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Red Letter Day

TV·1976–1976·1 season, 7 episodes·ITV1·Drama, Comedy·50m

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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 by season

Season017Episodes1976Aired—Season avg
  1. S01E01Ready When You Are, Mr. McGillJanuary 11, 1976—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
  2. S01E02The Five Pound OrangeJanuary 18, 1976—For many men edging on middle-age a mistress is a wistful pipe-dream. Gilbert has made fantasy into fact. But he becomes increasingly uncomf
  3. S01E03Well Thank You, ThursdayJanuary 25, 1976—Miss Shepherd is getting a new desk, but things don't go entirely as expected.
  4. S01E04Amazing StoriesFebruary 1, 1976—Weird tale of a family who are apparently being taken over by vegetables.
  5. S01E05MatchfitFebruary 8, 1976—A grumpy Scottish soccer boss meets a young fan in a TB sanatorium.
  6. S01E06For Services to MyselfFebruary 15, 1976—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
  7. S01E07Bag of YeastFebruary 22, 1976—Liverpool primary school teacher Tony Scannell stuns his family by announcing he is going to be ordained as a priest in a Roman Catholic Chu

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