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Red Letter Day (1976)

Red Letter Day poster
Genre
drama, comedy
Country
United Kingdom
Length
1 season, 7 episodes
Rating
6.0 of 10 from 2 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

This anthology series follows different people on a single important day in their lives. Each episode centers on one person's experience during that day.

observationalcharacter-drivenreflectiveunderstatedbittersweetepisodicgroundedpersonal

What happens

Red Letter Day is a 1976 British television anthology series screened on ITV, and produced by Granada Television. The series consists of seven teleplays that aired between 11 January 1976, and 22 February 1976. Each teleplay examined the events in a special day in someone's life. The series' first teleplay, "Ready When You Are, Mr. McGill", was nominated for the British Academy Television Award for Best Single Drama in 1977. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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