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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.
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Oct 20, 2022 · Play for Today was a long-running anthology series that aired on BBC1 from 1970 to 1974. It featured one-off stories of social realism, comedy, and drama, with a different cast and director for each episode.
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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 landmark productions from some of the UK's greatest creative talents, as first seen in the 1970s and 1980s. Explore episodes, clips and similar programmes of this classic drama series on BBC One and Four.
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Play for Today: Volume One (trailer) - on BFI Blu-ray from 16 November 2020 | BFI. Seven iconic Play for Today dramas arrive on Blu-ray for the very first time, with our four-disc Volume...
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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...
