
S2E1 - Langrishe Go Down
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 making pompous declamations, rents the back lodge to work on his esoteric thesis. Imogen Langrishe, the least repressed of the sisters, begins an affair with Otto. Imogen takes the love affair seriously, but Otto just enjoys the cheap lodging and the comfort of Imogen.
Sept. 20, 1978, midnight
S2E2 - Fairies
How could photographs, taken on a simple camera by two Yorkshire village girls, have momentous implications for man's understanding of the world?
Sept. 27, 1978, midnight
S2E3 - Fearless Frank
The outrageous – and not entirely reliable – memoirs of Irish writer Frank Harris, sometime cowboy in the Old West, friend to the famous in the literary world, essayist and critic, and seducer of beautiful women.
Oct. 4, 1978, midnight
S2E4 - The Lost Boys: Part 1 – We Set Out to Be Wrecked
1897: A quiet afternoon in Kensington Gardens. A little boy in a red tam-o'-shanter realises he is being watched by a small man with a huge St. Bernard. The man is J. M. Barrie...
Oct. 11, 1978, midnight
S2E5 - The Lost Boys: Part 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.
Oct. 18, 1978, midnight
S2E6 - The Lost Boys: 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.
Oct. 25, 1978, midnight
S2E7 - Return Fare
A man adjusts to freedom after years incarcerated.
Nov. 1, 1978, midnight
S2E8 - Another Day
Abandoned by her husband, Eileen tries to make the best of bringing up her children in a rundown bed-sit. A man called George shows her attention, but others are suspicious of his motives.
Nov. 22, 1978, midnight
S2E9 - The Vanishing Army
The promotion of an ambitious, decorated NCO is put in jeopardy when he marries an unconventional wife and faces the snobbery of his superiors and their families.
Nov. 29, 1978, midnight
S2E10 - Night People
A classical string quartet stop at a motorway cafe in the early hours. Among the people they meet are a football supporter, a travelling salesman and an elderly couple who are going to Gretna Green to get married.
Dec. 6, 1978, midnight
S2E11 - Renoir, My Father
A dramatisation of the life and work of the artist Auguste Renoir, based on the book by his filmmaker son, Jean Renoir.
Dec. 13, 1978, midnight
S2E12 - On Giant's Shoulders
A middle-aged childless couple on a remote farm adopt a Black boy with no limbs due to the effects of Thalidomide. They encounter a great deal of resistance and scepticism from their friends and neighbours.
March 28, 1979, midnight
S2E13 - Stepping Out
A middle-aged woman who enjoys making lavish ballgowns wishes her daughter would visit more often.
April 4, 1979, midnight
S2E14 - A Light That Shines
At a teaching Order, Conroy is asked to mentor promising student Stephen, who is feeling pressured.
April 11, 1979, midnight
S2E15 - In England's Green and Pleasant Land
Authorities must decide if the repentance of a reformed convicted murderer is genuine so he can be prepared for release.
May 16, 1979, midnight
Network: BBC Two
Episode Runtime: 100 min.
Season Runtime: 100 min.
Released: Sept. 20, 1977
Last Air Date: May 16, 1979, midnight
Status: Ended
Certification: NR
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