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 - The Bar Mitzvah Boy
Release Date: 1976-09-14A story exploring the emotions of a boy undrgoing the traditional Jewish ceremony
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Episode 2 - Bet Your Life
Release Date: 1976-09-21Like alcoholism, gambling is a disease. Ches, a compulsive gambler, is sent for medical help. A wonder drug perhaps? Or hypnosis maybe? Ches finds that his psychiatrist has other ideas.
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Episode 3 - Rocky Marciano Is Dead
Release Date: 1976-09-28Harry Marcus is a former welterweight champion mourning the loss of the past and dreaming of a return to the glory years of boxing. When a squatter moves in next door, does he have what it takes to fulfil Harry's dreams?
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Episode 4 - The Elephants' Graveyard
Release Date: 1976-10-12Bunny’s wife thinks he is a postman, but in reality he spends his days in the Scottish hills. One day he meets Jody, a fellow walker.
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Episode 5 - Housewives' Choice
Release Date: 1976-10-19When Joyce appears on the door-step she looks like the perfect 'kindly, respectable lady whom Marcia needs to look after her baby. But Joyce only seems to be the average housewife.
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Episode 6 - Your Man from Six Counties
Release Date: 1976-10-26A young man from Belfast is sent south to stay with relatives in an attempt to keep him out of trouble.
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Episode 7 - Buffet
Release Date: 1976-11-02Freddie is going through an existential crisis as everyone around him seems to doubt their own identity and the entire purpose of conversation. Surrounded by inflation and extra marital affairs, his only solace is in buffet room drinking.
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Episode 8 - Love on a Gunboat
Release Date: 1977-01-04In 1956 Britain staggers through crises in Suez and Cyprus while Leslie Potter pursues and marries Monica Dobbs. Twenty years later the nation has still not recovered. Neither has Leslie.
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Episode 9 - The Kiss of Death
Release Date: 1977-01-11A young man's chances at romance are thwarted by his own shyness.
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Episode 10 - Our Flesh and Blood
Release Date: 1977-01-18How Mums and Dads feel when they have one.
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Episode 11 - Do As I Say
Release Date: 1977-01-25A quietly unhappy housewife finds a stranger in her house and is raped at knife-point by him. But when she turns to friends, neighbors and her parents-in-law for sympathy, they all seem preoccupied by other matters.
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Episode 12 - Spend, Spend, Spend
Release Date: 1977-03-15The rags-to-riches-to-rags story of a 1960s football pools winner, based on a true story
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Episode 13 - A Photograph
Release Date: 1977-03-22A couple receives a photograph in the mail of two girls sitting in front of a caravan and neither can identify the people or the place.
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Episode 14 - The Price of Coal (1)
Release Date: 1977-03-29A pair of plays, broadcast over two weeks, about mining life: ""Meet the People,"" about a coal mining community preparing for a royal visit, and ""Back to Reality,"" about a coal mining disaster that brings tragedy to a community.
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Episode 15 - The Price of Coal (2)
Release Date: 1977-04-05A pair of plays, broadcast over two weeks, about mining life: ""Meet the People,"" about a coal mining community preparing for a royal visit, and ""Back to Reality,"" about a coal mining disaster that brings tragedy to a community.
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Episode 16 - Gotcha
Release Date: 1977-04-12A student holds his teacher hostage in the classroom on the last day of school.
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Episode 17 - Campion's Interview
Release Date: 1977-04-12A story about school.
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Episode 18 - A Choice of Evils
Release Date: 1977-04-19The story of Father Borelli who in Rome during World War II must choose between freedom and his principles
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Episode 19 - The Country Party
Release Date: 1977-04-26Richard Elkinson, the former stockbroker, is now running a country restaurant. His daughter decides to spring a surprise on him in an attempt to change his life for the better.