SeriesEnded
Play for Today (1970–1984)
14 seasons314 episodes75 min per episode
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.
- First aired
- October 15, 1970
- Last episode
- February 5, 1985
- Network
- BBC One
- Country of origin
- United Kingdom
Seasons
Series 124 episodes · 1970- 2Series 219 episodes · 1971
- 3Series 328 episodes · 1972
Series 422 episodes · 1973- 5Series 522 episodes · 1974
- 6Series 625 episodes · 1975
- 7Series 719 episodes · 1976
Series 818 episodes · 1977- 9Series 921 episodes · 1978
- 10Series 1029 episodes · 1979
- 11Series 1127 episodes · 1980
- 12Series 1222 episodes · 1981
- 13Series 1318 episodes · 1982
- 14Series 1421 episodes · 1983
- 0Specials7 episodes · 1987
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Cast
- Alison Steadman as Beverly
- Alison Steadman as Candice Marie
- Alison Steadman as Christine Potts
- Nigel Hawthorne as Fulton
- Nigel Hawthorne as Graham
- Nigel Hawthorne as Jack
- David Daker as Andrew Saville
- David Daker as Batchelor
- David Daker as Father
- Tony Caunter as Alderman
- Tony Caunter as Coxswain
- Tony Caunter as Dolly - Spain 1936
- Bernard Hill as Bernard Blincoe
- Bernard Hill as Edward
- Bernard Hill as Eric
- Liz Smith as Elfie
- Liz Smith as Keith's Granny
- Liz Smith as Mrs. Mathews
- Tony Doyle as Blake
- Tony Doyle as Eddie
- Tony Doyle as Eddie Peters
- Eamonn Boyce as Dubliner
- Eamonn Boyce as Man in betting shop
- Eamonn Boyce as Proprietor of Lodging House
- James Hazeldine as Alf
- James Hazeldine as Chris
- James Hazeldine as Dennis Horncastle
- Paul Copley as Andy
- Paul Copley as Paul McShane
- Paul Copley as Petty Officer Jordan