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.
Episodes
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James Grout and Bert Parnaby are rival chairmen of a northern football club in the run-up to an important cup match. As tempers fray, retiring president Charles Lamb provides a calming voice of sanity.
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Cynical teenager Andrew Groves re-evaluates his attitude to life and his parents after his sister dies in a plane crash.
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When his father comes home to Belfast after more than 2 years in England, conflicts arise with Billy
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After a nuclear holocaust, only a man and a woman survive in a Welsh valley.
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A woman in a state of personal crisis finds it hard to communicate with her husband and family.
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An expedition tracing the path of long-lost missionaries meets with tragedy in the Kalahari Desert.
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A group of unemployed Oxford drop-outs living in a Brixton commune get their come-uppance by one of them.
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Concerning the life of the artist Vincent Van Gogh
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A man who has had a good life in England wants to retire to Jamaica, but the celebration with his daughters doesn't go as expected.
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In 1940, during World War II, an officer is sent to investigate rumors of German spies in a sleepy village where various people are the victims of war hysteria
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In a future society where euthansia is common, a man signs papers to have his father put down
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Peter is a songwriter, while his old friend Jimmy is an A and R (Artists and Repertoire) man. But when Jimmy tries to sell one of Peter's songs, Peter is furious. Can the friendship survive?
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In 1959 Ulster, a journalist witnesses the beating of a youth
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A long-suffering Glasgow housewife puts up with years of her husband's violence and drunkenness - and then something happens which makes her snap and fight back.
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A young woman's comfortable life is turned upside down when she has a baby.
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Miss Stella Estelle is a cabaret singer in working men's clubs, and she sings songs from the 1960s to support a large and difficult family. But how long can it go on? The backdrop is a family in decay: husband out of work, wife working and still doing the domestics, daughter the singer and hopeful star, son her "manager" but in reality going nowhere. Stella plays a crummy club circuit, singing songs for oldies for £50 a night - She's never going to be a star because of her parents' short-sighted greed.
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A woman returns to Belfast after ten years in England and becomes involved in the Maze prison protest.
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What is the secret of Joey and Spansky's success at the races?
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Matthew and his wife are deeply suspicious of psychoanalysis. It's not their sort of thing at all.
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No overview is available.
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When best-selling author James Fuller Hayes comes to Glasgow to publicise his personal account of the Spanish Civil War, a surprise reunion with two of his old comrades from the Int Brigade reveals contradictory & devastating information.
