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Play for Today

6.3(9 votes)
1970

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Episodes

The Long Distance Piano Player
75m

1. The Long Distance Piano Player

A man tries to break the world's record for nonstop piano playing

The Right Prospectus
75m

2. The Right Prospectus

A couple look for the proper school, not for their children but for themselves.

The Lie
75m

3. The Lie

""The Lie"" refers to the 8-year marriage of a couple who are constantly hurting each other.

Angels Are So Few
75m

4. Angels Are So Few

A man claiming to be an angel enters the household of a bored housewife and teaches the family a few lessons.

The Write-Off
75m

5. The Write-Off

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.

I Can't See My Little Willie
75m

6. I Can't See My Little Willie

A man has a mid-life crisis in his brother's pub where sees life as a game show

A Distant Thunder
75m

7. A Distant Thunder

A newly-appointed knight finds his celebrations cut short by someone who was witness to his treachery during the war.

Hearts and Flowers
75m

8. Hearts and Flowers

A TV host and his architect brother attend their father's funeral

Robin Redbreast
75m

9. Robin Redbreast

A woman living in a country cottage thinks that someone is trying to get her.

The Hallelujah Handshake
75m

10. The Hallelujah Handshake

A petty thief and social misfit finagles his way into a church congregation

Alma Mater
75m

11. Alma Mater

A civil servant working abroad revisits his old school

Circle Line
75m

12. Circle Line

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.

Hell's Angel
75m

13. Hell's Angel

A couple are distressed by the changes in their adopted teenage son when he joins a biker gang.

The Piano
75m

14. The Piano

An old couple refuse to move when they find out that they can't take their piano with them

Billy's Last Stand
75m

15. Billy's Last Stand

Billy, a self-employed coal-shoveller, gains a seedy business partner and competition in the form of a rival coal-shoveller.

The Rainbirds
75m

16. The Rainbirds

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.

Reddick
75m

17. Reddick

Charges that the Rev 'Red' Reddick is exploiting his youth club members leads to an explosive confrontation.

The Foxtrot
75m

18. The Foxtrot

An odd menage a trois results when a woman and her lover are visited by her long-lost husband

When the Bough Breaks
75m

19. When the Bough Breaks

When an injured baby arrives at the hospital, a social worker looks for the parents

Orkney
75m

20. Orkney

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

The Rank and File
75m

21. The Rank and File

The story of the Pilkington glass workers strike of 1970

The Man in the Sidecar
75m

22. The Man in the Sidecar

A succesful novelist Edith lives with her husband and his friend, but she decides to ask the friend to leave.

Everybody Say Cheese
75m

23. Everybody Say Cheese

The story of a disintegrating marriage told through family photos

The Cellar and the Almond Tree

24. The Cellar and the Almond Tree

Overview

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.

Details

Genres

Drama

Language

EN

First Air Date

1970-10-15

Seasons

14

Episodes

314

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