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 13 Episodes
A story about a homesick Russian journalist in London at the end of the cold war
Out on the streets, young people looking for fun. They come together at nights to listen to their music. For as long as …
Jack's obsession with the possibility of nuclear war sees him usher his family down into his home made fall out shelter …
A man holds a lonely vigil at the bedside of his dying father.
A family of five orphaned children are going to be split up into different homes. What will happen if the eldest is offi…
After giving birth to a Down's Syndrome baby, Judith decides she doesn't want to keep him. Obliged to register the birth…
In June 1940 Italy entered the war. With Britain threatened by a German invasion thousands of Italians were seized and t…
Two years after his journey to the past, Dominick Hide has been promoted to instructor and is no longer a time traveller…
Annabel, an upper-middle-class widow, falls in love with Jack, a self-made man of humble origins. Her grown-up children …
In 1959 County Antrim, two traveling evangelists help a mentally retarded teenager
Wayne goes to live with his grandfather Albert. Initial generation gap hostilities between them are eventually overcome …
Goff and Lytton have a dream - a canal boat of their own on which to cruise the inland waterways: The reality is the boa…
Devon 1940. The boys of the local public school are alerted after a German parachute drop and as members of the Local De…
Malcolm is a GP wrestling with ideas of retirement, while his wife Jo is a frustrated, would-be novelist. Together they …
Susan and Jenny are aged 13 and 14 and in care. Jenny's mother has died, Susan hasn't seen hers for years Both influence…
The 18th century writer Samuel Johnson writes a political pamphlet protesting the British going to war with Spain after …
When his father leaves Belfast to seek work in England, a young man looks after his sister
A businessman tries to keep his son from finding out about an unconventional deal he and his secretary are making with a…
