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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.
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- 1970-10-15
- Comedy, Drama
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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, and adaptations of stage plays and novels, were transmitted. The. individual episodes were (with a few exceptions noted below ...
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View episodes. Fourteenth series of the long-running strand of one-off dramas first broadcast in 1984.
Play For Today began with Alan Sharp's script about a man whose marriage is under strain when he undertakes a piano-playing marathon over four days. Starring Ray Davies, it remains in the BBC archives only as a black and white copy.
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...
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.
