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Play for Today : Season 9
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Air date: 17 Oct '78 - 21 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 (21)
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Play for Today (1970)
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1. Nina
17 Oct '78The story of two Soviet dissidents living in London and slowly coming apart under the strain of his drinking and her enforced separation from her child
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Play for Today (1970)
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2. Victims of Apartheid
24 Oct '78
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3. A Touch of the Tiny Hacketts
31 Oct '78A young man is declared a hero when he catches a burglar until it's discovered that the burglar is a dwarf.
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4. Dinner at the Sporting Club
07 Nov '78A story about young boxers whose fighting provides entertainment for diners at a sporting club
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Play for Today (1970)
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5. Donal and Sally
14 Nov '78
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Play for Today (1970)
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6. Sorry
21 Nov '78Consists of two plays ""Audience"" and ""Private View"" about a brewery worker and writer who incurs the wrath of the autocratic government
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Play for Today (1970)
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7. Butterflies Don't Count
28 Nov '78
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Play for Today (1970)
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8. Soldiers Talking Cleanly
05 Dec '78
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Play for Today (1970)
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9. One Bummer Newsday
12 Dec '78
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Play for Today (1970)
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10. The Out of Town Boys
02 Jan '79
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Play for Today (1970)
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11. Vampires
09 Jan '79
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Play for Today (1970)
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12. The Chief Mourner
16 Jan '79
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Play for Today (1970)
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13. Waterloo Sunset
23 Jan '79A young man and an old woman try to fit in when their neighborhood goes West Indian
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Play for Today (1970)
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14. Blue Remembered Hills
30 Jan '79The play activities of seven children living in the countryside during the summer of 1943 end in tragedy; the children were played by adults in childrens clothing. The title is taken from A.E. Housman's 1896 poem: "Into my heart an air that kills; From yon far country blows; What are those blue remembered hills..." It's 1943 on a summer's afternoon and 7 children play in the fields & woods of old England. The children's roles are all played by adults to act as "A magnifying glass to show what i
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Play for Today (1970)
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15. Who's Who
06 Feb '79A story about a dinner party given by the managers and employees of a brokerage house
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Play for Today (1970)
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16. The Last Window Cleaner
13 Feb '79The Irish troubles as seen by residents of a boarding house called ""The Crumlin View""
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Play for Today (1970)
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17. Ploughman's Share
27 Feb '79
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Play for Today (1970)
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18. Degree of Uncertainty
06 Mar '79
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Play for Today (1970)
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19. Light
13 Mar '79
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Play for Today (1970)
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20. Coming Out
10 Apr '79A closeted homosexual writer is content to lead a double life
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Play for Today (1970)
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21. Don't Be Silly
24 Jul '79A young wife tries to cope with her abusive husband.
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