Irene Shubik

A psychologist comes to believe that the acutely autistic 17-year-old girl that he has been attempting to treat is gifted with telepathic powers, and...

Isabella and Henry were childhood sweethearts. Isabella dreams of the arrival of a vulgar woman named Emily.

Len climbs Veronica and Percy’s fence intent on burglary, but what really happens next? The three acts of the play show the incident from each...

Helga and David travel to a secluded hotel for some alone time. Helga is much older than David and tongues wag among the other guests. The more time...

Livingston, a psychic investigator, is asked to attend a seance. Can it be that he has finally discovered a genuine supernatural phenomenon!?

A young train spotter heads to Staffordshire for a historic journey through a soon to be condemned tunnel. During his trip, he encounters a series of...

Sovereign's Company is the story of a boy from an army family with a long tradition of honour and distinction, who goes to a military academy as an...

A british colonel and his wife decide to remain in India after the departure of the British raj in the 1940s.

The first Play for Today is the story of one man's obsession (to win the world long distance piano playing record) and the battle for good (his wife)...

Earth is no more, destroyed by nuclear war; but itinerant handyman Bert Foster, wandering the canals of Mars, is possessed by a restlessness for a...

A boy is skilled at telepathy and in mind control. He attracts the attention of the government.

The future. Criminals serve prison sentences before they commit their crimes. Prisons are on new planets that are being colonised. After serving...

The Chronoscope is a device that analyses ancient photons to allow a glimpse into any event in Earth's distant past. Historian Arnold Potterley is...

Henry Wilkes cultivates rare tropical plants.The length to which he goes to propagate and nurture new hybrids alarms his wife.

Dr Max Harrow is awakened from a re-current nightmare in which he is pursued by a barbaric accusing figures, to find a tramp collapsed on his...

An expedition sets out to discover what has happened to a lost colony on a distant planet. Amongst the scientists is a teenager raised to be a kind...

The Future. Robot labour and free energy make the creation of goods easy and automatic. Now people are continually supplied with more things than...

The future. The material needs of people are tended by the Machine, which makes their environment, in vast tunnels beneath the earth, comfortable and...

The future. The TAU-mode shuttle carries passengers to Australia through the earth's crust. When a routine TAU-shuttle becomes entombed in solid rock...

Déja vu: as Guy Birkett goes through the day he has a nagging feeling that he's been here before, experienced this already; except the details...

Level 7 is the deepest and the safest level in a nuclear bunker. The nerve centre of the government is based here. But how safe is it?

On Jupiter's moon Ganymede, an alien life-form has taken over the body of a human astronaut, creating an almost perfect copy. It then begins the long...

When an elderly woman is hospitalised, the truth behind her illegal adoption of 14 children is revealed.

An army private is driven to murder when his wife falls in love with another man.

A group of coal miners from Nottingham go on their annual trip to Blackpool.

Bisthorpe moves into a flat where a host of bizarre events occur: hands come through walls, light bulbs explode, furniture talks, he turns into a...

Alf and Jack, two labourers hired to work in a quarry,have decided to go on strike because of the degrading nature of the job.

An adaptation of Daphne du Maurier's 1966 short story of the same title, broadcast as part of the BBC's "BBC2 Playhouse".

Comedy play about a seaside photographer, Henry Hunter, who goes to Margate every year to work, staying with his friends Frank and Hylda. However, he...

Jimmy Nicholson returns from working in the Middle East to visit his son at boarding school. He went to the same public school himself and is...

A family gather together for the funeral and cremation of the head of the family.

NSPCC social worker Margaret Ashdown is given the case of investigating into the Gosse family, when the young mother, Sheila, is unable to explain...

Peter Barkham hero-worships his distinguished father. However, this is threatened by the intrusion of events and people from his father's wartime...

When it's time to wet the baby's head, it's surprising the secrets that emerge...

When Len Shelton retires from a life of work in the coal mines, he turns to his first love - pigeons, which become a symbol of hope for him.

Eddie Ritchie once ' played for England,' or did he? The team have their doubts.

A stolid British family from Bishops Stortford are adventurous and book a holiday in a villa in Morocco, where things befall them.

After a suicide attempt, John Rainbird is in a coma. Whilst in this state his mind experiences fantasies involving nightmare creatures and his...

The first in a series of new plays. Arthur and Gwen, a cosy middle-aged couple, remember with nostalgia the pre-Motorway Britain of their youth. When...

Play set in the Caribbean showing how life is hard and a struggle, with problems of unemployment and lack of money.

TV play by Bernard Kops. Moss is a miser who only love is his grandson. Then tragedy strikes and Moss is "reborn".

A married man forms a liaison with a woman he meets on a train, and is divorced by his wife who allows him access to their daughters on Sundays,...

Under stress, Irish tenant farmer Michael Regan, suddenly snaps one day and locks himself in his home, threatening the lives of his wife and child.

Two sworn enemies, one black and the other white, are forced to confront their prejudices when they are forced together by circumstance.

A salesman learns a few lessons from the locals when he goes to Yorkshire for a business course.

A British play about homelessness by Jeremy Sandford, writer of "Cathy Come Home", first broadcast as a BBC Play For Today. It details the...

A school story with a noticeable difference - the adults regress to children.

A prison visitor becomes involved with a convicted sex offender.

From BBC2 Playhouse's The Mind Beyond series. Professor Reeve wonders about strange events that seem to be connected to Stonehenge (Source: BBC).

Mr Mockler and Mrs Acland have never met, but gradually Mrs Acland 's ghosts begin to take over Mr Mockler 's life.

When Mrs Hinch, the sinister charlady, decides to move in, General Suffolk fights his last battle.

Eleanor seems normal enough to her parents and teachers. Why then has she disappeared?

The wife of a public school head becomes gradually aware that her husband has been physically abusing his pupils. Written by the master of...