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

Writers

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

Cast

Producers

Editors

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

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