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Play for Today

  • 1970 – 1985
  • Ended
  • Drama
  • ~1h 15m / ep
  • 14 seasons
  • 6.6/10

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.

Latest: Season 14 · 1983

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  1. E1. Stan's Last Game

    Oct 25, 1983 · 75m

    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.

  2. E2. Young Shoulders

    Feb 14, 1984 · 75m

    Cynical teenager Andrew Groves re-evaluates his attitude to life and his parents after his sister dies in a plane crash.

  3. E3. A Coming to Terms for Billy

    Feb 21, 1984 · 75m

    When his father comes home to Belfast after more than 2 years in England, conflicts arise with Billy

  4. E4. Z for Zachariah

    Feb 28, 1984 · 75m

    After a nuclear holocaust, only a man and a woman survive in a Welsh valley.

  5. E5. Moving on the Edge

    Mar 6, 1984 · 75m

    A woman in a state of personal crisis finds it hard to communicate with her husband and family.

  6. E6. Desert of Lies

    Mar 13, 1984 · 75m

    An expedition tracing the path of long-lost missionaries meets with tragedy in the Kalahari Desert.

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