Alan Clarke
Director
Play for Today (1970)
Season 1
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.
Released Oct. 15, 1970
Episode 75 min
None+
Keywords: tmdb.anthology, tmdb.based-on-play-or-musical, imdb.low-budget-tv-series, imdb.play-today, imdb.fun, imdb.live-for-today, imdb.rhyme-in-title + 7 more, imdb.three-word-title, imdb.anthology, imdb.play, imdb.theater, imdb.anthology-series, imdb.satire-comedy, imdb.1970s
Network: BBC One
Country: United Kingdom
Languages:
English
S1E1 - The Long Distance Piano Player
A man tries to break the world's record for nonstop piano playing
Oct. 15, 1970, midnight
S1E2 - The Right Prospectus
A couple look for the proper school, not for their children but for themselves.
Oct. 22, 1970, midnight
S1E3 - The Lie
""The Lie"" refers to the 8-year marriage of a couple who are constantly hurting each other.
Oct. 29, 1970, midnight
S1E4 - Angels Are So Few
A man claiming to be an angel enters the household of a bored housewife and teaches the family a few lessons.
Nov. 5, 1970, midnight
S1E5 - The Write-Off
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. 12, 1970, midnight
S1E6 - I Can't See My Little Willie
A man has a mid-life crisis in his brother's pub where sees life as a game show
Nov. 19, 1970, midnight
S1E7 - A Distant Thunder
A newly-appointed knight finds his celebrations cut short by someone who was witness to his treachery during the war.
Nov. 26, 1970, midnight
S1E8 - Hearts and Flowers
A TV host and his architect brother attend their father's funeral
Dec. 3, 1970, midnight
S1E9 - Robin Redbreast
A woman living in a country cottage thinks that someone is trying to get her.
Dec. 10, 1970, midnight
S1E10 - The Hallelujah Handshake
A petty thief and social misfit finagles his way into a church congregation
Dec. 17, 1970, midnight
S1E11 - Alma Mater
A civil servant working abroad revisits his old school
Jan. 7, 1971, midnight
S1E12 - Circle Line
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. 14, 1971, midnight
S1E13 - Hell's Angel
A couple are distressed by the changes in their adopted teenage son when he joins a biker gang.
Jan. 21, 1971, midnight
S1E14 - The Piano
An old couple refuse to move when they find out that they can't take their piano with them
Jan. 28, 1971, midnight
S1E15 - Billy's Last Stand
Billy, a self-employed coal-shoveller, gains a seedy business partner and competition in the form of a rival coal-shoveller.
Feb. 4, 1971, midnight
S1E16 - The Rainbirds
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. 11, 1971, midnight
S1E17 - Reddick
Charges that the Rev 'Red' Reddick is exploiting his youth club members leads to an explosive confrontation.
Feb. 18, 1971, midnight
S1E18 - The Foxtrot
An odd menage a trois results when a woman and her lover are visited by her long-lost husband
April 29, 1971, midnight
S1E19 - When the Bough Breaks
When an injured baby arrives at the hospital, a social worker looks for the parents
May 6, 1971, midnight
S1E20 - Orkney
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 13, 1971, midnight
S1E21 - The Rank and File
The story of the Pilkington glass workers strike of 1970
May 20, 1971, midnight
S1E22 - The Man in the Sidecar
A succesful novelist Edith lives with her husband and his friend, but she decides to ask the friend to leave.
May 27, 1971, midnight
S1E23 - Everybody Say Cheese
The story of a disintegrating marriage told through family photos
June 3, 1971, midnight
S1E24 - The Cellar and the Almond Tree
None
June 10, 1971, midnight
Network: BBC One
Episode Runtime: 75 min.
Season Runtime: 23550 min.
Released: Oct. 15, 1970
Last Air Date: Feb. 5, 1985, midnight
Status: Ended
Certification: NR
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