Play for Today
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Play for Today

6.6/10 1970 14 Seasons 314 Episodes Ended

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 10 Episodes

E1
Long Distance Information
75 min 1979

A fanatical Elvis Presley fan is working as a disc jockey when his idol dies

E2
Cries from a Watchtower
75 min 1979

A watchmaker finds his livelihood is threatened by cheaply imported digital watches.

E3
Comedians
75 min 1979

Budding comedians take an evening class taught by a retired performer and, for their final exam, must perform for an imp…

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E4
Even Solomon
75 min 1979

Stephen Piper is a quiet young man. A virgin, he shows no interest in sex, and is cruelly scorned by an aggressive femal…

E5
Just a Boy's Game
75 min 1979

In Glasgow, a young man's sole aim is to be as tough as his dying grandfather once was

E6
Billy
75 min 1979

A 4-year-old boy is abused by his father

E7
A Hole in Babylon
75 min 1979

Exploration of the events leading up to 1975 Spaghetti House siege in London and the motivation of its three protagonist…

E8
The Slab-Boys
75 min 1979

The story of a young man who works in a carpet factory

E9
Katie: The Year of a Child
75 min 1979

A teenage girl from a family of Irish Travellers is left to look after her brothers and sisters while her father is away…

E10
The Network
75 min 1979

What do Rose from Devon and Christina from Stuttgart have in common? And in what way is their fate linked to that of wea…

E11
Chance of a Lifetime
75 min 1980

A young man quits school and joins the army.

E12
Keep Smiling
75 min 1980

Family picnics should not be like this: bugging devices, men with X-ray eyes. Mary doesn't understand what terrifies Sim…

E13
Dreams of Leaving
75 min 1980

A journalist moves to London and gets caught up in the big city and his romance with a rich debutante.

E14
Thicker Than Water
75 min 1980

Various characters have adventures on the way to a black pudding festival in Normandy.

E15
Murder Rap
75 min 1980

An Englishman's home is his castle, and Wally aims to prove it.

E16
Instant Enlightenment Including VAT
75 min 1980

Weekend enlightenment seminars serve as a form of brainwashing.

E17
No Defence
75 min 1980

Mr. Germanou arrives from Cyprus with his family to settle in England. But on his arrival he's arrested for an historica…

E18
That Crazy Woman
75 min 1980

Twenty years ago, at the age of 56, this extraordinary woman became a national hero by walking from John O'Groats to Lan…

E19
A Gift from Nessus
75 min 1980

The marital and career problems of a middle-aged, middle-class man in Glasgow in the 1960s

E20
Kate, the Good Neighbour
75 min 1980

A compassionate elderly woman comes to the realization that she can no longer care for herself or others.

E21
Buses
75 min 1980

A story about the regulation of the bus industry in 1930

E22
Shadows on Our Skin
75 min 1980

The problems of an 11-year-old boy living in the Catholic part of Londonderry

E23
Ladies
75 min 1980

The A Shift at the MHS department store are organising a wedding gift presentation for Elaine. But what's on Miriam's mi…

E24
The Vanishing Army
75 min 1980

A story about the highs and lows of peacetime army life

E25
Not for the Likes of Us
75 min 1980

"I dunno, years of putting up with it, waiting on you all, for what? Eh? To become a 14-stone invisible woman?"

E26
The Executioner
75 min 1980

Jan and Meg Citron are on holiday in Germany. Their car is stopped by the police. A simple traffic offence? But their se…

E27
The Imitation Game
75 min 1980

During World War II, an idealistic young woman joins the Army Transport Service

E28
A Walk in the Forest
75 min 1980

A writer gets involved with a Soviet dissident

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