BBC2 Play of the Week (Mùa 2)

An anthology of plays and novels adapted into feature length TV movies, broadcast on BBC2 from September 1977 to April 1979.

  • Poster for Langrishe Go Down

    Langrishe Go Down (Tập 1)

    Biên kịch: Harold Pinter

    Ngày phát sóng: 1978-09-20

    Thời lượng: 105 min

    Tổng quan: 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.

  • Poster for Fairies

    Fairies (Tập 2)

    Biên kịch: Geoffrey Case

    Ngày phát sóng: 1978-09-27

    Thời lượng: 66 min

    Tổng quan: How could photographs, taken on a simple camera by two Yorkshire village girls, have momentous implications for man's understanding of the world?

  • Poster for Fearless Frank

    Fearless Frank (Tập 3)

    Biên kịch: Andrew Davies

    Ngày phát sóng: 1978-10-04

    Tổng quan: 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.

  • Poster for The Lost Boys: Part 1 – We Set Out to Be Wrecked

    The Lost Boys: Part 1 – We Set Out to Be Wrecked (Tập 4)

    Biên kịch: Andrew Birkin

    Ngày phát sóng: 1978-10-11

    Thời lượng: 100 min

    Tổng quan: 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...

  • Poster for The Lost Boys: Part 2 – Dark and Sinister Man

    The Lost Boys: Part 2 – Dark and Sinister Man (Tập 5)

    Biên kịch: Andrew Birkin

    Ngày phát sóng: 1978-10-18

    Thời lượng: 100 min

    Tổng quan: 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.

  • Poster for The Lost Boys: Part 3 – An Awfully Big Adventure

    The Lost Boys: Part 3 – An Awfully Big Adventure (Tập 6)

    Biên kịch: Andrew Birkin

    Ngày phát sóng: 1978-10-25

    Thời lượng: 100 min

    Tổng quan: 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.

  • Poster for Return Fare

    Return Fare (Tập 7)

    Biên kịch: David Pownall

    Ngày phát sóng: 1978-11-01

    Thời lượng: 89 min

    Tổng quan: A man adjusts to freedom after years incarcerated.

  • Poster for Another Day

    Another Day (Tập 8)

    Biên kịch: Susan Boyd

    Ngày phát sóng: 1978-11-22

    Tổng quan: 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.

  • Poster for The Vanishing Army

    The Vanishing Army (Tập 9)

    Biên kịch: Robert Holles

    Ngày phát sóng: 1978-11-29

    Thời lượng: 75 min

    Tổng quan: 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.

  • Poster for Night People

    Night People (Tập 10)

    Biên kịch: Alan Plater

    Ngày phát sóng: 1978-12-06

    Tổng quan: 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.

  • Poster for Renoir, My Father

    Renoir, My Father (Tập 11)

    Biên kịch: Andrew Davies

    Ngày phát sóng: 1978-12-13

    Tổng quan: A dramatisation of the life and work of the artist Auguste Renoir, based on the book by his filmmaker son, Jean Renoir.

  • Poster for On Giant's Shoulders

    On Giant's Shoulders (Tập 12)

    Biên kịch: Anthony Simmons

    Ngày phát sóng: 1979-03-28

    Thời lượng: 90 min

    Tổng quan: 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.

  • Poster for Stepping Out

    Stepping Out (Tập 13)

    Biên kịch: Sarah Pia Anderson

    Ngày phát sóng: 1979-04-04

    Tổng quan: A middle-aged woman who enjoys making lavish ballgowns wishes her daughter would visit more often.

  • Poster for A Light That Shines

    A Light That Shines (Tập 14)

    Biên kịch: Colin Tucker

    Ngày phát sóng: 1979-04-11

    Tổng quan: At a teaching Order, Conroy is asked to mentor promising student Stephen, who is feeling pressured.

  • Poster for In England's Green and Pleasant Land

    In England's Green and Pleasant Land (Tập 15)

    Biên kịch: Andrew Carr

    Ngày phát sóng: 1979-05-16

    Tổng quan: Authorities must decide if the repentance of a reformed convicted murderer is genuine so he can be prepared for release.

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