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Play for Today (1970)

October. 15,1970

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Play for Today

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.

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Play for Today

1970

Seasons & Episode

Seasons 14 : 1983

16 Episode

Episode 1 - Stan's Last Game

October. 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.

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Episode 2 - Young Shoulders

February. 14,1984

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

Episode 3 - A Coming to Terms for Billy

February. 21,1984

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

Episode 4 - Z for Zachariah

February. 28,1984

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

Episode 5 - Moving on the Edge

March. 06,1984

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

Episode 6 - Desert of Lies

March. 13,1984

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

Episode 7 - Hard Feelings

March. 20,1984

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

Episode 8 - Under the Hammer

March. 27,1984

Concerning the life of the artist Vincent Van Gogh

Episode 9 - King

April. 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.

Episode 10 - Rainy Day Women

April. 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

Episode 11 - Dog Ends

July. 17,1984

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

Episode 12 - The Groundling and the Kite

July. 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?

Episode 13 - The Cry

July. 31,1984

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

Episode 14 - It Could Happen to Anybody

August. 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.

Episode 15 - Only Children

August. 21,1984

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

Episode 16 - The Amazing Miss Stella Estelle

August. 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.

Seasons 13 : 1982

18 Episode

Seasons 12 : 1981

22 Episode

Seasons 11 : 1980

27 Episode

Seasons 10 : 1979

28 Episode

Seasons 9 : 1978

21 Episode

Seasons 8 : 1977

18 Episode