Centre Play

Centre Play

Anthology series of half hour plays produced in BBC's Television Centre's studios.

Drama

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

BBC