Season 1 episodes1970-10-14

Series 1

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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Episodes

Season 1

Episode 1

The Long Distance Piano Player

1h 15m

Episode 2

The Right Prospectus

1h 15m

Episode 3

The Lie

1h 15m

Episode 4

Angels Are So Few

1h 15m

Episode 5

The Write-Off

1h 15m

Series 1

Season 1

The Long Distance Piano Player

The Right Prospectus

The Lie

Angels Are So Few

The Write-Off

I Can't See My Little Willie

A Distant Thunder

Hearts and Flowers

Robin Redbreast

The Hallelujah Handshake

Alma Mater

Circle Line

Hell's Angel

The Piano

Billy's Last Stand

The Rainbirds

Reddick

The Foxtrot

When the Bough Breaks

Orkney

The Rank and File

The Man in the Sidecar

Everybody Say Cheese

The Cellar and the Almond Tree