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 - Pasmore
Release Date: 1980-10-21 -
Episode 2 - C2H5OH
Release Date: 1980-10-28 -
Episode 3 - The Adventures of Frank: Everybody's Fiddling Something
Release Date: 1980-11-04 -
Episode 4 - The Adventures of Frank: Seeds of Ice
Release Date: 1980-11-11 -
Episode 5 - Minor Complications
Release Date: 1980-11-18 -
Episode 6 - Number on End
Release Date: 1980-11-25 -
Episode 7 - Jude
Release Date: 1980-12-02 -
Episode 8 - The Flipside of Dominick Hide
Release Date: 1980-12-09Dominick Hide, a time traveller from London in the year 2130, is studying the city's transport system of 1980. Breaking the rules, he lands his craft to seek out his great-grandfather. Compared to his anaesthetised home, 80s London is filthy and polluted...and yet...it exudes an excitement that soon draws him in.
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Episode 9 - Name for the Day
Release Date: 1980-12-16 -
Episode 10 - Jessie
Release Date: 1980-12-23In Victorian times, a nanny cares for a mute boy, who becomes overly attached to her.
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Episode 11 - Beyond the Pale
Release Date: 1981-01-06A vacation at a seaside hotel in Ireland changes the lives of four friends.
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Episode 12 - The Muscle Market
Release Date: 1981-01-13The problems of an owner of a building contractor company in Liverpool
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Episode 13 - A Brush with Mr. Porter on the Road to El Dorado
Release Date: 1981-01-20 -
Episode 14 - Dear Brutus
Release Date: 1981-01-27 -
Episode 15 - The Cause
Release Date: 1981-02-03 -
Episode 16 - Beloved Enemy
Release Date: 1981-02-10The head of a multinational corporation wants to do business with the Soviets
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Episode 17 - The Kamikaze Ground Staff Reunion Dinner
Release Date: 1981-02-17A group of men hold a reunion dinner in Tokyo
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Episode 18 - The Union
Release Date: 1981-02-24 -
Episode 19 - Sorry
Release Date: 1981-03-03 -
Episode 20 - The Garland
Release Date: 1981-03-10 -
Episode 21 - The Sin Bin
Release Date: 1981-03-17 -
Episode 22 - Before Water Lillies
Release Date: 1981-03-24An evening with the Parent-Teacher Association gets out of hand.
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Episode 23 - Bavarian Night
Release Date: 1981-03-31 -
Episode 24 - The Good Time Girls
Release Date: 1981-04-07 -
Episode 25 - Baby Talk
Release Date: 1981-04-14 -
Episode 26 - A Turn for the Worse
Release Date: 1981-04-28Soldiers are subjected to a brutal and sadistic kind of psychological training exercise
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Episode 27 - Psy-Warriors
Release Date: 1981-05-12