Play for Today (1970)
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.
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Episode 1 - The Reporters
Release Date: 1972-10-09 -
Episode 2 - A Life Is for Ever
Release Date: 1972-10-16The story of a man serving a 30-year prison sentence for killing a cop
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Episode 3 - Carson Country
Release Date: 1972-10-23A story about the origin of the Stormont state
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Episode 4 - Man Friday
Release Date: 1972-10-30The story of Robinson Crusoe from Man Friday's viewpoint
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Episode 5 - Triple Exposure
Release Date: 1972-11-06A hippie breaks into the house of a middle-aged couple and forms a relationship with them
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Episode 6 - Better than the Movies
Release Date: 1972-11-13 -
Episode 7 - The General's Day
Release Date: 1972-11-20An elderly general woos a shy school teacher.
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Episode 8 - The Bankrupt
Release Date: 1972-11-27A washed-up executive is on the verge of bankruptcy.
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Episode 9 - Just Your Luck
Release Date: 1972-12-04 -
Episode 10 - The Bouncing Boy
Release Date: 1972-12-11 -
Episode 11 - Shakespeare or Bust
Release Date: 1973-01-08The adventures of three Derbyshire miners going to Stratford-upon-Avon on a barge
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Episode 12 - Land of Green Ginger
Release Date: 1973-01-15 -
Episode 13 - Kisses at Fifty
Release Date: 1973-01-22A long-married husband leaves his family for a barmaid.
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Episode 14 - Highway Robbery
Release Date: 1973-01-29 -
Episode 15 - Song at Twilight
Release Date: 1973-02-05The story of a defiant football manager in terminal decline
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Episode 16 - Only Make Believe
Release Date: 1973-02-12As a playwright dictates notes about his newest play to his secretary, scenes from the play are acted out.
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Episode 17 - For Sylvia or The Air Show
Release Date: 1973-02-19 -
Episode 18 - The Operation
Release Date: 1973-02-26 -
Episode 19 - Access to the Children
Release Date: 1973-03-05 -
Episode 20 - Hard Labour
Release Date: 1973-03-12The trials of an overworked and underappreciated housecleaner
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Episode 21 - Man Above Men
Release Date: 1973-03-19 -
Episode 22 - Speech Day
Release Date: 1973-03-26Three underachievers have fun at a school speech day
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Episode 23 - Steps Back
Release Date: 1973-05-14 -
Episode 24 - Three's One
Release Date: 1973-06-04 -
Episode 25 - Edward G.--Like the Film Star
Release Date: 1973-06-11 -
Episode 26 - Blooming Youth
Release Date: 1973-06-18The problems of four people sharing an apartment
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Episode 27 - The Stretch
Release Date: 1973-06-25 -
Episode 28 - Making the Play
Release Date: 1973-07-02