Play for Today Season 6
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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The eldest daughter of a domineering, overprotective mother becomes engaged to an unprincipled young man who has money.
A playwright spends an afternoon in a hotel room with an actress who takes on the role of call girl for research purposes.
A story about a father's attempts at single parenthood
A story depicting life in a shipyard
A play based on three short stories about the Scottish people and their relationship with the land: ""Clay"" concerns a farmer's obsession with his fields to the exclusion of his dying wife; ""Smeddum"" is about an indomitable woman and her large family; and ""Greenden"" tells the story of an unhappy woman from the city living with her indifferent husband in the country.
A woman encounters trouble when she arrives home late at night, but her neighbors on a nearby estate claim to have seen and heard nothing.
Smug married couple Keith and Candice Marie “keen exponents of their belief in organic health food, exercise and the environment” are on a camping holiday, where they find that it is not always easy to be tolerant of others when they don't share the same enthusiasms.
An aggressive lesbian disrupts the lives of those around her.
Rumpole defends a young West Indian boy accused of attempted murder.
A group of Asians plans to sneak into England using a fishing boat
A woman goes into hospital to receive treatment for breast cancer.
A boy enjoys success in the choir until his voice breaks at puberty.
An American woman corresponds with a London bookshop owner over a period of 20 years
An author tells an old school chum that he is about to publish a novel revealing their old relationship.
A married barrister's life begins to unravel when it seems that his high-strung mistress may reveal all.