Play for Today

1970

Play for Today

7.8 | en | 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 & Episodes

EP1 Stan's Last Game

Oct. 25,1983

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.

EP2 Young Shoulders

Feb. 14,1984

Cynical teenager Andrew Groves re-evaluates his attitude to life and his parents after his sister dies in a plane crash.

EP3 A Coming to Terms for Billy

Feb. 21,1984

When his father comes home to Belfast after more than 2 years in England, conflicts arise with Billy

EP4 Z for Zachariah

Feb. 28,1984

After a nuclear holocaust, only a man and a woman survive in a Welsh valley.

EP5 Moving on the Edge

Mar. 06,1984

A woman in a state of personal crisis finds it hard to communicate with her husband and family.

EP6 Desert of Lies

Mar. 13,1984

An expedition tracing the path of long-lost missionaries meets with tragedy in the Kalahari Desert.

EP7 Hard Feelings

Mar. 20,1984

A group of unemployed Oxford drop-outs living in a Brixton commune get their come-uppance by one of them.

EP8 Under the Hammer

Mar. 27,1984

Concerning the life of the artist Vincent Van Gogh

EP9 King

Apr. 03,1984

A man who has had a good life in England wants to retire to Jamaica, but the celebration with his daughters doesn't go as expected.

EP10 Rainy Day Women

Apr. 10,1984

In 1940, during World War II, an officer is sent to investigate rumors of German spies in a sleepy village where various people are the victims of war hysteria

EP11 Dog Ends

Jul. 17,1984

In a future society where euthansia is common, a man signs papers to have his father put down

EP12 The Groundling and the Kite

Jul. 24,1984

Peter is a songwriter, while his old friend Jimmy is an A and R (Artists and Repertoire) man. But when Jimmy tries to sell one of Peter's songs, Peter is furious. Can the friendship survive?

EP13 The Cry

Jul. 31,1984

In 1959 Ulster, a journalist witnesses the beating of a youth

EP14 It Could Happen to Anybody

Aug. 14,1984

A long-suffering Glasgow housewife puts up with years of her husband's violence and drunkenness - and then something happens which makes her snap and fight back.

EP15 Only Children

Aug. 21,1984

A young woman's comfortable life is turned upside down when she has a baby.

EP16 The Amazing Miss Stella Estelle

Aug. 28,1984

Miss Stella Estelle is a cabaret singer in working men's clubs, and she sings songs from the 1960s to support a large and difficult family. But how long can it go on? The backdrop is a family in decay: husband out of work, wife working and still doing the domestics, daughter the singer and hopeful star, son her "manager" but in reality going nowhere. Stella plays a crummy club circuit, singing songs for oldies for £50 a night - She's never going to be a star because of her parents' short-sighted greed.

EP17 The Long March

Nov. 20,1984

A woman returns to Belfast after ten years in England and becomes involved in the Maze prison protest.

EP18 Punters

Nov. 27,1984

What is the secret of Joey and Spansky's success at the races?

EP19 Talk To Me

Dec. 11,1984

Matthew and his wife are deeply suspicious of psychoanalysis. It's not their sort of thing at all.

EP20 Bird Fancier

Jan. 15,1985

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EP21 Brigadista

Feb. 05,1985

When best-selling author James Fuller Hayes comes to Glasgow to publicise his personal account of the Spanish Civil War, a surprise reunion with two of his old comrades from the Int Brigade reveals contradictory & devastating information.

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Play for Today Audience Reviews

Laikals The greatest movie ever made..!

Aneesa Wardle The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

Edwin The storyline feels a little thin and moth-eaten in parts but this sequel is plenty of fun.

Billy Ollie Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable