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 - Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont
Release Date: 1973-10-18 -
Episode 2 - Her Majesty's Pleasure
Release Date: 1973-10-25 -
Episode 3 - Jack Point
Release Date: 1973-11-01 -
Episode 4 - The Emergency Channel
Release Date: 1973-11-08 -
Episode 5 - Mummy and Daddy
Release Date: 1973-11-15 -
Episode 6 - Private Practice
Release Date: 1973-11-22 -
Episode 7 - Shutdown
Release Date: 1973-11-29 -
Episode 8 - Baby Blues
Release Date: 1973-12-06 -
Episode 9 - Jingle Bells
Release Date: 1973-12-13 -
Episode 10 - The Lonely Man's Lover
Release Date: 1974-01-17A young farmgirl begins a romance with an artist
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Episode 11 - All Good Men
Release Date: 1974-01-31An elderly politician looks back over his career while being interviewed by a TV producer.
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Episode 12 - Joe's Ark
Release Date: 1974-02-14A pet shop owner forsakes his religious beliefs when his daughter gets cancer
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Episode 13 - Hot Fat
Release Date: 1974-02-21 -
Episode 14 - Easy Go
Release Date: 1974-03-07 -
Episode 15 - Headmaster
Release Date: 1974-03-14 -
Episode 16 - Penda's Fen
Release Date: 1974-03-21Penda's Fen is a British television play which was written by David Rudkin and directed by Alan Clarke. Commissioned by BBC producer David Rose, it was transmitted as part of the corporation's Play for Today series.
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Episode 17 - Pigeon--Hawk or Dove?
Release Date: 1974-03-28 -
Episode 18 - Three for the Fancy
Release Date: 1974-04-11Further adventures of three Derbyshire miners
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Episode 19 - The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil
Release Date: 1974-06-06The exploitation of the Scottish land and its people from the 18th century to the present
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Episode 20 - Schmoedipus
Release Date: 1974-06-20A young man persuades a woman that he is her son.
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Episode 21 - The Childhood Friend
Release Date: 1974-06-27 -
Episode 22 - A Follower for Emily
Release Date: 1974-07-04The friendship of two residents of a retirement home ends up in marriage