
Centre Play
Anthology series of half hour plays produced in BBC's Television Centre's studios.
Seasons
1. Places Where They Sing
Air Date: 1973-07-19
2. The Girls in Their Summer Clothes
Air Date: 1973-07-26
A husband's wandering eye, ogling every passing woman he sees, makes his wife feel unappreciated and unloved. This leads to an uncomfortable and frank discussion.
3. The Museum Attendant
Air Date: 1973-08-02
A Black museum attendant struggles with domestic problems and racist colleagues.
4. The Cornet Lesson
Air Date: 1973-12-24
5. The Illumination of Mr Shannon
Air Date: 1973-12-31
6. Dummy Run
Air Date: 1974-01-18
7. Sweetheart
Air Date: 1974-01-21
8. My Last Duchess
Air Date: 1974-02-01
9. Hurt Hawks
Air Date: 1974-02-08
10. Albert and the Mayor's Tree
Air Date: 1974-07-08
11. God Bless Thee, Jacky Maddison
Air Date: 1974-07-15
12. Is It Something I Said?
Air Date: 1974-07-22
13. Mutinies
Air Date: 1974-07-29
1. Initiation
Air Date: 1974-12-30
An apprentice book-binder turns the tables on his bullying foreman.
2. The Saliva Milkshake
Air Date: 1975-01-06
3. Snooker
Air Date: 1975-01-13
Two men have a confrontation in an exclusive London gentlemen's club.
4. The House on the Hill
Air Date: 1975-01-20
5. A Helping Hand
Air Date: 1975-01-27
Tricia returns home one evening to find her husband Guy sitting in the wreckage of their flat. What happened?
6. The Trip to Jerusalem
Air Date: 1975-02-03
7. Suggest Tuesday
Air Date: 1975-02-13
8. Tea at Four
Air Date: 1975-02-20
9. Letter from a Soldier
Air Date: 1975-02-27
10. Gambit's Move
Air Date: 1975-03-06
11. Post Mortem
Air Date: 1975-07-07
Her boss may be dead, but his secretary Helen is determined that his company should continue to make money.
12. The Flight Fund
Air Date: 1975-07-14
Married couple Tony and Angie go to stay with Tony's uncle Edward in his vast manor. Angie develops a fondness for Uncle Edward and the pair eventually run off together.
13. Hanging On
Air Date: 1975-07-21
14. Our Terry
Air Date: 1975-07-28
15. The Ghost of Adelphi Terrace
Air Date: 1975-08-11
16. The Stick Insect
Air Date: 1975-08-18
17. The Water Baby
Air Date: 1975-08-25
18. Judge the Bloody City
Air Date: 1975-09-01
19. Grace
Air Date: 1975-09-09
1. Brent Geese
Air Date: 1975-12-06
Old friends gather in the hope of seeing a rare bird, but tensions begin to rise between two of them.
2. Hoodwink
Air Date: 1975-12-13
3. The Imp of the Perverse
Air Date: 1975-12-20
An nameless student commits the perfect murder and then confesses due to an irresistible, irrational impulse to do wrong for its own sake.
4. You Talk Too Much
Air Date: 1976-01-10
A mother believes she may have logorrhoea
5. Mirror, Mirror
Air Date: 1976-01-17
6. Grease Monkey
Air Date: 1976-01-24
7. England, Summer, Sunday
Air Date: 1976-01-31
8. The Weekend
Air Date: 1976-02-07
9. In the Labyrinth
Air Date: 1976-02-14
10. Two Men from Derby
Air Date: 1976-02-21
Derby County scouts come to visit Freda's footballing husband with an attractive offer. But where is he?
11. Piano Lessons
Air Date: 1976-08-08
12. A Wily Couple
Air Date: 1976-08-15
Elderly couple Nancy and Wullie decide if a young arrival named Ruth would make a suitable wife for their son Ian. Ruth's visit with the couple becomes increasingly unnerving as skeletons in the closet begin to emerge.
13. Sisters
Air Date: 1976-08-22
1. Commonwealth Season: New Zealand – Old Man March Is Dead
Air Date: 1976-05-15
2. Commonwealth Season: Trinidad – Home Sweet India
Air Date: 1976-05-22
3. Commonwealth Season: Nigeria – A Kind of Marriage
Air Date: 1976-05-29
4. Commonwealth Season: Australia – Sweeping Plains
Air Date: 1976-05-29
5. Commonwealth Season: India – Apply, Apply, No Reply
Air Date: 1976-06-05
6. Commonwealth Season: Canada – For the Whales
Air Date: 1976-06-12
1. Showcase: Riding South
Air Date: 1976-08-06
2. Showcase: A Man of Morality
Air Date: 1976-08-13
3. Showcase: The Squad
Air Date: 1976-08-20
Belfast. Four men meet -'for a drink', says Denis. The car is ready in the back alley. The youngest, Terry, isn't drinking. He's begun to have doubts about his new company – and they about him.
4. Showcase: Fair Tradin' on the Dancin' Ground
Air Date: 1976-08-27
A Roma family take matters into their own hands to get their son back from Social Services.
5. Showcase: Only Looking
Air Date: 1976-09-03
6. Showcase: Sea Change
Air Date: 1976-09-10
7. Showcase: City of Fear!
Air Date: 1976-09-17
1. William Wilson
Air Date: 1976-12-19
Throughout his life, William Wilson finds himself being shadowed by another William Wilson, who seems to resemble him in more than just name.
2. The Emperor's New Hat
Air Date: 1977-02-07
For 51 years, the Comtesse has bought a new hat to celebrate her wedding anniversary. This year, she invites her granddaughter Sylvie to the ceremony, where she will meet her grandfather at long last.
3. Kipper
Air Date: 1977-02-13
4. Auntie Kathleen's Old Clothes
Air Date: 1977-02-14
5. Talkin' Blues
Air Date: 1977-02-20
6. The Tip
Air Date: 1977-06-22
An aging eccentric and a young loner become friends as they collect scrap metal on a garbage heap.
7. The Sniffler and the Pug
Air Date: 1977-06-28
8. Risking It
Air Date: 1977-07-05
9. A Passage to Inverness
Air Date: 1977-07-12
A male stripper – his aunt on her deathbed, a memsahib from the Raj.
10. Rehearsal
Air Date: 1977-07-19
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Rating
7.0/10
Release Date
1973-07-19
Episodes
68 (6 seasons)
Status
Ended
Cast
Production Companies

BBC