Play for Today Season 8
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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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 story of the trial of Willie Gallagher, convicted of bombing the Strabane British Legion Hall in 1976.
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The story of a well-meaning charity worker
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A story dealing with racial tensions and fascism during a by-election in a West Midlands town
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The story of a single mother of four living on welfare
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A stone axehead links three couples living at different times in the same place in Wales.
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During World War II, a young woman joins the propaganda department and makes radio broadcasts to Germany from a British country house.
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A Liverpool teenager has a hectic night out on New Year's Eve.
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Three schoolteachers in Belfast give up teaching to become singers/songwriters.
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The story of the romance between a Jewish boy and an Irish Catholic girl
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Comedy of manners focusing on the bourgeois affectation and sexual frustration of a young married couple. Abigail's mother Sue is invited to take refuge from her teenage daughter's party with a neighbouring couple, Beverly and Laurence. They have also invited Angela and Tony, new arrivals in the street. Beverly plies her guests with alcohol as Sue becomes increasingly withdrawn and embarrassed by the pretentious goings-on. Slowly, marital tensions emerge and the evening is breaking up in disarray.
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A worker discovers a radioactive leak at the nuclear power plant where she works and tries to make it public knowledge.
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