This article is about the television series. For other uses, see Play for Today (disambiguation).
Play for Today
Logo as seen in the opening title sequence from 1976
Genre
Drama, television plays, anthology, social realism, kitchen-sink drama
Country of origin
United Kingdom
Original language
English
No. of episodes
306 (28 missing, 1 incomplete)
Production
Running time
Various
Original release
Network
BBC1
Release
15 October 1970 (1970-10-15) – 28 August 1984 (1984-08-28)
Related
The Wednesday Play
Screen Two, Screen One
Rumpole of the Bailey, Gangsters, Headmaster, Play for Tomorrow
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Play for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC1 from 1970 to 1984. During the run, more than three hundred programmes, featuring original television plays, and adaptations of stage plays and 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.
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