
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
View all seasonsE1. 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.
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.
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
E4. Z for Zachariah
Feb 28, 1984 · 75m
After a nuclear holocaust, only a man and a woman survive in a Welsh valley.
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.
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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