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 3 Episodes
Two provincial newspaper reporters - one a young idealist starting out on his career, the other an embittered man who pr…
The story of a man serving a 30-year prison sentence for killing a cop
A story about the origin of the Stormont state
The story of Robinson Crusoe from Man Friday's viewpoint
A hippie breaks into the house of a middle-aged couple and forms a relationship with them
A man celebrating his birthday comes to appreciate the difference between media fantasy and mundane reality.
An elderly general woos a shy school teacher.
A washed-up executive is on the verge of bankruptcy.
A pregnant teenager sets about wooing a sailor in a sectarian council estate in Greenock.
A young couple have a baby boy. However, the new father doesn't take to his new position quite as well as expected.
The adventures of three Derbyshire miners going to Stratford-upon-Avon on a barge
Faced with the prospect of being sent to work abroad, Sally Brown returns home from London to Hull, to see if she still …
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A long-married husband leaves his family for a barmaid.
A man fights council plans to demolish his home to make way for a new bypass.
The story of a defiant football manager in terminal decline
As a playwright dictates notes about his newest play to his secretary, scenes from the play are acted out.
Was this the finest hour? Sifting the truth and fiction about the Battle of Britain, Burrows and Harding give their own …
David Adler is an operator. He strips assets, other men's wives, and his oldest friend's soul - anything for a cool mill…
Malcolmson spends every Sunday taking his children to the zoo, reflecting on the breakdown of his marriage and the event…
The trials of an overworked and underappreciated housecleaner
"I'm the judge's daughter - I think he's a monstrous old man. I think all men who say 'I'm only doing my job' are monstr…
Three underachievers have fun at a school speech day
"Fifteen years since I was forced t' leave, forced t' leave me roots, the territory of me heart." When Gerry takes his f…
Are Maggie and Tony using each other as a means of communicating with Dr Leafer? Or are they using Dr Leafer as a means …
Edward G. is nothing like a film star; his life has been ordinary - until now. But he's just had a shattering experience…
The problems of four people sharing an apartment
Everyone always looked after Maureen. But her husband comes home after two years in prison and finds she has grown up an…
They no longer live together because, after 11 years, the marriage is over. So why is she always turning up to see him a…
