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…
Drama • Series • 1970 • 14 seasons
S1 E1 - The Long Distance Piano Player
A man tries to break the world's record for nonstop piano playing
Oct 15, 1970 • 1h 15m
S1 E2 - The Right Prospectus
A couple look for the proper school, not for their children but for themselves.
Oct 22, 1970 • 1h 15m
S1 E3 - The Lie
""The Lie"" refers to the 8-year marriage of a couple who are constantly hurting each other.
Oct 29, 1970 • 1h 15m
S1 E4 - Angels Are So Few
A man claiming to be an angel enters the household of a bored housewife and teaches the family a few lessons.
Nov 5, 1970 • 1h 15m
S1 E5 - The Write-Off
A man is made redundant but can't bring himself to let anyone know, plunging into a web of deceit as he keeps up the charade he is still in work.
Nov 12, 1970 • 1h 15m
S1 E6 - I Can't See My Little Willie
A man has a mid-life crisis in his brother's pub where sees life as a game show
Nov 19, 1970 • 1h 15m
S1 E7 - A Distant Thunder
A newly-appointed knight finds his celebrations cut short by someone who was witness to his treachery during the war.
Nov 26, 1970 • 1h 15m
S1 E8 - Hearts and Flowers
A TV host and his architect brother attend their father's funeral
Dec 3, 1970 • 1h 15m
S1 E9 - Robin Redbreast
A woman living in a country cottage thinks that someone is trying to get her.
Dec 10, 1970 • 1h 15m
S1 E10 - The Hallelujah Handshake
A petty thief and social misfit finagles his way into a church congregation
Dec 17, 1970 • 1h 15m
S1 E11 - Alma Mater
A civil servant working abroad revisits his old school
Jan 7, 1971 • 1h 15m
S1 E12 - Circle Line
A cynical student has a radically different view of life from his landlady, leading to conflict. Matters come to a head when he sleeps with her fourteen-year-old brother.
Jan 14, 1971 • 1h 15m
S1 E13 - Hell's Angel
A couple are distressed by the changes in their adopted teenage son when he joins a biker gang.
Jan 21, 1971 • 1h 15m
S1 E14 - The Piano
An old couple refuse to move when they find out that they can't take their piano with them
Jan 28, 1971 • 1h 15m
S1 E15 - Billy's Last Stand
Billy, a self-employed coal-shoveller, gains a seedy business partner and competition in the form of a rival coal-shoveller.
Feb 4, 1971 • 1h 15m
S1 E16 - The Rainbirds
A man who attempted suicide by jumping out a window is saved only to live in a coma, in which he has fantasies about his relatives and nightmare creatures.
Feb 11, 1971 • 1h 15m
S1 E17 - Reddick
Charges that the Rev 'Red' Reddick is exploiting his youth club members leads to an explosive confrontation.
Feb 18, 1971 • 1h 15m
S1 E18 - The Foxtrot
An odd menage a trois results when a woman and her lover are visited by her long-lost husband
Apr 29, 1971 • 1h 15m
S1 E19 - When the Bough Breaks
When an injured baby arrives at the hospital, a social worker looks for the parents
May 6, 1971 • 1h 15m
S1 E20 - Orkney
A trilogy of plays--A Time to Keep, The Whaler's Return, and Celia--exploring the life of the islanders in the past and present
May 13, 1971 • 1h 15m
S1 E21 - The Rank and File
The story of the Pilkington glass workers strike of 1970
May 20, 1971 • 1h 15m
S1 E22 - The Man in the Sidecar
A succesful novelist Edith lives with her husband and his friend, but she decides to ask the friend to leave.
May 27, 1971 • 1h 15m
S1 E23 - Everybody Say Cheese
The story of a disintegrating marriage told through family photos
Jun 3, 1971 • 1h 15m
S1 E24 - The Cellar and the Almond Tree
Jun 10, 1971
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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 individual episodes were between fifty and a hundred minutes in duration.
Drama • TV Series • 1970
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Details
- Genre
- Drama
- First aired
- Oct 15, 1970
- Last aired
- Feb 5, 1985
- Status
- Ended
- Episodes
- 314
- Network
- BBC One
- Language
- English
- Score
- 6.6 out of 10 from 10 votes