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 2 Episodes
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A British aristocrat turned Russian spy is visited in Moscow by Western journalists
Edna, the Inebriate Woman is a British television drama written by Jeremy Sandford which was transmitted by the BBC as p…
Frank is worried that he's over the hill when he reaches his 38th birthday. Conversations with his wife, lover and best …
The wife of a headmaster discovers that he has been physically abusing his students
A social satire in which advertisers realise that having a blind beggar as the public face of charities would help make …
A man gets revenge on a pub owner
An awkward relationship develops between the families of a trade unionist and the regional manager when the son of the f…
Two sworn enemies, one black and the other white, are forced to confront their prejudices when they are forced together …
A retired miner devotes his waking hours to his racing pigeons.
A story about four elderly "loonies" living in a rest home
A marriage can be lonely when the children have left home, as Nelson and Maud find out. Maud leaves in the middle of an …
In Cornwall, just before World War I, a striking miner befriends a cop
A married couple move into the house on Highbury Hill and find some eccentric neighbours.
A story about unemployment and the Black Movement in Jamaica
A salesman learns a few lessons from the locals when he goes to Yorkshire for a business course
A couple and their daughter take a trip to Africa
A social worker tries to help a painfully shy young man and takes him for a visit to a country farm.
The adventures of three Derbyshire miners going fishing
