Red Letter Day
1976 · 1 season · 7 episodes · Ended · ITV1
Drama, Comedy
TMDB 6.0 · 2 votes
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
- S01E01Ready When You Are, Mr. McGill1976-01-1150m
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.
- S01E02The Five Pound Orange1976-01-1850m
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.
- S01E03Well Thank You, Thursday1976-01-2550m
Miss Shepherd is getting a new desk, but things don't go entirely as expected.
- S01E04Amazing Stories1976-02-0150m
Weird tale of a family who are apparently being taken over by vegetables.
- S01E05Matchfit1976-02-0850m
A grumpy Scottish soccer boss meets a young fan in a TB sanatorium.
- S01E06For Services to Myself1976-02-1550m
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.
- S01E07Bag of Yeast1976-02-2250m
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
