• Air date: 18 Oct '73 22 episodes
      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.
  • List of Episodes (22)
    • 1. Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont

      18 Oct '73
    • 2. Her Majesty's Pleasure

      25 Oct '73
    • 3. Jack Point

      01 Nov '73
    • 4. The Emergency Channel

      08 Nov '73
    • 5. Mummy and Daddy

      15 Nov '73
    • 6. Private Practice

      22 Nov '73
    • 7. Shutdown

      29 Nov '73
    • 8. Baby Blues

      06 Dec '73
    • 9. Jingle Bells

      13 Dec '73
    • 10. The Lonely Man's Lover

      17 Jan '74
      A young farmgirl begins a romance with an artist
    • 11. All Good Men

      31 Jan '74
      An elderly politician looks back over his career while being interviewed by a TV producer
    • 12. Joe's Ark

      14 Feb '74
      A pet shop owner forsakes his religious beliefs when his daughter gets cancer
    • 13. Hot Fat

      21 Feb '74
    • 14. Easy Go

      07 Mar '74
    • 15. Headmaster

      14 Mar '74
    • 16. Penda's Fen

      21 Mar '74
      Penda's Fen is a British television play which was written by David Rudkin and directed by Alan Clarke. Commissioned by BBC producer David Rose, it was transmitted as part of the corporation's Play for Today series.
    • 17. Pigeon--Hawk or Dove?

      28 Mar '74
    • 18. Three for the Fancy

      11 Apr '74
      Further adventures of three Derbyshire miners
    • 19. The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil

      06 Jun '74
      The exploitation of the Scottish land and its people from the 18th century to the present
    • 20. Schmoedipus

      20 Jun '74
      A young man persuades a woman that he is her son.
    • 21. The Childhood Friend

      27 Jun '74
    • 22. A Follower for Emily

      04 Jul '74
      The friendship of two residents of a retirement home ends up in marriage