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 9 Episodes
The story of two Soviet dissidents living in London and slowly coming apart under the strain of his drinking and her enf…
George, a black South African, finds it hard to settle down in London after his experiences in South Africa.
A young man is declared a hero when he catches a burglar until it's discovered that the burglar is a dwarf.
A story about young boxers whose fighting provides entertainment for diners at a sporting club
Adolescent love can be difficult at the best of times, but Donal and Sally have special problems - problems which alarm …
Consists of two plays ""Audience"" and ""Private View"" about a brewery worker and writer who incurs the wrath of the au…
"Whether priest or thespian, never once let yourself doubt that the role you're playing is real. Lead your little flock …
A freelance TV presenter has been hired by the BBC to film a documentary about the British army stationed in Germany. Un…
What happens to provincial journalists when there's nothing in the news and they have a paper to fill?
"This could be a bit special, Maggie. This could be the first case of an office block falling down during the topping-ou…
Three boys watch horror films on late night TV and see a man in a local cemetery whom they believe to be a vampire.
For a successful man with public responsibilities Alan Berry is strangely reluctant to help the police when his wife is …
A young man and an old woman try to fit in when their neighborhood goes West Indian
E14
The play activities of seven children living in the countryside during the summer of 1943 end in tragedy; the children w…
A story about a dinner party given by the managers and employees of a brokerage house
The Irish troubles as seen by residents of a boarding house called ""The Crumlin View""
"Ploughman. Nobody calls you that. You're a has-been. Your head and heart went into a museum wi' that lot you keep in th…
"I'm 37 years old, remember? I'm not a dead-pan, genned-up, discreetly nymphomaniac ex-head-girl like the majority of yo…
A village in Cheshire. A deserted cinema. A poet murdered by Stalin. A blown fuse. Victor Silvester. Pickets on trial. T…
A closeted homosexual writer is content to lead a double life
A young wife tries to cope with her abusive husband.
