Play for Today

1h 15m14 SeasonsTMDb 6.6

EnglishEnded

1 · The Long Distance Piano Player

2 · The Right Prospectus

3 · The Lie

4 · Angels Are So Few

5 · The Write-Off

6 · I Can't See My Little Willie

7 · A Distant Thunder

8 · Hearts and Flowers

9 · Robin Redbreast

10 · The Hallelujah Handshake

11 · Alma Mater

12 · Circle Line

13 · Hell's Angel

14 · The Piano

15 · Billy's Last Stand

16 · The Rainbirds

17 · Reddick

18 · The Foxtrot

19 · When the Bough Breaks

20 · Orkney

21 · The Rank and File

22 · The Man in the Sidecar

23 · Everybody Say Cheese

24 · The Cellar and the Almond Tree

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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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Info

Status: Ended
First aired: 15 October 1970
Last aired: 5 February 1985
TMDB score: 6.6 / 10 (10 votes)

Production

Networks: BBC One

Episodes

Seasons: 14
Episodes: 314
Runtime: 1h 15m
Type: Scripted
In production: No

Languages

Original: English
Spoken: English