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Play for Today : Season 12
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Air date: 20 Oct '81 - 22 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 (22)
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Play for Today (1970)
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1. Country
20 Oct '81The story of the disintegration of an aristocratic country estate after World War II
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Play for Today (1970)
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2. London Is Drowning
27 Oct '81
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Play for Today (1970)
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3. A Room for the Winter
03 Nov '81James, an expatriate South African anti-apartheid fighter, deals with his nightmares and his complaining landlady in a run-down area of London, while dreaming of his lover Stephen, left behind.
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Play for Today (1970)
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4. No Visible Scar
17 Nov '81
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Play for Today (1970)
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5. Iris in the Traffic, Ruby in the Rain
24 Nov '81In Belfast, Ruby has a cold and is caught in the rain while Iris is looking for work and gets caught in traffic
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Play for Today (1970)
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6. Protest
01 Dec '81
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Play for Today (1970)
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7. United Kingdom
08 Dec '81Two men on a local council fight the system when forced with massive spending cuts.
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Play for Today (1970)
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8. PQ17
15 Dec '81During World War II, a British officer is ordered to abandon a Russian convoy.
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Play for Today (1970)
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9. The Factory
22 Dec '81A manager, a foreman, and two workers are all that remains of a factory yet labor relations stay the same
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Play for Today (1970)
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10. England's Green and Pleasant Land
05 Jan '82
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Play for Today (1970)
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11. A Cotswold Death
12 Jan '82A police inspector investigates the murder of an Arab sheik who had become a village's Lord of the Manor.
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Play for Today (1970)
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12. Under the Skin
19 Jan '82
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Play for Today (1970)
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13. Commitments
26 Jan '82Politics and relationships during the last years of the Heath government
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Play for Today (1970)
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14. Life After Death
02 Feb '82
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Play for Today (1970)
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15. The Silly Season
09 Feb '82
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Play for Today (1970)
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16. Too Late to Talk to Billy
16 Feb '82A family in Belfast deals with life after the death of the mother from cancer
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Play for Today (1970)
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17. Willie's Last Stand
23 Feb '82
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Play for Today (1970)
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18. Tishoo
09 Mar '82
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Play for Today (1970)
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19. Home Sweet Home
16 Mar '82Home Sweet Home is a 1982 television film devised and directed by Mike Leigh, for BBC TV, 'about postmen, parenthood, social workers and sex.' It was Leigh's second collaboration with Play for Today producer Louis Marks, and cinematographer Remi Adefarasin, and with composer Carl Davis - the music score featured a quartet of basses -. It stars Timothy Spall, here working with Leigh for the first time, Eric Richard, Tim Barker, Kay Stonham, Su Elliot, Frances Barber, Sheila Kelley, and Lorraine B
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Play for Today (1970)
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20. A Sudden Wrench
23 Mar '82
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Play for Today (1970)
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21. Eve Set the Balls of Corruption Going
30 Mar '82
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Play for Today (1970)
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22. Whistling Wally
06 Apr '82
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