About this season
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.
Episodes (7)
1. Ready When You Are, Mr. McGill
Aired 11 January 1976 • 50 min
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
Aired 18 January 1976 • 50 min
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
Aired 25 January 1976 • 50 min
Miss Shepherd is getting a new desk, but things don't go entirely as expected.
4. Amazing Stories
Aired 1 February 1976 • 50 min
Weird tale of a family who are apparently being taken over by vegetables.
5. Matchfit
Aired 8 February 1976 • 50 min
A grumpy Scottish soccer boss meets a young fan in a TB sanatorium.
6. For Services to Myself
Aired 15 February 1976 • 50 min
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
Aired 22 February 1976 • 50 min
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