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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1970Play 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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Play for Today Season 14 Full Episode Guide
Miss Stella Estelle is a cabaret singer in working men's clubs, and she sings songs from the 1960s to support a large and difficult family. But how long can it go on? The backdrop is a family in decay: husband out of work, wife working and still doing the domestics, daughter the singer and hopeful star, son her "manager" but in reality going nowhere. Stella plays a crummy club circuit, singing songs for oldies for £50 a night - She's never going to be a star because of her parents' short-sighted greed.
A young woman's comfortable life is turned upside down when she has a baby.
A long-suffering Glasgow housewife puts up with years of her husband's violence and drunkenness - and then something happens which makes her snap and fight back.
In 1959 Ulster, a journalist witnesses the beating of a youth
Peter is a songwriter, while his old friend Jimmy is an A and R (Artists and Repertoire) man. But when Jimmy tries to sell one of Peter's songs, Peter is furious. Can the friendship survive?
In a future society where euthansia is common, a man signs papers to have his father put down
In 1940, during World War II, an officer is sent to investigate rumors of German spies in a sleepy village where various people are the victims of war hysteria
A man who has had a good life in England wants to retire to Jamaica, but the celebration with his daughters doesn't go as expected.
Concerning the life of the artist Vincent Van Gogh
A group of unemployed Oxford drop-outs living in a Brixton commune get their come-uppance by one of them.
An expedition tracing the path of long-lost missionaries meets with tragedy in the Kalahari Desert.
A woman in a state of personal crisis finds it hard to communicate with her husband and family.
After a nuclear holocaust, only a man and a woman survive in a Welsh valley.
When his father comes home to Belfast after more than 2 years in England, conflicts arise with Billy
Cynical teenager Andrew Groves re-evaluates his attitude to life and his parents after his sister dies in a plane crash.
James Grout and Bert Parnaby are rival chairmen of a northern football club in the run-up to an important cup match. As tempers fray, retiring president Charles Lamb provides a calming voice of sanity.
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