• Air date: 14 Sep '76 19 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 (19)
    • 1. The Bar Mitzvah Boy

      14 Sep '76
      A story exploring the emotions of a boy undrgoing the traditional Jewish ceremony
    • 2. Bet Your Life

      21 Sep '76
    • 3. Rocky Marciano Is Dead

      28 Sep '76
    • 4. The Elephants' Graveyard

      12 Oct '76
      Bunny’s wife thinks he is a postman, but in reality he spends his days in the Scottish hills. One day he meets Jody, a fellow walker.
    • 5. Housewives' Choice

      19 Oct '76
    • 6. Your Man from Six Counties

      26 Oct '76
      A young man from Belfast is sent south to stay with relatives in an attempt to keep him out of trouble.
    • 7. Buffet

      02 Nov '76
    • 8. Love on a Gunboat

      04 Jan '77
    • 9. The Kiss of Death

      11 Jan '77
      A young man's chances at romance are thwarted by his own shyness.
    • 10. Our Flesh and Blood

      18 Jan '77
    • 11. Do As I Say

      25 Jan '77
    • 12. Spend, Spend, Spend

      15 Mar '77
      The rags-to-riches-to-rags story of a 1960s football pools winner, based on a true story
    • 13. A Photograph

      22 Mar '77
    • 14. The Price of Coal (1)

      29 Mar '77
      A pair of plays, broadcast over two weeks, about mining life: ""Meet the People,"" about a coal mining community preparing for a royal visit, and ""Back to Reality,"" about a coal mining disaster that brings tragedy to a community.
    • 15. The Price of Coal (2)

      05 Apr '77
      A pair of plays, broadcast over two weeks, about mining life: ""Meet the People,"" about a coal mining community preparing for a royal visit, and ""Back to Reality,"" about a coal mining disaster that brings tragedy to a community.
    • 16. Gotcha

      12 Apr '77
      A student holds his teacher hostage in the classroom on the last day of school.
    • 17. Campion's Interview

      12 Apr '77
    • 18. A Choice of Evils

      19 Apr '77
      The story of Father Borelli who in Rome during World War II must choose between freedom and his principles
    • 19. The Country Party

      26 Apr '77