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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.
Episode 24 : The Cellar and the Almond Tree
June. 10,1971
Episode 23 : Everybody Say Cheese
June. 03,1971
The story of a disintegrating marriage told through family photos
Episode 22 : The Man in the Sidecar
May. 27,1971
A succesful novelist Edith lives with her husband and his friend, but she decides to ask the friend to leave.
Episode 21 : The Rank and File
May. 20,1971
The story of the Pilkington glass workers strike of 1970
Episode 20 : Orkney
May. 13,1971
A trilogy of plays--A Time to Keep, The Whaler's Return, and Celia--exploring the life of the islanders in the past and present
Episode 19 : When the Bough Breaks
May. 06,1971
When an injured baby arrives at the hospital, a social worker looks for the parents
Episode 18 : The Foxtrot
April. 29,1971
An odd menage a trois results when a woman and her lover are visited by her long-lost husband
Episode 17 : Reddick
February. 18,1971
Charges that the Rev 'Red' Reddick is exploiting his youth club members leads to an explosive confrontation.
Episode 16 : The Rainbirds
February. 11,1971
A 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.
Episode 15 : Billy's Last Stand
February. 04,1971
Episode 14 : The Piano
January. 28,1971
An old couple refuse to move when they find out that they can't take their piano with them
Episode 13 : Hell's Angel
January. 21,1971
Episode 12 : Circle Line
January. 14,1971
Episode 11 : Alma Mater
January. 07,1971
A civil servant working abroad revisits his old school
Episode 10 : The Hallelujah Handshake
December. 17,1970
A petty thief and social misfit finagles his way into a church congregation
Episode 9 : Robin Redbreast
December. 10,1970
A woman living in a country cottage thinks that someone is trying to get her.
Episode 8 : Hearts and Flowers
December. 03,1970
A TV host and his architect brother attend their father's funeral
Episode 7 : A Distant Thunder
November. 26,1970
Episode 6 : I Can't See My Little Willie
November. 19,1970
A man has a mid-life crisis in his brother's pub where sees life as a game show
Episode 5 : The Write-Off
November. 12,1970
A 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.
Episode 4 : Angels Are So Few
November. 05,1970
A man claiming to be an angel enters the household of a bored housewife and teaches the family a few lessons.
Episode 3 : The Lie
October. 29,1970
""The Lie"" refers to the 8-year marriage of a couple who are constantly hurting each other.
Episode 2 : The Right Prospectus
October. 22,1970
A couple look for the proper school, not for their children but for themselves.
Episode 1 : The Long Distance Piano Player
October. 15,1970
A man tries to break the world's record for nonstop piano playing
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