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Play for Today

Play for Today

1970•1h 15m•6.3/10
Drama

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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.

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Language

EN

Status

Ended

First Aired

October 15, 1970

Last Aired

February 5, 1985

Networks

BBC One

Where to Watch
Region US · Lang EN
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Seasons & Episodes
Select a season to view episodes. Reddit links may contain spoilers.
Season
E1
The Long Distance Piano Player
Air date: 1970-10-15
A man tries to break the world's record for nonstop piano playing
E2
The Right Prospectus
Air date: 1970-10-22
A couple look for the proper school, not for their children but for themselves.
E3
The Lie
Air date: 1970-10-29
""The Lie"" refers to the 8-year marriage of a couple who are constantly hurting each other.
Angels Are So Few
E4
Angels Are So Few
Air date: 1970-11-05
A man claiming to be an angel enters the household of a bored housewife and teaches the family a few lessons.
E5
The Write-Off
Air date: 1970-11-12
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 Willie
Air date: 1970-11-19
A man has a mid-life crisis in his brother's pub where sees life as a game show
E7
A Distant Thunder
Air date: 1970-11-26
A newly-appointed knight finds his celebrations cut short by someone who was witness to his treachery during the war.
E8
Hearts and Flowers
Air date: 1970-12-03
A TV host and his architect brother attend their father's funeral
E9
Robin Redbreast
Air date: 1970-12-10
A woman living in a country cottage thinks that someone is trying to get her.
E10
The Hallelujah Handshake
Air date: 1970-12-17
A petty thief and social misfit finagles his way into a church congregation
E11
Alma Mater
Air date: 1971-01-07
A civil servant working abroad revisits his old school
E12
Circle Line
Air date: 1971-01-14
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 Angel
Air date: 1971-01-21
A couple are distressed by the changes in their adopted teenage son when he joins a biker gang.
E14
The Piano
Air date: 1971-01-28
An old couple refuse to move when they find out that they can't take their piano with them
E15
Billy's Last Stand
Air date: 1971-02-04
Billy, a self-employed coal-shoveller, gains a seedy business partner and competition in the form of a rival coal-shoveller.
E16
The Rainbirds
Air date: 1971-02-11
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
Reddick
Air date: 1971-02-18
Charges that the Rev 'Red' Reddick is exploiting his youth club members leads to an explosive confrontation.
E18
The Foxtrot
Air date: 1971-04-29
An odd menage a trois results when a woman and her lover are visited by her long-lost husband
E19
When the Bough Breaks
Air date: 1971-05-06
When an injured baby arrives at the hospital, a social worker looks for the parents
E20
Orkney
Air date: 1971-05-13
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 File
Air date: 1971-05-20
The story of the Pilkington glass workers strike of 1970
E22
The Man in the Sidecar
Air date: 1971-05-27
A succesful novelist Edith lives with her husband and his friend, but she decides to ask the friend to leave.
E23
Everybody Say Cheese
Air date: 1971-06-03
The story of a disintegrating marriage told through family photos
E24
The Cellar and the Almond Tree
Air date: 1971-06-10

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