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Play for Today : Season 3
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Air date: 09 Oct '72 - 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. The Reporters
09 Oct '72
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2. A Life Is for Ever
16 Oct '72The story of a man serving a 30-year prison sentence for killing a cop
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3. Carson Country
23 Oct '72A story about the origin of the Stormont state
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4. Man Friday
30 Oct '72The story of Robinson Crusoe from Man Friday's viewpoint
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5. Triple Exposure
06 Nov '72A hippie breaks into the house of a middle-aged couple and forms a relationship with them
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6. Better than the Movies
13 Nov '72
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7. The General's Day
20 Nov '72An elderly general woos a shy school teacher.
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8. The Bankrupt
27 Nov '72A washed-up executive is on the verge of bankruptcy.
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9. Just Your Luck
04 Dec '72
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10. The Bouncing Boy
11 Dec '72
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11. Shakespeare or Bust
08 Jan '73The adventures of three Derbyshire miners going to Stratford-upon-Avon on a barge
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12. Land of Green Ginger
15 Jan '73
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13. Kisses at Fifty
22 Jan '73A long-married husband leaves his family for a barmaid.
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14. Highway Robbery
29 Jan '73
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15. Song at Twilight
05 Feb '73The story of a defiant football manager in terminal decline
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16. Only Make Believe
12 Feb '73As a playwright dictates notes about his newest play to his secretary, scenes from the play are acted out.
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17. For Sylvia or The Air Show
19 Feb '73
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18. The Operation
26 Feb '73
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19. Access to the Children
05 Mar '73
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20. Hard Labour
12 Mar '73The trials of an overworked and underappreciated housecleaner
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21. Man Above Men
19 Mar '73
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22. Speech Day
26 Mar '73Three underachievers have fun at a school speech day
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23. Steps Back
14 May '73
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24. Three's One
04 Jun '73
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25. Edward G.--Like the Film Star
11 Jun '73
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