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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.
Play for Today was a BBC1 show that aired between 1970 and 1984, featuring original and adapted plays. It won 11 BAFTA Awards and starred actors like Alison Steadman, Nigel Hawthorne and Tony Caunter.
- (392)
- 1970-10-15
- Comedy, Drama
- 75
Play For Today is a long-running strand of one-off dramas first broadcast in 1984. Find episodes by series, genre, or date, and watch clips online.
Watch online the latest episodes of Play For Today, a drama anthology series on BBC One. Choose from Clay, Smeddum and Greenden, a trilogy of stories by Lewis Grassic Gibbon, or Kisses at Fifty, a comedy about a pub owner's birthday.
Over its lifetime Play for Today produced many classics ranging from Edna the Inebriate Woman, Licking Hitler and Blue Remembered Hills, to Spend, Spend, Spend, Bar Mitzvah Boy and Abigail’s ...