TV series
Play for Today
1970–1985, English, on BBC One.
Play for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC1 from 1970 to 1984. During the run, more than three hundred programmes, featuring original television plays, and adaptations of stage plays and novels, were transmitted. The individual episodes were between fifty and a hundred minutes in duration.
- Seasons
- 14
- Episodes
- 314
- Episode length
- 75 min
- Status
- Ended in 1985
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S14 E21: Brigadista
Aired 5 February 1985
Seasons 14
Series 1
1970 · 24 episodes
Series 2
1971 · 19 episodes · 9.0/10
Series 3
1972 · 28 episodes
Series 4
1973 · 22 episodes · 8.0/10
Series 5
1974 · 22 episodes
Series 6
1975 · 25 episodes
Series 7
1976 · 19 episodes
Series 8
1977 · 18 episodes
Series 9
1978 · 21 episodes
Series 10
1979 · 28 episodes
Series 11
1980 · 27 episodes
Series 12
1981 · 22 episodes · 6.4/10
Series 13
1982 · 18 episodes
Series 14
1983 · 21 episodes · 7.0/10
Specials
1987 · 7 episodes
Cast & crew
- Nigel HawthorneFulton · 8 ep
- Liz SmithKeith's Granny · 7 ep
- Bernard HillMick · 7 ep
- Alison SteadmanNonie · 5 ep
- Malcolm TerrisJim · 5 ep
- June BrownMelanie · 5 ep
- Colin DouglasFather · 5 ep
- Tony CaunterPinnock · 5 ep
- Colin JeavonsDennis Turner · 5 ep
- Frances TomeltyPolly · 5 ep
- Julian CurryCampion · 5 ep
- Graham AshleyMr. Hutton · 4 ep
Details
- First aired
- 15 October 1970
- Last aired
- 5 February 1985
- Network
- BBC One
- Language
- English
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Type
- Scripted
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Play for Today has 14 seasons and 314 episodes, about 75 minutes each.
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