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 8 Episodes
A worker discovers a radioactive leak at the nuclear power plant where she works and tries to make it public knowledge.
Mike and his commune have a performance of their musical theatre "Diver" at the local pub, and ITV's Beth Bailey is comi…
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Comedy of manners focusing on the bourgeois affectation and sexual frustration of a young married couple. Abigail's moth…
The story of the romance between a Jewish boy and an Irish Catholic girl
Teenager Jimmy's life begins to unravel after the death of his father. With his mother promiscuous and his new stepfathe…
"People coming to their first AA meeting, prosperous people, sometimes, accustomed to the best. They look round the plac…
Olive Major is determined that her year of office as Mayor will be a happy and successful one. But her appointment of Ex…
Three schoolteachers in Belfast give up teaching to become singers/songwriters.
"We've just got to get it right. It'll be our little secret. When all the other servants have gone out, we'll play this …
"Five days of darkness then. Unless you get it together we will have five days of darkness. And on the sixth day you wil…
A Liverpool teenager has a hectic night out on New Year's Eve.
During World War II, a young woman joins the propaganda department and makes radio broadcasts to Germany from a British …
A stone axehead links three couples living at different times in the same place in Wales.
The story of a single mother of four living on welfare
A story dealing with racial tensions and fascism during a by-election in a West Midlands town
When a teacher takes a group of troubled school children on a school trip to Conwy in Wales, the children understand lif…
The story of a well-meaning charity worker
The story of the trial of Willie Gallagher, convicted of bombing the Strabane British Legion Hall in 1976.
