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.
Series 1
24 episodes
Premiered Oct 14, 1970
Series 2
19 episodes
Premiered Oct 13, 1971
Series 3
28 episodes
Premiered Oct 8, 1972
Series 4
22 episodes
Premiered Oct 17, 1973
Series 5
22 episodes
Premiered Oct 30, 1974
Series 6
25 episodes
Premiered Oct 13, 1975
Series 7
19 episodes
Premiered Sep 13, 1976
Series 8
18 episodes
Premiered Oct 17, 1977
Series 9
21 episodes
Premiered Oct 16, 1978
Series 10
28 episodes
Premiered Oct 10, 1979
Series 11
27 episodes
Premiered Oct 20, 1980
Series 12
22 episodes
Premiered Oct 19, 1981
Series 13
18 episodes
Premiered Oct 18, 1982
Series 14
21 episodes
Premiered Oct 24, 1983
Ep 1The Long Distance Piano Player
A man tries to break the world's record for nonstop piano playing
Ep 2The Right Prospectus
A couple look for the proper school, not for their children but for themselves.
Ep 3The Lie
""The Lie"" refers to the 8-year marriage of a couple who are constantly hurting each other.
Ep 4Angels Are So Few
A man claiming to be an angel enters the household of a bored housewife and teaches the family a few lessons.
The Write-Off
A 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.
I Can't See My Little Willie
A man has a mid-life crisis in his brother's pub where sees life as a game show
BBC One
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