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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1. The Bar Mitzvah Boy1976-09-14 · 1h 15mA story exploring the emotions of a boy undrgoing the traditional Jewish ceremony
- 2 2. Bet Your Life1976-09-21 · 1h 15mLike alcoholism, gambling is a disease. Ches, a compulsive gambler, is sent for medical help. A wonder drug perhaps? Or hypnosis maybe? Ches finds that his psychiatrist has other i
- 3 3. Rocky Marciano Is Dead1976-09-28 · 1h 15mHarry Marcus is a former welterweight champion mourning the loss of the past and dreaming of a return to the glory years of boxing. When a squatter moves in next door, does he have
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4. The Elephants' Graveyard1976-10-12 · 1h 15mBunny’s wife thinks he is a postman, but in reality he spends his days in the Scottish hills. One day he meets Jody, a fellow walker.
- 5 5. Housewives' Choice1976-10-19 · 1h 15mWhen Joyce appears on the door-step she looks like the perfect 'kindly, respectable lady whom Marcia needs to look after her baby. But Joyce only seems to be the average housewife.
- 6 6. Your Man from Six Counties1976-10-26 · 1h 15mA young man from Belfast is sent south to stay with relatives in an attempt to keep him out of trouble.
- 7 7. Buffet1976-11-02 · 1h 15mFreddie is going through an existential crisis as everyone around him seems to doubt their own identity and the entire purpose of conversation. Surrounded by inflation and extra ma
- 8 8. Love on a Gunboat1977-01-04 · 1h 15mIn 1956 Britain staggers through crises in Suez and Cyprus while Leslie Potter pursues and marries Monica Dobbs. Twenty years later the nation has still not recovered. Neither has
- 9 9. The Kiss of Death1977-01-11 · 1h 15mA young man's chances at romance are thwarted by his own shyness.
- 10 10. Our Flesh and Blood1977-01-18 · 1h 15mHow Mums and Dads feel when they have one.
- 11 11. Do As I Say1977-01-25 · 1h 15mA quietly unhappy housewife finds a stranger in her house and is raped at knife-point by him. But when she turns to friends, neighbors and her parents-in-law for sympathy, they all
- 12 12. Spend, Spend, Spend1977-03-15 · 1h 15mThe rags-to-riches-to-rags story of a 1960s football pools winner, based on a true story
- 13 13. A Photograph1977-03-22 · 1h 15mA couple receives a photograph in the mail of two girls sitting in front of a caravan and neither can identify the people or the place.
- 14 14. The Price of Coal: Meet The People1977-03-29 · 1h 15mA pair of plays, broadcast over two weeks, about mining life: ""Meet the People,"" about a coal mining community preparing for a royal visit, and ""Back to Reality,"" about a coal
- 15 15. The Price of Coal: Back To Reality1977-04-05 · 1h 15mA pair of plays, broadcast over two weeks, about mining life: ""Meet the People,"" about a coal mining community preparing for a royal visit, and ""Back to Reality,"" about a coal
- 16 16. Gotcha1977-04-12 · 1h 15mA student holds his teacher hostage in the classroom on the last day of school.
- 17 17. Campion's Interview1977-04-12 · 1h 15mA story about school.
- 18 18. A Choice of Evils1977-04-19 · 1h 15mThe story of Father Borelli who in Rome during World War II must choose between freedom and his principles
- 19 19. The Country Party1977-04-26 · 1h 15mRichard Elkinson, the former stockbroker, is now running a country restaurant. His daughter decides to spring a surprise on him in an attempt to change his life for the better.
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