Alan Clarke
Director
Play for Today (1970)
Season 6
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
S6E1 - Plaintiffs and Defendants
A married barrister's life begins to unravel when it seems that his high-strung mistress may reveal all.
Oct. 14, 1975, midnight
S6E2 - Two Sundays
An author tells an old school chum that he is about to publish a novel revealing their old relationship.
Oct. 21, 1975, midnight
S6E3 - Moss
Moss is a miser whose only love is his grandson. Then tragedy strikes, and Moss is "reborn."
Oct. 28, 1975, midnight
S6E4 - 84 Charing Cross Road
An American woman corresponds with a London bookshop owner over a period of 20 years
Nov. 4, 1975, midnight
S6E5 - Keep an Eye on Albert
Terry has begun to neglect his wife for a life of drinking, weight lifting, pigeon racing and other women. But when his best friend Albert returns from the navy and begins to pay Terry's wife some attention, what will be the outcome?
Nov. 11, 1975, midnight
S6E6 - Children of the Sun
"You expect to face a bit of danger when you travel. Half the fun of it. But you keep cool and bluff your way out. After all, we're all British aren't we?"
Nov. 18, 1975, midnight
S6E7 - After the Solo
A boy enjoys success in the choir until his voice breaks at puberty.
Nov. 25, 1975, midnight
S6E8 - Through the Night
A woman goes into hospital to receive treatment for breast cancer.
Dec. 2, 1975, midnight
S6E9 - A Passage to England
A group of Asians plans to sneak into England using a fishing boat
Dec. 9, 1975, midnight
S6E10 - Rumpole of the Bailey
Rumpole defends a young West Indian boy accused of attempted murder.
Dec. 16, 1975, midnight
S6E11 - The Other Woman
An aggressive lesbian disrupts the lives of those around her.
Jan. 6, 1976, midnight
S6E12 - Nuts in May
Smug married couple Keith and Candice Marie “keen exponents of their belief in organic health food, exercise and the environment” are on a camping holiday, where they find that it is not always easy to be tolerant of others when they don't share the same enthusiasms.
Jan. 13, 1976, midnight
S6E13 - Doran's Box
A long-distance lorry driver; a spaceman; a volunteer under reduced environmental conditions; a man in solitary confinement: the discomfort of these people is shared by Doran - when he can't put his finger on the panic button.
Jan. 20, 1976, midnight
S6E14 - Packman's Barn
John Barrett returns to his remote hill farm after 20 years to deal with some unfinished business, and finds himself once again in conflict with the locals.
Jan. 27, 1976, midnight
S6E15 - A Story to Frighten the Children
A woman encounters trouble when she arrives home late at night, but her neighbors on a nearby estate claim to have seen and heard nothing.
Feb. 3, 1976, midnight
S6E16 - The Happy Hunting Ground
The fish quay is a happy hunting ground for an ambitious young rogue like Bob, who has an eye on the boss's business - and all that goes with it.
Feb. 10, 1976, midnight
S6E17 - The Jumping Bean Bag
An end-of-term play with a difference as Ozzie and the boys break into a hard rock number. But even though they make the big time, success has its darker side.
Feb. 17, 1976, midnight
S6E18 - Clay, Smeddum and Greenden
A play based on three short stories about the Scottish people and their relationship with the land: ""Clay"" concerns a farmer's obsession with his fields to the exclusion of his dying wife; ""Smeddum"" is about an indomitable woman and her large family; and ""Greenden"" tells the story of an unhappy woman from the city living with her indifferent husband in the country.
Feb. 24, 1976, midnight
S6E19 - Love Letters on Blue Paper
Why has Sonia taken to writing letters to her husband, posted to him in the letter-box just outside their house - love letters, on blue paper, recalling with increasing vividness the early days of their courtship and marriage?
March 2, 1976, midnight
S6E20 - Willie Rough
A story depicting life in a shipyard
March 9, 1976, midnight
S6E21 - Tiptoe through the Tulips
A divorced woman is introduced to a separated man at an awkward dinner party.
March 16, 1976, midnight
S6E22 - The Peddler
One pill, and you're floating on air. A different one, and you're full of lead. Married, mortgaged, broke, a love-affair gone sour - which drug can help Alec?
March 23, 1976, midnight
S6E23 - Early Struggles
A story about a father's attempts at single parenthood
March 30, 1976, midnight
S6E24 - Double Dare
A playwright spends an afternoon in a hotel room with an actress who takes on the role of call girl for research purposes.
April 6, 1976, midnight
S6E25 - The House of Bernarda Alba
The eldest daughter of a domineering, overprotective mother becomes engaged to an unprincipled young man who has money.
July 28, 1976, 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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