Play for Today
1970 · Drama · 14 Seasons · 314 Episodes ·
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.
Episodes
Season 1Season 2Season 3Season 4Season 5Season 6Season 7Season 8Season 9Season 10Season 11Season 12Season 13Season 14
1. The Long Distance Piano PlayerA man tries to break the world's record for nonstop piano playing
2. The Right ProspectusA couple look for the proper school, not for their children but for themselves.
3. The Lie""The Lie"" refers to the 8-year marriage of a couple who are constantly hurting each other.
4. Angels Are So FewA man claiming to be an angel enters the household of a bored housewife and teaches the family a few lessons.E55. The Write-OffA man is made redundant but can't bring himself to let anyone know, plunging into a web of deceit as he keeps up the charade he is still in work.E66. I Can't See My Little WillieA man has a mid-life crisis in his brother's pub where sees life as a game showE77. A Distant ThunderA newly-appointed knight finds his celebrations cut short by someone who was witness to his treachery during the war.E88. Hearts and FlowersA TV host and his architect brother attend their father's funeral
9. Robin RedbreastA woman living in a country cottage thinks that someone is trying to get her.E1010. The Hallelujah HandshakeA petty thief and social misfit finagles his way into a church congregationE1111. Alma MaterA civil servant working abroad revisits his old schoolE1212. Circle LineA cynical student has a radically different view of life from his landlady, leading to conflict. Matters come to a head when he sleeps with her fourteen-year-old brother.E1313. Hell's AngelA couple are distressed by the changes in their adopted teenage son when he joins a biker gang.E1414. The PianoAn old couple refuse to move when they find out that they can't take their piano with themE1515. Billy's Last StandBilly, a self-employed coal-shoveller, gains a seedy business partner and competition in the form of a rival coal-shoveller.E1616. The RainbirdsA man who attempted suicide by jumping out a window is saved only to live in a coma, in which he has fantasies about his relatives and nightmare creatures.E1717. ReddickCharges that the Rev 'Red' Reddick is exploiting his youth club members leads to an explosive confrontation.E1818. The FoxtrotAn odd menage a trois results when a woman and her lover are visited by her long-lost husbandE1919. When the Bough BreaksWhen an injured baby arrives at the hospital, a social worker looks for the parentsE2020. OrkneyA trilogy of plays--A Time to Keep, The Whaler's Return, and Celia--exploring the life of the islanders in the past and presentE2121. The Rank and FileThe story of the Pilkington glass workers strike of 1970E2222. The Man in the SidecarA succesful novelist Edith lives with her husband and his friend, but she decides to ask the friend to leave.E2323. Everybody Say CheeseThe story of a disintegrating marriage told through family photosE2424. The Cellar and the Almond Tree
