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 - Plaintiffs and Defendants
Release Date: 1975-10-14A married barrister's life begins to unravel when it seems that his high-strung mistress may reveal all.
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Episode 2 - Two Sundays
Release Date: 1975-10-21An author tells an old school chum that he is about to publish a novel revealing their old relationship.
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Episode 3 - Moss
Release Date: 1975-10-28Moss is a miser whose only love is his grandson. Then tragedy strikes, and Moss is "reborn."
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Episode 4 - 84 Charing Cross Road
Release Date: 1975-11-04An American woman corresponds with a London bookshop owner over a period of 20 years
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Episode 5 - Keep an Eye on Albert
Release Date: 1975-11-11Terry has begun to neglect his wife for a life of drinking, weight lifting, pigeon racing and other women. But when his best friend Albert returns from the navy and begins to pay Terry's wife some attention, what will be the outcome?
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Episode 6 - Children of the Sun
Release Date: 1975-11-18"You expect to face a bit of danger when you travel. Half the fun of it. But you keep cool and bluff your way out. After all, we're all British aren't we?"
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Episode 7 - After the Solo
Release Date: 1975-11-25A boy enjoys success in the choir until his voice breaks at puberty.
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Episode 8 - Through the Night
Release Date: 1975-12-02A woman goes into hospital to receive treatment for breast cancer.
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Episode 9 - A Passage to England
Release Date: 1975-12-09A group of Asians plans to sneak into England using a fishing boat
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Episode 10 - Rumpole of the Bailey
Release Date: 1975-12-16Rumpole defends a young West Indian boy accused of attempted murder.
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Episode 11 - The Other Woman
Release Date: 1976-01-06An aggressive lesbian disrupts the lives of those around her.
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Episode 12 - Nuts in May
Release Date: 1976-01-13Smug married couple Keith and Candice Marie “keen exponents of their belief in organic health food, exercise and the environment” are on a camping holiday, where they find that it is not always easy to be tolerant of others when they don't share the same enthusiasms.
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Episode 13 - Doran's Box
Release Date: 1976-01-20A long-distance lorry driver; a spaceman; a volunteer under reduced environmental conditions; a man in solitary confinement: the discomfort of these people is shared by Doran - when he can't put his finger on the panic button.
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Episode 14 - Packman's Barn
Release Date: 1976-01-27John Barrett returns to his remote hill farm after 20 years to deal with some unfinished business, and finds himself once again in conflict with the locals.
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Episode 15 - A Story to Frighten the Children
Release Date: 1976-02-03A woman encounters trouble when she arrives home late at night, but her neighbors on a nearby estate claim to have seen and heard nothing.
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Episode 16 - The Happy Hunting Ground
Release Date: 1976-02-10The fish quay is a happy hunting ground for an ambitious young rogue like Bob, who has an eye on the boss's business - and all that goes with it.
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Episode 17 - The Jumping Bean Bag
Release Date: 1976-02-17An end-of-term play with a difference as Ozzie and the boys break into a hard rock number. But even though they make the big time, success has its darker side.
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Episode 18 - Clay, Smeddum and Greenden
Release Date: 1976-02-24A play based on three short stories about the Scottish people and their relationship with the land: ""Clay"" concerns a farmer's obsession with his fields to the exclusion of his dying wife; ""Smeddum"" is about an indomitable woman and her large family; and ""Greenden"" tells the story of an unhappy woman from the city living with her indifferent husband in the country.
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Episode 19 - Love Letters on Blue Paper
Release Date: 1976-03-02Why has Sonia taken to writing letters to her husband, posted to him in the letter-box just outside their house - love letters, on blue paper, recalling with increasing vividness the early days of their courtship and marriage?
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Episode 20 - Willie Rough
Release Date: 1976-03-09A story depicting life in a shipyard
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Episode 21 - Tiptoe through the Tulips
Release Date: 1976-03-16A divorced woman is introduced to a separated man at an awkward dinner party.
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Episode 22 - The Peddler
Release Date: 1976-03-23One pill, and you're floating on air. A different one, and you're full of lead. Married, mortgaged, broke, a love-affair gone sour - which drug can help Alec?
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Episode 23 - Early Struggles
Release Date: 1976-03-30A story about a father's attempts at single parenthood
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Episode 24 - Double Dare
Release Date: 1976-04-06A playwright spends an afternoon in a hotel room with an actress who takes on the role of call girl for research purposes.
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Episode 25 - The House of Bernarda Alba
Release Date: 1976-07-28The eldest daughter of a domineering, overprotective mother becomes engaged to an unprincipled young man who has money.