Series
Play for Today
Drama
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.
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Seasons & episodes
S1 · 24 epS2 · 19 epS3 · 28 epS4 · 22 epS5 · 22 epS6 · 25 epS7 · 19 epS8 · 18 epS9 · 21 epS10 · 28 epS11 · 27 epS12 · 22 epS13 · 18 epS14 · 21 ep
1The Long Distance Piano Player15 Oct 1970 · 75mA man tries to break the world's record for nonstop piano playing
2The Right Prospectus22 Oct 1970 · 75mA couple look for the proper school, not for their children but for themselves.
3The Lie29 Oct 1970 · 75m""The Lie"" refers to the 8-year marriage of a couple who are constantly hurting each other.
4Angels Are So Few5 Nov 1970 · 75mA man claiming to be an angel enters the household of a bored housewife and teaches the family a few lessons.- 5The Write-Off12 Nov 1970 · 75mA 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.
- 6I Can't See My Little Willie19 Nov 1970 · 75mA man has a mid-life crisis in his brother's pub where sees life as a game show
- 7A Distant Thunder26 Nov 1970 · 75mA newly-appointed knight finds his celebrations cut short by someone who was witness to his treachery during the war.
- 8Hearts and Flowers3 Dec 1970 · 75mA TV host and his architect brother attend their father's funeral
9Robin Redbreast10 Dec 1970 · 75mA woman living in a country cottage thinks that someone is trying to get her.- 10The Hallelujah Handshake17 Dec 1970 · 75mA petty thief and social misfit finagles his way into a church congregation
- 11Alma Mater7 Jan 1971 · 75mA civil servant working abroad revisits his old school
- 12Circle Line14 Jan 1971 · 75mA 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.
- 13Hell's Angel21 Jan 1971 · 75mA couple are distressed by the changes in their adopted teenage son when he joins a biker gang.
- 14The Piano28 Jan 1971 · 75mAn old couple refuse to move when they find out that they can't take their piano with them
- 15Billy's Last Stand4 Feb 1971 · 75mBilly, a self-employed coal-shoveller, gains a seedy business partner and competition in the form of a rival coal-shoveller.
- 16The Rainbirds11 Feb 1971 · 75mA 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.
- 17Reddick18 Feb 1971 · 75mCharges that the Rev 'Red' Reddick is exploiting his youth club members leads to an explosive confrontation.
- 18The Foxtrot29 Apr 1971 · 75mAn odd menage a trois results when a woman and her lover are visited by her long-lost husband
- 19When the Bough Breaks6 May 1971 · 75mWhen an injured baby arrives at the hospital, a social worker looks for the parents
- 20Orkney13 May 1971 · 75mA trilogy of plays--A Time to Keep, The Whaler's Return, and Celia--exploring the life of the islanders in the past and present
- 21The Rank and File20 May 1971 · 75mThe story of the Pilkington glass workers strike of 1970
- 22The Man in the Sidecar27 May 1971 · 75mA succesful novelist Edith lives with her husband and his friend, but she decides to ask the friend to leave.
- 23Everybody Say Cheese3 Jun 1971 · 75mThe story of a disintegrating marriage told through family photos
- 24The Cellar and the Almond Tree10 Jun 1971
Details
- First aired
- 15 Oct 1970
- Last aired
- 5 Feb 1985
- Status
- Ended
- Language
- English
- Network
- BBC One
- Episodes
- 314
- Votes
- 10 on TMDB
