Play for Today (1970)
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.
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Episode 1 - Country
Release Date: 1981-10-20The story of the disintegration of an aristocratic country estate after World War II
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Episode 2 - London Is Drowning
Release Date: 1981-10-27 -
Episode 3 - A Room for the Winter
Release Date: 1981-11-03James, an expatriate South African anti-apartheid fighter, deals with his nightmares and his complaining landlady in a run-down area of London, while dreaming of his lover Stephen, left behind.
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Episode 4 - No Visible Scar
Release Date: 1981-11-17 -
Episode 5 - Iris in the Traffic, Ruby in the Rain
Release Date: 1981-11-24In Belfast, Ruby has a cold and is caught in the rain while Iris is looking for work and gets caught in traffic
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Episode 6 - Protest
Release Date: 1981-12-01 -
Episode 7 - United Kingdom
Release Date: 1981-12-08Two men on a local council fight the system when forced with massive spending cuts.
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Episode 8 - PQ17
Release Date: 1981-12-15During World War II, a British officer is ordered to abandon a Russian convoy.
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Episode 9 - The Factory
Release Date: 1981-12-22A manager, a foreman, and two workers are all that remains of a factory yet labor relations stay the same
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Episode 10 - England's Green and Pleasant Land
Release Date: 1982-01-05 -
Episode 11 - A Cotswold Death
Release Date: 1982-01-12A police inspector investigates the murder of an Arab sheik who had become a village's Lord of the Manor.
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Episode 12 - Under the Skin
Release Date: 1982-01-19 -
Episode 13 - Commitments
Release Date: 1982-01-26Politics and relationships during the last years of the Heath government
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Episode 14 - Life After Death
Release Date: 1982-02-02 -
Episode 15 - The Silly Season
Release Date: 1982-02-09 -
Episode 16 - Too Late to Talk to Billy
Release Date: 1982-02-16A family in Belfast deals with life after the death of the mother from cancer
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Episode 17 - Willie's Last Stand
Release Date: 1982-02-23 -
Episode 18 - Tishoo
Release Date: 1982-03-09 -
Episode 19 - Home Sweet Home
Release Date: 1982-03-16Home Sweet Home is a 1982 television film devised and directed by Mike Leigh, for BBC TV, 'about postmen, parenthood, social workers and sex.' It was Leigh's second collaboration with Play for Today producer Louis Marks, and cinematographer Remi Adefarasin, and with composer Carl Davis - the music score featured a quartet of basses -. It stars Timothy Spall, here working with Leigh for the first time, Eric Richard, Tim Barker, Kay Stonham, Su Elliot, Frances Barber, Sheila Kelley, and Lorraine Brunning. It was first broadcast on 16 March 1982. The film was shot on location in Hitchin, Hertfordshire. 90 minutes.
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Episode 20 - A Sudden Wrench
Release Date: 1982-03-23 -
Episode 21 - Eve Set the Balls of Corruption Going
Release Date: 1982-03-30 -
Episode 22 - Whistling Wally
Release Date: 1982-04-06