Play for Today
Overview:
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.
Stan's Last Game
Season 14 · Episode 1
Young Shoulders
Season 14 · Episode 2
A Coming to Terms for Billy
Season 14 · Episode 3
Z for Zachariah
Season 14 · Episode 4
Moving on the Edge
Season 14 · Episode 5
Desert of Lies
Season 14 · Episode 6
Hard Feelings
Season 14 · Episode 7
Under the Hammer
Season 14 · Episode 8
King
Season 14 · Episode 9
Rainy Day Women
Season 14 · Episode 10
Dog Ends
Season 14 · Episode 11
The Groundling and the Kite
Season 14 · Episode 12
The Cry
Season 14 · Episode 13
It Could Happen to Anybody
Season 14 · Episode 14
Only Children
Season 14 · Episode 15
The Amazing Miss Stella Estelle
Season 14 · Episode 16
The Long March
Season 14 · Episode 17
Punters
Season 14 · Episode 18
Talk To Me
Season 14 · Episode 19
Bird Fancier
Season 14 · Episode 20
Brigadista
Season 14 · Episode 21
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