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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
NinaOct 17, 1978 · 1h 15m

The story of two Soviet dissidents living in London and slowly coming apart under the strain of his drinking and her enforced separation fr…

E2
Victims of ApartheidOct 24, 1978 · 1h 15m

George, a black South African, finds it hard to settle down in London after his experiences in South Africa.

E3
A Touch of the Tiny HackettsOct 31, 1978 · 1h 15m

A young man is declared a hero when he catches a burglar until it's discovered that the burglar is a dwarf.

E4
Dinner at the Sporting ClubNov 7, 1978 · 1h 15m

A story about young boxers whose fighting provides entertainment for diners at a sporting club

E5
Donal and SallyNov 14, 1978 · 1h 15m

Adolescent love can be difficult at the best of times, but Donal and Sally have special problems - problems which alarm their families and…

E6
SorryNov 21, 1978 · 1h 15m

Consists of two plays ""Audience"" and ""Private View"" about a brewery worker and writer who incurs the wrath of the autocratic government

E7
Butterflies Don't CountNov 28, 1978 · 1h 15m

"Whether priest or thespian, never once let yourself doubt that the role you're playing is real. Lead your little flock from childhood to t…

E8
Soldiers Talking CleanlyDec 5, 1978 · 1h 15m

A freelance TV presenter has been hired by the BBC to film a documentary about the British army stationed in Germany. Unfortunately the bud…

E9
One Bummer NewsdayDec 12, 1978 · 1h 15m

What happens to provincial journalists when there's nothing in the news and they have a paper to fill?

E10
The Out of Town BoysJan 2, 1979 · 1h 15m

"This could be a bit special, Maggie. This could be the first case of an office block falling down during the topping-out party."

E11
VampiresJan 9, 1979 · 1h 15m

Three boys watch horror films on late night TV and see a man in a local cemetery whom they believe to be a vampire.

E12
The Chief MournerJan 16, 1979 · 1h 15m

For a successful man with public responsibilities Alan Berry is strangely reluctant to help the police when his wife is murdered.

E13
Waterloo SunsetJan 23, 1979 · 1h 15m

A young man and an old woman try to fit in when their neighborhood goes West Indian

E14
Blue Remembered HillsJan 30, 1979 · 1h 15m

The play activities of seven children living in the countryside during the summer of 1943 end in tragedy; the children were played by adult…

E15
Who's WhoFeb 6, 1979 · 1h 15m

Slice-of-life look at class divisions among employees of a brokerage house. Alan, with his portrait of the Queen and love of the peerage; h…

E16
The Last Window CleanerFeb 13, 1979 · 1h 15m

The Irish troubles as seen by residents of a boarding house called ""The Crumlin View""

E17
Ploughman's ShareFeb 27, 1979 · 1h 15m

"Ploughman. Nobody calls you that. You're a has-been. Your head and heart went into a museum wi' that lot you keep in there. Face it: you'r…

E18
Degree of UncertaintyMar 6, 1979 · 1h 15m

"I'm 37 years old, remember? I'm not a dead-pan, genned-up, discreetly nymphomaniac ex-head-girl like the majority of your female students.…

E19
LightMar 13, 1979 · 1h 15m

A village in Cheshire. A deserted cinema. A poet murdered by Stalin. A blown fuse. Victor Silvester. Pickets on trial. Trimmers and fishwir…

E20
Coming OutApr 10, 1979 · 1h 15m

A closeted homosexual writer is content to lead a double life

E21
Don't Be SillyJul 24, 1979 · 1h 15m

A young wife tries to cope with her abusive husband.

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