Play for Today (1970)
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.
- Colin Welland
- Richard Harris
- Howard Brenton
Stars:
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Episode 1 - Stronger than the Sun
Release Date: 1977-10-18A worker discovers a radioactive leak at the nuclear power plant where she works and tries to make it public knowledge.
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Episode 2 - Come the Revolution
Release Date: 1977-10-25 -
Episode 3 - Abigail's Party
Release Date: 1977-11-01Comedy of manners focusing on the bourgeois affectation and sexual frustration of a young married couple. Abigail's mother Sue is invited to take refuge from her teenage daughter's party with a neighbouring couple, Beverly and Laurence. They have also invited Angela and Tony, new arrivals in the street. Beverly plies her guests with alcohol as Sue becomes increasingly withdrawn and embarrassed by the pretentious goings-on. Slowly, marital tensions emerge and the evening is breaking up in disarray.
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Episode 4 - Oy Vay Maria
Release Date: 1977-11-08The story of the romance between a Jewish boy and an Irish Catholic girl
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Episode 5 - Nipper
Release Date: 1977-11-15 -
Episode 6 - One Day at a Time
Release Date: 1977-11-22 -
Episode 7 - The Mayor's Charity
Release Date: 1977-11-29 -
Episode 8 - Catchpenny Twist
Release Date: 1977-12-06Three schoolteachers in Belfast give up teaching to become singers/songwriters.
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Episode 9 - Charades
Release Date: 1977-12-13 -
Episode 10 - The Thin End of the Wedge
Release Date: 1977-12-20 -
Episode 11 - Scully's New Year's Eve
Release Date: 1978-01-03A Liverpool teenager has a hectic night out on New Year's Eve.
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Episode 12 - Licking Hitler
Release Date: 1978-01-10During World War II, a young woman joins the propaganda department and makes radio broadcasts to Germany from a British country house.
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Episode 13 - Red Shift
Release Date: 1978-01-17A stone axehead links three couples living at different times in the same place in Wales.
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Episode 14 - The Spongers
Release Date: 1978-01-24The story of a single mother of four living on welfare
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Episode 15 - Destiny
Release Date: 1978-01-31A story dealing with racial tensions and fascism during a by-election in a West Midlands town
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Episode 16 - Our Day Out
Release Date: 1978-02-07 -
Episode 17 - The After-Dinner Joke
Release Date: 1978-02-14The story of a well-meaning charity worker
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Episode 18 - The Legion Hall Bombing
Release Date: 1978-08-22The story of the trial of Willie Gallagher, convicted of bombing the Strabane British Legion Hall in 1976.