Just Your Luck is a television drama written by Peter McDougall

Peter McDougall

Peter McDougall is a BAFTA and Prix Italia award winning television playwright whose major success was in the 1970s....

 for the BBC

BBC

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's Play For Today

Play for Today

Play for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC1 from 1970 to 1984. During the run, more than three hundred programmes, featuring original television plays, and adaptations of stage plays and novels, were transmitted...

. The programm aired on 4 December 1972.

After a fight with her boyfriend Duncan (Andrew Byatt), Alison Hawkins (Lesley Mackie) embarks on a one night stand with a seaman called Alec Johnson (David Hayman) which results in an unexpected pregnancy. Alec and Alison break the news to both their parents. The story unfolds into an uncomfortable meeting of the families and a disastrous wedding.

Some episodes of Play for Today no longer exist, but Just Your Luck does not appear to be one of them.