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Play for Today (1970)
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.
Seasons & episodes
A married barrister's life begins to unravel when it seems that his high-strung mistress may reveal all.
An author tells an old school chum that he is about to publish a novel revealing their old relationship.
Moss is a miser whose only love is his grandson. Then tragedy strikes, and Moss is "reborn."
An American woman corresponds with a London bookshop owner over a period of 20 years
Terry has begun to neglect his wife for a life of drinking, weight lifting, pigeon racing and other women. But when his best friend Albert…
"You expect to face a bit of danger when you travel. Half the fun of it. But you keep cool and bluff your way out. After all, we're all Bri…
A boy enjoys success in the choir until his voice breaks at puberty.
A woman goes into hospital to receive treatment for breast cancer.
A group of Asians plans to sneak into England using a fishing boat
E10Rumpole defends a young West Indian boy accused of attempted murder.
E11An aggressive lesbian disrupts the lives of those around her.
E12Smug married couple Keith and Candice Marie “keen exponents of their belief in organic health food, exercise and the environment” are on a…
A long-distance lorry driver; a spaceman; a volunteer under reduced environmental conditions; a man in solitary confinement: the discomfort…
John Barrett returns to his remote hill farm after 20 years to deal with some unfinished business, and finds himself once again in conflict…
A woman encounters trouble when she arrives home late at night, but her neighbors on a nearby estate claim to have seen and heard nothing.
The fish quay is a happy hunting ground for an ambitious young rogue like Bob, who has an eye on the boss's business - and all that goes wi…
An end-of-term play with a difference as Ozzie and the boys break into a hard rock number. But even though they make the big time, success…
A play based on three short stories about the Scottish people and their relationship with the land: ""Clay"" concerns a farmer's obsession…
Why has Sonia taken to writing letters to her husband, posted to him in the letter-box just outside their house - love letters, on blue pap…
A story depicting life in a shipyard
A divorced woman is introduced to a separated man at an awkward dinner party.
One pill, and you're floating on air. A different one, and you're full of lead. Married, mortgaged, broke, a love-affair gone sour - which…
A story about a father's attempts at single parenthood
A playwright spends an afternoon in a hotel room with an actress who takes on the role of call girl for research purposes.
The eldest daughter of a domineering, overprotective mother becomes engaged to an unprincipled young man who has money.
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