Play for Today
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Play for Today is a British television strand, 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 (with a few exceptions noted below) between fifty and a hundred minutes in duration. A handful of these plays, including Rumpole of the Bailey, subsequently became television series in their own right.
In 2025, Channel 5 announced they would revive the series, which began broadcasting on 13 November, 2025.[1]
History
The strand was a successor to The Wednesday Play, the 1960s anthology series, the title being changed when the day of transmission moved to Thursday to make way for a sport programme. Some works, screened in anthology series on BBC2, like Willy Russell's Our Day Out (1977), were repeated on BBC1 in the series. The producers of The Wednesday Play, Graeme MacDonald and Irene Shubik, transferred to the new series. Shubik continued with the series until 1973[2] while MacDonald remained with the series until 1977 when he was promoted. 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).
Plays covered all genres. In its time, Play for Today featured contemporary social realist dramas, historical pieces, fantasies, biopics and occasionally science-fiction[3] (The Flipside of Dominick Hide, 1980). Most pieces were written directly for television, but there were also occasional adaptations from other narrative forms, such as novels and stage plays.
Writers who contributed plays to the series included Ian McEwan, John Osborne, Dennis Potter, Stephen Poliakoff, Sir David Hare, Willy Russell, Alan Bleasdale, Arthur Hopcraft, Alan Plater, Graham Reid, David Storey, Andrew Davies, Rhys Adrian and John Hopkins.
Several prominent directors also featured, including Stephen Frears, Alan Clarke, Michael Apted, Mike Newell, Roland Joffé, Ken Loach, Lindsay Anderson, and Mike Leigh. Some of the best remembered plays broadcast in the strand include Edna, the Inebriate Woman (1971), The Foxtrot (1971), Home (1972), The Fishing Party (1972), Bar Mitzvah Boy (1976), The Other Woman (1976), Abigail's Party (1977), Blue Remembered Hills (1979) and Just a Boys' Game (1979). Certain other plays, including Penda's Fen (1974) and Nuts in May (1976), were commissioned by David Rose of the BBC's English Regions Drama department based in Pebble Mill Studios in Birmingham.
Some installments in the series were spun off into full-blown series, including 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. Alan Bleasdale's The Black Stuff, was a single play broadcast on BBC2 in January 1980, which was developed into Boys from the Blackstuff. It was never part of the Play For Today strand, although it was repeated on BBC1 later that year as a single play.[4][5]
Other offshoots were Gangsters, Headmaster, and a single series of science fiction-based plays styled as Play for Tomorrow. Towards the end of the run, three plays set in Northern Ireland were written by Graham Reid. Known as the Billy Plays, they starred Kenneth Branagh as Billy Martin in his first acting role following his graduation from RADA.
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.
Several plays were BAFTA award winners. John Le Mesurier and Patricia Hayes were named Best Actor and Actress, respectively, for their roles in the 1971 series Traitor and Edna, The Inebriate Woman, the latter also being named Best Drama Production. Celia Johnson was named Best Actress for Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont, broadcast in 1973. Stocker's Copper (1972), Kisses at Fifty (1973), Bar Mitzvah Boy (1976), Spend, Spend, Spend! (1977), Licking Hitler (1978), and Blue Remembered Hills (1979) were all named Best Single Play by BAFTA.
Videotapes of thirty-seven of the episodes produced between 1970 and 1975 were wiped after transmission, and no copies of many of them are known to exist.[6][7]
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. 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 possibly have been the devil, and with Scum the worry was its supposed sensationalism of life in a borstal. Scum and Brimstone & Treacle were eventually transmitted, although in the meantime both had circumvented their withdrawal by being re-made as cinema films. Another play Pillion recorded in 1979 was never broadcast.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
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.[8][9]
Demise and legacy
After fourteen series and numerous repeats of individual productions, the programme officially ended in August 1984, although two series 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. Thereafter the strand of single dramas became Screen Two on BBC2 from January 1985, and later also Screen One on BBC1 from September 1989. The general trend in 1980s television production was away from one-off plays and towards a greater concentration on series and serials. 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.
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. 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.
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,[10] but nothing has been heard from it since. 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,[11] but the journalists Michael Gove and Mark Lawson expressed disagreement, Gove (by then a Conservative MP) describing them as "exercises in viewer patronisation".[12][13] Jan Moir in The Daily Telegraph wrote in support of Spacey, saying "the British loved Play for Today once, and would do so again. A good piece of drama looks at the human condition, and tells us something we should know about ourselves."[14]
A book detailing the origins of the series, Play for Today: The First Year by Simon Farquhar, was published in 2021.
Productions
The following list was sourced according to the BBC Genome archive of Radio Times magazines.[15] 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. Repeats of the individual productions are excluded. All episodes were broadcast on BBC1, except for the delayed broadcast of Scum in 1991 which was broadcast on BBC2.
Some early episodes are missing or no longer exist in colour.
| Original air date | Title | Authors | Producer | Director | Lead actor(s) | Home media | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Series 1 | |||||||
| Template:Dts | The Long Distance Piano Player | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Repeated 13 April 1972. 16 mm b&w print | |
| Template:Dts | The Right Prospectus | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort"., Elvi Hale | Repeated 16 December 1971 | ||
| Template:Dts | The Lie | Ingmar Bergman & Paul Britten Austin | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Included on the Play for Today Vol. 1 BFI Blu-ray set[16] | Written by Ingmar Bergman, translated by Paul Britten Austin. A production for The Largest Theatre in the World project of the EBU. Winner of the SFTA award for best drama production of 1970. Repeated on BBC2 31 March 1971, and on BBC1 16 March 1972. |
| Template:Dts | Angels Are So Few | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | |||
| Template:Dts | The Write-Off | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Canadian production. Missing. | ||
| Template:Dts | I Can't See My Little Willie | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Repeated 18 May 1972. Missing except for domestic audio recording. | |
| Template:Dts | A Distant Thunder | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Missing. | ||
| Template:Dts | Hearts and Flowers | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Repeated 9 March 1972. 16 mm b&w print | ||
| Template:Dts | Robin Redbreast | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | DVD release by the BFI[17] | Due to a power cut, the ending of this episode was blacked out in many areas, necessitating a repeat of the full episode on 25 February 1971.[18] 16mm b&w print |
| Template:Dts | The Hallelujah Handshake | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Included in the Dissent & Disruption: Alan Clarke at the BBC Blu-ray set[19] | Repeated 23 December 1971. | |
| Template:Dts | Alma Mater | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Repeated 4 May 1972. Missing. | |
| Template:Dts | Circle Line | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | The Winner of the BBCtv Student Play Competition. Missing. | |
| Template:Dts | Hell's Angel | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | David Agnew is a BBC in-house pen name typically used when multiple writers contributed to a script. Anthony Read was the author commissioned to write the play. Repeated 25 May 1972. Missing. | ||
| Template:Dts | The Piano | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Repeated 10 August 1972. | ||
| Template:Dts | Billy's Last Stand | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Repeated 20 April 1972. Missing. | ||
| Template:Dts | The Rainbirds | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | A production for The Largest Theatre in the World project of the EBU. | |
| Template:Dts | Reddick | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Canadian production. Missing. | ||
| Template:Dts | No Trams to Lime Street | Alun Owen (Book), Marty Wilde & Ronnie Scott (Music & Lyrics) | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Musical. First shown under The Wednesday Play, 18 March 1970.[20] | |
| Template:Dts | Mad Jack | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | First shown under The Wednesday Play, 4 February 1970.[20] Winner of the first prize and the silver Dore Catholic Prize at the 1971 Monte Carlo International Television Festival. | |
| Template:Dts | Scenes from Family Life | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | First shown under Plays of Today on BBC2, 25 September 1969.[20] | |
| Template:Dts | Wind Versus Polygamy | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | First shown under Theatre 625 15 July 1968 and then The Wednesday Play, 27 May 1970.[20] | ||
| Template:Dts | Playmates | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | First shown within Double Bill of The Wednesday Play on 26 November 1969.[20] | |
| Template:Dts | Sovereign's Company | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Included in the Dissent & Disruption: Alan Clarke at the BBC Blu-ray set[19] | First shown under The Wednesday Play, 22 April 1970.[20] |
| Template:Dts | Season of the Witch | Desmond McCarthy & Johnny Byrne | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | First shown under The Wednesday Play, 7 January 1970.[20] | |
| Template:Dts | The Foxtrot | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Repeated 30 March 1972. 16 mm b&w print | |
| Template:Dts | When The Bough Breaks | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Repeated 11 May 1972. | ||
| Template:Dts | Orkney | George Mackay Brown & John McGrath | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Three stories by George Mackay Brown, adapted by John McGrath: A Time to Keep, The Whaler's Return and Celia. Repeated 27 April 1972. | |
| Template:Dts | The Rank And File | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Included on the Ken Loach at the BBC DVD boxset[21] | ||
| Template:Dts | The Man in the Sidecar | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Repeated 24 August 1972. Missing. | ||
| Template:Dts | Everybody Say Cheese | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Missing. | |
| Template:Dts | The Cellar and the Almond Tree | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | First shown under The Wednesday Play, 4 March 1970. Repeated on BBC2 on 13 December 1980 and on BBC1 on 14 July 1988. | |
| Template:Dts | The Italian Table | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | First shown under The Wednesday Play, 18 February 1970. | |
| Template:Dts | There Is Also Tomorrow | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | First shown under The Wednesday Play, 19 November 1969. | |
| Template:Dts | Chariot of Fire | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | First shown under The Wednesday Play, 20 May 1970. | |
| Series 2 | |||||||
| Template:Dts | Traitor | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | BAFTA Best Actor (John Le Mesurier). Repeated on BBC2 on 27 February 1973 and on BBC1 on 21 July 1987. | |
| Template:Dts | Edna, the Inebriate Woman | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Included on the Play for Today Vol. 3 BFI Blu-ray set[22] | BAFTA Best Actress (Patricia Hayes) & Drama Production. Repeated 2 Mar 1972, on BBC2 on 20 August 1977 and on BBC2 on 3 November 1986. |
| Template:Dts | Evelyn | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Repeated 27 July 1972 and on BBC2 20 February 1973. | |
| Template:Dts | O Fat White Woman | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Repeated 16 July 1973. | |
| Template:Dts | Thank You Very Much | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Duration 40 minutes. 16 mm b&w print. | |
| Template:Dts | Michael Regan | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Repeated 17 August 1972. | |
| Template:Dts | Skin Deep | Michael O'Neill & Jeremy Seabrook | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Missing. | |
| Template:Dts | Pal | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | ||
| Template:Dts | The Pigeon Fancier | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | 16mm b&w print | ||
| Template:Dts | Home | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | DVD release by Metrodome[23] | A NET/CBC production. Adapted by the playwright from his original stage play. Repeated on BBC2 6 February 1973. |
| Template:Dts | Still Waters | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Repeated 3 August 1972. | |
| Template:Dts | Stocker's Copper | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Included on the Play for Today Vol. 2 BFI Blu-ray set[24] | BAFTA Best Single Play. Writers' Guild Awards 1972: Best British Original Teleplay. Repeated 18 December 1972 and 31 August 1982. Shown in the USA on 23 July 1977 as a Piccadilly Circus episode. | |
| Template:Dts | The House On Highbury Hill | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Missing. | ||
| Template:Dts | In the Beautiful Caribbean | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | ||
| Template:Dts | Ackerman, Dougall and Harker | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Repeated 6 August 1973. | ||
| Template:Dts | The Villa Maroc | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Repeated 30 July 1973. | ||
| Template:Dts | Cows | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Missing. | |
| Template:Dts | The Fishing Party | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | DVD release by Simply Media[25] | From BBC Birmingham. Repeated 9 July 1973 and on BBC2 4 August 1993. |
| Series 3 | |||||||
| Template:Dts | The Reporters | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Repeated 3 January 1974 and 18 April 1974. | |
| Template:Dts | A Life Is For Ever | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Repeated 11 July 1974. Missing. | |
| Template:Dts | Carson Country | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | ||
| Template:Dts | Man Friday | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Missing. | ||
| Template:Dts | Triple Exposure | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | ||
| Template:Dts | Better Than the Movies | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Missing. | |
| Template:Dts | The General's Day | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | ||
| Template:Dts | The Bankrupt | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | ||
| Template:Dts | Just Your Luck | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | BBC DVD[26] | Repeated 18 July 1974. | |
| Template:Dts | The Bouncing Boy | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Repeated 25 April 1974. | ||
| Template:Dts | Shakespeare or Bust | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Included on the Play for Today Vol. 1 BFI Blu-ray set[16] | From BBC Birmingham. Repeated 4 April 1974. |
| Template:Dts | Land of Green Ginger | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | From BBC Birmingham. Repeated 24 January 1974 and on BBC4 26 March 2005. | |||
| Template:Dts | Kisses at Fifty | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | BAFTA Best Single Play. Repeated 20 December 1973 and on BBC2 11 August 1993. | |
| Template:Dts | Highway Robbery | Michael O'Neill & Jeremy Seabrook | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Missing. | |||
| Template:Dts | Song at Twilight | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | ||
| Template:Dts | Only Make Believe | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Repeated 2 May 1974. | |
| Template:Dts | For Sylvia, or the Air Show | John Burrows & John Harding | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Missing. | |
| Template:Dts | The Operation | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | |||
| Template:Dts | Access to the Children | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Repeated 9 May 1974. | |
| Template:Dts | Hard Labour | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Included on the Mike Leigh at the BBC DVD set[27] | Repeated 30 May 1974, on BBC2 18 August 1993, and on BBC4 14 July 2008 and 7 December 2021. |
| Template:Dts | Man Above Men | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Missing. | |
| Template:Dts | Speech Day | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Repeated 10 January 1974. | |
| Template:Dts | Steps Back | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | ||
| Template:Dts | Three's One | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Missing. | |
| Template:Dts | Edward G - Like the Filmstar | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | |||
| Template:Dts | Blooming Youth | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Repeated 16 May 1974. | |
| Template:Dts | The Stretch | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Missing. | |
| Template:Dts | Making the Play | Terence Brady & Charlotte Bingham | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | ||
| Series 4 | |||||||
| Template:Dts | Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Adapted from the novel. BAFTA Best Actress (Celia Johnson). Repeated 20 March 1975. | |
| Template:Dts | Her Majesty's Pleasure | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | ||
| Template:Dts | Jack Point | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Repeated 3 April 1975. | ||
| Template:Dts | The Emergency Channel | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Missing. | |
| Template:Dts | Mummy and Daddy | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Incomplete. | |
| Template:Dts | Private Practice | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Missing. | |
| Template:Dts | Shutdown | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Repeated 19 June 1975. | |
| Template:Dts | Baby Blues | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | |||
| Template:Dts | Jingle Bells | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Missing. | |
| Template:Dts | The Lonely Man's Lover | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | From BBC Birmingham. Repeated 6 February 1975. | |
| Template:Dts | All Good Men | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | ||
| Template:Dts | Joe's Ark | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Repeated 19 December 1974, 7 July 1987, and on BBC4 30 January 2005. | ||
| Template:Dts | Hot Fat | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Missing. | ||
| Template:Dts | Easy Go | Brian Clark & Ronnie King, Cliff Norris, Peter French, Paul Stuart, Tony Ali, Paul Bishop, Deirdre Walsh, Janice Reeves | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Postponed from 7 February 1974. | ||
| Template:Dts | Headmaster | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Repeated 12 June 1975. Spun off as a series in 1977. | ||
| Template:Dts | Penda's Fen | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Blu-ray and DVD by the BFI;[28] also included in the Dissent & Disruption: Alan Clarke at the BBC Blu-ray set[19] | From BBC Birmingham. Repeated 13 February 1975. |
| Template:Dts | Pidgeon - Hawk or Dove? | Script error: No such module "Sort". | David Rose | Script error: No such module "Sort". | |||
| Template:Dts | Three for the Fancy | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Repeated 28 August 1974. | ||
| Template:Dts | Template:Va | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Blu-ray & DVD releases by Panamint Cinema[29] | Adapted from the stage play. Repeated 17 April 1975. |
| Template:Dts | Schmoedipus | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Repeated 10 April 1975. | |
| Template:Dts | The Childhood Friend | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | ||
| Template:Dts | A Follower for Emily | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Included in the Dissent & Disruption: Alan Clarke at the BBC Blu-ray set[19] | |
| Series 5 | |||||||
| Template:Dts | Leeds — United! | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Duration 115 minutes. Repeated 12 August 1976. Repeated on BBC4 3 November 2020. | |
| Template:Dts | Baby Love | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Adapted from the play. | ||
| Template:Dts | Back of Beyond | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Included on the Play for Today Vol. 1 BFI Blu-ray set[16] | Repeated 5 August 1976. |
| Template:Dts | The Bevellers | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | From BBC Scotland | |
| Template:Dts | Taking Leave | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | ||
| Template:Dts | Fugitive | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | |||
| Template:Dts | Eleanor | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | ||
| Template:Dts | Gangsters | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Included on the Gangsters DVD set[30] | From BBC Birmingham. Duration 110 minutes. Repeated 2 September 1976. Spun off as a series. |
| Template:Dts | The After Dinner Game | Malcolm Bradbury & Christopher Bigsby | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | From BBC Birmingham | |
| Template:Dts | Breath | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | |||
| Template:Dts | The Death of a Young Young Man | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | |||
| Template:Dts | Sunset Across the Bay | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort"., Harry Markham | Included on the Alan Bennett at the BBC DVD boxset[31] | Repeated 19 August 1976 and on BBC2 26 July 1992. |
| Template:Dts | Funny Farm | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Included in the Dissent & Disruption: Alan Clarke at the BBC Blu-ray set[19] | |
| Template:Dts | Goodbye | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | From the novel by William Sansom. | |
| Template:Dts | Just Another Saturday | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Included on the Play for Today Vol. 3 BFI Blu-ray set[22] & The Peter McDougall Collection DVD set[32] | Winner of the 1975 Italia Prize for Television Drama Programmes. Repeated on BBC2 7 November 1975, on BBC1 26 August 1976 and on BBC2 24 August 1977. |
| Template:Dts | Child of Hope | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Based on Joel Carlson's book No Neutral Ground. | ||
| Template:Dts | The Saturday Party | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Repeated 25 April 1977, the day before its sequel, The Country Party. | |
| Template:Dts | Wednesday Love | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | ||
| Template:Dts | The Dandelion Clock | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Missing. | |
| Template:Dts | Brassneck | Howard Brenton & David Hare | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Adapted from the play. | |
| Template:Dts | The Floater | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | |||
| 5 June 1975 | By Common Consent | Paul Thompson | Kenith Trodd | Ron Daniels, John Robins | Michelle Abrahams | Adapted from the play. Not billed as a Play for Today in the Radio Times.[33] | |
| Series 6 | |||||||
| Template:Dts | Plaintiffs and Defendants | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Shown in the USA on 16 July 1977 as a Piccadilly Circus episode. | |
| Template:Dts | Two Sundays | Repeated 1 Sep 1977. | |||||
| Template:Dts | Moss | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | ||
| Template:Dts | 84, Charing Cross Road | Helene Hanff & Hugh Whitemore | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Adapted from the book. Repeated 21 July 1977. | |
| Template:Dts | Keep an Eye on Albert | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | ||
| Template:Dts | Children of the Sun | Michael O'Neill & Jeremy Seabrook | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Missing. Final missing episode. | ||
| Template:Dts | After the Solo | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | |||
| Template:Dts | Through the Night | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Repeated 4 August 1977. | ||
| Template:Dts | A Passage to England | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Included on the Play for Today Vol. 1 BFI Blu-ray set[16] | Repeated 25 August 1977. |
| Template:Dts | Rumpole of the Bailey | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | DVD release by Acorn[34] | Repeated 16 May 1993, and on BBC4 18 and 19 January 2009. Spun off as a long-running series on ITV (Thames Television).[35] |
| Template:Dts | The Other Woman | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | From BBC Birmingham | |
| Template:Dts | Nuts in May | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Included on the Mike Leigh at the BBC DVD set[27] | From BBC Birmingham. Repeated 11 August 1977, on BBC2 5 September 1982 and 27 December 1993, and on BBC4 19 April 2009, 20 July 2010, 6 May 2012 and 1 December 2014. | |
| Template:Dts | Doran's Box | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | From BBC Birmingham. Exists only as a domestic video recording. | ||
| Template:Dts | Packman's Barn | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | From BBC Birmingham | ||
| Template:Dts | A Story to Frighten the Children | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | ||
| Template:Dts | The Happy Hunting Ground | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | ||
| Template:Dts | Jumping Bean Bag | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | ||
| Template:Dts | Clay, Smeddum and Greenden | Lewis Grassic Gibbon & Bill Craig | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Trilogy by Lewis Grassic Gibbon, dramatised by Bill Craig; from BBC Scotland. Repeated 18 August 1977. | |
| Template:Dts | Love Letters on Blue Paper | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | ||
| Template:Dts | Willie Rough | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Adapted from the stage play. | |
| Template:Dts | Tiptoe Through the Tulips | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | ||
| Template:Dts | The Peddler | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | |||
| Template:Dts | Early Struggles | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | |||
| Template:Dts | Double Dare | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Repeated 28 July 1977, and on BBC4 6 February 2005. | |
| Series 7 | |||||||
| Template:Dts | Bar Mitzvah Boy | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Included on the Play for Today Vol. 3 BFI Blu-ray set[22] & the Jack Rosenthal at the BBC DVD set.[36] | BAFTA Best Single Play and Best Writer awards, 1976. Repeated 6 May 1977, 28 February 1978 and 23 June 1997, and on BBC4 18 July 2004 and 17 March 2005. |
| Template:Dts | Bet Your Life | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | |||
| Template:Dts | Rocky Marciano Is Dead | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | |||
| Template:Dts | The Elephants' Graveyard | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort"., Jon Morrison | Included on the Play for Today Vol .2 BFI Blu-ray set[24] &
The Peter McDougall Collection DVD set |
Repeated 25 Jul 1978. | |
| Template:Dts | Housewives' Choice | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | ||
| Template:Dts | Your Man from Six Counties | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Included on the Play for Today Vol. 1 BFI Blu-ray set[16] | ||
| Template:Dts | Buffet | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | ||
| Template:Dts | Love on a Gunboat | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | From BBC Birmingham | |
| Template:Dts | The Kiss of Death | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Included on the Mike Leigh at the BBC DVD set[27] | ||
| Template:Dts | Our Flesh and Blood | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Included on the Play for Today Vol. 1 BFI Blu-ray set[16] | From BBC Birmingham. Repeated 29 August 1978. | |
| Template:Dts | Do As I Say | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | ||
| Template:Dts | Spend, Spend, Spend! | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Included on the Jack Rosenthal at the BBC DVD set[36] | Based on the book by Vivian Nicholson and Stephen Smith. BAFTA Best Single Play. Repeated 1 June 1978. | |
| Template:Dts | A Photograph | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Included on the Play for Today Vol. 1 BFI Blu-ray set[16] | ||
| Template:Dts | Gotcha | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Included on the Play for Today Vol. 2 BFI Blu-ray set[24] | Double bill. Repeated 15 August 1978. |
| Campion's Interview | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Included on the Play for Today Vol. 2 BFI Blu-ray set[24] | ||||
| Template:Dts | A Choice of Evils | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | |||
| Template:Dts | The Country Party | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Sequel to The Saturday Party. | |
| Series 8 | |||||||
| Template:Dts | Stronger Than the Sun | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Repeated 21 February 1978, and on BBC4 21 January 2003, 14 May 2003 and 5 March 2006. | |
| Template:Dts | Come the Revolution | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | ||
| Template:Dts | Abigail's Party | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | DVD release by BBC;[37] also included on the Mike Leigh at the BBC DVD set[27] | Adapted from the stage play. Repeated 7 August 1979, on BBC2 6 September 1982, 5 July 1992 and 1 November 1997, and on BBC4 26 June 2002, 11 August 2002, 28 October 2007, 17 December 2007, 7 November 2010, 21 March 2013, 24 November 2014, 14 October 2020 and 1 June 2022. |
| Template:Dts | Oy Vay Maria | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | |||
| Template:Dts | Nipper | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | |||
| Template:Dts | One Day at a Time | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | ||
| Template:Dts | The Mayor's Charity | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Included on the Play for Today Vol. 3 BFI Blu-ray set[22] | |
| Template:Dts | Catchpenny Twist | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Repeated 21 August 1979. | ||
| Template:Dts | Charades | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | From BBC Scotland | |
| Template:Dts | The Thin End of the Wedge | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | |||
| Template:Dts | Scully's New Year's Eve | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | From BBC Birmingham | |
| Template:Dts | Licking Hitler | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | From BBC Birmingham. BAFTA Best Single Play. Repeated 31 July 1979. | ||
| Template:Dts | Red Shift | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | BFI DVD[38] | From BBC Birmingham. Adapted from the novel. | |
| Template:Dts | The Spongers | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Included on the Play for Today Vol. 2 BFI Blu-ray set[24] | Duration 105 minutes. Prix Italia 1978, Golden Award and Best Script at Prague 1978. Repeated 6 September 1979, and on BBC2 25 August 1993 and 17 July 1999. |
| Template:Dts | Destiny | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Adapted from the play. Duration 105 minutes. Repeated 14 August 1979. | |
| Template:Dts | Our Day Out | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | DVD release by Simply Media[39] | First shown as a Play of the Week on BBC2, 28 December 1977. Repeated on BBC2 26 December 1979, and in 3 instalments under Scene, 14, 21 & 28 January 1994, and on BBC4 22 August 2008. |
| Template:Dts | The After Dinner Joke | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | ||
| Template:Dts | Days of Hope: 1916 - Joining Up | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Included on the Ken Loach at the BBC DVD boxset[21] | First shown 11 September 1975. |
| Template:Dts | Days of Hope: 1921 – Every Pit in Britain Is Idle | First shown 18 September 1975. | |||||
| Template:Dts | Days Of Hope: 1924 - A Miracle | First shown 25 September 1975. | |||||
| Template:Dts | Days Of Hope: 1926 - General Strike | First shown 2 October 1975. | |||||
| Template:Dts | The Price of Coal: Meet the People | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Included on the Ken Loach at the BBC DVD boxset[21] | First shown 29 March 1977. | ||
| Template:Dts | The Price of Coal: Back to Reality | First shown 5 April 1977. | |||||
| Template:Dts | The Legion Hall Bombing | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | ||
| Series 9 | |||||||
| Template:Dts | Nina | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Included in the Dissent & Disruption: Alan Clarke at the BBC Blu-ray set[19] | |
| Template:Dts | Victims of Apartheid | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Included on the Play for Today Vol. 2 BFI Blu-ray set[24] | |
| Template:Dts | A Touch of the Tiny Hacketts | John Esmonde & Bob Larbey | James Cellan Jones | Script error: No such module "Sort". | |||
| Template:Dts | Dinner at the Sporting Club | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | DVD release by Simply Media[40] | |
| Template:Dts | Donal and Sally | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort"., Sylvestra Le Touzel | Best Direction, 1979 Prague International Television Festival. Repeated 8 July 1980. | |
| Template:Dts | Sorry… | Václav Havel & Vera Blackwell | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Adapted and translated by Vera Blackwell from the Vaněk plays Private View (a.k.a. Unveiling) and Audience. Repeated 6 January 1990. | |
| Template:Dts | Butterflies Don't Count | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | |||
| Template:Dts | Soldiers Talking, Cleanly | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | ||
| Template:Dts | One Bummer News Day | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | ||
| Template:Dts | The Out of Town Boys | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | From BBC Birmingham | |
| Template:Dts | Vampires | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | ||
| Template:Dts | The Chief Mourner | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | |||
| Template:Dts | Waterloo Sunset | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Repeated 5 August 1980. | ||
| Template:Dts | Blue Remembered Hills | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Included on the Helen Mirren at the BBC DVD set[41] | BAFTA Best Single Play and Best Director 1979. Repeated on BBC2 30 May 1980 and 6 November 1986, and on BBC4 5 June 2008. |
| Template:Dts | Who's Who | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Included on the Mike Leigh at the BBC DVD set[27] | Repeated on BBC2 7 September 1982. |
| Template:Dts | The Last Window Cleaner | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | ||
| Template:Dts | Ploughman's Share | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | From BBC Scotland | |
| Template:Dts | Degree of Uncertainty | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | |||
| Template:Dts | Light | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | ||
| Template:Dts | Coming Out | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Included on the Play for Today Vol. 3 BFI Blu-ray set[22] | Repeated on BBC2 13 June 1980. |
| Template:Dts | Don't Be Silly | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Repeated 12 August 1980. Repeated on BBC4 10 November 2020. | |
| Series 10 | |||||||
| Template:Dts | Long Distance Information | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Repeated on BBC2 4 October 1980. | |
| Template:Dts | Cries from a Watchtower | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | |||
| Template:Dts | Comedians | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Adapted from the stage play. Repeated 19 August 1980, and on BBC2 9 May 1993. | ||
| Template:Dts | Even Solomon | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | ||
| Template:Dts | Just a Boys' Game | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort"., Ken Hutchison | Included on the Play for Today Vol. 2 BFI Blu-ray set;[24] The Peter McDougall Collection DVD set | Repeated 26 August 1980. Repeated on BBC4 27 October 2020. |
| Template:Dts | Billy | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Repeated 10 November 1981. | |
| Template:Dts | A Hole in Babylon | Jim Hawkins & Horace Ové | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Included on the Play for Today Vol. 3 BFI Blu-ray set[22] | Based on events of the 1975 Spaghetti House siege. Repeated on BBC2 27 June 1992. Repeated on BBC4 20 October 2020. |
| Template:Dts | The Slab Boys | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | DVD release by John Williams Productions[42] | Adapted from the play. |
| Template:Dts | Katie: The Year of a Child | Ian Cullen & John Norton | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | ||
| Template:Dts | The Network | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | ||
| Template:Dts | The Black Stuff | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Included on the Boys from the Black Stuff DVD set[43] | The Black Stuff was commissioned and produced for the Play for Today strand in 1978, but not broadcast until 1980, as a one-off play on BBC2 (not billed as a Play for Today).[4] However BBC sources today generally do refer to it as a Play for Today.[44] Repeated on BBC1 30 July 1981, and on BBC4 19 September 2010 and 17 November 2020. |
| Template:Dts | Chance of a Lifetime | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Repeated 3 September 1981. | |
| Template:Dts | Keep Smiling | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | From BBC Birmingham | |
| Template:Dts | Dreams of Leaving | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | |||
| Template:Dts | Thicker Than Water | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | ||
| Template:Dts | Murder Rap | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Repeated 13 August 1981. | |
| Template:Dts | Instant Enlightenment Including VAT | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Postponed from 22 November 1979. | |
| Template:Dts | No Defence | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | |||
| Template:Dts | That Crazy Woman | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | ||
| Template:Dts | A Gift from Nessus | William McIlvanney & Bill Craig | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Novel by William McIlvanney, dramatised by Bill Craig; from BBC Scotland. | |
| Template:Dts | Kate, the Good Neighbour | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Repeated 27 August 1981. | |
| Template:Dts | Buses | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | ||
| Template:Dts | Shadows on Our Skin | Jennifer Johnston & Derek Mahon | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Screenplay by Derek Mahon from the novel by Jennifer Johnston. Repeated 20 August 1981. | |
| Template:Dts | Ladies | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | |||
| Template:Dts | The Vanishing Army | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | First shown as a Play of the Week on BBC2 29 November 1978, and repeated on BBC1 28 August 1979. | |
| Template:Dts | Not for the Likes of Us | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | From BBC Bristol | |
| Template:Dts | The Executioner | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | ||
| Template:Dts | The Imitation Game | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | DVD release by Simply Media[45] | Repeated on BBC2 8 September 1981 and 12 May 1993. | |
| Template:Dts | A Walk in the Forest | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Repeated on BBC2 6 July 1980. | |
| Template:Dts | On Giant's Shoulders | Marjorie Wallace, Michael Robson, William Humble & Anthony Simmons | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Based on the book by Marjorie Wallace and Michael Robson, dramatised by William Humble and Anthony Simmons. First shown as a Play of the Week on BBC2, 28 March 1979. Repeated on BBC2 4 November 1986. | |
| Template:Dts | Fearless Frank | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | First shown as a Play of the Week on BBC2, 4 October 1978. | |
| Series 11 | |||||||
| Template:Dts | Pasmore | Richard Eyre & David Storey | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Screenplay by Richard Eyre from the novel by David Storey. Repeated 10 August 1982. | |
| Template:Dts | C2H5OH | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Title is the chemical formula for ethanol (alcohol). | |
| Template:Dts | The Adventures of Frank: 1 – Everybody's Fiddling Something | John McGrath, Mark Brown, Mike O'Neill & Si Cowe | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | A musical play in two parts by John McGrath, with music by Mark Brown and additional songs by Mike O'Neill and Si Cowe. | |
| Template:Dts | The Adventures of Frank: 2 – Seeds of Ice | ||||||
| Template:Dts | Minor Complications | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Repeated 3 August 1982. | |
| Template:Dts | Jude | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | ||
| Template:Dts | The Flipside of Dominick Hide | Jeremy Paul & Alan Gibson | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | DVD release by BBC[46] | Repeated 7 December 1982, and on BBC4 26 February 2006, 20 May 2006 and 26 July 2008. |
| Template:Dts | Name for the Day | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | ||
| Template:Dts | Jessie | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Repeated 11 December 1982. | |
| Template:Dts | Beyond the Pale | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | ||
| Template:Dts | The Muscle Market | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | From BBC Birmingham | |
| Template:Dts | A Brush with Mr. Porter on the Road to El Dorado | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | |||
| Template:Dts | The Cause | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | ||
| Template:Dts | Beloved Enemy | David Leland & Charles Levinson | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Included in the Dissent & Disruption: Alan Clarke at the BBC Blu-ray set[19] | Derived from the book Vodka Cola by Charles Levinson. |
| Template:Dts | The Kamikaze Ground Staff Reunion Dinner | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | ||
| Template:Dts | The Union | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | ||
| Template:Dts | Sorry | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Repeated 17 August 1982. | |
| Template:Dts | Shai Mala Khani The Garland |
H. O. Nazareth & Horace Ové | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | From BBC Birmingham | |
| Template:Dts | The Sin Bin | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | ||
| Template:Dts | Before Water Lilies | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | ||
| Template:Dts | Bavarian Night | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | ||
| Template:Dts | The Good Time Girls | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | From BBC Scotland. Repeated 27 July 1982. | |
| Template:Dts | Baby Talk | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | ||
| Template:Dts | A Turn for the Worse | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | ||
| Template:Dts | Psy-Warriors | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Included in the Dissent & Disruption: Alan Clarke at the BBC Blu-ray set[19] | Adapted from the play. |
| Series 12 | |||||||
| Template:Dts | Country | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Repeated on BBC2 26 May 1993. Repeated on BBC4 12 October 2020. | |
| Template:Dts | London Is Drowning | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | ||
| Template:Dts | A Room for the Winter | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | ||
| Template:Dts | No Visible Scar | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | ||
| Template:Dts | Iris in the Traffic, Ruby in the Rain | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Repeated on BBC2 15 February 1989. | |
| Template:Dts | Protest | Václav Havel & Vera Blackwell | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Translated and adapted by Vera Blackwell from the play. | |
| Template:Dts | United Kingdom | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | ||
| Template:Dts | P.Q. 17 | Roger Milner & Captain Jack Broome | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | From the book Convoy Is to Scatter by Captain Jack Broome. | |
| Template:Dts | The Factory | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | |||
| Template:Dts | England's Greens and Peasant Land | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | ||
| Template:Dts | A Cotswold Death | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | ||
| Template:Dts | Under the Skin | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | ||
| Template:Dts | Commitments | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Adapted from the play. Exists only as a domestic video recording. | |
| Template:Dts | Life After Death | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | ||
| Template:Dts | The Silly Season | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | From BBC Scotland | |
| Template:Dts | Too Late to Talk to Billy | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | First of the Billy trilogy. Repeated 3 May 1983.Repeated on BBC4 5 October 2022. | |
| Template:Dts | Willie's Last Stand | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | ||
| Template:Dts | Tishoo | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | ||
| Template:Dts | Home, Sweet Home | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Included on the Mike Leigh at the BBC DVD set[27] | |
| Template:Dts | A Sudden Wrench | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Repeated on BBC2 18 March 1983. | |
| Template:Dts | Eve Set the Balls of Corruption Rolling | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | From BBC Scotland. Pye Award for Best Writer New to Television, 1982 | |
| Template:Dts | Whistling Wally | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | ||
| Series 13 | |||||||
| Template:Dts | Soft Targets | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Included on the Helen Mirren at the BBC DVD set[41] | Repeated on BBC4 25 Jan 2003. |
| Template:Dts | 3 Minute Heroes | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | From BBC Birmingham | |
| Template:Dts | The Remainder Man | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | ||
| Template:Dts | Intensive Care | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Repeated on BBC2 9 August 1992. | |
| Template:Dts | A Mother Like Him | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | ||
| Template:Dts | John David | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | ||
| Template:Dts | Aliens | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | From BBC Scotland | |
| Template:Dts | Another Flip for Dominick | Jeremy Paul & Alan Gibson | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | BBC DVD release[46] | Repeated on BBC4 27 May 2006 and 2 August 2008. |
| Template:Dts | Last Love | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | ||
| Template:Dts | Gates of Gold | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | ||
| Template:Dts | Wayne and Albert | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | ||
| Template:Dts | Atlantis | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | From BBC Birmingham | |
| Template:Dts | The Last Term | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | ||
| Template:Dts | Reluctant Chickens | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | From BBC Birmingham | |
| Template:Dts | Shall I Be Mother? | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | ||
| Template:Dts | The Falklands Factor | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | ||
| Template:Dts | A Matter of Choice for Billy | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Second of the Billy trilogy.Repeated on BBC4 5 October 2022. | |
| Series 14 | |||||||
| Template:Dts | Young Shoulders | John Wain & Robert Smith | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Screenplay by Robert Smith and John Wain of the novel. | |
| Template:Dts | A Coming to Terms for Billy | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Third of the Billy trilogy. From BBC Northern Ireland. Repeated on BBC4 12 October 2022. | |
| Template:Dts | Z for Zachariah | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Adapted from the novel. Duration 120 minutes. | |
| Template:Dts | Moving on the Edge | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | ||
| Template:Dts | Desert of Lies | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | ||
| Template:Dts | Hard Feelings | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Adapted from the play. | ||
| Template:Dts | Under the Hammer | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | |||
| Template:Dts | King | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | |||
| Template:Dts | Rainy Day Women | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Repeated on BBC2 8 September 1990. | ||
| Template:Dts | Dog Ends | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | ||
| Template:Dts | The Groundling and the Kite | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | From BBC Birmingham | |
| Template:Dts | The Cry | Derek Mahon & Chris Menaul from a story by John Montague | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Adapted from a story by John Montague. | |
| Template:Dts | It Could Happen to Anybody | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | From BBC Scotland | |
| Template:Dts | Only Children | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | ||
| Template:Dts | The Amazing Miss Stella Estelle | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | ||
| Postponed broadcasts | |||||||
| Template:Dts | Brimstone & Treacle | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | BBC DVD release[47] | Postponed from 6 April 1976. Repeated on BBC2 5 September 1998 and on BBC4 2 January 2005. |
| Template:Dts | Scum | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Included in the Dissent & Disruption: Alan Clarke at the BBC Blu-ray set[19] | Postponed from 8 November 1977. |
| Unbroadcast | Pillion | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Recorded in 1979 but never transmitted. | ||
Channel 5 relaunch
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| Original air date | Title | Authors | Producer | Director | Lead actor(s) | Home media | Notes |
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| Series 1 | |||||||
| Template:Dts | Never Too Late | Simon Warne, Lydia Marchant | Sara Harrak | Anita Dobson, Nigel Havers | |||
| Template:Dts | Big Winners | Martha Watson Allpress | Emma Turner | Sue Johnston, Paul Copley |
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| Template:Dts | A Knock at the Door | David Whitehouse | Daniel Rands | Alan Davies, Nikki Amuka-Bird | |||
| Template:Dts | Special Measures | Lee Thompson | Jack McLoughlin | Jessica Plummer, Shaun Fagan | |||
Home media
The BFI have released three box sets of the series on Blu-ray, each consisting of various plays from throughout the show's run. Volume 1 contains seven plays broadcast between 1970 and 77; The Lie (1970), Shakespeare or Bust (1973), Back of Beyond (1974), Passage to England (1975), Your Man from Six Counties (1976), Our Flesh and Blood (1977), and A Photograph (1977). Five of the productions were remastered using the original 16mm film negatives which still exist in the BBC Archives.
Volume 2 contains seven plays broadcast between 1972 and 79; Stocker's Copper (1972), The Elephants' Graveyard (1976), Gotcha / Campion's Interview (1977), The Spongers (1978), Victims of Apartheid (1978), and Just a Boys' Game (1979).
Volume 3, released on 21 March 2022, contains six plays broadcast between 1971 and 79; Edna, the Inebriate Woman (1971), Just Another Saturday (1975), Bar Mitzvah Boy (1976), The Mayor's Charity (1977), Coming Out (1979), and A Hole in Babylon (1979).
Robin Redbreast, Penda's Fen, Abigail's Party, Our Day Out, The Imitation Game and several others have received standalone releases on DVD and Blu-ray, whilst others have been released on compilation DVDs with the creators' other works.
References
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- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ Irene Shubik "Letters: Eclectic roster on Play for Today", The Guardian, 5 April 2008
- ↑ Richard Hewett Flipside of Dominick Hide, The (1980), screenonline.org.uk. Accessed 8 December 2022.
- ↑ a b Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
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- ↑ Script error: No such module "Citation/CS1".
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ Script error: No such module "Citation/CS1".
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
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- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".Script error: No such module "Unsubst".Template:Cbignore
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ a b c d e f g Play for Today Volume 1 4-disc Blu-ray set, BFI BFIB1393, 2020
- ↑ Robin Redbreast DVD, BFI BFIVD997, 2013
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i Dissent & Disruption: Alan Clarke at the BBC (1969–1989) 13-disc Blu-ray set, BFI BFIB1250, 2016. Also 11-disc edition, BFI BFIB1466, 2022
- ↑ a b c d e f g Play for Today: Seven Selected Plays repeat season, 11 March - 22 April 1971.
- ↑ a b c Ken Loach at the BBC 6-disc DVD boxset, BBC / 2|Entertain BBCDVD3395, 2011
- ↑ a b c d e f Play for Today Volume 3 3-disc Blu-ray set, BFI BFIB1443, 2022
- ↑ Home – the television adaption of David Storey's acclaimed play DVD, Metrodome, 2004
- ↑ a b c d e f g Play for Today Volume 2 3-disc Blu-ray set, BFI BFIB1394, 2021
- ↑ The Fishing Party - A Play for Today DVD, Simply Media 188002, 2018
- ↑ Just Your Luck DVD, BBC, 2008
- ↑ a b c d e f Mike Leigh at the BBC 6-disc DVD set, BBC / 2|Entertain, 2009
- ↑ Penda's Fen BFI BFIV2070 (DVD) / BFIB1222 (Blu-ray), 2016
- ↑ The Cheviot the Stag and the Black Black Oil, Panamint Cinema BLU1013 (Blu-ray) / 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
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ The Classic Drama: Rumpole of the Bailey - Rumpole and the Confession of Guilt DVD, Acorn Media, 2007
- ↑ Script error: No such module "Footnotes".
- ↑ a b Jack Rosenthal at the BBC 5-disc DVD set, Acorn Media AV9975, 2011
- ↑ Abigail's Party DVD, BBC BBCDVD1181, 2003
- ↑ Red Shift DVD, BFI BFIV2007, 2014Script error: No such module "Unsubst".Template:Cbignore
- ↑ 'Our Day Out - A Play of the Week' DVD, Simply Media 188000, 2018 https://simplymedia.tv/product/188000/
- ↑ Dinner at the Sporting Club DVD, Simply Media 106813, 2003
- ↑ a b Helen Mirren at the BBC 6-disc DVD set, BBC / 2|Entertain, 2008
- ↑ The Slab Boys DVD, John Williams Productions Ltd JW472. 2008
- ↑ Boys from the Black Stuff 3-disc DVD set, BBC BBCDVD1178, 2003
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ The Imitation Game - A Play for Today DVD, Simply Media 188001, 2018
- ↑ a b The Flipside of Dominick Hide & Another Flip for Dominick DVD, BBC / 2|Entertain, 2005
- ↑ Brimstone and Treacle DVD, BBC / 2|Entertain, 2004
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Bibliography
- Evans, Jeff. The Penguin TV Companion (1st ed.). London: Penguin Books. 2001. Template:ISBN.
- Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- Vahimagi, Tise. British Television: An Illustrated Guide. Oxford. Oxford University Press / British Film Institute. 1994. Template:ISBN.
- Farquhar, Simon. Play for Today: The First Year. 2021. Template:ISBN.
External links
- Template:BBC programme
- Drama out of a Crisis: A Celebration of Play for Today - 2020 BBC documentary
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- TV Cream's Play for Today website, contains synopses of most episodes Internet archive link
- Play for Today pages on British Television Drama site
- Play for Today section at the BFI's Screenonline
- Archive status of Play for Today at lostshows.com Redirects to TVBrain | Kaleidoscope | Lost shows | TV Archive | TV History, a paysite
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- 1970 British television series debuts
- 1984 British television series endings
- BBC television dramas
- BBC anthology television shows
- 1970s British anthology television series
- 1980s British anthology television series
- Social realism
- British English-language television shows