Play for Today
7.8
1970
Drama
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 18 : The Legion Hall Bombing
August. 22,1978
The story of the trial of Willie Gallagher, convicted of bombing the Strabane British Legion Hall in 1976.
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Episode 17 : The After-Dinner Joke
February. 14,1978
The story of a well-meaning charity worker
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Episode 16 : Our Day Out
February. 07,1978
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Episode 15 : Destiny
January. 31,1978
A story dealing with racial tensions and fascism during a by-election in a West Midlands town
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Episode 14 : The Spongers
January. 24,1978
The story of a single mother of four living on welfare
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Episode 13 : Red Shift
January. 17,1978
A stone axehead links three couples living at different times in the same place in Wales.
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Episode 12 : Licking Hitler
January. 10,1978
During World War II, a young woman joins the propaganda department and makes radio broadcasts to Germany from a British country house.
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Episode 11 : Scully's New Year's Eve
January. 03,1978
A Liverpool teenager has a hectic night out on New Year's Eve.
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Episode 10 : The Thin End of the Wedge
December. 20,1977
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Episode 9 : Charades
December. 13,1977
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Episode 8 : Catchpenny Twist
December. 06,1977
Three schoolteachers in Belfast give up teaching to become singers/songwriters.
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Episode 7 : The Mayor's Charity
November. 29,1977
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Episode 6 : One Day at a Time
November. 22,1977
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Episode 5 : Nipper
November. 15,1977
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Episode 4 : Oy Vay Maria
November. 08,1977
The story of the romance between a Jewish boy and an Irish Catholic girl
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Episode 2 : Come the Revolution
October. 25,1977
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Episode 1 : Stronger than the Sun
October. 18,1977
A worker discovers a radioactive leak at the nuclear power plant where she works and tries to make it public knowledge.
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