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.
Season 11 Episodes
Colin Pasmore tests his strength against his family ties but finds them stronger than he ever imagined.
"In heaven there is no drama - drama depends on failure and conflict. My trade is a scrutiny of hell. For any proud dram…
Writer-director John McGrath deliberately shies away from naturalism in an experiment that mixes blue screen, songs, and…
Kay Gilbert goes into hospital for a minor operation which goes badly wrong. This play tells the story of her fight for …
What could Steve Jackson's documentary film expose that must be concealed from the African leaders meeting in Brussels? …
Twelve-year-old Jude has never met Dick, his father. One Sunday afternoon Dick impulsively engineers a meeting, which ha…
Dominick Hide, a time traveller from London in the year 2130, is studying the city's transport system of 1980. Breaking …
Clive admits himself to a psychiatric hospital after undergoing a breakdown. His wife wants him back home, but in order …
In Victorian times, a nanny cares for a mute boy, who becomes overly attached to her.
A vacation at a seaside hotel in Ireland changes the lives of four friends.
The problems of an owner of a building contractor company in Liverpool
"They're nice affable gobblers and we're in the nice affable gobbling business." Tom and Gwen soon find that their gastr…
"They say that in the wood you get what nearly everybody here is longing for - a second chance." J. M. Barrie's fantasy …
A confused industrial dispute at a London hospital triggers off in trade unionist George Harley's mind memories of his d…
The head of a multinational corporation wants to do business with the Soviets
A group of men hold a reunion dinner in Tokyo
You know the nuts and bolts of our policy? To penetrate the unions. To use all sorts of stratagems, manoeuvres, illegal …
Two very different women share an office, a common enemy, and a sense of humour.
When her 17-year-old son Roy falls in love with a Muslim girl, and a Bangladeshi butcher seeks help from her husband Raj…
Six lifers living in an experimental self-rehabilitation unit attached to an ordinary prison participate in a group ther…
An evening with the Parent-Teacher Association gets out of hand.
When the dynamic young head-master of St Peter's Primary School decides to liven up a parents' fund-raising social by hi…
Nancy and Ella are two bored housewives starved of affection when their husbands are away on the oil rigs. The rules are…
It's such a simple, natural thing to have a baby, thinks Mary. But she and husband Paul are preoccupied with their caree…
Soldiers are subjected to a brutal and sadistic kind of psychological training exercise
Soldiers are captured and interrogated by terrorists: but is it real or only a sadistic form of psychological training e…
