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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 19 : The Fishing Party
June. 01,1972
The adventures of three Derbyshire miners going fishing
Episode 18 : A Time to Keep
April. 27,1972
Episode 17 : Cows
February. 24,1972
Episode 16 : The Villa Maroc
February. 17,1972
A couple and their daughter take a trip to Africa
Episode 15 : Ackerman, Dougall and Harker
February. 10,1972
A salesman learns a few lessons from the locals when he goes to Yorkshire for a business course
Episode 14 : In the Beautiful Caribbean
February. 03,1972
A story about unemployment and the Black Movement in Jamaica
Episode 13 : The House on Highbury Hill
January. 27,1972
Episode 12 : Stocker's Copper
January. 20,1972
In Cornwall, just before World War I, a striking miner befriends a cop
Episode 11 : Still Waters
January. 13,1972
Episode 10 : Home
January. 06,1972
A story about four elderly "loonies" living in a rest home
Episode 9 : The Pigeon Fancier
December. 09,1971
Episode 8 : Pal
December. 02,1971
Episode 7 : Skin Deep
November. 25,1971
Episode 6 : Michael Regan
November. 18,1971
A man gets revenge on a pub owner
Episode 5 : Thank You Very Much
November. 11,1971
Episode 4 : O Fat White Woman
November. 04,1971
The wife of a headmaster discovers that he has been physically abusing his students
Episode 3 : Evelyn
October. 28,1971
Episode 2 : Edna, the Inebriate Woman
October. 21,1971
Edna, the Inebriate Woman is a British television drama written by Jeremy Sandford which was transmitted by the BBC as part of the Play for Today series on 21 October 1971. Directed by Ted Kotcheff, Irene Shubik produced it.
The play deals with an elderly woman, Edna, who wanders through life in an alcoholic haze without a home, a job or any money. A rambling, pathetic yet defiant woman, Edna sleeps rough and begs for food and shelter and the drama follows her progress as she moves from hostel to hostel, going to a psychiatric ward and then prison along the way. Jeremy Sandford, who had previously written Cathy Come Home, researched the play by living rough himself for two weeks.
A great deal of the dialogue and the incidents in the play come from the book, 'Down and Out in Britain' published by Jeremy Sandford in 1971; although the majority of the speakers in the book are male, Jeremy Sandford puts much of their speech into the mouth of the female character.
The film features the only notable acting role of British actor Vivian MacKerrell, the real-life inspiration for the character Withnail in Withnail and I.
At the 1972 British Academy Television Awards, the play won the Best Drama Production category, with Patricia Hayes receiving the award for Best Actress.
Episode 1 : Traitor
October. 14,1971
A British aristocrat turned Russian spy is visited in Moscow by Western journalists
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