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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.
Play for Today: With Alison Steadman, Nigel Hawthorne, David Daker, Tony Caunter. BBC anthology series featuring original plays, theatrical and literary adaptations from 1970-1984. Over 300 episodes aired, each 50 mins to 1 hr 40 mins long.
BBC One - Play for Today - Episode guide. Home. Episodes. Clips. Episodes. All. Available now (3) Next on (0) Series 14. Fourteenth series of the long-running strand of one-off dramas first...
Oct 20, 2022 · 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,
Play for Today. Home. Episodes. Clips. Landmark productions from some of the UK's greatest creative talents, as first seen in the 1970s and 1980s - part of the BBC's rich archive of classic...
Play For Today began with Alan Sharp's script about a man whose marriage is under strain when he undertakes a piano-playing marathon over four days. Starring Ray Davies, it remains in the BBC archives only as a black and white copy.
A new season of television dramas under the banner Play for Today was launched on 15 October 1970. In effect it was a rebrand of The Wednesday Play , moved to Thursday night, but there was...
Play for Today. Landmark productions from some of the UK's greatest creative talents, as first seen in the 1970s and 1980s - part of the BBC's rich archive of classic drama.
Arguably the most famous edition of Play For Today, and one of the most beloved, as Mike Leigh directs a comedy of manners. Middle-class suburbia gets to reveal its darker side over the course of an increasingly uncomfortable drinks party. 7.9 /10 (2.4K) Rate. S8.E4 ∙ Oy Vay Maria.
‘Play for Today was revolutionary and exciting’ David Hare ‘An inspiration for anybody that’s thinking about the nature of what film or drama is or should be’ Mike Leigh 15 October 2020 marks the 50th anniversary anthology drama series Play for Today, which comprised broadcasts of more than 300 one-off television plays on the BBC between 1970 and 1984, combining some of the era’s ...
