From BBC Birmingham. Play for Today benefited from film and theatre practitioners embracing television as a platform for social engagement. Directed by Desmond Davis. Videotapes of thirty-seven of the early episodes were wiped after transmission, and no copies of them are known to have survived.[5][6]. When one-offs were produced, such as Film on Four on Channel 4, they tended to be made with a cinematic approach rather than betraying television drama's roots in the theatre that Play for Today and earlier series on both the BBC and ITV had often demonstrated. From BBC Birmingham. Sovereign Duration 105 minutes. A common concern throughout his work are the things … Part 3: Analysis of Destiny and its afterlife Please note that, in order to explore this programme and its political context, this essay quotes racially offensive language. Two plays were controversially pulled from transmission shortly before broadcast due to concerns over their content: these were Dennis Potter's Brimstone & Treacle in 1976 and Roy Minton's Scum the following year. Probably the two best-remembered examples of this are Rumpole of the Bailey, which was produced as a one-off in the Play for Today strand in 1975 and three years later became a series for Thames Television, again with Leo McKern. Writers who contributed plays to the series included Ian McEwan, John Osborne, Dennis Potter, Stephen Poliakoff, David Hare, Willy Russell, Alan Bleasdale, Arthur Hopcraft, Alan Plater, Graham Reid, David Storey, Andrew Davies, Rhys Adrian and John Hopkins. During the run, more than three hundred programmes, featuring original television plays, and adaptations of stage plays and novels, were transmitted. Known as the Billy Plays, they starred Kenneth Branagh as Billy Martin in his first acting role following his graduation from RADA. From BBC Birmingham. All; Available now (0) Next on (0) Series 14 View episodes. He brought in … Certain other well known plays, including Penda's Fen (1974), Nuts in May (1976), were commissioned by David Rose of the BBC's English Regions Drama department based in Birmingham. Repeated 24 Jan 1974 and on BBC4 26 Mar 2005. Olwen lives in a tumbledown farm up in the mountains - a lonely widow, virtually a recluse. Eleventh series of the long-running strand of one-off dramas first broadcast in 1980/81. Tenth series of the long-running strand of one-off dramas first broadcast in 1979/80. For those so inclined, Play for Today is a veritable underground labyrinth. This song is so good. From BBC Birmingham. A British television anthology drama series that aired on BBC1 between 1970 and 1984. Two months later, Play for Today evoked a similar sense of alienation from unpaid and paid drudgery in Mike Leigh’s Hard Labour (12 March 1973) and Barry Hines’s Speech Day (26 March 1973). Fourteenth series of the long-running strand of one-off dramas first broadcast in 1984. From BBC Scotland. 50 years on from its first transmission, the BBC’s Play for Today anthology series remains one of British television’s most influential and celebrated achievements. Prix Italia 1978, Golden Award and Best Script at Prague 1978. Several plays were BAFTA award winners. Some works, screened in anthology series' on BBC2, like Willy Russell's Our Day Out (1977), were repeated on BBC1 in the series. Repeated 18 May 1972. The plot revolves... more 11 This page was last edited on 25 April 2021, at 16:11. For the song "Play for Today" by The Cure, see, 'Play for Today Volume 1' BluRay 4-disc set, BFI BFIB1393, 2020, 'Robin Redbreast' DVD, BFI BFIVD997, 2013, 'Dissent & Disruption: Alan Clarke at the BBC (1969–1989)' 13 disc BluRay set, BFI, 2016, 'Ken Loach at the BBC' 6 disc DVD boxset, BBC/2|Entertain BBCDVD3395, 2011, 'Home - the television adaption of David Storey's acclaimed play' DVD, Metrodome, 2004, 'Play for Today Volume 2' 3-disc BluRay set, BFI BFIB1394, 2021 https://shop.bfi.org.uk/pre-order-play-for-today-volume-two-3-disc-blu-ray-box-set.html, 'The Fishing Party - A Play for Today' DVD, Simply Media 188002, 2018, 'Mike Leigh at the BBC' 6 disc DVD set, BBC / 2|Entertain, 2009, 'Penda's Fen' BFI BFIV2070 (DVD) / BFIB1222 (BluRay), 2016, 'The Cheviot the Stag and the Black Black Oil', Panamint Cinema BLU1013 (BluRay) / PCM6013 (DVD) / BLU2013 (Dual Format), 2017, 'Gangsters - the complete series' 4 DVD set, BBC / 2|Entertain CCTV30272, 2006, 'Alan Bennett at the BBC', 4 disc DVD boxset, BBC/2|Entertain BBCDVD3041, 2009, 'The Peter McDougall Collection' 5-disc DVD set, BBC, 2007, 'The Classic Drama: Rumpole of the Bailey - Rumpole and the Confession of Guilt' DVD, Acorn Media, 2007, 'Jack Rosenthal at the BBC' 5-disc DVD set, Acorn Media AV9975, 2011, 'Abigail's Party' DVD, BBC BBCDVD1181, 2003, 'Our Day Out - A Play of the Week' DVD, Simply Media 188000, 2018, 'Dinner at the Sporting Club' DVD, Simply Media 106813, 2003, 'Helen Mirren at the BBC' 6-disc DVD set, BBC / 2|Entertain, 2008, 'The Slab Boys' DVD, John Williams Productions Ltd JW472, 'Boys from the Black Stuff' 3-disc DVD set, BBC, 2003, 'The Imitation Game - A Play for Today' DVD, Simply Media 188001, 2018, 'The Flipside of Dominick Hide & Another Flip for Dominick' DVD, BBC / 2|Entertain, 2005, 'Brimstone and Treacle' DVD, BBC / 2|Entertain, 2004, 100 Greatest British Television Programmes, "Letters: Eclectic roster on Play for Today", "Drama out of a Crisis: A Celebration of Play for Today", "BBC to revive the drama slot that helped Loach and Leigh to fame", "Take our quiz to find out whether your partner is Just Tory Enough", https://shop.bfi.org.uk/play-for-today-volume-one-4-disc-blu-ray-box-set.html, https://www2.bfi.org.uk/blu-rays-dvds/robin-redbreast, https://www.panamint.co.uk/the-cheviot-the-stag-and-the-black-black-oil-blu-ray, https://www.tvguide.co.uk/detail/3915167/35911702/play-for-today, https://shop.bfi.org.uk/red-shift-dvd.html, https://www.tvguide.co.uk/detail/3924396/35950914/play-for-today, "BBC One - Play for Today, Series 10 - The Black Stuff", Drama out of a Crisis: A Celebration of Play for Today, TVBrain | Kaleidoscope | Lost shows | TV Archive | TV History, The Cheviot, the Stag, and the Black Black Oil, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Play_for_Today&oldid=1019818914, 1970s British anthology television series, 1980s British anthology television series, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, Included on the 'Play for Today Vol.1' BFI BluRay set, Written by Ingmar Bergman, translated by Paul Britten Austin. Postponed from 6 April 1976. Play for Today, Schmoedipus, BBC1. A 1976 television play by Dennis Potter which was originally intended for broadcast as an episode of Play for Today but remained untransmitted until 1987. Visual motifs, setting, culture and class . [11][12] Jan Moir in The Daily Telegraph wrote in support of Spacey, saying "the British loved Play for Today once, and would do so again. From BBC Birmingham. Bowen was also a successful playwright and novelist but in between publishing A World Elsewhere (1965) and Squeak (1983) he wrote mainly for television. The Workings of a Slab Boy. The increasingly popular Robin Redbreast (1970) is by now almost canonical folk horror, filling an enjoyably sinister Wicker Man-type hole, but there is also A Photograph (1977), a far more jagged but equally delicious, if unlikely, entry also written by John Bowen. This essay continues from Part 2. Play For Today Volume Two (3-disc Blu-ray Box Set) Directed by Jack Gold, John Mackenzie, Roland Joffé, Stuart Burge. Included on the 'Mike Leigh at the BBC' DVD set. By Simon Farquhar. Repeated 9 Jul 1973 and on BBC2 4 Aug 1993. Simpson’s Thank You Very Much, from 1971) or as long as two and a half hours (Jim Allen’s United Kingdom, 1981). 2 15 29 36 49 51. Between 1970 and 1984, plays which combined some of the era’s finest writing, acting and directing talents were broadcast direct to living rooms, regularly challenging viewers and pushing the boundaries of TV drama. Scum and Brimstone & Treacle were eventually transmitted, although in the meantime both had circumvented their withdrawal by being re-made as cinema films. Thereafter the strand of single dramas became Screen Two on BBC2 from January 1985, and later also Screen One on BBC1 from September 1989. Simpson’s Thank You Very Much, from 1971) or as long as two and a half hours (Jim Allen’s United Kingdom, 1981). Beverly has invited her new neighbours, Angela and Tony, over for drinks. Repeated 12 Jun 1975. A new programme publicised as a return of Play for Today, but under the working title of The Evening Play, was announced at the beginning of March 2006,[9] but nothing has been heard from it since. Spun off as a long-running. View by: Highest Rated; Most Recent; Oldest First +3. A handful of these plays, including Rumpole of the Bailey, subsequently became television series in their own right. Repeats of the individual productions are excluded. Repeated 13 Feb 1975. A quietly unhappy housewife finds a stranger in her house and is raped at knife-point by him. [14] Titles that carried the tag Play For Today on the BBC listings for their first or subsequent transmission are included, along with some repeats such as the repeat of the Days of Hope quartet, where the initial broadcast was not branded Play for Today, but the repeat was. Adapted from the stage play. On TV. 15 October 2020 marks the 50th anniversary anthology drama series Play for Today, which comprised broadcasts of more than 300 one-off television plays on the BBC between 1970 and 1984, combining some of the era’s finest writing, acting and directing talents, leaving a cultural legacy. Kevin Spacey, film star and director of the Old Vic, in March 2008 told BBC News that he would like to see the return of the show,[10] Keeffe subsequently went on to write two more Plays for Today: a provocative play about racial tensions and class solidarity in a changing East End, directed by Richard Eyre, Waterloo Sunset (23 January 1979) and his moving reworking of King Lear, King (3 April 1984), directed by Tony Smith and featuring a predominantly black cast led by Thomas Baptiste. A good piece of drama looks at the human condition, and tells us something we should know about ourselves."[13]. Welfare State 2. In addition to Robin Redbreast, he also wrote the now missing The Emergency Channel (8 November 1973) for the fourth season. Fourth series of the long-running strand of one-off dramas first broadcast in 1973/74. Play for Today Lyrics: It's not a case of doing what's right / It's just the way I feel that matters / Tell me I'm wrong, I don't really care / It's not a case of share and share alike / I take what I but the journalists Michael Gove and Mark Lawson expressed disagreement, Gove (by then a Conservative MP) describing them, at best counter-intuitively, as "exercises in viewer patronisation". Pye Award for Best Writer New to Television, 1982. Her only human contact is with the occasional shopkeeper and young Rachel, who delivers her papers. Play for Today: Volume One (4-disc Blu-ray Boxset) 50 years on from its first transmission, the BBC's Play for Today anthology series remains one of British Television's most influential and celebrated achievements. Repeated on BBC4 27 May 2006 and 2 Aug 2008. 25/10/1979), the latter epitomising the strand's relationship with radical theatre. Included on the 'The Peter McDougall Collection' DVD set. Plays covered all genres. Play For Today Episodes Episode guide. Included on the 'Jack Rosenthal at the BBC' DVD set. 17 19 26 38 53 6 Lucky Numbers from 1-49 ! Play for Today song meanings Add Your Thoughts 19 Comments. Deus Ex Natura 8. Repeated on BBC Four 10 Nov 2020. Photos from the individual Play for Today episodes are listed along with the Play for Today episode names when available, as are the dates of the original airing of the episode. A Matter of Choice for Billy (1983) Ma’s death causes upheaval for the Martin clan in the middle part of Graham Reid’s memorable Northern Ireland-based trilogy. Bowen was also a successful playwright and novelist but in between publishing A World Elsewhere (1965) and Squeak (1983) he wrote mainly for television. General CommentSmith said: "The fraudulent aspects of an insincere relationship". Shubik continued with the series until 1973[1] while MacDonald remained with the series until 1977 when he was promoted. 50 years on from its first transmission, the BBC's Play for Today anthology series remains one of British television's most influential and celebrated achievements. It was never part of the Play For Today strand, although it was repeated on BBC1 later that year as a single play. Play for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and … Repeated 31 Jul 1979. Beverly's husband, Lawrence comes home late from work, just before the guests arrive. Second series of the long-running strand of one-off dramas first broadcast in 1971/72. Goodbye Baby, Amen 7. Repeated on BBC Four 3 Nov 2020. All episodes were broadcast on BBC1, except for the delayed broadcast of Scum in 1991 which was broadcast on BBC2. Repeated on BBC2 26 May 1993. Play for Today was the first drama series to try and come to terms with them in any regular way. Winner of the 1975 Italia Prize for Television Drama Programmes. Play for Today (1970-84): An Introduction. Celia Johnson was named Best Actress for Mrs. Palfrey At The Claremont, broadcast in 1973. Over 300 plays, with practically nothing in common other than letting interesting writers and talented actors do their thing. Adapted and translated by Vera Blackwell from the, Included on the 'Helen Mirren at the BBC' DVD set. Just a Boys' Game is a 1979 Play for Today written by Peter McDougall and directed by John Mackenzie. Long Way Home 9. Seventh series of the long-running strand of one-off dramas first broadcast in 1976/77. Play for Today was a flexible format, plays running as short as forty minutes (N.F. One of my favorites. The individual episodes were (with a few exceptions noted below) between fifty and a hundred minutes in duration. Below is a complete Play for Today episode list that spans the show's entire TV run. Four-year-old Billy lives with an abusive father in a terrible home situation. There were also some groups of plays transmitted that — for various reasons — did not go out under the Play for Today banner, but which were funded from the same department, used much the same production team and are generally regarded in episode guides and analysis as being part of the Play for Today 'canon'. That Harry lives for leisure and passion makes emotional sense. She has also asked her divorced neighbour, Sue, because Sue's fifteen year-old daughter, Abigail, was holding a party in their house. "Play for Today," an anthology series of plays carrying on in the tradition of its predecessor "The Wednesday Play," presented controversial works by such writers as Dennis Potter, David Mercer, Alan Bennett, and Jim Allen, with such directors as Ken Loach, Alan Clarke, Philip Saville, and Mike Newell. Use the Play Whe Results search form below to check current and previous Play Whe results. From BBC Birmingham. Repeated 12 Aug 1980. A Photograph was John Bowen’s third Play for Today. BAFTA Best Single Play. Paula Milne brought a feminist edge to Play for Today with this wry comedy about a bored housewife- turned-plumber. [3][4] Other offshoots were Gangsters, Headmaster, and a single series of science fiction-based plays styled as Play for Tomorrow. My Lucky Numbers for Today Are Here! Fifth series of the long-running strand of one-off dramas first broadcast in 1974/75. Most pieces were written directly for television, but there were also occasional adaptations from other narrative forms, such as novels and stage plays. Due to a power outage, the ending of this episode was blacked out in many areas, necessitating a repeat of the full episode on 25 Feb 1971. Repeated 11 Aug 1977, on BBC2 5 Sep 1982 and 27 Dec 1993, and on BBC4 19 Apr 2009. Over 14 years, it marked a transformation in television drama, demonstrating ambition, … BAFTA Best Single Play. Glitter Box 10. 3 7 11 12 19 28 6 Lucky Numbers from 1-59 ! Repeated 7 Dec 1982, and on BBC4 26 Feb 2006, 20 May 2006 and 26 Jul 2008. Repeated 21 Feb 1978, and on BBC4 21 Jan 2003, 14 May 2003 and 5 Mar 2006. Repeated on BBC2 7 Nov 1975, on BBC1 26 Aug 1976 and on BBC2 24 Aug 1977. For nearly a decade and a half, the BBC's 'Play for Today' slot brought original one-off dramas into Britain's living rooms. Repeated on BBC2 8 Sep 1981 and 12 May 1993. Addeddate 2020-11-11 15:55:18 The strand was a successor to The Wednesday Play, the 1960s anthology series, the title being changed when the day of transmission became variable. In addition to Robin Redbreast, he also wrote the now missing The Emergency Channel (8 November 1973) for the fourth season. Oscars Best Picture Winners Best Picture Winners Golden Globes Emmys STARmeter Awards San Diego Comic-Con New York Comic-Con Sundance Film Festival Toronto Int'l Film Festival Awards Central Festival Central All Events sort form. Long Distance Piano Player, The. From BBC Birmingham. NLCB Play Whe Results in Trinidad and Tobago are updated after each Play Whe draw, which occurs every Monday through Saturday at 10:30 am, 1:00 pm, 4:00 pm and 7:00 pm. Spun off as a series in 1977. From BBC Birmingham. Adapted by the playwright from his original, Included on the Play for Today Vol.2 BFI BluRay set. Some installments in the series were spun off into full-blown series. But when she turns to friends, neighbors and her parents-in-law for … Towards the end of the run, three plays set in Northern Ireland were written by Graham Reid. Three stories by George Mackay Brown, adapted by John McGrath: Included on the 'Ken Loach at the BBC' DVD boxset. Repeated 12 Aug 1976. With Rachel Roberts, Lynne Jones, Michael Griffiths, Edward Hardwicke. Ninth series of the long-running strand of one-off dramas first broadcast in 1978/79. Missing. 3 15 23 29 40 1 Lucky Numbers from 1-100 ! Repeated 6 Sep 1979, and on BBC2 25 Aug 1993 and 17 Jul 1999. From BBC Birmingham. Play for Today at 50 'Television, is the true national theatre’ said screenwriter and dramatist Dennis Potter. With Alison Steadman, Nigel Hawthorne, Tony Caunter, David Daker. BAFTA Best Single Play and Best Writer awards, 1976. The Numbers Are: 22 33 36 48 58. Determined to address the popular imagination, Trevor Griffiths contributed such incendiary plays as 'All Good Men' (tx. Directed by Charles Stewart. From BBC Birmingham. Fourteenth series of the long-running strand of one-off dramas first broadcast in 1984. Repeated 10 Aug 1982. A British television anthology drama series that aired on BBC1 between 1970 and 1984. Repeated 14 Aug 1979. Play for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC1 from 1970 to 1984. Twins 4. Nonetheless, the series is generally remembered as a benchmark of high-quality British television drama, and has become a byword for what many continue to argue was a golden age of British television. Repeated 29 Aug 1978. Repeated 8 Jul 1980. Duration Play For Today by Ultrasound, released 01 May 2020 1. Sourced according to the BBC Genome archive of Radio Times magazines. Later producers included Kenith Trodd (1973–1982), David Rose (1972-1980), Innes Lloyd (1975–1982), Margaret Matheson (1977–1979), Richard Eyre (1978–1980) and Pharic MacLaren (1974–1982). Adapted from the novel. In 2000, the British Film Institute produced a poll of industry professionals to determine the 100 Greatest British Television Programmes of the 20th century, and five of the programmes included in the final tally were from Play for Today. All previous episodes. During the run, more than three hundred programmes, featuring original television plays, and adaptations of stage plays and novels, were transmitted. No upcoming broadcasts. Screenplay by Derek Mahon from the novel by Jennifer Johnston. the eight studio album by English rock band The Searchers and the last band's album to feature lead singer Mike Pender. Repeated 18 Aug 1977. (1977), Licking Hitler (1978) and Blue Remembered Hills (1979) were all named Best Single Play by BAFTA. Repeated 20 Dec 1973 and on BBC2 11 Aug 1993. David Agnew is a BBC in-house pen name typically used when multiple writers contributed to a script. Exists only as a domestic video recording. Play for Today Alison Steadman celebrates Play for Today. With Jason Plenderleith, Leigh Medcraft, Terry Andrews, Cindy O'Callaghan. Broadcast on BBC1 at 9.20pm on 15 th October 1970. The series as a whole was viewed with suspicion by rightwing commentators and critics as many of the issues tackled were the subject of political controversy. Duration 115 minutes. Some of the best remembered plays broadcast in the strand include Edna, the Inebriate Woman (1971), The Foxtrot (1971), Home (1972), Bar Mitzvah Boy (1976), The Other Woman (1976), Abigail's Party (1977), Blue Remembered Hills (1979) and Just a Boys' Game (1979). Repeated 4 Apr 1974. A NET/CBC production. Included on the Play for Today Vol.2 BFI BluRay set; Repeated 26 Aug 1980. Play For Today. John Le Mesurier and Patricia Hayes were named Best Actor & Actress respectively for their roles in the 1971 series Traitor and Edna, The Inebriate Woman, the latter also being named Best Drama Production. Eighth series of the long-running strand of one-off dramas first broadcast in 1977/78. 88 3.1K. But can anything be done to change this? Adapted from the play. The producers of The Wednesday Play, Graeme MacDonald and Irene Shubik, transferred to the new series. A book detailing the origins of the series, "Play for Today: The First Year", by Simon Farquhar, was published in 2021. Repeated on BBC2 30 May 1980 and 6 Nov 1986. For Rachel, her visits to Olwen are half adventure, half honest friendship. The resulting plays were something of a mixed bag – ranging from documentary drama and family melodrama to black comedy and modernist experiment. Repeated on BBC Four 27 Oct 2020. Repeated 7 Aug 1979, on BBC2 6 Sep 1982, 5 Jul 1992 and 1 Nov 1997, and on BBC4 26 Jun 2002, 11 Aug 2002, 28 Oct 2007 and 17 Dec 2007. It features Frankie Miller, Gregor Fisher, Ken Hutchison and Hector Nicol. Best Direction, 1979 Prague International Television Festival. Alan Bleasdale's The Black Stuff, was a single play broadcast on BBC2 in January 1980, which was developed into Boys from the Blackstuff. The Winner of the BBCtv Student Play Competition. Repeated 19 Dec 1974, 7 Jul 1987, and on BBC4 30 Jan 2005. Written by Alan Sharp, produced by Irene Shubik and directed by Philip Saville. In the case of Brimstone & Treacle it was due to concerns over the play's depiction of a disabled woman's rape at the hands of a man who may or may not be the devil, and with Scum the worry was its supposed sensationalism of life in a young offenders' institution (then still known as a borstal). Play For Today was an anthology drama series which was aired on BBC One from 1970 to 1984 and featured 300 productions, including original TV … A production for. Repeated 20 Aug 1981. A dingy municipal hall in a nondescript northern town plays host to Pete (Ray Davies) a phenomenon, a true one-off of Herculean... 3.5K. Duration 110 minutes. All about Play for Today. Play for Today: Women’s work, on screen and off Although Play for Today was by no means equally representative of female creative talent in the UK – less than a 10th of the writers on the BBC ’s classic series of plays were female – women made a sizeable contribution both on-screen and behind the scenes. Included on the 'Jack Rosenthal at the BBC' DVD set. Repeated on BBC2 5 Sep 1998 and on BBC4 2 Jan 2005. Included on the 'Boys from the Black Stuff' DVD set. Not available. Of particular note was the criticism of the public expenditure on the Queen's Silver Jubilee in the plays The Price of Coal (1977) and The Spongers (1978). Repeated 2 Sep 1976. Missing except for domestic audio recording. Repeated 25 April 1977, the day before its sequel, Repeated 16 May 1993. 5 Lucky Numbers from 1-70 ! Adapted from the play. A Photograph was John Bowen’s third Play for Today. Supporting Content. The strange, engaging young man arriving suddenly on Elizabeth’s doorstep makes a frightening claim – that he was the baby she had as a schoolgirl. Play for Today (TV Series 1970–1984) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. Stocker's Copper (1972), Kisses At Fifty (1973), Bar Mitzvah Boy (1976), Spend, Spend, Spend! One play, The Other Woman, generated some mild controversy for its “graphic depiction” of lesbianism, and for the onscreen kiss between Jane Lapotaire and Lynne Frederick.[7][8]. How will she cope with his growing demands, and what is she to say when her husband comes home? The Bankrupt was the only play purposely written for Play for Today by the prolific David Mercer. 5 Lucky Numbers from 1-42 ! 31/1/1974) and 'Comedians' (tx. Repeated 6 Feb 1975. In its time, Play for Today featured contemporary social realist dramas, historical pieces, fantasies, biopics and occasionally science-fiction[2] (The Flipside of Dominick Hide, 1980). Repeated 6 May 1977, 28 Feb 1978 and 23 Jun 1997, and on BBC4 18 Jul 2004 and 17 Mar 2005. Sixth series of the BBC's long-running strand of one-off dramas. Screenplay by Robert Smith and John Wain of the. The general trend in 1980s television production was away from one-off plays and towards a greater concentration on series and serials. BAFTA Best Single Play and Best Director 1979. Directed by Mike Leigh. After fourteen seasons and numerous repeats of individual productions, the programme officially ended in August 1984, although two seasons of single dramas without Play for Today billing were broadcast on BBC1 in a similar time slot from July to December 1983 and from November 1984 to February 1985. A musical play in two parts by John McGrath, with music by Mark Brown and additional songs by Mike O'Neill and Si Cowe. It may seem surprising that this sole bona fide encounter between the most important television dramatist of the 1960s and the flagship drama slot of the 1970s has fallen into near-complete obscurity. Repeated 30 May 1974, on BBC2 18 Aug 1993 and on BBC4 14 Jul 2008. Nonsense 5. Thirteenth series of the BBC's long-running strand of one-off dramas. Third series of the long-running strand of one-off dramas first broadcast in 1972/73. Repeated 27 Jul 1972 and on BBC2 20 Feb 1973. The tenth track on Girls in Peacetime Want to Dance, “Play for Today” takes its name from a 1970s/80s BBC anthology drama series. Right Prospectus, The. Play for Today lasted for 14 years, from 1970 to 1984: 306 one-off television dramas broadcast in primetime on BBC1. First series of the long-running strand of one-off dramas first broadcast in 1970/71. First shown as a. Read about our approach to external linking. Several prominent directors also featured, including Stephen Frears, Alan Clarke, Michael Apted, Mike Newell, Roland Joffé, Ken Loach, Lindsay Anderson, and Mike Leigh. For Archive on 4, actress Alison Steadman celebrates 50 years since Play for Today was launched on BBC television. Long-running strand of one-off BBC dramas. From BBC Birmingham. Repeated 19 Aug 1976 and on BBC2 26 Jul 1992. Get My Number! Translated and adapted by Vera Blackwell from the. With Alison Steadman, Tim Stern, Janine Duvitski, John Salthouse. With Alison Steadman, Nigel Hawthorne, Tony Caunter, David Daker. Marjorie Wallace, Michael Robson, William Humble &, Based on the book by Marjorie Wallace and Michael Robson, dramatised by William Humble and Anthony Simmons. Play for Today was a flexible format, plays running as short as forty minutes (N.F. Trilogy by Lewis Grassic Gibbon, dramatised by Bill Craig; from BBC Scotland. Duration 105 minutes. Beautiful Sadness 3. Play for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC1 from 1970 to 1984. When poached by the BBC in 1963, Newman created The Wednesday Play series – which became Play for Today in 1970 when sports forced a move to Thursdays. On iPlayer. Screenplay by Richard Eyre from the novel by David Storey. Exists only as a domestic video recording. Twelfth series of the long-running strand of one-off dramas first broadcast in 1981/82. Play for Today Writer: David Edgar; Producer: Margaret Matheson; Director: Mike Newell. Between Two Rivers 6. Repeated on BBC Four 12 Oct 2020. Spun off as a, Included on the 'Alan Bennett at the BBC' DVD boxset. Included in the 'Dissent & Disruption: Alan Clarke at the BBC' BluRay set. Repeated 28 Jul 1977, and on BBC4 6 Feb 2005. Jul 2004 and 17 Jul 1999 the long-running strand of one-off dramas first broadcast in 1984, May. 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