The final part of the Billy trilogy sees a grown up Billy. He is working and living with Catholic girlfriend Pauline who is still working as a nurse.
Back at the family home, his sister Lorna is looking after the two young siblings. Uncle Andy is the grown up but he is in ill health.
The set up is shaken when their father Norman Martin returns from England. He has brought with him his new bride, Mavis (Gwen Taylor.)
It is the second time around for both of them. Mavis's first husband died in a car accident and she could not have children. She is posher and a former teacher.
Norman seems to have cleaned up his act in England. Less drinking, less of the bad temper.
Tensions threaten to resurface back in Belfast. His kids are surprised that he has already married Mavis.
Now he wants to move his daughters to England. Lorna is reluctant and Billy has a another row with his father.
The third Play for Today is very much a Billy lite one. Kenneth Branagh is absent a lot of the times. Although it has a theme of literal and metaphorical growing up and moving on.
James Ellis again dominates as the patriarch, at times wrestling to keep his temper. He is determined to provide his new bride with an instant family. He wants Uncle Andy out of his house, Norman never liked him.
There is a nice scene when both father and son unite over a potential punch up in a pub. Billy gets in a spot of bother with some loyalists, who back down once his father turns up and evens up the odds. The next scene indicates, there was a punch up and the Martins were the winners.