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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...read more

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. A handful of these plays, including Rumpole of the Bailey and The Blackstuff, subsequently became television series in their own right.

Original Release

10/15/1970 on BBC

Cast

(see additional cast & crew)
# Title Air Date
1 Young Shoulders Tuesday, 14 February 1984
2 A Coming to Terms for Billy Tuesday, 21 February 1984
3 Z for Zachariah Tuesday, 28 February 1984
4 Moving on the Edge Tuesday, 06 March 1984
5 Desert of Lies Tuesday, 13 March 1984
6 Hard Feelings Tuesday, 20 March 1984
7 Under the Hammer Tuesday, 27 March 1984
8 King Tuesday, 03 April 1984
9 Rainy Day Women Tuesday, 10 April 1984
10 Dog Ends Tuesday, 17 July 1984
11 The Groundling and the Kite Tuesday, 24 July 1984
12 The Cry Saturday, 21 July 1984
13 It Could Happen to Anybody Tuesday, 14 August 1984
14 Only Children Tuesday, 21 August 1984
15 The Amazing Miss Stella Estelle Tuesday, 28 August 1984
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Directors

Barry Davis, Alan Clarke, John Mackenzie, Philip Saville, Brian Parker, Claude Whatham, Michael Lindsay-Hogg, Mike Leigh, Michael Apted, Robert Knights, Mike Newell, James MacTaggart, John Gorrie, Moira Armstrong, Richard Eyre, James Ferman, John Bruce, Paul Seed, Michael Simpson, Alan Bridges, Jack Gold, Alan Cooke, Piers Haggard, Herbert Wise, James Cellan Jones, Matthew Robinson, Ronald Wilson, Stephen Frears, Ken Loach, Kenneth Ives, Gareth Davies, Michael Tuchner, Les Blair, John Goldschmidt, Baz Taylor, Gerald Blake, Roy Battersby, Bill Craske, Roland Joffe, Gavin Millar, John Glenister, Derek Lister, Alistair Clarke, Anthony Garner, Richard Loncraine, Tony Smith, Giles Foster, David Rose, Colin Bucksey, Yuliya Solomonova, Ted Kotcheff, Jon Amiel, Michael Darlow, Christopher Menaul, Alan Dossor, Silvio Narizzano, Brian Gibson, Carol Wiseman, John McGrath, Viktors Ritelis, Pedr James, David Hare, Alan Gibson, Christopher Morahan, Richard Wilson, Jane Howell, David Maloney, Graham Evans, John Black, Bob Hird, Les Chatfield, Peter Jefferies, Alan Charlesworth, Fiona Cumming, Brian Farnham, Peter Cregeen, Tony Bicât, Rudi Dorn, Rodney Bennett, Peter Gill, Bill Bain, Peter Dews, Michael Custance, Bill Hays, Roger Bamford, Maurice Hatton, Derek Bennett, Sarah Pia Anderson, Laurence Moody, Roderick Graham, Mervyn Rosenzveig, Robert McIntosh, Michael Rolfe, Clark Whatham, Ron Daniels, Philip Bonham-Carter, Alex Marshall, Mike Bradwell, Clive Halls, Desmond Davis, Jim Hill, Chris Thompson, Michael Hayes, Frank Cox, Alastair Reid, James Ormerod, Lindsay Anderson, Jim Goddard, Alan Grint, Bryan Forbes, Nicholas Renton, Jim O'Brien, Mark Cullingham, Anthony Simmons, Charles Sturridge, Waris Hussein, Anthony Page, Diarmuid Lawrence, Martyn Friend, Paul Annett, Ben Bolt, John Robins, Paul Joyce, Ben Rea, Peter Duffell, Stuart Burge

Writers

Dennis Potter, Mike Leigh, Brian Clark, Jim Allen, Colin Welland, John McGrath, David Hare, Barry Hines, William Trevor, Peter McDougall, Trevor Griffiths, Peter Terson, Julia Jones, Barrie Keeffe, David Hopkins, Jeremy Seabrook, Stewart Parker, Peter Ransley, Arthur Hopcraft, Howard Brenton, John Bowen, Tony Perrin, Simon Gray, Jeremy Paul, Les Blair, Carol Bunyan, Jack Rosenthal, Michael O'Neill, Douglas Livingstone, Graham Reid, Rhys Adrian, Bill Craig, Vera Blackwell, Willis Hall, Leslie Stewart, Rose Tremain, Willy Russell, John Elliot, Robin Chapman, Hugh Whitemore, Richard Harris, Paula Milne, Piers Paul Read, Leon Griffiths, Stephen Poliakoff, Tony Parker, Yuliya Solomonova, Don Shaw, Andrew Davies, Derek Mahon, Václav Havel, David Storey, Mike Stott, Robert Holles, Peter Prince, Bernard Kops, Alan Bleasdale, Rachel Billington, Malcolm Bradbury, Caryl Churchill, Alan Gibson, Alan Clews, David Leland, David Halliwell, Alan Bennett, Wally K. Daly, Stephen Fagan, Ron Hutchinson, Brian Glover, Peter Hankin, David Edgar, Philip Martin, Jim Hawkins, Dusty Hughes, Lionel Goldstein, Frances Galleymore, Leonard Preston, Arnold Wesker, Vivian Nicholson, Beryl Bainbridge, William McIlvanney, George Salverson, Stephen Lowe, Lesley Bruce, Gilly Fraser, Denis Cannan, Derek Lister, N.F. Simpson, Federico García Lorca, J.M. Barrie, Tony Bicât, Neville Smith, Gordon Flemyng, Alma Cullen, Bill Bryden, John Esmonde, Geoffrey Case, David Pirie, Howard Barker, Don Haworth, Peter Nichols, Jamilla Obispo, Christopher Bigsby, Antonia Fraser, Paul Britten Austin, David Cregan, David Hodson, Stephen Mulrine, Barry Collins, Nemone Lethbridge, Tom Hadaway, Eric Coltart, Michael Sadler, John Harvey-Flint, Barry Reckord, George Mackay Brown, Graham Williams, John Burrows, William Sansom, Maurice Edelman, Colin Haydn Evans, Dominic Behan, John Wain, Hugh McManus, Marcella Evaristi, John Bill, H.O. Nazareth, Edward Kuznetsov, Venkatesh Prasad, Doug Lucie, Judy Forrest, Mary O'Malley, Roy Kendall, Watson Gould, Wilson John Haire, Elaine Feinstein, Joyce Neary, Chris Kewbank, Robert Holman, Andrew Carr, Dixie Williams, Douglas Dunn, Andy McSmith, James Duthie, Jehane Markham, Henry Livings, Roger Smith, Robert Smith, Anthony Garner, Robert Holmes, Robert Marshall, Nigel Williams, W. Stephen Gilbert, Alick Rowe, Lucy Griffiths, John Harding, Robert C. O'Brien, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Paul Thompson, Jeremy Sandford, Raymond Hitchcock, Elizabeth Taylor, John Hopkins, Sean McCarthy, M.R. Rzeznik, Ray Lawler, Bill Curry, John Mortimer, Dion Boucicault, Jennifer Johnston, Charles Wood, James Andrew Hall, David Turner, Christopher Menaul, Richard Eyre, Noël Coward, John Osborne, Roger Milner, Bryan Forbes, Ian Cullen, Michael Hastings, Ingmar Bergman, Alan Sharp, Jon Amiel, Adrian Mitchell, Paul Joyce, Stephen Davis, Penelope Mortimer, Clive Exton, Anthony Read, Ted Whitehead, Stephen Bill, Bob Larbey, Ian McEwan, Jimmy O'Connor, David Rudkin, David Mercer, Terence Brady, Charlotte Bingham, Helene Hanff, Daniel Defoe, Alun Owen, GF Newman, Alan Garner, Alan Plater, Roy Minton, Charles Levinson, Rosemary Davies, Reg Gadney, Roddy McMillan, Rita May

Cast

Producers

Editors

Oliver White, Lana Rhoades, Ken Pearce, Tony Woollard, Henry Fowler, Peter Coulson, Dan Rae, Mike Hall, Chris Lovett, David Naden, Roy Watts, Gordon Clarke, Nigel Pardoe-Matthews, Don Fairservice, Howard Dell, Bill Shapter, Angus Newton, Ron Bowman, Stephen Newnham, Paul Willey, Geoff Higgs, Ed Wooden, Sheila S. Tomlinson, Tom Poore, Aileen Forsyth, Graham Walker, Dave King, Michael Johns, Steve Eveleigh, Robin Sales, Stan Hawkes, Tariq Anwar, Jon Gregory, Michael Duxbury, Stan Pow, Michael John, Peter West, Malcolm Banthorpe, Greg Miller, John Stothart, Norman Matthews, Ann Scott, Paddy Higson

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