Red Letter Day

It happens in almost everyone's life. There is a special day - a day of unusual significance. A turning point in life, perhaps in career, romance or fortune; a day to remember. This anthology of plays, each as individual as the people and events portrayed, looks at seven such Red Letter Days.

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1. Ready When You Are, Mr. McGill

Air Date: 1976-01-11

A film extra has won a chance for the big break in his career. He has two crucial lines in a television film, but nothing goes according to plan.

2. The Five Pound Orange

Air Date: 1976-01-18

For many men edging on middle-age a mistress is a wistful pipe-dream. Gilbert has made fantasy into fact. But he becomes increasingly uncomfortable when his mistress makes him go against his code of ethics and forces him to burgle his wife's flat.

3. Well Thank You, Thursday

Air Date: 1976-01-25

Miss Shepherd is getting a new desk, but things don't go entirely as expected.

4. Amazing Stories

Air Date: 1976-02-01

Weird tale of a family who are apparently being taken over by vegetables.

5. Matchfit

Air Date: 1976-02-08

A grumpy Scottish soccer boss meets a young fan in a TB sanatorium.

6. For Services to Myself

Air Date: 1976-02-15

Life-long socialist Roger Banks has mixed feelings about going to London to receive the OBE from the Queen. While his family are happy that his work for community has been honoured, Roger feels he has betrayed his working class roots.

7. Bag of Yeast

Air Date: 1976-02-22

Liverpool primary school teacher Tony Scannell stuns his family by announcing he is going to be ordained as a priest in a Roman Catholic Church. Tony's father James, a Communist, and girlfriend Margaret are left devastated

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Rating

6.0/10

Release Date

1976-01-11

Episodes

7 (1 seasons)

Status

Ended