Synopsis
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
Season 11E1Ready When You Are, Mr. McGillA 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.50m2E2The Five Pound OrangeFor 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.50m3E3Well Thank You, ThursdayMiss Shepherd is getting a new desk, but things don't go entirely as expected.50m4E4Amazing StoriesWeird tale of a family who are apparently being taken over by vegetables.50m5E5MatchfitA grumpy Scottish soccer boss meets a young fan in a TB sanatorium.50m6E6For Services to MyselfLife-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.50m7E7Bag of YeastLiverpool 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 devastated50m
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