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15th episode of the 5th series of Play for Today

"Just Another Saturday"

Play for Today episode

Poster featuring Jon Morrison

Episode no.

Series 5
Episode 15

Directed by

John Mackenzie

Written by

Peter McDougall

Original air date

13 March 1975 (1975-03-13)

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"Just Another Saturday" is the 15th episode of fifth season of the British BBC anthology TV series Play for Today. The episode was a television play that was originally broadcast on 13 March 1975. "Just Another Saturday" was written by Peter McDougall, directed by John Mackenzie, produced by Graeme MacDonald, and starred Jon Morrison and Billy Connolly.

"Just Another Saturday" is about the Orange walk culture. The episode won the Prix Italia for Best Drama.

Synopsis

John looks forward with nervous excitement to the annual Orange order march in Glasgow, in which he will lead his local Orange Lodge band as mace-swinger. However, as the day progresses he begins to become disillusioned with the day and his colleagues, as he witnesses their growing drunkenness and unwarranted violence against Catholic homes on the march's route. Events of the day lead him to question his involvement with the band, which also threatens his own safety.

Cast

Jon Morrison as John
Eileen McCallum as Lizzie
Bill Henderson as Dan
Ken Hutchison as Rab
Billy Connolly as Paddy
Jim Gibb as Jim
Phil McCall as Joe
Jake D'Arcy as Jackie
James Walsh as Tommy
Martin Black as Man in Fight

Critical reception

The BFI's Screenonline website comments: "Beyond the political issues, it is McDougall's mastery not only of the gallows humour of Glasgow's working class but of the hidden motives of parental kindness that make the drama, in Jeremy Isaacs's words, 'a masterpiece' and won the play the Prix Italia."

References

"BBC One - Play For Today, Series 5, Just Another Saturday". BBC. 13 March 1975.
"Just Another Saturday (1975)". BFI. Archived from the original on 3 March 2017.
"BBC One - Watching Ourselves: 60 Years of TV in Scotland - Peter McDougall". BBC.
"BFI Screenonline: McDougall, Peter (1947-) Biography". www.screenonline.org.uk.

External links

"Just Another Saturday" at IMDb

v t e Films directed by John Mackenzie
One Brief Summer (1970) Unman, Wittering and Zigo (1971) Made (1972) The Cheviot, the Stag, and the Black Black Oil (1973) Just Another Saturday (1975) Double Dare (1976) Apaches (1977) Just a Boys' Game (1979) The Long Good Friday (1980) A Sense of Freedom (1981) The Honorary Consul (1983) The Innocent (1985) Act of Vengeance (1986) The Fourth Protocol (1987) The Last of the Finest (1990) Ruby (1992) Voyage (1993) The Infiltrator (1995) Deadly Voyage (1996) Looking After Jo Jo (1998) When the Sky Falls (2000) Quicksand (2003)

Films directed by John Mackenzie

One Brief Summer (1970)
Unman, Wittering and Zigo (1971)
Made (1972)
The Cheviot, the Stag, and the Black Black Oil (1973)
Just Another Saturday (1975)
Double Dare (1976)
Apaches (1977)
Just a Boys' Game (1979)
The Long Good Friday (1980)
A Sense of Freedom (1981)
The Honorary Consul (1983)
The Innocent (1985)
Act of Vengeance (1986)
The Fourth Protocol (1987)
The Last of the Finest (1990)
Ruby (1992)
Voyage (1993)
The Infiltrator (1995)
Deadly Voyage (1996)
Looking After Jo Jo (1998)
When the Sky Falls (2000)
Quicksand (2003)

v t e Play for Today
Robin Redbreast (1970) Alma Mater (1971) The Foxtrot (1971) The Rank and File (1971) Traitor (1971) Edna, the Inebriate Woman (1971) Evelyn (1971) Home (1972) The Operation (1973) Hard Labour (1973) Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont (1973) Joe's Ark (1974) Penda's Fen (1974) The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil (1974) Leeds — United! (1974) The Evacuees (1975) Gangsters (1975) Funny Farm (1975) Just Another Saturday (1975) Days of Hope (1975) Rumpole of the Bailey (1975) Nuts in May (1976) The Other Woman (1976) Willie Rough (1976) Double Dare (1976) Bar Mitzvah Boy (1976) Kiss of Death (1977) Spend, Spend, Spend (1977) The Price of Coal (1977) Abigail's Party (1977) Licking Hitler (1978) Red Shift (1978) The Spongers (1978) Our Day Out (1978) The After-Dinner Joke (1978) Blue Remembered Hills (1979) Comedians (1979) Just a Boys' Game (1979) A Gift from Nessus (1980) The Black Stuff (1980) The Imitation Game (1980) The Flipside of Dominick Hide (1980) Home, Sweet Home (1982) Another Flip For Dominick (1982) Z for Zachariah (1984) Brimstone and Treacle (1987, completed 1976) Scum (1991, completed 1977)
Associated	Play for Tomorrow (1982 series)

Play for Today

Robin Redbreast (1970)
Alma Mater (1971)
The Foxtrot (1971)
The Rank and File (1971)
Traitor (1971)
Edna, the Inebriate Woman (1971)
Evelyn (1971)
Home (1972)
The Operation (1973)
Hard Labour (1973)
Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont (1973)
Joe's Ark (1974)
Penda's Fen (1974)
The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil (1974)
Leeds — United! (1974)
The Evacuees (1975)
Gangsters (1975)
Funny Farm (1975)
Just Another Saturday (1975)
Days of Hope (1975)
Rumpole of the Bailey (1975)
Nuts in May (1976)
The Other Woman (1976)
Willie Rough (1976)
Double Dare (1976)
Bar Mitzvah Boy (1976)
Kiss of Death (1977)
Spend, Spend, Spend (1977)
The Price of Coal (1977)
Abigail's Party (1977)
Licking Hitler (1978)
Red Shift (1978)
The Spongers (1978)
Our Day Out (1978)
The After-Dinner Joke (1978)
Blue Remembered Hills (1979)
Comedians (1979)
Just a Boys' Game (1979)
A Gift from Nessus (1980)
The Black Stuff (1980)
The Imitation Game (1980)
The Flipside of Dominick Hide (1980)
Home, Sweet Home (1982)
Another Flip For Dominick (1982)
Z for Zachariah (1984)
Brimstone and Treacle (1987, completed 1976)
Scum (1991, completed 1977)

Associated

Play for Tomorrow (1982 series)

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