Alan Clarke
Director
Play for Today (1970)
Season 11
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
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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
S11E1 - Pasmore
Colin Pasmore tests his strength against his family ties but finds them stronger than he ever imagined.
Oct. 21, 1980, midnight
S11E2 - C2H5OH
"In heaven there is no drama - drama depends on failure and conflict. My trade is a scrutiny of hell. For any proud dramatist his style is his prejudice."
Oct. 28, 1980, midnight
S11E3 - The Adventures of Frank: Everybody's Fiddling Something
Writer-director John McGrath deliberately shies away from naturalism in an experiment that mixes blue screen, songs, and characters realising they're acting within a play. This first of two parts sees Frank travel to a hostile London.
Nov. 4, 1980, midnight
S11E4 - The Adventures of Frank: Seeds of Ice
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Nov. 11, 1980, midnight
S11E5 - Minor Complications
Kay Gilbert goes into hospital for a minor operation which goes badly wrong. This play tells the story of her fight for compensation.
Nov. 18, 1980, midnight
S11E6 - Number on End
What could Steve Jackson's documentary film expose that must be concealed from the African leaders meeting in Brussels? Steve Jackson is on the run and the wrong decision could prove fatal.
Nov. 25, 1980, midnight
S11E7 - Jude
Twelve-year-old Jude has never met Dick, his father. One Sunday afternoon Dick impulsively engineers a meeting, which has distressing consequences.
Dec. 2, 1980, midnight
S11E8 - The Flipside of Dominick Hide
Dominick Hide, a time traveller from London in the year 2130, is studying the city's transport system of 1980. Breaking the rules, he lands his craft to seek out his great-grandfather. Compared to his anaesthetised home, 80s London is filthy and polluted...and yet...it exudes an excitement that soon draws him in.
Dec. 9, 1980, midnight
S11E9 - Name for the Day
Clive admits himself to a psychiatric hospital after undergoing a breakdown. His wife wants him back home, but in order for Clive to be released, he has to want to be cured.
Dec. 16, 1980, midnight
S11E10 - Jessie
In Victorian times, a nanny cares for a mute boy, who becomes overly attached to her.
Dec. 23, 1980, midnight
S11E11 - Beyond the Pale
A vacation at a seaside hotel in Ireland changes the lives of four friends.
Jan. 6, 1981, midnight
S11E12 - The Muscle Market
The problems of an owner of a building contractor company in Liverpool
Jan. 13, 1981, midnight
S11E13 - A Brush with Mr. Porter on the Road to El Dorado
"They're nice affable gobblers and we're in the nice affable gobbling business." Tom and Gwen soon find that their gastronomical retreat from the rat race is anything but an escape when the Porters come to dine.
Jan. 20, 1981, midnight
S11E14 - Dear Brutus
"They say that in the wood you get what nearly everybody here is longing for - a second chance." J. M. Barrie's fantasy play, depicting alternative realities for its characters and their eventual return to real life.
Jan. 27, 1981, midnight
S11E15 - The Cause
A confused industrial dispute at a London hospital triggers off in trade unionist George Harley's mind memories of his days fighting in the Spanish Civil War, when the issues seemed so much clearer.
Feb. 3, 1981, midnight
S11E16 - Beloved Enemy
The head of a multinational corporation wants to do business with the Soviets
Feb. 10, 1981, midnight
S11E17 - The Kamikaze Ground Staff Reunion Dinner
A group of men hold a reunion dinner in Tokyo
Feb. 17, 1981, midnight
S11E18 - The Union
You know the nuts and bolts of our policy? To penetrate the unions. To use all sorts of stratagems, manoeuvres, illegal measures, evasions, subterfuges, to carry on Communist activities inside them at all cost.
Feb. 24, 1981, midnight
S11E19 - Sorry
Two very different women share an office, a common enemy, and a sense of humour.
March 3, 1981, midnight
S11E20 - Shai Mãlã Khani: The Garland
When her 17-year-old son Roy falls in love with a Muslim girl, and a Bangladeshi butcher seeks help from her husband Raji, Leela realizes that the tears and romance of Indian cinema are closer to her own life than she has ever imagined.
March 10, 1981, midnight
S11E21 - The Sin Bin
Six lifers living in an experimental self-rehabilitation unit attached to an ordinary prison participate in a group therapy session. All of them have spent many years in prison and have little chance of ever getting out.
March 17, 1981, midnight
S11E22 - Before Water Lillies
An evening with the Parent-Teacher Association gets out of hand.
March 24, 1981, midnight
S11E23 - Bavarian Night
When the dynamic young head-master of St Peter's Primary School decides to liven up a parents' fund-raising social by hiring a Bavarian band, he little suspects the hidden passions that are about to be unleashed.
March 31, 1981, midnight
S11E24 - The Good Time Girls
Nancy and Ella are two bored housewives starved of affection when their husbands are away on the oil rigs. The rules are simple: have some fun, just make sure nobody finds out, and you don't get emotionally involved.
April 7, 1981, midnight
S11E25 - Baby Talk
It's such a simple, natural thing to have a baby, thinks Mary. But she and husband Paul are preoccupied with their careers. Can their young neighbour Tessa help - or are the emotions around a new baby more complex than anyone had expected?
April 14, 1981, midnight
S11E26 - A Turn for the Worse
Soldiers are subjected to a brutal and sadistic kind of psychological training exercise
April 28, 1981, midnight
S11E27 - Psy-Warriors
Soldiers are captured and interrogated by terrorists: but is it real or only a sadistic form of psychological training exercise?
May 12, 1981, 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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