Alan Clarke
Director
Play for Today (1970)
Season 3
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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Network: BBC One
Country: United Kingdom
Languages:
English
S3E1 - The Reporters
Two provincial newspaper reporters - one a young idealist starting out on his career, the other an embittered man who previously wrote for a failed national daily - swap views.
Oct. 9, 1972, midnight
S3E2 - A Life Is for Ever
The story of a man serving a 30-year prison sentence for killing a cop
Oct. 16, 1972, midnight
S3E3 - Carson Country
A story about the origin of the Stormont state
Oct. 23, 1972, midnight
S3E4 - Man Friday
The story of Robinson Crusoe from Man Friday's viewpoint
Oct. 30, 1972, midnight
S3E5 - Triple Exposure
A hippie breaks into the house of a middle-aged couple and forms a relationship with them
Nov. 6, 1972, midnight
S3E6 - Better than the Movies
A man celebrating his birthday comes to appreciate the difference between media fantasy and mundane reality.
Nov. 13, 1972, midnight
S3E7 - The General's Day
An elderly general woos a shy school teacher.
Nov. 20, 1972, midnight
S3E8 - The Bankrupt
A washed-up executive is on the verge of bankruptcy.
Nov. 27, 1972, midnight
S3E9 - Just Your Luck
A pregnant teenager sets about wooing a sailor in a sectarian council estate in Greenock.
Dec. 4, 1972, midnight
S3E10 - The Bouncing Boy
A young couple have a baby boy. However, the new father doesn't take to his new position quite as well as expected.
Dec. 11, 1972, midnight
S3E11 - Shakespeare or Bust
The adventures of three Derbyshire miners going to Stratford-upon-Avon on a barge
Jan. 8, 1973, midnight
S3E12 - Land of Green Ginger
Faced with the prospect of being sent to work abroad, Sally Brown returns home from London to Hull, to see if she still feels the same attachment for her home town - and for her old boyfriend Mike Thurlow. Will she decide to take the job abroad or return to live with Mike in Hull?
Jan. 15, 1973, midnight
S3E13 - Kisses at Fifty
A long-married husband leaves his family for a barmaid.
Jan. 22, 1973, midnight
S3E14 - Highway Robbery
A man fights council plans to demolish his home to make way for a new bypass.
Jan. 29, 1973, midnight
S3E15 - Song at Twilight
The story of a defiant football manager in terminal decline
Feb. 5, 1973, midnight
S3E16 - Only Make Believe
As a playwright dictates notes about his newest play to his secretary, scenes from the play are acted out.
Feb. 12, 1973, midnight
S3E17 - For Sylvia or The Air Show
Was this the finest hour? Sifting the truth and fiction about the Battle of Britain, Burrows and Harding give their own account of how the nation sees its heroes - and itself.
Feb. 19, 1973, midnight
S3E18 - The Operation
David Adler is an operator. He strips assets, other men's wives, and his oldest friend's soul - anything for a cool million.
Feb. 26, 1973, midnight
S3E19 - Access to the Children
Malcolmson spends every Sunday taking his children to the zoo, reflecting on the breakdown of his marriage and the events that brought about his divorce. Is there a chance the family can be brought back together?
March 5, 1973, midnight
S3E20 - Hard Labour
The trials of an overworked and underappreciated housecleaner
March 12, 1973, midnight
S3E21 - Man Above Men
"I'm the judge's daughter - I think he's a monstrous old man. I think all men who say 'I'm only doing my job' are monstrous. I've despaired of changing him. But I'd stop short of killing him."
March 19, 1973, midnight
S3E22 - Speech Day
Three underachievers have fun at a school speech day
March 26, 1973, midnight
S3E23 - Steps Back
"Fifteen years since I was forced t' leave, forced t' leave me roots, the territory of me heart." When Gerry takes his fiancée Nita home to Brighouse, what will they find?
May 14, 1973, midnight
S3E24 - Three's One
Are Maggie and Tony using each other as a means of communicating with Dr Leafer? Or are they using Dr Leafer as a means of communicating with each other?
June 4, 1973, midnight
S3E25 - Edward G.--Like the Film Star
Edward G. is nothing like a film star; his life has been ordinary - until now. But he's just had a shattering experience. This edition is missing from the BBC archives.
June 11, 1973, midnight
S3E26 - Blooming Youth
The problems of four people sharing an apartment
June 18, 1973, midnight
S3E27 - The Stretch
Everyone always looked after Maureen. But her husband comes home after two years in prison and finds she has grown up and he's not ready for the change.
June 25, 1973, midnight
S3E28 - Making the Play
They no longer live together because, after 11 years, the marriage is over. So why is she always turning up to see him at the most embarrassing times? And why doesn't he send her away?
July 2, 1973, 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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