Play for Today (1970)

Genre

anthology series, drama television series

Country

United Kingdom

Length

14 seasons, 314 episodes

Rating

6.6 of 10 from 10 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This was a BBC anthology series that aired original TV plays and adaptations. Each episode told a different story with new characters. The run lasted from 1970 to 1984 and included over three hundred episodes.

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What happens

Play for Today is a British television strand, 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 (with a few exceptions noted below) between fifty and a hundred minutes in duration. A handful of these plays, including Rumpole of the Bailey, subsequently became television series in their own right. In 2025, Channel 5 announced they would revive the series, which began broadcasting on 13 November 2025. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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