Play for Today (1970)
- Genre
- anthology series, drama television series
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Length
- 14 seasons, 325 episodes
- Rating
- 6.6 of 10 from 10 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this series is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
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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