1970-10-15 6.3/10
Overview
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.
Director :
Writer : Colin Welland
Cast
Seasons List
Specials
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Season 1
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1. The Long Distance Piano Player
2. The Right Prospectus
3. The Lie
4. Angels Are So Few
5. The Write-Off
6. I Can't See My Little Willie
7. A Distant Thunder
8. Hearts and Flowers
9. Robin Redbreast
10. The Hallelujah Handshake
11. Alma Mater
12. Circle Line
13. Hell's Angel
14. The Piano
15. Billy's Last Stand
16. The Rainbirds
17. Reddick
18. The Foxtrot
19. When the Bough Breaks
20. Orkney
21. The Rank and File
22. The Man in the Sidecar
23. Everybody Say Cheese
24. The Cellar and the Almond Tree
Season 2
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1. Traitor
2. Edna, the Inebriate Woman
3. Evelyn
4. O Fat White Woman
5. Thank You Very Much
6. Michael Regan
7. Skin Deep
8. Pal
9. The Pigeon Fancier
10. Home
11. Still Waters
12. Stocker's Copper
13. The House on Highbury Hill
14. In the Beautiful Caribbean
15. Ackerman, Dougall and Harker
16. The Villa Maroc
17. Cows
18. A Time to Keep
19. The Fishing Party
Season 3
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1. The Reporters
2. A Life Is for Ever
3. Carson Country
4. Man Friday
5. Triple Exposure
6. Better than the Movies
7. The General's Day
8. The Bankrupt
9. Just Your Luck
10. The Bouncing Boy
11. Shakespeare or Bust
12. Land of Green Ginger
13. Kisses at Fifty
14. Highway Robbery
15. Song at Twilight
16. Only Make Believe
17. For Sylvia or The Air Show
18. The Operation
19. Access to the Children
20. Hard Labour
21. Man Above Men
22. Speech Day
23. Steps Back
24. Three's One
25. Edward G.--Like the Film Star
26. Blooming Youth
27. The Stretch
28. Making the Play
Season 4
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1. Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont
2. Her Majesty's Pleasure
3. Jack Point
4. The Emergency Channel
5. Mummy and Daddy
6. Private Practice
7. Shutdown
8. Baby Blues
9. Jingle Bells
10. The Lonely Man's Lover
11. All Good Men
12. Joe's Ark
13. Hot Fat
14. Easy Go
15. Headmaster
16. Penda's Fen
17. Pigeon--Hawk or Dove?
18. Three for the Fancy
19. The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil
20. Schmoedipus
21. The Childhood Friend
22. A Follower for Emily
Season 5
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1. Leeds--United!
2. Baby Love
3. Back of Beyond
4. The Bevellers
5. Taking Leave
6. Fugitive
7. Eleanor
8. Gangsters
9. The After Dinner Game
10. Breath
11. The Death of a Young, Young Man
12. Sunset Across the Bay
13. Funny Farm
14. Goodbye
15. Just Another Saturday
16. A Child of Hope
17. The Saturday Party
18. Wednesday Love
19. The Dandelion Clock
20. Brassneck
21. The Floater
22. By Common Consent
Season 6
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1. Plaintiffs and Defendants
2. Two Sundays
3. Moss
4. 84 Charing Cross Road
5. Keep an Eye on Albert
6. Children of the Sun
7. After the Solo
8. Through the Night
9. A Passage to England
10. Rumpole of the Bailey
11. The Other Woman
12. Nuts in May
13. Doran's Box
14. Packman's Barn
15. A Story to Frighten the Children
16. The Happy Hunting Ground
17. The Jumping Bean Bag
18. Clay, Smeddum and Greenden
19. Love Letters on Blue Paper
20. Willie Rough
21. Tiptoe through the Tulips
22. The Peddler
23. Early Struggles
24. Double Dare
25. The House of Bernarda Alba
Season 7
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1. The Bar Mitzvah Boy
2. Bet Your Life
3. Rocky Marciano Is Dead
4. The Elephants' Graveyard
5. Housewives' Choice
6. Your Man from Six Counties
7. Buffet
8. Love on a Gunboat
9. The Kiss of Death
10. Our Flesh and Blood
11. Do As I Say
12. Spend, Spend, Spend
13. A Photograph
14. The Price of Coal: Meet The People
15. The Price of Coal: Back To Reality
16. Gotcha
17. Campion's Interview
18. A Choice of Evils
19. The Country Party
Season 8
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1. Stronger than the Sun
2. Come the Revolution
3. Abigail's Party
4. Oy Vay Maria
5. Nipper
6. One Day at a Time
7. The Mayor's Charity
8. Catchpenny Twist
9. Charades
10. The Thin End of the Wedge
11. Scully's New Year's Eve
12. Licking Hitler
13. Red Shift
14. The Spongers
15. Destiny
16. Our Day Out
17. The After-Dinner Joke
18. The Legion Hall Bombing
Season 9
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1. Nina
2. Victims of Apartheid
3. A Touch of the Tiny Hacketts
4. Dinner at the Sporting Club
5. Donal and Sally
6. Sorry
7. Butterflies Don't Count
8. Soldiers Talking Cleanly
9. One Bummer Newsday
10. The Out of Town Boys
11. Vampires
12. The Chief Mourner
13. Waterloo Sunset
14. Blue Remembered Hills
15. Who's Who
16. The Last Window Cleaner
17. Ploughman's Share
18. Degree of Uncertainty
19. Light
20. Coming Out
21. Don't Be Silly
Season 10
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1. Long Distance Information
2. Cries from a Watchtower
3. Comedians
4. Even Solomon
5. Just a Boy's Game
6. Billy
7. A Hole in Babylon
8. The Slab-Boys
9. Katie: The Year of a Child
10. The Network
11. Chance of a Lifetime
12. Keep Smiling
13. Dreams of Leaving
14. Thicker Than Water
15. Murder Rap
16. Instant Enlightenment Including VAT
17. No Defence
18. That Crazy Woman
19. A Gift from Nessus
20. Kate, the Good Neighbour
21. Buses
22. Shadows on Our Skin
23. Ladies
24. The Vanishing Army
25. Not for the Likes of Us
26. The Executioner
27. The Imitation Game
28. A Walk in the Forest
Season 11
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1. Pasmore
2. C2H5OH
3. The Adventures of Frank: Everybody's Fiddling Something
4. The Adventures of Frank: Seeds of Ice
5. Minor Complications
6. Number on End
7. Jude
8. The Flipside of Dominick Hide
9. Name for the Day
10. Jessie
11. Beyond the Pale
12. The Muscle Market
13. A Brush with Mr. Porter on the Road to El Dorado
14. Dear Brutus
15. The Cause
16. Beloved Enemy
17. The Kamikaze Ground Staff Reunion Dinner
18. The Union
19. Sorry
20. Shai Mãlã Khani: The Garland
21. The Sin Bin
22. Before Water Lillies
23. Bavarian Night
24. The Good Time Girls
25. Baby Talk
26. A Turn for the Worse
27. Psy-Warriors
Season 12
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1. Country
2. London Is Drowning
3. A Room for the Winter
4. No Visible Scar
5. Iris in the Traffic, Ruby in the Rain
6. Protest
7. United Kingdom
8. PQ17
9. The Factory
10. England's Green and Pleasant Land
11. A Cotswold Death
12. Under the Skin
13. Commitments
14. Life After Death
15. The Silly Season
16. Too Late to Talk to Billy
17. Willie's Last Stand
18. Tishoo
19. Home Sweet Home
20. A Sudden Wrench
21. Eve Set the Balls of Corruption Going
22. Whistling Wally
Season 13
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1. Soft Targets
2. Three Minute Heroes
3. The Remainder Man
4. Intensive Care
5. A Mother Like Him
6. John David
7. Aliens
8. Another Flip for Dominick
9. Last Love
10. Gates of Gold
11. Wayne and Albert
12. Atlantis
13. The Last Term
14. Reluctant Chickens
15. Shall I Be Mother?
16. The Falklands Factor
17. A Matter of Choice for Billy
18. Floating Off
Season 14
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1. Stan's Last Game
2. Young Shoulders
3. A Coming to Terms for Billy
4. Z for Zachariah
5. Moving on the Edge
6. Desert of Lies
7. Hard Feelings
8. Under the Hammer
9. King
10. Rainy Day Women
11. Dog Ends
12. The Groundling and the Kite
13. The Cry
14. It Could Happen to Anybody
15. Only Children
16. The Amazing Miss Stella Estelle