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 7 Episodes
A story exploring the emotions of a boy undrgoing the traditional Jewish ceremony
Like alcoholism, gambling is a disease. Ches, a compulsive gambler, is sent for medical help. A wonder drug perhaps? Or …
Harry Marcus is a former welterweight champion mourning the loss of the past and dreaming of a return to the glory years…
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Bunny’s wife thinks he is a postman, but in reality he spends his days in the Scottish hills. One day he meets Jody, a f…
When Joyce appears on the door-step she looks like the perfect 'kindly, respectable lady whom Marcia needs to look after…
A young man from Belfast is sent south to stay with relatives in an attempt to keep him out of trouble.
Freddie is going through an existential crisis as everyone around him seems to doubt their own identity and the entire p…
In 1956 Britain staggers through crises in Suez and Cyprus while Leslie Potter pursues and marries Monica Dobbs. Twenty …
A young man's chances at romance are thwarted by his own shyness.
How Mums and Dads feel when they have one.
A quietly unhappy housewife finds a stranger in her house and is raped at knife-point by him. But when she turns to frie…
The rags-to-riches-to-rags story of a 1960s football pools winner, based on a true story
A couple receives a photograph in the mail of two girls sitting in front of a caravan and neither can identify the peopl…
A pair of plays, broadcast over two weeks, about mining life: ""Meet the People,"" about a coal mining community prepar…
A pair of plays, broadcast over two weeks, about mining life: ""Meet the People,"" about a coal mining community prepar…
A student holds his teacher hostage in the classroom on the last day of school.
A story about school.
The story of Father Borelli who in Rome during World War II must choose between freedom and his principles
Richard Elkinson, the former stockbroker, is now running a country restaurant. His daughter decides to spring a surprise…
