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.
Oct 15, 1970 - 1h 15m
A man tries to break the world's record for nonstop piano playing
Oct 22, 1970 - 1h 15m
A couple look for the proper school, not for their children but for themselves.
Oct 29, 1970 - 1h 15m
""The Lie"" refers to the 8-year marriage of a couple who are constantly hurting each other.
Nov 5, 1970 - 1h 15m
A man claiming to be an angel enters the household of a bored housewife and teaches the family a few lessons.
Nov 12, 1970 - 1h 15m
A man is made redundant but can't bring himself to let anyone know, plunging into a web of deceit as he keeps up the charade he is still in work.
Nov 19, 1970 - 1h 15m
A man has a mid-life crisis in his brother's pub where sees life as a game show
Nov 26, 1970 - 1h 15m
A newly-appointed knight finds his celebrations cut short by someone who was witness to his treachery during the war.
Dec 3, 1970 - 1h 15m
A TV host and his architect brother attend their father's funeral
Dec 10, 1970 - 1h 15m
A woman living in a country cottage thinks that someone is trying to get her.
Dec 17, 1970 - 1h 15m
A petty thief and social misfit finagles his way into a church congregation
Jan 7, 1971 - 1h 15m
A civil servant working abroad revisits his old school
Jan 14, 1971 - 1h 15m
A cynical student has a radically different view of life from his landlady, leading to conflict. Matters come to a head when he sleeps with her fourteen-year-old brother.
Jan 21, 1971 - 1h 15m
A couple are distressed by the changes in their adopted teenage son when he joins a biker gang.
Jan 28, 1971 - 1h 15m
An old couple refuse to move when they find out that they can't take their piano with them
Feb 4, 1971 - 1h 15m
Billy, a self-employed coal-shoveller, gains a seedy business partner and competition in the form of a rival coal-shoveller.
Feb 11, 1971 - 1h 15m
A man who attempted suicide by jumping out a window is saved only to live in a coma, in which he has fantasies about his relatives and nightmare creatures.
Feb 18, 1971 - 1h 15m
Charges that the Rev 'Red' Reddick is exploiting his youth club members leads to an explosive confrontation.
Apr 29, 1971 - 1h 15m
An odd menage a trois results when a woman and her lover are visited by her long-lost husband
May 6, 1971 - 1h 15m
When an injured baby arrives at the hospital, a social worker looks for the parents
May 13, 1971 - 1h 15m
A trilogy of plays--A Time to Keep, The Whaler's Return, and Celia--exploring the life of the islanders in the past and present
May 20, 1971 - 1h 15m
The story of the Pilkington glass workers strike of 1970
May 27, 1971 - 1h 15m
A succesful novelist Edith lives with her husband and his friend, but she decides to ask the friend to leave.
Jun 3, 1971 - 1h 15m
The story of a disintegrating marriage told through family photos
Jun 10, 1971
No overview available.
