Play for Today

Play for Today

1970
★★★☆☆ 6.3/10
📺 14 Seasons
🎬 314 Episodes
📅 Ended
🌐 EN
⏱️ 75 min/episode
Drama
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 between fifty and a hundred minutes in duration.

Seasons

Season 1
1970 • 24 Episodes
A man tries to break the world's record for nonstop piano playing
Season 2
1971 • 19 Episodes
A British aristocrat turned Russian spy is visited in Moscow by Western journalists
Season 3
1972 • 28 Episodes
Two provincial newspaper reporters - one a young idealist starting out on his career, the other an embittered man who previously wrote for a failed national daily - swap views.
Season 4
1973 • 22 Episodes
Mrs Palfrey tries hard to be accepted by the other residents at the Claremont. But then she meets Ludo and a real friendship begins.
Season 5
1974 • 22 Episodes
About a strike in a textile factory, based on a true story
Season 6
1975 • 25 Episodes
A married barrister's life begins to unravel when it seems that his high-strung mistress may reveal all.
Season 7
1976 • 19 Episodes
A story exploring the emotions of a boy undrgoing the traditional Jewish ceremony
Season 8
1977 • 18 Episodes
A worker discovers a radioactive leak at the nuclear power plant where she works and tries to make it public knowledge.
Season 9
1978 • 21 Episodes
The story of two Soviet dissidents living in London and slowly coming apart under the strain of his drinking and her enforced separation from her child
Season 10
1979 • 28 Episodes
A fanatical Elvis Presley fan is working as a disc jockey when his idol dies
Season 11
1980 • 27 Episodes
Colin Pasmore tests his strength against his family ties but finds them stronger than he ever imagined.
Season 12
1981 • 22 Episodes
The story of the disintegration of an aristocratic country estate after World War II
Season 13
1982 • 18 Episodes
A story about a homesick Russian journalist in London at the end of the cold war
Season 14
1983 • 21 Episodes
James Grout and Bert Parnaby are rival chairmen of a northern football club in the run-up to an important cup match. As tempers fray, retiring president Charles Lamb provides a calming voice of sanity.

Crew

Writer
Colin Welland
Producer
Graeme MacDonald

Network

BBC One

Keywords

anthologybased on play or musical