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Play for Today (1970)

6.6 14 seasons 314 episodes Ended
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

E1
Stronger than the SunOct 18, 1977 · 1h 15m

A worker discovers a radioactive leak at the nuclear power plant where she works and tries to make it public knowledge.

E2
Come the RevolutionOct 25, 1977 · 1h 15m

Mike and his commune have a performance of their musical theatre "Diver" at the local pub, and ITV's Beth Bailey is coming along to see it.…

E3
Abigail's PartyNov 1, 1977 · 1h 15m

Comedy of manners focusing on the bourgeois affectation and sexual frustration of a young married couple. Abigail's mother Sue is invited t…

E4
Oy Vay MariaNov 8, 1977 · 1h 15m

The story of the romance between a Jewish boy and an Irish Catholic girl

E5
NipperNov 15, 1977 · 1h 15m

Teenager Jimmy's life begins to unravel after the death of his father. With his mother promiscuous and his new stepfather and stepbrother d…

E6
One Day at a TimeNov 22, 1977 · 1h 15m

"People coming to their first AA meeting, prosperous people, sometimes, accustomed to the best. They look round the places where we meet, a…

E7
The Mayor's CharityNov 29, 1977 · 1h 15m

Olive Major is determined that her year of office as Mayor will be a happy and successful one. But her appointment of Ex-Warrant Officer Hi…

E8
Catchpenny TwistDec 6, 1977 · 1h 15m

Three schoolteachers in Belfast give up teaching to become singers/songwriters.

E9
CharadesDec 13, 1977 · 1h 15m

"We've just got to get it right. It'll be our little secret. When all the other servants have gone out, we'll play this little game to amus…

E10
The Thin End of the WedgeDec 20, 1977 · 1h 15m

"Five days of darkness then. Unless you get it together we will have five days of darkness. And on the sixth day you will say, let there be…

E11
Scully's New Year's EveJan 3, 1978 · 1h 15m

A Liverpool teenager has a hectic night out on New Year's Eve.

E12
Licking HitlerJan 10, 1978 · 1h 15m

During World War II, a young woman joins the propaganda department and makes radio broadcasts to Germany from a British country house.

E13
Red ShiftJan 17, 1978 · 1h 15m

A stone axehead links three couples living at different times in the same place in Wales.

E14
The SpongersJan 24, 1978 · 1h 15m

The story of a single mother of four living on welfare

E15
DestinyJan 31, 1978 · 1h 15m

A story dealing with racial tensions and fascism during a by-election in a West Midlands town

E16
Our Day OutFeb 7, 1978 · 1h 15m

When a teacher takes a group of troubled school children on a school trip to Conwy in Wales, the children understand life outside of Liverp…

E17
The After-Dinner JokeFeb 14, 1978 · 1h 15m

The story of a well-meaning charity worker

E18
The Legion Hall BombingAug 22, 1978 · 1h 15m

The story of the trial of Willie Gallagher, convicted of bombing the Strabane British Legion Hall in 1976.

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