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Play for Today
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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.
Episodes
- E1 · The Long Distance Piano Player1h 15mOct 15, 1970
A man tries to break the world's record for nonstop piano playing
- E2 · The Right Prospectus1h 15mOct 22, 1970
A couple look for the proper school, not for their children but for themselves.
- E3 · The Lie1h 15mOct 29, 1970
""The Lie"" refers to the 8-year marriage of a couple who are constantly hurting each other.
- E4 · Angels Are So Few1h 15mNov 5, 1970
A man claiming to be an angel enters the household of a bored housewife and teaches the family a few lessons.
- E5 · The Write-Off1h 15mNov 12, 1970
A man is made redundant but can't bring himself to let anyone know, plunging into a web of deceit as he keeps up the charade he is still in work.
- E6 · I Can't See My Little Willie1h 15mNov 19, 1970
A man has a mid-life crisis in his brother's pub where sees life as a game show
- E7 · A Distant Thunder1h 15mNov 26, 1970
A newly-appointed knight finds his celebrations cut short by someone who was witness to his treachery during the war.
- E8 · Hearts and Flowers1h 15mDec 3, 1970
A TV host and his architect brother attend their father's funeral
- E9 · Robin Redbreast1h 15mDec 10, 1970
A woman living in a country cottage thinks that someone is trying to get her.
- E10 · The Hallelujah Handshake1h 15mDec 17, 1970
A petty thief and social misfit finagles his way into a church congregation
- E12 · Circle Line1h 15mJan 14, 1971
A cynical student has a radically different view of life from his landlady, leading to conflict. Matters come to a head when he sleeps with her fourteen-year-old brother.
- E13 · Hell's Angel1h 15mJan 21, 1971
A couple are distressed by the changes in their adopted teenage son when he joins a biker gang.
- E14 · The Piano1h 15mJan 28, 1971
An old couple refuse to move when they find out that they can't take their piano with them
- E15 · Billy's Last Stand1h 15mFeb 4, 1971
Billy, a self-employed coal-shoveller, gains a seedy business partner and competition in the form of a rival coal-shoveller.
- E16 · The Rainbirds1h 15mFeb 11, 1971
A man who attempted suicide by jumping out a window is saved only to live in a coma, in which he has fantasies about his relatives and nightmare creatures.
- E17 · Reddick1h 15mFeb 18, 1971
Charges that the Rev 'Red' Reddick is exploiting his youth club members leads to an explosive confrontation.
- E18 · The Foxtrot1h 15mApr 29, 1971
An odd menage a trois results when a woman and her lover are visited by her long-lost husband
- E19 · When the Bough Breaks1h 15mMay 6, 1971
When an injured baby arrives at the hospital, a social worker looks for the parents
- E20 · Orkney1h 15mMay 13, 1971
A trilogy of plays--A Time to Keep, The Whaler's Return, and Celia--exploring the life of the islanders in the past and present
- E21 · The Rank and File1h 15mMay 20, 1971
The story of the Pilkington glass workers strike of 1970
- E22 · The Man in the Sidecar1h 15mMay 27, 1971
A succesful novelist Edith lives with her husband and his friend, but she decides to ask the friend to leave.
- E23 · Everybody Say Cheese1h 15mJun 3, 1971
The story of a disintegrating marriage told through family photos
- E24 · The Cellar and the Almond TreeJun 10, 1971
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