The Afternoon Play - Season 1

First aired: 1/27/2003 5 episodes
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Episodes

1. Turkish Delight

Aired: 1/27/2003

A bored housewife finds glamour and excitement when she starts a job belly-dancing in a Turkish restaurant.

2. Coming Up for Air

Aired: 1/28/2003

Drama about an overworked, unhappy widower who suffers stress- and shock- related amnesia when he takes a holiday to Spain.  With the help of a woman he meets out there, he then has to rediscover his old identity, meeting family and colleagues as if for the first time. 

3. The Real Arnie Griffin

Aired: 1/29/2003

Comic drama about an undercover store detective who prides himself on his disguises but longs to solve real crimes.  When he sees a chance to both impress his estranged wife and investigate a hit- and -run, he seizes it.  

4. Heroes and Villains

Aired: 1/30/2003

Classic gang-show comedy set on a deprived housing estate. Jonny steals some dodgy leather jackets that turn out to have drugs in them, and they are sold to the locals before Marlene gets a tip-off and realises they must be retrieved

5. Girls' Weekend

Aired: 1/31/2003

Kate's hen weekend is beset with disasters, culminating in a vodka-fuelled revelation.