PLAY FOR TODAY -- A Sudden Wrench ( 12th Season )

[@turboslag]

Really miss this type of TV play, so grounded, real world and morally rich. Also fascinating to see our everyday world without computers, social media and smart phones!

[@richardcummins5465]

What a lovely story. From the days when Television was enjoyable. Long since gone, sadly. ❤

[@sionnach3104]

No loud ads, no unexpected tension - just a heart-warming story which was well acted and charming. Really lovely.

[@LouiseRutkowski]

Wonderful play and well observed. Nice to see a very young Jesse Birdsall too.

[@S7EVE_P]

A young Jesse Birdsall at 21:47 who went in to star in Eldorado, Inspector Morse and Midsomer Murders!

[@racheldoesacrylic4089]

wow the world back then eh in the 1970s i remember it well ,human contact has been lost shops have closed ,pubs ,clubs, meeting places /2024 most are alone indoors on a computer in different rooms //yeah we lost human contact all right //really upsetting Thanks for vid x

[@biffa1234100]

dont fret sweetheart the real world Is all around you just feel it.

[@jemmajames6719]

Seeing a picture of Toyah on the door this must be 81 or 82 I reckon.

[@jemmajames6719]

God that girl is a horrible selfish pain in the arse!

[@timothydigiuseppe1753]

I did not know of this series until I came across it this week and am very glad I did. The stories and the performances are remarkable. Thanks so much for posting.

[@EM-lz9kg]

Videotapes of thirty-seven of the episodes produced between 1970 and 75 were wiped after transmission, and no copies of many of them are known to exist - so thank you so much for putting these up

[@helenlauer9545]

why did that happen?

[@moran68]

@@helenlauer9545 They thought the majority of the Uk population would commit suicide after watching them .

[@juliussmit7886]

@@helenlauer9545 I recently learnt from a Play For Today documentary on the British Film Institute website, that video tape was expensive in the early 1970s, even for the BBC! So, quite a few were re-used for other recordings. Yes, a great pity.

[@PamelaMcIntyre-d1j]

Even Beatles' appearances on BBC got erased and re used. @@juliussmit7886

[@juliaperry2812]

@@helenlauer9545 tapes reused, too expensive to use only once

[@abegibson9765]

Absolutely brilliant play.. with exquisite performances...not withstanding the lead!

[@user-lx6bl2wd8g]

Excellent from start to finish. Thoroughly absorbing. Thanks so much for the upload.

[@yiquanawalkb4run26]

beautiful, excellent and very very funny, thank you

[@cg9616]

A great programme, thank you👍

[@cajsheen2594]

Loved it! Smiling away at the end with her! And Bella Notte playing it in and out! Thankyou! XXX

[@helenlauer9545]

we're all smiling . . . gad. those that made those first moves into terrain where we don't belong. like stepping on clouds in heaven when it FINALLY works.

[@RS-xo3rb]

It's unknown yet strong women like the lead that has not only created a physical space but mental space too for the future generations of women. Thanks to all our mothers, aunts, grandmothers, and many generations of all such great women and men who had made life easier for you and me!

[@thadtuiol1717]

Lol, you can't even define a woman now.

[@vanessahawarden9028]

Just brilliant; loved it…..thank you!!!

[@cajsheen2594]

Leading actress was brilliant! ❤XXX

[@peterreid9769]

Some great acting in these plays.

[@martinworld7214]

good to see an uplifting episode , I enjoyed this. Thanks yet again

[@snowdog9954]

It might be 40 years ago (1982!) but I completely identify with this mother's life and despair at the start

[@cruisepaige]

Get out.

[@deegeraghty9426]

What a lovely play! Thank you😊

[@neilldehaan2522]

Excellent play. Thanks for the upload.

[@executivedecision6141]

I uploaded this 9 days a go, but watching it now. It is one of the better episodes, with good production value.

[@Jonanny1]

Enjoyed watching this thank you, and also learnt something new, never knew about ‘U’ Values until today! :)

[@rachelstevens111]

Loved this! Thank you.

[@carolswarbrick1722]

You get your own dignity when you attempt something hard. Its blooming marvellous...l always did diy... my dad had me cutting edges off wallpaper to start, l was very small child....been blessed ever since. 59:44

[@carolecochrane8173]

I did the same I would help my dad the wallpaper when I was a small child, he taught me to change a plug and fix the fuse from the fuse box if the lights ever blew. 😀😀

[@cruisepaige]

I hit a law degree and passed on husbands and kids. Now THAT is blooming marvelous!

[@thinker9115]

Wonderful play! Really enjoyed it. Thanks.

[@mooseing22]

Love this channel.

[@vivienneandersson6019]

I loved this, thanks.

[@railwaychristina3192]

This play shows how far we have come but what we have also lost. Nowadays, knackered and overstretched women would give anything to be able to stay at home, rather than having to work until 70 and still manage everything. Not so much the have it all, as the do it all generation.

[@paulhaywood1615]

Whilst the men were dying in the mines, wars etc, grow up, your mind has been corrupted by feminazis.

[@railwaychristina3192]

@paul haywood ...ah , the moment you come out with personal comments, you defeat what little argument you had! Such a shame schools don't teach rational debate any more.

[@railwaychristina3192]

@paul haywood Oh, and if you read my statement properly, you would understand that I was speaking about the experience of the majority of women today, not so much the have it all generation, but the do it all generation.

[@gardenroom65]

Divorce liberates us.

[@MrYorickJenkins]

in what way are you obviously proficient in rational debate yourself? I must have missed something, because I saw no personal comment at all in what was said@@railwaychristina3192

[@sallybutton6237]

It never fails to amaze me how women that go to work are also expected to do the cooking, cleaning etc. for the family. When I worked no one lifted a finger to help with any of the household chores. The majority of men go to work & come home to clean clothes, dinner on the table etc. I’d like to see them go to work & run an entire household on top of it. I know some men help out & the kids but in my experience it’s very rare.

[@martinworld7214]

you should have been giving this speech earlier in this play ?

[@kenchapman2126]

WelI I must be one of the rare ones as we shared all the responsibilities.

[@larkatmic]

Is the reason why most, not all women should stay home, keep house, raise their kids and care for their husbands. Feminisms lies have destroyed families, put women in danger and created women who suffer more from mental illness today and a soon to be over 50 spinster lonely generation. What a shame

[@FiFi-wt9zj]

That only happens if the woman allows it to. Anyone I know chores are shared

[@paulhaywood1615]

Oh good god, not the feminazi movement, all that did was destroy families and turn females even more narcissistic, selfish women, eternal victim types revel in it all.

[@brucedanton3669]

Rosemary Martin also later starred in the series Driving Ambition, which was first shown on BBC1 in 1984. That too was also written by Paula Milne. A very nice actor, although I read that later on she died in 1998 or so too sadly. Thank you of course!

[@brucedanton3669]

Thank you for the highlighted comment there so too of course.

[@lizdoyle7158]

Brilliant just goes to show whether its a man or woman they can do the washing up cleaning shopping and both work Together or on there own inside and outside the home

[@helenlauer9545]

It's wonderful. At 52:00 it is just spectacular.

[@1952mrpdc]

A very good interesting play. Well worth watching. Thank you for uploading this. PC. 03. 09. 2023

[@executivedecision6141]

For anyone wondering on March 9, 2024.... It's not a year yet! 1952mrpdc wrote this on September 3, 2023. Thank you and drive safely! 😁

[@jonathanveale119]

Terrific, human tale. Better than most rubbish we get thrown at us nowadays.

[@crumplezone1]

Rosemary Martin died way too young at 61 in 1998, fine looking woman too

[@railwaychristina3192]

Chucking that cat off the bed! What th... I wait for mine to leave before I make the bed They own the house.

[@gailmiler2797]

Exactly, that was so rude of her, I would never do that! I want my kitty 😺 to be comfortable.

[@stephaniemurria5534]

Keep them out my yard. I own that.

[@julielewis5051]

I thought that! How rude to do that to a cat, wouldn't see that happen to a dog (not that you should)

[@tridbant]

Excellent. That’s job satisfaction.

[@kattydover6356]

Brilliant

[@lisamurray6780]

Brilliant❤

[@craigruddock3824]

Top notch that. Gives the females that good feeling vibe and a little bit of titillation for the males😍

[@cruisepaige]

You're disgusting. Calling us "females." You can't even say women. You're gross.

[@michellewal8219]

Well done! A slice of a possibility!.

[@paulmaryon9088]

Great stuff!

[@missymunro7691]

Really enjoyable x

[@tonynapoli5549]

Thanks for sharing 👌👌

[@sdreduk4364]

Wonderful, I wonder how many women were inspired to try something new after it was originally aired.

[@Barbara.Lerner.Spectre]

7:24 And I thought my mother was the only one who hung underwear out on the washing line 🙈

[@lisarobertson3576]

At minute 40: "You probably killed a brickie." Best one liner I've heard in a long time.

[@Charles-in8cw]

Great play feel good with emotion and great acting making me actually feel I want to actors to be happy the actress playing main part is amazing. Thank you for posting this great stuff.

[@EM-lz9kg]

My mother passed her 11 plus & got loads of 0’levels & was sent to Secretary school . We want equality. Men & women treated equally & fairly . It was all about my father going to Oxford & Sussex universities. Both my parents worked

[@kathyflorcruz552]

What IS equal about making everyone the same regardless of ability? The outcome is never equal. You cannot force different gender choices or abilities via SJW LAWS.

[@steve.s6741]

Excellent

[@chriswalford4161]

That would the first ever architect who knew his flow from his return.

[@gbhxu]

You'd have thought that the bloke would have had the tap end of the bath

[@ianhawdon3680]

Rosemary martin underrated actress

[@thadtuiol1717]

Nah, not really. She was middle of the road Eastenders stock.

[@jasperedwards2713]

cleaning the house is hard work i can never do it straight away, if youre in a relationship it must be 50,50 the daughter a hiprocrite she should understand her mother i dont think daughter understands about womens rights because she wants her mother to be the slave

[@stephaniemurria5534]

I had to help with the housework and cooking in the 70s. Nowadays these are the most entitled children ever.

[@kadiummusic]

44:53 Anybody what that song is? It's been bugging me for over 40 years! 😎

[@kadiummusic]

Found it! kzbin.info/www/bejne/f6GldYutfZasp68

[@AndyUK-Corrival]

Yes me too. Tried Shazam and sound hound. No luck so far. Need the music isolated from the chat.

[@iskrajackal9049]

Bella Notte apparently

[@EM-lz9kg]

Y is the daughter so hung up on her mum being independent & happy

[@Crazeyfor67]

Who blow dries their hair next to the breakfast table?

[@DDandrums]

I forgot how authoritarian Anna Raeburn was/is. And who could ever forget “can you do that for me please? Will you?”

[@thadtuiol1717]

Only a nation as cowed and subservient as the Brits would ever have given a patronizing, bossy person like that the time of the day on a national level.

[@MrYorickJenkins]

The daughter is a bit too obnoxious to be believable and then I think, yes we were all obnoxious at that age, give the girl a break... Anyway, this play really deals with the issue of rising feminism and consciousnes of gender equality ina genuinly sensitive way. Thank you for posting!

[@lesleymcshanemitchell9651]

What an acheivment Kudos to her for trying and suceeding. All women //men should stepout of there comfort zone and mix there gender supposedly roles

[@johnlawrence2757]

12th season - truly scraping the bottom of the barrel , and believe me that’s a long way down.

[@stephanieclini3834]

C'est bon pour le moral !!!

[@CR-yn5sy]

Women need to train their kids and husband to do their own cleaning as well not have expectations for the wife to do it all. If you do it all all the time expect them to do nothing

[@Firebrand55]

58.25...that smile.....it tells you all you need to know about the gap between men and women.....this women crossed it.

[@glenncambray626]

25:35 Charity begins at home.

[@CARLIN4737]

Jesse Birdsall

[@odd0odium]

Thank you for sharing these gems. Are you uploading somewhere else? especially the ones which were removed from here?

[@executivedecision6141]

Yeah, I'm uploading the uncut versions to Pirate Bay as torrent files. But I'm far ahead here on You Tube. A lot of these aren't on TPB yet. The videos I mostly removed, to avoid copyright warnings. Others with those I was able to mute for one or two minutes.

[@johnwheeler4034]

what's it to ya? god blessyim

[@cg9616]

Lovely film and aren’t kids demeaning 😂

[@jamesandolini1087]

14:55 - Good look mending a fuse, Love 😂

[@EM-lz9kg]

Why don’t the children help cook & clean & insult there mother

[@EM-lz9kg]

We had radio 4 on not radio 1 , radio 1 we listened to on Sunday for the top 40

[@cg9616]

I listened to radio 1 and 2 in the day. Now I have radio 4 and 4x

[@philipwelsh1862]

Was she gas registered? BOOOOOOOM

[@garyhunt8067]

Interesting. Please upload Shall I be mother

[@garybrown9526]

If I came home from work and the Mrs had installed the heating including the boiler I'd run as fast as I could,

[@EM-lz9kg]

Omg is the grifter from Grange Hill . Flat tops were all the range in the early 80’s

[@wescooley34]

Why didnt they use capt sensible for happy talk ?

[@DasTubemeister]

It hadn’t been released yet !

[@wescooley34]

@@DasTubemeister oh really both 1982 m8 !!!!!

[@DasTubemeister]

@@wescooley34 This play was shown on TV in March 82, and it appeared to have been filmed in summer 81. The Captain didn’t release his version until late June 82. I guess that’s why it wasn’t used. I did prefer his version to the South Pacific version though. It was a very memorable year for me aged 20/ 21, and Sensible’s version was part of the soundtrack to my summer, that’s why I commented.

[@wescooley34]

@@DasTubemeister damned fan ?

[@DasTubemeister]

@@wescooley34 Indeed. Clash ,Stranglers,Pistols, Sham 69..etc. Fan of old play for today too. I recommend Just a boys game,Nuts in May, Another Saturday and sweet FA.

[@kathreilly7050]

💜💜

[@keithrobertson5110]

Sssshhhhhh Sally it's your job. 😂

[@CARLIN4737]

Emancipation.

[@gerryhouska2859]

Some audio dropouts, otherwise most enjoyable.

[@davidshurville3658]

This is very prescient!!

[@MrTang-qo9wm]

Nothing more dreary than moralizing at a theatrical breakfast table.

[@jasperedwards2713]

i didnt6 understand the problem with toff arhictect but i think he was trying to pull a fast one but the workers were right

[@HookBeak_66]

A watchable drama but the story dragged a little half way through, to say this was 'brilliant' or 'excellent' is far too complimentary. Jesse Birdsall played "David" in this Play for Today. I remember him as "Macus Tandy" in the ill-fated BBC drama Eldorado in 1992-1993 which filled the schedule gap when Wogan finished.

[@wanderinggeri8477]

Maybe you found the subject matter dull?

[@xmaseveeve5259]

Too quiet.

[@retha1875]

Ugh. Blow drying and fixing hair in the kitchen!

[@QuadriviumNumbers]

Ok let's have a cuppa and watch yet another instalment of pro female/victim propaganda. Play For Today never dissapoints.

[@thadtuiol1717]

Left wing luvvies at the BBC daaaahling, they have to educate the plebs donchaknow?

[@cruisepaige]

Yikes I'm so glad I'm not a housewife or married or 😊back then.