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 28 : A Walk in the Forest
May. 14,1980
A writer gets involved with a Soviet dissident
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Episode 27 : The Imitation Game
April. 24,1980
During World War II, an idealistic young woman joins the Army Transport Service
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Episode 26 : The Executioner
April. 17,1980
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Episode 25 : Not for the Likes of Us
April. 10,1980
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Episode 24 : The Vanishing Army
April. 03,1980
A story about the highs and lows of peacetime army life
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Episode 23 : Ladies
March. 27,1980
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Episode 22 : Shadows on Our Skin
March. 20,1980
The problems of an 11-year-old boy living in the Catholic part of Londonderry
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Episode 21 : Buses
March. 13,1980
A story about the regulation of the bus industry in 1930
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Episode 20 : Kate, the Good Neighbour
March. 06,1980
A compassionate elderly woman comes to the realization that she can no longer care for herself or others.
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Episode 19 : A Gift from Nessus
February. 28,1980
The marital and career problems of a middle-aged, middle-class man in Glasgow in the 1960s
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Episode 18 : That Crazy Woman
February. 21,1980
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Episode 17 : No Defence
February. 14,1980
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Episode 16 : Instant Enlightenment Including VAT
February. 07,1980
Weekend enlightenment seminars serve as a form of brainwashing.
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Episode 15 : Murder Rap
January. 31,1980
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Episode 14 : Thicker Than Water
January. 24,1980
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Episode 13 : Dreams of Leaving
January. 17,1980
A journalist moves to London and gets caught up in the big city and his romance with a rich debutante.
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Episode 12 : Keep Smiling
January. 10,1980
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Episode 11 : Chance of a Lifetime
January. 03,1980
A young man quits school and joins the army.
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Episode 10 : The Network
December. 20,1979
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Episode 9 : Katie
December. 13,1979
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Episode 8 : The Slab-Boys
December. 06,1979
The story of a young man who works in a carpet factory
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Episode 7 : A Hole in Babylon
November. 29,1979
Exploration of the events leading up to 1975 Spaghetti House siege in London and the motivation of its three protagonists, T-Bone Wilson, Archie Pool, and Trevor Thomas.
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Episode 6 : Billy
November. 15,1979
A 4-year-old boy is abused by his father
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Episode 5 : Just a Boy's Game
November. 08,1979
In Glasgow, a young man's sole aim is to be as tough as his dying grandfather once was
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Episode 3 : Comedians
October. 25,1979
Budding comedians take an evening class taught by a retired performer and, for their final exam, must perform for an impresario in a nightclub.
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Episode 2 : Cries from a Watchtower
October. 18,1979
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Episode 1 : Long Distance Information
October. 11,1979
A fanatical Elvis Presley fan is working as a disc jockey when his idol dies
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