Overview of 'Play for Today' Season 3

Play for Today (1970)

Drama

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.

Writing:

Colin Welland

Stars:

Release Date: 1970-10-15
Seasons: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14

5.9/10

Country: GB
Language: English
Runtime: 75

Season 3 Episode List

Episode 1 - The Reporters
Release Date: 1972-10-09
Two provincial newspaper reporters - one a young idealist starting out on his career, the other an embittered man who previously wrote for a failed national daily - swap views.
Episode 2 - A Life Is for Ever
Release Date: 1972-10-16
The story of a man serving a 30-year prison sentence for killing a cop
Episode 3 - Carson Country
Release Date: 1972-10-23
A story about the origin of the Stormont state
Episode 4 - Man Friday
Release Date: 1972-10-30
The story of Robinson Crusoe from Man Friday's viewpoint
Episode 5 - Triple Exposure
Release Date: 1972-11-06
A hippie breaks into the house of a middle-aged couple and forms a relationship with them
Episode 6 - Better than the Movies
Release Date: 1972-11-13
A man celebrating his birthday comes to appreciate the difference between media fantasy and mundane reality.
Episode 7 - The General's Day
Release Date: 1972-11-20
An elderly general woos a shy school teacher.
Episode 8 - The Bankrupt
Release Date: 1972-11-27
A washed-up executive is on the verge of bankruptcy.
Episode 9 - Just Your Luck
Release Date: 1972-12-04
A pregnant teenager sets about wooing a sailor in a sectarian council estate in Greenock.
Episode 10 - The Bouncing Boy
Release Date: 1972-12-11
A young couple have a baby boy. However, the new father doesn't take to his new position quite as well as expected.
Episode 11 - Shakespeare or Bust
Release Date: 1973-01-08
The adventures of three Derbyshire miners going to Stratford-upon-Avon on a barge
Episode 12 - Land of Green Ginger
Release Date: 1973-01-15
Faced with the prospect of being sent to work abroad, Sally Brown returns home from London to Hull, to see if she still feels the same attachment for her home town - and for her old boyfriend Mike Thurlow. Will she decide to take the job abroad or return to live with Mike in Hull?
Episode 13 - Kisses at Fifty
Release Date: 1973-01-22
A long-married husband leaves his family for a barmaid.
Episode 14 - Highway Robbery
Release Date: 1973-01-29
A man fights council plans to demolish his home to make way for a new bypass.
Episode 15 - Song at Twilight
Release Date: 1973-02-05
The story of a defiant football manager in terminal decline
Episode 16 - Only Make Believe
Release Date: 1973-02-12
As a playwright dictates notes about his newest play to his secretary, scenes from the play are acted out.
Episode 17 - For Sylvia or The Air Show
Release Date: 1973-02-19
Was this the finest hour? Sifting the truth and fiction about the Battle of Britain, Burrows and Harding give their own account of how the nation sees its heroes - and itself.
Episode 18 - The Operation
Release Date: 1973-02-26
David Adler is an operator. He strips assets, other men's wives, and his oldest friend's soul - anything for a cool million.
Episode 19 - Access to the Children
Release Date: 1973-03-05
Malcolmson spends every Sunday taking his children to the zoo, reflecting on the breakdown of his marriage and the events that brought about his divorce. Is there a chance the family can be brought back together?
Episode 20 - Hard Labour
Release Date: 1973-03-12
The trials of an overworked and underappreciated housecleaner
Episode 21 - Man Above Men
Release Date: 1973-03-19
"I'm the judge's daughter - I think he's a monstrous old man. I think all men who say 'I'm only doing my job' are monstrous. I've despaired of changing him. But I'd stop short of killing him."
Episode 22 - Speech Day
Release Date: 1973-03-26
Three underachievers have fun at a school speech day
Episode 23 - Steps Back
Release Date: 1973-05-14
"Fifteen years since I was forced t' leave, forced t' leave me roots, the territory of me heart." When Gerry takes his fiancée Nita home to Brighouse, what will they find?
Episode 24 - Three's One
Release Date: 1973-06-04
Are Maggie and Tony using each other as a means of communicating with Dr Leafer? Or are they using Dr Leafer as a means of communicating with each other?
Episode 25 - Edward G.--Like the Film Star
Release Date: 1973-06-11
Edward G. is nothing like a film star; his life has been ordinary - until now. But he's just had a shattering experience. This edition is missing from the BBC archives.
Episode 26 - Blooming Youth
Release Date: 1973-06-18
The problems of four people sharing an apartment
Episode 27 - The Stretch
Release Date: 1973-06-25
Everyone always looked after Maureen. But her husband comes home after two years in prison and finds she has grown up and he's not ready for the change.
Episode 28 - Making the Play
Release Date: 1973-07-02
They no longer live together because, after 11 years, the marriage is over. So why is she always turning up to see him at the most embarrassing times? And why doesn't he send her away?