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 - The Bar Mitzvah Boy
Release Date: 1976-09-14A story exploring the emotions of a boy undrgoing the traditional Jewish ceremony
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Episode 2 - Bet Your Life
Release Date: 1976-09-21 -
Episode 3 - Rocky Marciano Is Dead
Release Date: 1976-09-28 -
Episode 4 - The Elephants' Graveyard
Release Date: 1976-10-12Bunny’s wife thinks he is a postman, but in reality he spends his days in the Scottish hills. One day he meets Jody, a fellow walker.
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Episode 5 - Housewives' Choice
Release Date: 1976-10-19 -
Episode 6 - Your Man from Six Counties
Release Date: 1976-10-26A young man from Belfast is sent south to stay with relatives in an attempt to keep him out of trouble.
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Episode 7 - Buffet
Release Date: 1976-11-02 -
Episode 8 - Love on a Gunboat
Release Date: 1977-01-04 -
Episode 9 - The Kiss of Death
Release Date: 1977-01-11A young man's chances at romance are thwarted by his own shyness.
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Episode 10 - Our Flesh and Blood
Release Date: 1977-01-18 -
Episode 11 - Do As I Say
Release Date: 1977-01-25 -
Episode 12 - Spend, Spend, Spend
Release Date: 1977-03-15The rags-to-riches-to-rags story of a 1960s football pools winner, based on a true story
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Episode 13 - A Photograph
Release Date: 1977-03-22 -
Episode 14 - The Price of Coal (1)
Release Date: 1977-03-29A pair of plays, broadcast over two weeks, about mining life: ""Meet the People,"" about a coal mining community preparing for a royal visit, and ""Back to Reality,"" about a coal mining disaster that brings tragedy to a community.
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Episode 15 - The Price of Coal (2)
Release Date: 1977-04-05A pair of plays, broadcast over two weeks, about mining life: ""Meet the People,"" about a coal mining community preparing for a royal visit, and ""Back to Reality,"" about a coal mining disaster that brings tragedy to a community.
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Episode 16 - Gotcha
Release Date: 1977-04-12A student holds his teacher hostage in the classroom on the last day of school.
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Episode 17 - Campion's Interview
Release Date: 1977-04-12 -
Episode 18 - A Choice of Evils
Release Date: 1977-04-19The story of Father Borelli who in Rome during World War II must choose between freedom and his principles
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Episode 19 - The Country Party
Release Date: 1977-04-26
