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 5 Episodes
About a strike in a textile factory, based on a true story
After the stillbirth of her illegitimate baby, a woman steals a baby at random and is sentenced to 9 months in prison.
Olwen lives in a tumbledown farm up in the mountains - a lonely widow, virtually a recluse. Her only human contact is wi…
The first (and last) day at work of a young apprentice in a bevelling shop at a Glasgow glass factory
"Well, I hope I won'be seeing you come home in that uniform much more. Six years - that's long enough out of any man's l…
After 18 years as a friar, Peter is no longer sure of his vocation. It is a happy life, maybe too much so, and now he ha…
Eleanor is unable to communicate her inner thoughts as she's bullied at school and virtually ignored by her parents. Wit…
A story exploring the Birmingham underworld
Vice-Chancellor Bartley Humbolt has problems. His young university is almost bankrupt, his wife is threatening to leave …
A story about an asthma sufferer
Three young students suspended from school face various problems.
A elderly couple become disillusioned when they retire to their favorite holiday resort.
One day in the life a nurse in a mental hospital
"All I said was the gramophone's too loud." Tony and Zoe Lyle 's silly row starts like any other, but Tony finds that Zo…
A young man participating in the Orange Parade in Glasgow becomes disillusioned with the pageant when he discovers its u…
Thirty-seven men from the disputed territory of South West Africa are on trial for their lives in Pretoria, 1,000 miles …
When a stockbroker loses his job, he decides to throw a party.
Two women, looking for amusement on their afternoons off, visit a drinking club.
In Belfast, a girl awaits the return of her missing father.
England, 1945-75: Builder Alfred Bagley makes a fortune, with a little help from his friends.
A comedy about the law - seen from the inside. All formality and procedure on the surface but not quite so convincing wh…
Political fantasy about a fascist regime
