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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.
Fourteenth series of the long-running strand of one-off dramas first broadcast in 1984.
Play for Today: With Alison Steadman, Nigel Hawthorne, Tony Caunter, David Daker. A British television anthology drama series that aired on BBC1 between 1970 and 1984.
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, and adaptations of stage plays and novels, were transmitted. The.
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.
Dennis Potter's play of lost innocence sees an adult cast playing children during wartime.
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...
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.
With BFI Southbank exploring TV’s Forgotten Dramas this month, we’re revisiting (and adding to) the Mediatheque’s collection of Play for Today, the flagship BBC single drama strand that ran from 1970 to 1984.
