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.
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Season 1
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1
E1
The Long Distance Piano Player
A man tries to break the world's record for nonstop piano playing
Oct 15, 1970 · 80m -
2
E2
The Right Prospectus
A couple look for the proper school, not for their children but for themselves.
Oct 22, 1970 · 77m -
3
E3
The Lie
""The Lie"" refers to the 8-year marriage of a couple who are constantly hurting each other.
Oct 29, 1970 · 90m -
4
E4
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.
Nov 5, 1970 · 63m -
5
E5
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.
Nov 12, 1970 · 66m -
6
E6
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
Nov 19, 1970 · 75m -
7
E7
A Distant Thunder
A newly-appointed knight finds his celebrations cut short by someone who was witness to his treachery during the war.
Nov 26, 1970 · 55m -
8
E8
Hearts and Flowers
A TV host and his architect brother attend their father's funeral
Dec 3, 1970 · 75m -
9
E9
Robin Redbreast
A woman living in a country cottage thinks that someone is trying to get her.
Dec 10, 1970 · 76m -
10
E10
The Hallelujah Handshake
A petty thief and social misfit finagles his way into a church congregation
Dec 17, 1970 · 75m -
11
E11
Alma Mater
A civil servant working abroad revisits his old school
Jan 7, 1971 -
12
E12
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.
Jan 14, 1971 · 65m -
13
E13
Hell's Angel
A couple are distressed by the changes in their adopted teenage son when he joins a biker gang.
Jan 21, 1971 -
14
E14
The Piano
An old couple refuse to move when they find out that they can't take their piano with them
Jan 28, 1971 · 65m -
15
E15
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.
Feb 4, 1971 · 50m -
16
E16
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.
Feb 11, 1971 · 64m -
17
E17
Reddick
Charges that the Rev 'Red' Reddick is exploiting his youth club members leads to an explosive confrontation.
Feb 18, 1971 · 75m -
18
E18
The Foxtrot
An odd menage a trois results when a woman and her lover are visited by her long-lost husband
Apr 29, 1971 · 70m -
19
E19
When the Bough Breaks
When an injured baby arrives at the hospital, a social worker looks for the parents
May 6, 1971 · 75m -
20
E20
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
May 13, 1971 · 91m -
21
E21
The Rank and File
The story of the Pilkington glass workers strike of 1970
May 20, 1971 · 78m -
22
E22
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.
May 27, 1971 · 75m -
23
E23
Everybody Say Cheese
The story of a disintegrating marriage told through family photos
Jun 3, 1971 · 75m -
24
E24
The Cellar and the Almond Tree
Jun 10, 1971
