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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.
- 306 (28 missing, 1 incomplete)
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- 15 October 1970 –, 28 August 1984
Play for Today: With Alison Steadman, Nigel Hawthorne, Tony Caunter, David Daker. A British television anthology drama series that aired on BBC1 between 1970 and 1984.
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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.
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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.
Fourteenth series of the long-running strand of one-off dramas first broadcast in 1984.
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.
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.
