As of July 2026, Play for Today Season 7 aired in 1976 with 19 episodes — streaming now on Sky Go. Full episode guide and where to watch below.
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Play for Today Season 7

1976 19 Episodes Drama ⭐ 7/10

Play for Today Season 7 has built a devoted audience on and among viewers who want their drama to earn its emotional beats. A compact run that never overstays its welcome. 10 people have weighed in on TMDB, and the verdict leans heavily positive. The ensemble work here is strong enough to hold the material together. Put it on tonight and see for yourself.

Play for Today Season 7 arrived without much fanfare and built its audience the hard way — through word of mouth. Play for Today Season 7 takes its time building the world its characters inhabit, and the patience pays off. Season 7 of Play for Today includes 19 episodes. It aired from September 1976 to April 1977. Episodes include "The Bar Mitzvah Boy", "Bet Your Life", "Rocky Marciano Is Dead". It was aired in 1976. What elevates Play for Today Season 7 is a refusal to let any character off the hook too easily. There is real craft here, even in the moments that do not fully land.

For anyone looking for storytelling that takes its characters seriously, Play for Today Season 7 delivers. It rewards viewers regardless of what else is in their watch history. It is a manageable watch, easy to fit into a single week. Every performance here earns its place, lead or not. The patience it asks of you early on is paid back with interest.

📡 Where to Watch Play for Today Season 7

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🎬 Play for Today Season 7 — Episode Guide

E1
The Bar Mitzvah Boy
1976-09-14
A story exploring the emotions of a boy undrgoing the traditional Jewish ceremony
E2
Bet Your Life
1976-09-21
Like alcoholism, gambling is a disease. Ches, a compulsive gambler, is sent for medical help. A wonder drug perhaps? Or hypnosis maybe? Ches finds that his psychiatrist has other ideas.
E3
Rocky Marciano Is Dead
1976-09-28
Harry Marcus is a former welterweight champion mourning the loss of the past and dreaming of a return to the glory years of boxing. When a squatter moves in next door, does he have what it takes to fulfil Harry's dreams?
E4
The Elephants' Graveyard
1976-10-12
Bunny’s wife thinks he is a postman, but in reality he spends his days in the Scottish hills. One day he meets Jody, a fellow walker.
E5
Housewives' Choice
1976-10-19
When Joyce appears on the door-step she looks like the perfect 'kindly, respectable lady whom Marcia needs to look after her baby. But Joyce only seems to be the average housewife.
E6
Your Man from Six Counties
1976-10-26
A young man from Belfast is sent south to stay with relatives in an attempt to keep him out of trouble.
E7
Buffet
1976-11-02
Freddie is going through an existential crisis as everyone around him seems to doubt their own identity and the entire purpose of conversation. Surrounded by inflation and extra marital affairs, his only solace is in buffet room drinking.
E8
Love on a Gunboat
1977-01-04
In 1956 Britain staggers through crises in Suez and Cyprus while Leslie Potter pursues and marries Monica Dobbs. Twenty years later the nation has still not recovered. Neither has Leslie.
E9
The Kiss of Death
1977-01-11
A young man's chances at romance are thwarted by his own shyness.
E10
Our Flesh and Blood
1977-01-18
How Mums and Dads feel when they have one.
E11
Do As I Say
1977-01-25
A quietly unhappy housewife finds a stranger in her house and is raped at knife-point by him. But when she turns to friends, neighbors and her parents-in-law for sympathy, they all seem preoccupied by other matters.
E12
Spend, Spend, Spend
1977-03-15
The rags-to-riches-to-rags story of a 1960s football pools winner, based on a true story
E13
A Photograph
1977-03-22
A couple receives a photograph in the mail of two girls sitting in front of a caravan and neither can identify the people or the place.
E14
The Price of Coal: Meet The People
1977-03-29
A pair of plays, broadcast over two weeks, about mining life: ""Meet the People,"" about a coal mining community preparing for a royal visit, and ""Back to Reality,"" about a coal mining disaster that brings tragedy to a community.
E15
The Price of Coal: Back To Reality
1977-04-05
A pair of plays, broadcast over two weeks, about mining life: ""Meet the People,"" about a coal mining community preparing for a royal visit, and ""Back to Reality,"" about a coal mining disaster that brings tragedy to a community.
E16
Gotcha
1977-04-12
A student holds his teacher hostage in the classroom on the last day of school.
E17
Campion's Interview
1977-04-12
A story about school.
E18
A Choice of Evils
1977-04-19
The story of Father Borelli who in Rome during World War II must choose between freedom and his principles
E19
The Country Party
1977-04-26
Richard Elkinson, the former stockbroker, is now running a country restaurant. His daughter decides to spring a surprise on him in an attempt to change his life for the better.

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