BBC2 Play of the Week Season 2

If you are after a comedy that actually makes you laugh out loud, BBC2 Play of the Week Season 2 is available on streaming right now. A compact run that never overstays its welcome. A 7/10 rating says what the writing already makes obvious: this one works. No single performer carries it alone — the whole cast pulls its weight. Available now — press play and find out why people keep recommending it.

There is a reason BBC2 Play of the Week Season 2 keeps coming up in conversation. The jokes in BBC2 Play of the Week Season 2 land because the characters underneath them are worth caring about. Season 2 of BBC2 Play of the Week includes 15 episodes. It aired from September 1978 to May 1979. Episodes include "Langrishe Go Down", "Fairies", "Fearless Frank". It was aired in 1978. What keeps BBC2 Play of the Week Season 2 from feeling disposable is a cast that clearly understands the material better than the format usually demands. It delivers reliably on what it promises, which is more than most of its competition manages.

If you need a comedy that actually makes you laugh, BBC2 Play of the Week Season 2 is a strong candidate. It stands on its own even without an obvious comparison point. Short enough to finish in a weekend, substantial enough to feel satisfying. The chemistry across the cast is the real engine here. Genuinely funny, consistently, across the whole run.

🎬 BBC2 Play of the Week Season 2 — Episode Guide

Langrishe Go Down

1978-09-20

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 represse...

Fairies

1978-09-27

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

Fearless Frank

1978-10-04

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.

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

1978-10-11

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...

The Lost Boys: Part 2 – Dark and Sinister Man

1978-10-18

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.

The Lost Boys: Part 3 – An Awfully Big Adventure

1978-10-25

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.

Return Fare

1978-11-01

A man adjusts to freedom after years incarcerated.

Another Day

1978-11-22

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.

The Vanishing Army

1978-11-29

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.

E10

Night People

1978-12-06

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.

E11

Renoir, My Father

1978-12-13

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

E12

On Giant's Shoulders

1979-03-28

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.

E13

Stepping Out

1979-04-04

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

E14

A Light That Shines

1979-04-11

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

E15

In England's Green and Pleasant Land

1979-05-16

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

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