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 12 Episodes
The story of the disintegration of an aristocratic country estate after World War II
A docudrama about what would happen if London was hit by severe flooding
James, an expatriate South African anti-apartheid fighter, deals with his nightmares and his complaining landlady in a r…
A nurse is subjected to an interrogation after giving medical treatment to a terrorist leader.
In Belfast, Ruby has a cold and is caught in the rain while Iris is looking for work and gets caught in traffic
In an adaptation of Václav Havel's play, a dissident, newly released from prison for political reasons, attempts to get …
Two men on a local council fight the system when forced with massive spending cuts.
During World War II, a British officer is ordered to abandon a Russian convoy.
A manager, a foreman, and two workers are all that remains of a factory yet labor relations stay the same
A planning decision must be made, and the motorway extension must go through on either the Golf Course or the Allotments…
A police inspector investigates the murder of an Arab sheik who had become a village's Lord of the Manor.
Three women involved in different ways in the women's movement.
Politics and relationships during the last years of the Heath government
Meg: We were so close, we loved each other, we made a whole together. I feel cut in half.
Malcolm goes through life hating the mundanity of his existence as a factory worker and an unloved husband. But when stu…
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A family in Belfast deals with life after the death of the mother from cancer
Willie and his friends notice the passage of time around them, and how society is changing as their marriages stagnate. …
Frank has dedicated 19 years to researching a cure for the common cold, and is almost ready to publish a paper. Yet budg…
Home Sweet Home is a 1982 television film devised and directed by Mike Leigh, for BBC TV, 'about postmen, parenthood, so…
"My life is over - and I just didn't notice it passing." A call to a radio helpline leads to depressed housewife Christi…
Adolescents will always be obsessed by the same old subject, even when they are educated by nuns. Six ex-Classmates meet…
While Wally was happy there wasn't much wrong with the world, and pints seemed a small price to pay for what he gave us.…
