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.
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Episodes
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- 1 1. Stan's Last Game1983-10-25 · 1h 15mJames Grout and Bert Parnaby are rival chairmen of a northern football club in the run-up to an important cup match. As tempers fray, retiring president Charles Lamb provides a cal
- 2 2. Young Shoulders1984-02-14 · 1h 15mCynical teenager Andrew Groves re-evaluates his attitude to life and his parents after his sister dies in a plane crash.
- 3 3. A Coming to Terms for Billy1984-02-21 · 1h 15mWhen his father comes home to Belfast after more than 2 years in England, conflicts arise with Billy
- 4 4. Z for Zachariah1984-02-28 · 1h 15mAfter a nuclear holocaust, only a man and a woman survive in a Welsh valley.
- 5 5. Moving on the Edge1984-03-06 · 1h 15mA woman in a state of personal crisis finds it hard to communicate with her husband and family.
- 6 6. Desert of Lies1984-03-13 · 1h 15mAn expedition tracing the path of long-lost missionaries meets with tragedy in the Kalahari Desert.
- 7 7. Hard Feelings1984-03-20 · 1h 15mA group of unemployed Oxford drop-outs living in a Brixton commune get their come-uppance by one of them.
- 8 8. Under the Hammer1984-03-27 · 1h 15mConcerning the life of the artist Vincent Van Gogh
- 9 9. King1984-04-03 · 1h 15mA man who has had a good life in England wants to retire to Jamaica, but the celebration with his daughters doesn't go as expected.
- 10 10. Rainy Day Women1984-04-10 · 1h 15mIn 1940, during World War II, an officer is sent to investigate rumors of German spies in a sleepy village where various people are the victims of war hysteria
- 11 11. Dog Ends1984-07-17 · 1h 15mIn a future society where euthansia is common, a man signs papers to have his father put down
- 12 12. The Groundling and the Kite1984-07-24 · 1h 15mPeter is a songwriter, while his old friend Jimmy is an A and R (Artists and Repertoire) man. But when Jimmy tries to sell one of Peter's songs, Peter is furious. Can the friendshi
- 13 13. The Cry1984-07-31 · 1h 15mIn 1959 Ulster, a journalist witnesses the beating of a youth
- 14 14. It Could Happen to Anybody1984-08-14 · 1h 15mA long-suffering Glasgow housewife puts up with years of her husband's violence and drunkenness - and then something happens which makes her snap and fight back.
- 15 15. Only Children1984-08-21 · 1h 15mA young woman's comfortable life is turned upside down when she has a baby.
- 16 16. The Amazing Miss Stella Estelle1984-08-28 · 1h 15mMiss Stella Estelle is a cabaret singer in working men's clubs, and she sings songs from the 1960s to support a large and difficult family. But how long can it go on? The backdrop
- 17 17. The Long March1984-11-20 · 1h 30mA woman returns to Belfast after ten years in England and becomes involved in the Maze prison protest.
- 18 18. Punters1984-11-27 · 1h 15mWhat is the secret of Joey and Spansky's success at the races?
- 19 19. Talk To Me1984-12-11 · 1h 15mMatthew and his wife are deeply suspicious of psychoanalysis. It's not their sort of thing at all.
- 20 20. Bird Fancier1985-01-15 · 1h 15m
- 21 21. Brigadista1985-02-05 · 1h 15mWhen best-selling author James Fuller Hayes comes to Glasgow to publicise his personal account of the Spanish Civil War, a surprise reunion with two of his old comrades from the In
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