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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: With Alison Steadman, Nigel Hawthorne, David Daker, Tony Caunter. A British television anthology drama series that aired on BBC1 between 1970 and 1984.
Oct 20, 2022 · 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,
Series 13. View episodes. Thirteenth series of the BBC's long-running strand of one-off dramas.
For the BBC's WEDNESDAY PLAY series, Dennis Potter offered one of his "visitation dramas": Housewife Cynthia Nicholls is married to prudish Richard Nicholls. One day, her mundane household chores are interrupted by the arrival on her front step of scruffy, coarse Michael Biddle.
Buy Play for Today on Google Play, then watch on your PC, Android, or iOS devices. Download to watch offline and even view it on a big screen using Chromecast.
Play for Today. Landmark productions from some of the UK's greatest creative talents, as first seen in the 1970s and 1980s - part of the BBC's rich archive of classic drama.
Through the 1970s and early '80s Play for Today made a significant contribution to the canon of television drama. The first play was The Long Distance Piano Player by Alan Sharp, starring...
Arguably the most famous edition of Play For Today, and one of the most beloved, as Mike Leigh directs a comedy of manners. Middle-class suburbia gets to reveal its darker side over the course of an increasingly uncomfortable drinks party.
October 2020 marks the 50th anniversary of anthology drama series PLAY FOR TODAY, which comprised broadcasts of more than 300 one-off television plays on the...