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.
- First aired:
- 1970-10-15
- Country:
- GB
- Network:
- BBC One
Episodes
1. The Long Distance Piano Player
1970-10-15 · 75m
A man tries to break the world's record for nonstop piano playing
2. The Right Prospectus
1970-10-22 · 75m
A couple look for the proper school, not for their children but for themselves.
3. The Lie
1970-10-29 · 75m
""The Lie"" refers to the 8-year marriage of a couple who are constantly hurting each other.
4. Angels Are So Few
1970-11-05 · 75m
A man claiming to be an angel enters the household of a bored housewife and teaches the family a few lessons.
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5. The Write-Off
1970-11-12 · 75m
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.
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6. I Can't See My Little Willie
1970-11-19 · 75m
A man has a mid-life crisis in his brother's pub where sees life as a game show
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7. A Distant Thunder
1970-11-26 · 75m
A newly-appointed knight finds his celebrations cut short by someone who was witness to his treachery during the war.
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8. Hearts and Flowers
1970-12-03 · 75m
A TV host and his architect brother attend their father's funeral
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9. Robin Redbreast
1970-12-10 · 75m
A woman living in a country cottage thinks that someone is trying to get her.
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10. The Hallelujah Handshake
1970-12-17 · 75m
A petty thief and social misfit finagles his way into a church congregation
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11. Alma Mater
1971-01-07 · 75m
A civil servant working abroad revisits his old school
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12. Circle Line
1971-01-14 · 75m
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.
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13. Hell's Angel
1971-01-21 · 75m
A couple are distressed by the changes in their adopted teenage son when he joins a biker gang.
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14. The Piano
1971-01-28 · 75m
An old couple refuse to move when they find out that they can't take their piano with them
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15. Billy's Last Stand
1971-02-04 · 75m
Billy, a self-employed coal-shoveller, gains a seedy business partner and competition in the form of a rival coal-shoveller.
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16. The Rainbirds
1971-02-11 · 75m
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.
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17. Reddick
1971-02-18 · 75m
Charges that the Rev 'Red' Reddick is exploiting his youth club members leads to an explosive confrontation.
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18. The Foxtrot
1971-04-29 · 75m
An odd menage a trois results when a woman and her lover are visited by her long-lost husband
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19. When the Bough Breaks
1971-05-06 · 75m
When an injured baby arrives at the hospital, a social worker looks for the parents
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20. Orkney
1971-05-13 · 75m
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
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21. The Rank and File
1971-05-20 · 75m
The story of the Pilkington glass workers strike of 1970
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22. The Man in the Sidecar
1971-05-27 · 75m
A succesful novelist Edith lives with her husband and his friend, but she decides to ask the friend to leave.
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23. Everybody Say Cheese
1971-06-03 · 75m
The story of a disintegrating marriage told through family photos
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24. The Cellar and the Almond Tree
1971-06-10
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