Play for Today
Episode name: Play for Today
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.
Release Date: 1970-10-15
Drama
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A Distant Thunder
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Robin Redbreast
The Hallelujah Handshake
Alma Mater
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Hell's Angel
The Piano
Billy's Last Stand
The Rainbirds
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The Foxtrot
When the Bough Breaks
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The Rank and File
The Man in the Sidecar
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Season 2
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Edna, the Inebriate Woman
Evelyn
O Fat White Woman
Thank You Very Much
Michael Regan
Skin Deep
Pal
The Pigeon Fancier
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Still Waters
Stocker's Copper
The House on Highbury Hill
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The Fishing Party
Season 3
The Reporters
A Life Is for Ever
Carson Country
Man Friday
Triple Exposure
Better than the Movies
The General's Day
The Bankrupt
Just Your Luck
The Bouncing Boy
Shakespeare or Bust
Land of Green Ginger
Kisses at Fifty
Highway Robbery
Song at Twilight
Only Make Believe
For Sylvia or The Air Show
The Operation
Access to the Children
Hard Labour
Man Above Men
Speech Day
Steps Back
Three's One
Edward G.--Like the Film Star
Blooming Youth
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Season 4
Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont
Her Majesty's Pleasure
Jack Point
The Emergency Channel
Mummy and Daddy
Private Practice
Shutdown
Baby Blues
Jingle Bells
The Lonely Man's Lover
All Good Men
Joe's Ark
Hot Fat
Easy Go
Headmaster
Penda's Fen
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Three for the Fancy
The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil
Schmoedipus
The Childhood Friend
A Follower for Emily
Season 5
Leeds--United!
Baby Love
Back of Beyond
The Bevellers
Taking Leave
Fugitive
Eleanor
Gangsters
The After Dinner Game
Breath
The Death of a Young, Young Man
Sunset Across the Bay
Funny Farm
Goodbye
Just Another Saturday
A Child of Hope
The Saturday Party
Wednesday Love
The Dandelion Clock
Brassneck
The Floater
By Common Consent
Season 6
Plaintiffs and Defendants
Two Sundays
Moss
84 Charing Cross Road
Keep an Eye on Albert
Children of the Sun
After the Solo
Through the Night
A Passage to England
Rumpole of the Bailey
The Other Woman
Nuts in May
Doran's Box
Packman's Barn
A Story to Frighten the Children
The Happy Hunting Ground
The Jumping Bean Bag
Clay, Smeddum and Greenden
Love Letters on Blue Paper
Willie Rough
Tiptoe through the Tulips
The Peddler
Early Struggles
Double Dare
The House of Bernarda Alba
Season 7
The Bar Mitzvah Boy
Bet Your Life
Rocky Marciano Is Dead
The Elephants' Graveyard
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Your Man from Six Counties
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Love on a Gunboat
The Kiss of Death
Our Flesh and Blood
Do As I Say
Spend, Spend, Spend
A Photograph
The Price of Coal: Meet The People
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Campion's Interview
A Choice of Evils
The Country Party
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Come the Revolution
Abigail's Party
Oy Vay Maria
Nipper
One Day at a Time
The Mayor's Charity
Catchpenny Twist
Charades
The Thin End of the Wedge
Scully's New Year's Eve
Licking Hitler
Red Shift
The Spongers
Destiny
Our Day Out
The After-Dinner Joke
The Legion Hall Bombing
Season 9
Nina
Victims of Apartheid
A Touch of the Tiny Hacketts
Dinner at the Sporting Club
Donal and Sally
Sorry
Butterflies Don't Count
Soldiers Talking Cleanly
One Bummer Newsday
The Out of Town Boys
Vampires
The Chief Mourner
Waterloo Sunset
Blue Remembered Hills
Who's Who
The Last Window Cleaner
Ploughman's Share
Degree of Uncertainty
Light
Coming Out
Don't Be Silly
Season 10
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Cries from a Watchtower
Comedians
Even Solomon
Just a Boy's Game
Billy
A Hole in Babylon
The Slab-Boys
Katie: The Year of a Child
The Network
Chance of a Lifetime
Keep Smiling
Dreams of Leaving
Thicker Than Water
Murder Rap
Instant Enlightenment Including VAT
No Defence
That Crazy Woman
A Gift from Nessus
Kate, the Good Neighbour
Buses
Shadows on Our Skin
Ladies
The Vanishing Army
Not for the Likes of Us
The Executioner
The Imitation Game
A Walk in the Forest
Season 11
Pasmore
C2H5OH
The Adventures of Frank: Everybody's Fiddling Something
The Adventures of Frank: Seeds of Ice
Minor Complications
Number on End
Jude
The Flipside of Dominick Hide
Name for the Day
Jessie
Beyond the Pale
The Muscle Market
A Brush with Mr. Porter on the Road to El Dorado
Dear Brutus
The Cause
Beloved Enemy
The Kamikaze Ground Staff Reunion Dinner
The Union
Sorry
Shai Mãlã Khani: The Garland
The Sin Bin
Before Water Lillies
Bavarian Night
The Good Time Girls
Baby Talk
A Turn for the Worse
Psy-Warriors
Season 12
Country
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A Room for the Winter
No Visible Scar
Iris in the Traffic, Ruby in the Rain
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England's Green and Pleasant Land
A Cotswold Death
Under the Skin
Commitments
Life After Death
The Silly Season
Too Late to Talk to Billy
Willie's Last Stand
Tishoo
Home Sweet Home
A Sudden Wrench
Eve Set the Balls of Corruption Going
Whistling Wally
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Soft Targets
Three Minute Heroes
The Remainder Man
Intensive Care
A Mother Like Him
John David
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Last Love
Gates of Gold
Wayne and Albert
Atlantis
The Last Term
Reluctant Chickens
Shall I Be Mother?
The Falklands Factor
A Matter of Choice for Billy
Floating Off
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Young Shoulders
A Coming to Terms for Billy
Z for Zachariah
Moving on the Edge
Desert of Lies
Hard Feelings
Under the Hammer
King
Rainy Day Women
Dog Ends
The Groundling and the Kite
The Cry
It Could Happen to Anybody
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