Synopsis
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.
Episodes
1
The Long Distance Piano PlayerA man tries to break the world's record for nonstop piano playing75m2
The Right ProspectusA couple look for the proper school, not for their children but for themselves.75m3
The Lie""The Lie"" refers to the 8-year marriage of a couple who are constantly hurting each other.75m4
Angels Are So FewA man claiming to be an angel enters the household of a bored housewife and teaches the family a few lessons.75m5E5The Write-OffA man is made redundant but can't bring himself to let anyone know, plunging into a web of deceit as he keeps up the charade he is still in work.75m6E6I Can't See My Little WillieA man has a mid-life crisis in his brother's pub where sees life as a game show75m7E7A Distant ThunderA newly-appointed knight finds his celebrations cut short by someone who was witness to his treachery during the war.75m8E8Hearts and FlowersA TV host and his architect brother attend their father's funeral75m9
Robin RedbreastA woman living in a country cottage thinks that someone is trying to get her.75m10E10The Hallelujah HandshakeA petty thief and social misfit finagles his way into a church congregation75m11E11Alma MaterA civil servant working abroad revisits his old school75m12E12Circle LineA cynical student has a radically different view of life from his landlady, leading to conflict. Matters come to a head when he sleeps with her fourteen-year-old brother.75m13E13Hell's AngelA couple are distressed by the changes in their adopted teenage son when he joins a biker gang.75m14E14The PianoAn old couple refuse to move when they find out that they can't take their piano with them75m15E15Billy's Last StandBilly, a self-employed coal-shoveller, gains a seedy business partner and competition in the form of a rival coal-shoveller.75m16E16The RainbirdsA man who attempted suicide by jumping out a window is saved only to live in a coma, in which he has fantasies about his relatives and nightmare creatures.75m17E17ReddickCharges that the Rev 'Red' Reddick is exploiting his youth club members leads to an explosive confrontation.75m18E18The FoxtrotAn odd menage a trois results when a woman and her lover are visited by her long-lost husband75m19E19When the Bough BreaksWhen an injured baby arrives at the hospital, a social worker looks for the parents75m20E20OrkneyA trilogy of plays--A Time to Keep, The Whaler's Return, and Celia--exploring the life of the islanders in the past and present75m21E21The Rank and FileThe story of the Pilkington glass workers strike of 197075m22E22The Man in the SidecarA succesful novelist Edith lives with her husband and his friend, but she decides to ask the friend to leave.75m23E23Everybody Say CheeseThe story of a disintegrating marriage told through family photos75m24E24The Cellar and the Almond Tree
The Long Distance Piano PlayerA man tries to break the world's record for nonstop piano playing75m2The Right ProspectusA couple look for the proper school, not for their children but for themselves.75m3The Lie""The Lie"" refers to the 8-year marriage of a couple who are constantly hurting each other.75m4Angels Are So FewA man claiming to be an angel enters the household of a bored housewife and teaches the family a few lessons.75m5E5The Write-OffA man is made redundant but can't bring himself to let anyone know, plunging into a web of deceit as he keeps up the charade he is still in work.75m6E6I Can't See My Little WillieA man has a mid-life crisis in his brother's pub where sees life as a game show75m7E7A Distant ThunderA newly-appointed knight finds his celebrations cut short by someone who was witness to his treachery during the war.75m8E8Hearts and FlowersA TV host and his architect brother attend their father's funeral75m9Robin RedbreastA woman living in a country cottage thinks that someone is trying to get her.75m10E10The Hallelujah HandshakeA petty thief and social misfit finagles his way into a church congregation75m11E11Alma MaterA civil servant working abroad revisits his old school75m12E12Circle LineA cynical student has a radically different view of life from his landlady, leading to conflict. Matters come to a head when he sleeps with her fourteen-year-old brother.75m13E13Hell's AngelA couple are distressed by the changes in their adopted teenage son when he joins a biker gang.75m14E14The PianoAn old couple refuse to move when they find out that they can't take their piano with them75m15E15Billy's Last StandBilly, a self-employed coal-shoveller, gains a seedy business partner and competition in the form of a rival coal-shoveller.75m16E16The RainbirdsA man who attempted suicide by jumping out a window is saved only to live in a coma, in which he has fantasies about his relatives and nightmare creatures.75m17E17ReddickCharges that the Rev 'Red' Reddick is exploiting his youth club members leads to an explosive confrontation.75m18E18The FoxtrotAn odd menage a trois results when a woman and her lover are visited by her long-lost husband75m19E19When the Bough BreaksWhen an injured baby arrives at the hospital, a social worker looks for the parents75m20E20OrkneyA trilogy of plays--A Time to Keep, The Whaler's Return, and Celia--exploring the life of the islanders in the past and present75m21E21The Rank and FileThe story of the Pilkington glass workers strike of 197075m22E22The Man in the SidecarA succesful novelist Edith lives with her husband and his friend, but she decides to ask the friend to leave.75m23E23Everybody Say CheeseThe story of a disintegrating marriage told through family photos75m24E24The Cellar and the Almond Tree
