Play for Today

Season 3 Episode 18: The Operation

14 Seasons Feb 26, 1973 NR 1h 21m 7.9

David Adler is an operator. He strips assets, other men's wives, and his oldest friend's soul - anything for a cool million.

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Season 3 Episodes:

Episode 1 The Reporters

1. The Reporters

Aired: Oct 9, 1972

Two provincial newspaper reporters - one a young idealist starting out on his...

Episode 2 A Life Is Forever

2. A Life Is Forever

Aired: Oct 16, 1972

Johnson begins his life sentence for the murder of a policeman. It is not lon...

Episode 4 Man Friday

4. Man Friday

Aired: Oct 30, 1972

The familiar story of Robinson Crusoe - this time told from the viewpoint of ...

Episode 5 Triple Exposure

5. Triple Exposure

Aired: Nov 6, 1972

A hippie breaks into the house of a middle-aged couple and forms a relationsh...

Episode 8 The Bankrupt

8. The Bankrupt

Aired: Nov 27, 1972

Ellis is 50, bankrupt and showing signs of psychosis. He fantasises about kil...

Episode 9 Just Your Luck

9. Just Your Luck

Aired: Dec 4, 1972

A pregnant teenager sets about wooing a sailor in a sectarian council estate ...

Episode 10 The Bouncing Boy

10. The Bouncing Boy

Aired: Dec 11, 1972

A young couple have a baby boy. However, the new father doesn't take to his n...

Episode 12 Land of Green Ginger

12. Land of Green Ginger

Aired: Jan 15, 1973

Faced with the prospect of being sent to work abroad, Sally Brown returns hom...

Episode 13 Kisses at Fifty

13. Kisses at Fifty

Aired: Jan 22, 1973

A fifty-year-old factory worker leaves his wife of many years for another woman.

Episode 14 Highway Robbery

14. Highway Robbery

Aired: Jan 29, 1973

A man fights council plans to demolish his home to make way for a new bypass....

Episode 15 Song at Twilight

15. Song at Twilight

Aired: Feb 5, 1973

The story of a defiant football manager in terminal decline. This edition is ...

Episode 16 Only Make Believe

16. Only Make Believe

Aired: Feb 12, 1973

Playwright Christopher Hudson finds his medical problem hinders his writing. ...

Episode 18 The Operation

18. The Operation

Aired: Feb 26, 1973

David Adler is an operator. He strips assets, other men's wives, and his olde...

Episode 20 Hard Labour

20. Hard Labour

Aired: Mar 12, 1973

A quiet and put-upon house cleaner breaks her silence.

Episode 21 Man Above Men

21. Man Above Men

Aired: Mar 19, 1973

"I'm the judge's daughter - I think he's a monstrous old man. I think all men...

Episode 22 Speech Day

22. Speech Day

Aired: Mar 26, 1973

Three underachievers have fun at a school speech day.

Episode 23 Steps Back

23. Steps Back

Aired: May 14, 1973

"Fifteen years since I was forced t' leave, forced t' leave me roots, the ter...

Episode 24 Three's One

24. Three's One

Aired: Jun 4, 1973

Are Maggie and Tony using each other as a means of communicating with Dr Leaf...

Episode 26 Blooming Youth

26. Blooming Youth

Aired: Jun 18, 1973

Four students go through their third year studying literature at a polytechni...

Episode 27 The Stretch

27. The Stretch

Aired: Jun 25, 1973

Everyone always looked after Maureen. But her husband comes home after two ye...

Episode 28 Making the Play

28. Making the Play

Aired: Jul 2, 1973

They no longer live together because, after 11 years, the marriage is over. S...

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Current Status: Ended

Network: BBC One

Genres: Comedy, Drama