# The Play on One

The Play on One (Play on One in the final series) is a British television drama anthology series, produced by the BBC Nations and Regions in its studios outside London, and transmitted on BBC1 from 19 January 1988 to 29 August 1991.

## Plays

| Date | Title | Writer | Director | Producer |
| 19 January 1988 | Down Where the Buffalo Go | Peter McDougall | Ian Knox | Andy Park |
| Cast: Harvey Keitel, Andrew Byatt, Stella Gonet, David Lansbury, Katherine Stark, Jenny McCrindle, Hugh Martin, Lesley Jackson, Alex McAvoy, Bill Barclay, Craig Ferguson, Pat Doyle, Ron Donachie and Maggie Bell |||||
| 26 January 1988 | The Dark Room | Julian Gloag | Guy Slater | Norman McCandlish |
| Cast: Susan Wooldridge, Philip Jackson, Julie Graham, Jacqueline Gilbride, Edith Ruddick, Irene Sunters, Belinda Adye, Terry Cavers, Jean Bruce, Maria McAuley, William Blair, Keith Neill, Ian Briggs, Andrew Celli, Stewart Aitken, Paul Samson, Grace Glover, Katy Hale, Eliza Langland, Bridget McCann, Sheila Greer-Smith and Gordon Kane |||||
| 2 February 1988 | Normal Service | John Byrne | Garth Tucker | Andy Park |
| Cast: Kenneth Cranham, Richard Wilson, Martin Cochrane, Frederick Warder, Alex McCrindle, Tony Roper, Katy Murphy and Stuart Davids |||||
| 9 February 1988 | The Dunroamin' Rising | Colin MacDonald | Moira Armstrong | Tom Kinninmont |
| Cast: Russell Hunter, Elizabeth Sellars, Thorley Walters, Hugh Lloyd, Madeleine Christie, Jennifer Piercey, Siobhan Redmond, David Rintoul, Andy Gray, Simon Donald, Irene Sunters and Ida Schuster |||||
| 16 February 1988 | A Wholly Healthy Glasgow | Iain Heggie | Richard Wilson | Bill Bryden |
| Cast: Tom Watson, Gerard Kelly, Paul Higgins, Adam Crowther and Tony Betts |||||
| 23 February 1988 | Unreported Incident | David Martin | Christopher Baker | Norman McCandlish |
| Cast: T. P. McKenna, Maurice Roëves, David Calder, Tim Brierley, Marsha Hunt, Nickolas Grace, Kika Mirylees, Emlyn Price, Maggie Ollerenshaw, Grace Glover, Malcolm Kaye, Nigel Lambert, Carl Rigg, Andrew Secombe, Alan Downer, Eric Allan, Bill Caddick and Tara Ward |||||
| 1 March 1988 | Airbase | Malcolm McKay | David Attwood | Roger Gregory |
| Cast: Anton Lesser, Clive Mantle, Catherine Russell, David Lansbury, Ricco Ross, Stevan Rimkus and Norman Beaton |||||
| 8 March 1988 | The Party | Trevor Griffiths | Sebastian Graham-Jones | Norman McCandlish |
| Cast: Andrew Keir, Jack Shepherd, Kenneth Cranham, Oliver Cotton, Gawn Grainger, Robert Walker, Bob Mason, Mary Conlon, Kate McKenzie, Vincenzo Ricotta and Siv Borg |||||
| 21 February 1989 | Heartland | Steve Gough | Kevin Billington | Christine Benson |
| Cast: Anthony Hopkins, Lynn Farleigh, Glyn Houston, Mark Lewis Jones, Martin Glyn Murray, Hugh Fraser, Paul Humpoletz, Jane Horrocks, Gemma Heritage, Mike Hayward, Hubert Rees, David Quilter, Geoffrey Evans, Bill Bellamy and Gareth Morris |||||
| 28 February 1989 | These Foolish Things | Elizabeth Spender | Charles Gormley | Andy Park |
| Cast: James Fox, Lindsay Duncan, Ciaran Madden, Michael Keating, Anthony Dutton, Tom Knight, Alex Kingston, Nina Cowan, Eva Lohman, Chloe Salaman, Charlotte Attenborough, Michael Howe, Andrew Seear, Katherine Fahy, Frannie Parkes, Michael Fitzgerald, Andrew Barr and Edmund Dehn |||||
| 7 March 1989 | Govan Ghost Story | Bryan Elsley | David Hayman | Aileen Forsyth |
| Cast: Tom Watson, Fletcher Mathers, Julia Wallace, Denise McDonald, Jim Twaddale, Jackie Farrell, Finlay Welsh, Alex Howden, Mamie Stirling, Stewart Ennis, Chanel Stringfellow, Matthew Costello, Paul Samson, Pat Ross and Subash Singh Pall |||||
| 14 March 1989 | The Shawl | David Mamet | Bill Bryden | Susanna Capon |
| Cast: Nigel Hawthorne, Brenda Blethyn and Karl Johnson |||||
| 21 March 1989 | A View of Harry Clark | Daniel Boyle | Alastair Reid | Tom Kinninmont |
| Cast: Griff Rhys Jones, Elaine Paige, Laura Claire Duerden, Benjie Lawrence, Charlotte Coleman, Adrian Murphy, Ian Hart, Jake D'Arcy, Mary Ann Reid, Louis Emerick, James Culshaw, Al T Kossy, Mitzi Meuller, Sandra Gough, Iain McColl, Ian Sexon, Grace Kirby and Jill Balcon |||||
| 28 March 1989 | The Gift | Colin MacDonald | Sandy Johnson | Andy Park |
| Cast: Duncan MacDonald, David Campbell, Del Henney, Clive Russell, Andrew Barr, Tommy Docherty, Jim Baxter, Pauline Thompson, Aline Mowat, Derek Anders, Bill Riddoch, Maggie McRitchie, Richard Cartledge, John Murtagh, Matthew Costello, Christopher Connor and Alan Tall |||||
| 4 April 1989 | Clowns | Gawn Grainger | David Maloney | Tom Kinninmont |
| Cast: Harry Andrews, Angela Down, Stephen Moore, Quona Minster, Robbie Engels, Alex Davion, Elizabeth Chambers, Ann Curthoys, Geoffrey Whitehead, Anne Kristen, Michael Keating, Jenny Twigge, Jenny McCrindle, Sam Miller, Christopher Elwell-Sutton, Richard Bell, Daniel Rodgers, Julia Marshall, Penny Sharp, Wendy Bishop and Simon Rodgers |||||
| 11 April 1989 | Biting the Hands | Rona Munro | Carol Wilks | Norman McCandlish |
| Cast: Judith Sweeney, Louise Beattie, Anne Kristen, Ewan Stewart, Stephanie Fayerman, Andrew Robertson, Tony Roper, Billy McElhanney, Audrey Jenkinson, Hilary MacLean, Douglas Anderson, Kerry Arthur, Marcus Railton, Kenny McFadyen and David Tennant |||||
| 18 April 1989 | A Master of the Marionettes | Guy Hibbert | Pedr James | Michael Wearing |
| Cast: Kenneth Cranham, Kenneth Colley, Carol Drinkwater, John Duttine, David Bradley, Noel Collins, Lennox Greaves, Sean Chapman, Elaine Donnelly, Peter Hughes, Lloyd McGuire, John Cunningham, Richenda Carey, Peter Yapp, Simon James, Matthew Hutchings, Lydia Hutchings and Alison Gorton |||||
| 25 April 1989 | Unexplained Laughter | Alun Owen from the novel by Alice Thomas Ellis | Gareth Davies | Tom Kinninmont |
| Cast: Diana Rigg, Elaine Paige, Joanna David, Jon Finch, Robert Gwilym, Cindy Holden, Robert East, Emlyn Price, Howell Evans, Patricia Kane, Moir Leslie, Anna Linstrum and Miriam Margolyes |||||
| 26 July 1990 | Changing Step | Antony Sher | Richard Wilson | Andy Park |
| Cast: James Convey, Susan Wooldridge, Eleanor Bron, Antony Sher, Sandra Voe, Jason Boyle, Terry Cavers, Helena Gillies, Sheila Donald, Fenella Kerr, Laurence McCann, Ewan Marshall, Ralph Riach, Margaretta Scott, Geof Armstrong, Jim Brogan, Jean Bruce, Brown Derby, Colin Duthie, John Wilson Goddard, Peter Hull, Brian Quinn, Garry Stewart and Dex Warren |||||
| 2 August 1990 | The Wreck on the Highway | Colin MacDonald | Sandy Johnson | Norman McCandlish |
| Cast: Tam White, Lynn Anderson, Ryan Quinn, C P Grogan, Duncan Duff, William Steel, Rachel Robertson and Angus MacInnes |||||
| 9 August 1990 | Killing Time | Kevin Elyot | David Attwood | Hilary Salmon |
| Cast: Pip Donaghy, Aidan Gillen, Harold Innocent, Hilda Fenemore, Ivor Roberts, Patrick Cremin, Ian Bailey, Bill McCabe, Chas Bryer, Geoffrey Greenhill, Lewis George and Stephen Morris |||||
| 16 August 1990 | Obituaries | David Conville | David Blair | Aileen Forsyth |
| Cast: Ian Carmichael, Ronald Fraser and Polly Hemingway |||||
| 23 August 1990 | Separation | Tom Kempinski | Barry Davis | Paddy Higson |
| Cast: David Suchet and Rosanna Arquette |||||
| 30 August 1990 | Yellowbacks | Malcolm McKay | Roy Battersby | Peter Broughan |
| Cast: Janet McTeer, Roy Marsden, Bill Paterson, Tim Roth, Imelda Staunton, Kenny Ireland, Ciarán Hinds, Luke Hanson, Linda Henry and Jonathan Phillips |||||
| 25 July 1991 | Misterioso | Alan Plater | John Glenister | Norman McCandlish |
| Cast: Suzan Sylvester, Jack Shepherd, Hugh Ross, Eilidh Alexander, David Michaels, Paul Stacey, Sharon Duce, Keith Marsh, Margery Mason, Angela Douglas, Gawn Grainger, Angela Morant, Gabrielle Reidy, David Jackson, Valerie Buchanan and Rachel Ogilvy |||||
| 1 August 1991 | Gas and Candles | Jimmy McGovern | Alvin Rakoff | Norman McCandlish |
| Cast: Edna Doré, Bert Parnaby, Leslie Sands, Simon Oates, Richard Brain, Rod Culbertson, Mark Lewis Jones and Kenneth Bryans |||||
| 8 August 1991 | Escape from Kampala | Wycliffe Kato adapted by Margaret and Eric Leclere | Roy Battersby | Aileen Forsyth |
| Cast: John Matshikiza, Rudolph Walker, Oke Wambu, John Adewoll, Leo Wringer, Eddie Nestor, Thomas Baptiste, Hepburn Graham, Valentine Nonyela, Tunde Babs, Christian Dixon, Stephen K Amos, Jabu Mbalo, Raymond Johnson, Ilario Bisi-Pedro, Dorothy Brown, Joy Elias-Rilwan, Ian Roberts, Reginald Tsiboe, Chris Gilbert and Troy Fairclough |||||
| 15 August 1991 | And the Cow Jumped over the Moon | Donna Franceschild | Penny Cherns | Aileen Forsyth |
| Cast: Phyllis Logan, Elaine Collins, Anne Downie, Ida Schuster, Andy Gray, Billy McElhaney and Joseph Charles |||||
| 22 August 1991 | Out of the Blue | Graham Alborough | Nick Hamm | Barry Hanson |
| Cast: Colin Firth, Catherine Zeta Jones, John Lynch, Cathy Tyson, Dexter Fletcher, Wendy Morgan, Jonathan Kydd, Dominique Atkins, Bill Cashmore, Tina Deen and Daniel Strauss |||||
| 29 August 1991 | Effie's Burning | Valerie Windsor | Nigel Evans | Tom Kinninmont |
| Cast: Paula Tilbrook, Phyllis Logan and Gordon Jackson |||||