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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.
A British television anthology drama series that aired on BBC1 between 1970 and 1984. Stars. Alison Steadman. Nigel Hawthorne. Tony Caunter. See production info at IMDbPro. RENT/BUY. search Amazon. Add to Watchlist. Added by 1.8K users. 3 Critic reviews. Won 11 BAFTA Awards. 16 wins & 16 nominations total. Episodes 304. Top-rated. Tue, Dec 8, 1981.
BBC One - Play For Today - Episode guide. Home. Episodes. Clips. Episodes. All. Available now (3) Next on (1) Series 14. Fourteenth series of the long-running strand of one-off dramas first...
Oct 20, 2022 · Play for Today - S15E05 - Kenneth Branagh Remembers... The Billy Plays (5 October 2022) Play for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC1 from 1970 to 1984.
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.
S1.E1 ∙ The Long Distance Piano Player. Thu, Oct 15, 1970. 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.
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...
Set against the backdrop of the Silver Jubilee of Elizabeth II, the play depicts a single mother's struggles in this highly polemical and unremittingly bleak diatribe against government welfare cuts from the poor and disabled. 8.6/10. Rate. Seasons Years Top-rated.
A new season of television dramas under the banner Play for Today was launched on 15 October 1970. In effect it was a rebrand of The Wednesday Play, moved to Thursday night, but there was still a ...
Feb 24, 1976 · BBC One - Play for Today, Series 6, Clay, Smeddum and Greenden. Home. Episodes. Clips. Watch now. Clay, Smeddum and Greenden. Series 6. A trilogy of loosely linked stories by Lewis Grassic...
