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Play for Today

Play for Today

6.6 IMDb tt0165592 1970 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.

Episodes 24

The Long Distance Piano Player 1
The Long Distance Piano Player 1h 15m A man tries to break the world's record for nonstop piano playing
The Right Prospectus 2 ▶ Playing
The Right Prospectus 1h 15m A couple look for the proper school, not for their children but for themselves.
The Lie 3
The Lie 1h 15m ""The Lie"" refers to the 8-year marriage of a couple who are constantly hurting each other.
Angels Are So Few 4
Angels Are So Few 1h 15m A man claiming to be an angel enters the household of a bored housewife and teaches the family…
5
The Write-Off 1h 15m A man is made redundant but can't bring himself to let anyone know, plunging into a web of…
6
I Can't See My Little Willie 1h 15m A man has a mid-life crisis in his brother's pub where sees life as a game show
7
A Distant Thunder 1h 15m A newly-appointed knight finds his celebrations cut short by someone who was witness to his treachery during the…
8
Hearts and Flowers 1h 15m A TV host and his architect brother attend their father's funeral
Robin Redbreast 9
Robin Redbreast 1h 15m A woman living in a country cottage thinks that someone is trying to get her.
10
The Hallelujah Handshake 1h 15m A petty thief and social misfit finagles his way into a church congregation
11
Alma Mater 1h 15m A civil servant working abroad revisits his old school
12
Circle Line 1h 15m A cynical student has a radically different view of life from his landlady, leading to conflict. Matters come…
13
Hell's Angel 1h 15m A couple are distressed by the changes in their adopted teenage son when he joins a biker gang.
14
The Piano 1h 15m An old couple refuse to move when they find out that they can't take their piano with them
15
Billy's Last Stand 1h 15m Billy, a self-employed coal-shoveller, gains a seedy business partner and competition in the form of a rival coal-shoveller.
16
The Rainbirds 1h 15m A man who attempted suicide by jumping out a window is saved only to live in a coma,…
17
Reddick 1h 15m Charges that the Rev 'Red' Reddick is exploiting his youth club members leads to an explosive confrontation.
18
The Foxtrot 1h 15m An odd menage a trois results when a woman and her lover are visited by her long-lost husband
19
When the Bough Breaks 1h 15m When an injured baby arrives at the hospital, a social worker looks for the parents
20
Orkney 1h 15m A trilogy of plays--A Time to Keep, The Whaler's Return, and Celia--exploring the life of the islanders in…
21
The Rank and File 1h 15m The story of the Pilkington glass workers strike of 1970
22
The Man in the Sidecar 1h 15m A succesful novelist Edith lives with her husband and his friend, but she decides to ask the friend…
23
Everybody Say Cheese 1h 15m The story of a disintegrating marriage told through family photos
24
The Cellar and the Almond Tree