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Red Letter Day

Season 1

1976 · 7 episodes

  1. 1. Ready When You Are, Mr. McGill

    1976-01-11 · 50m

    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. 2. The Five Pound Orange

    1976-01-18 · 50m

    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. 3. Well Thank You, Thursday

    1976-01-25 · 50m

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

  4. 4. Amazing Stories

    1976-02-01 · 50m

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

  5. 5. Matchfit

    1976-02-08 · 50m

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

  6. 6. For Services to Myself

    1976-02-15 · 50m

    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. 7. Bag of Yeast

    1976-02-22 · 50m

    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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