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Play for Today : Season 10
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Air date: 11 Oct '79 - 28 episodesPlay 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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List of Episodes (28)
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Play for Today (1970)
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1. Long Distance Information
11 Oct '79A fanatical Elvis Presley fan is working as a disc jockey when his idol dies
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2. Cries from a Watchtower
18 Oct '79
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3. Comedians
25 Oct '79Budding comedians take an evening class taught by a retired performer and, for their final exam, must perform for an impresario in a nightclub.
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4. Even Solomon
01 Nov '79
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5. Just a Boy's Game
08 Nov '79In Glasgow, a young man's sole aim is to be as tough as his dying grandfather once was
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6. Billy
15 Nov '79A 4-year-old boy is abused by his father
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7. A Hole in Babylon
29 Nov '79Exploration of the events leading up to 1975 Spaghetti House siege in London and the motivation of its three protagonists, T-Bone Wilson, Archie Pool, and Trevor Thomas.
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8. The Slab-Boys
06 Dec '79The story of a young man who works in a carpet factory
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9. Katie
13 Dec '79
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10. The Network
20 Dec '79
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11. Chance of a Lifetime
03 Jan '80A young man quits school and joins the army.
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12. Keep Smiling
10 Jan '80
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13. Dreams of Leaving
17 Jan '80A journalist moves to London and gets caught up in the big city and his romance with a rich debutante.
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14. Thicker Than Water
24 Jan '80
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15. Murder Rap
31 Jan '80
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16. Instant Enlightenment Including VAT
07 Feb '80Weekend enlightenment seminars serve as a form of brainwashing.
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17. No Defence
14 Feb '80
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18. That Crazy Woman
21 Feb '80
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19. A Gift from Nessus
28 Feb '80The marital and career problems of a middle-aged, middle-class man in Glasgow in the 1960s
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20. Kate, the Good Neighbour
06 Mar '80A compassionate elderly woman comes to the realization that she can no longer care for herself or others.
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21. Buses
13 Mar '80A story about the regulation of the bus industry in 1930
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22. Shadows on Our Skin
20 Mar '80The problems of an 11-year-old boy living in the Catholic part of Londonderry
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23. Ladies
27 Mar '80
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24. The Vanishing Army
03 Apr '80A story about the highs and lows of peacetime army life
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25. Not for the Likes of Us
10 Apr '80
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