It happens in almost everyone's life. There is a special day - a day of unusual significance. A turning point in life, perhaps in career, romance or fortune; a day to remember. This anthology of plays, each as individual as the people and events portrayed, looks at seven such Red Letter Days.
Red Letter Day (Season 1)
Ready When You Are, Mr. McGill (Episode 1)
Writer: Jack Rosenthal
Air date: 1976-01-11
Runtime: 50 min
Overview: A film extra has won a chance for the big break in his career. He has two crucial lines in a television film, but nothing goes according to plan.
The Five Pound Orange (Episode 2)
Writer: Jack Rosenthal
Air date: 1976-01-18
Runtime: 50 min
Overview: For many men edging on middle-age a mistress is a wistful pipe-dream. Gilbert has made fantasy into fact. But he becomes increasingly uncomfortable when his mistress makes him go against his code of ethics and forces him to burgle his wife's flat.
Well Thank You, Thursday (Episode 3)
Writer: Jack Rosenthal
Air date: 1976-01-25
Runtime: 50 min
Overview: Miss Shepherd is getting a new desk, but things don't go entirely as expected.
Amazing Stories (Episode 4)
Writer: Jack Rosenthal
Air date: 1976-02-01
Runtime: 50 min
Overview: Weird tale of a family who are apparently being taken over by vegetables.
Matchfit (Episode 5)
Writer: Jack Rosenthal
Air date: 1976-02-08
Runtime: 50 min
Overview: A grumpy Scottish soccer boss meets a young fan in a TB sanatorium.
For Services to Myself (Episode 6)
Writer: Jack Rosenthal
Air date: 1976-02-15
Runtime: 50 min
Overview: Life-long socialist Roger Banks has mixed feelings about going to London to receive the OBE from the Queen. While his family are happy that his work for community has been honoured, Roger feels he has betrayed his working class roots.
Bag of Yeast (Episode 7)
Writer: Jack Rosenthal
Air date: 1976-02-22
Runtime: 50 min
Overview: Liverpool primary school teacher Tony Scannell stuns his family by announcing he is going to be ordained as a priest in a Roman Catholic Church. Tony's father James, a Communist, and girlfriend Margaret are left devastated
