Play for Today Season 5
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.
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Play for Today
1970Play 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.
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Play for Today Season 5 Full Episode Guide
Political fantasy about a fascist regime
In Belfast, a girl awaits the return of her missing father.
When a stockbroker loses his job, he decides to throw a party.
A young man participating in the Orange Parade in Glasgow becomes disillusioned with the pageant when he discovers its unpleasant and violent history and witnesses the participants' attacks on Catholics.
One day in the life a nurse in a mental hospital
A elderly couple become disillusioned when they retire to their favorite holiday resort.
Three young students suspended from school face various problems.
A story about an asthma sufferer
A story exploring the Birmingham underworld
The first (and last) day at work of a young apprentice in a bevelling shop at a Glasgow glass factory
After the stillbirth of her illegitimate baby, a woman steals a baby at random and is sentenced to 9 months in prison.
About a strike in a textile factory, based on a true story