Play for Today
★ 6.6·1970 – 1985·14 seasons·314 episodes·Drama
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Overview
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.
- Network
- BBC One
- Original language
- English
- Status
- Ended (Oct 15, 1970)
Seasons and episodes
Cast
40 people
Peter Cellier
Gareth Thomas
Amanda BarrieAnne
Linda RobsonTeenage Girl
Iain CuthbertsonBarnum
Hywel BennettTony
Roy BoydThe Other Man
Peter Sallis
Laurence PayneWeaver
John Thaw
Warren MitchellMoss
Jennifer Daniel
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Tony HaygarthNeighbour
Dinah Sheridan
André MorellSir Geoffrey Wolf
Janet Munro
John Le Mesurier
Brian Cant
Martin ShawBrian
Hildegard NeilDiana
Tom ChadbonLen
Alastair Sim
Maggie JonesNance
Anne ReidEileen Morris
James BolamHusband
Sarah SuttonLittle Lavinia
Roy KinnearRoderick Major
Brenda BruceMadge
Jan Francis
Don Henderson- BABart Allison
- MBMoray BlackSixth Former
Pam St. ClementConnie
Angela Pleasence
Michael Bilton
Richard BeckinsaleMichael Robson
Bob PeckJoe Pike
David DakerTerry
Vernon Dobtcheff
Geoffrey Hinsliff
Crew
Directing129
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- Anthony Simmons
- Barry Davis
- Baz Taylor
- Ben Bolt
- Ben Rea
- Bill Bain
- Bill Craske
- Bill Hays
- Bob Hird
- Brian Farnham
- Brian Gibson
- Brian Parker
- Bryan Forbes
- Carol Wiseman
- Charles Stewart
- Charles Sturridge
- Chris Thompson
- Christopher Menaul
- Christopher Morahan
- Claude Whatham
- Clive Halls
- Colin Bucksey
- David Hare
- David Maloney
- David Rose
- Derek Bennett
- Derek Lister
- Desmond Davis
- Diarmuid Lawrence
- Douglas Camfield
- Fiona Cumming
- Frank Cox
- Gareth Davies
- Gavin Millar
- Gerald Blake
- Giles Foster
- Graham Evans
- Herbert Wise
- Horace Ové
- Jack Gold
- James Cellan Jones
- James Ferman
- James MacTaggart
- James Ormerod
- Jane Howell
- Jim Goddard
- Jim Hill
- Jim O'Brien
- John Black
- John Bruce
- John Davis
- John Glenister
- John Goldschmidt
- John Gorrie
- John Mackenzie
- John McGrath
- John Robins
- Jon Amiel
- Ken Loach
- Kenneth Ives
- Laurence Moody
- Les Blair
- Les Chatfield
- Lindsay Anderson
- Mark Cullingham
- Martyn Friend
- Matthew Robinson
- Maurice Hatton
- Mervyn Rosenzveig
- Michael Apted
- Michael Custance
- Michael Darlow
- Michael Hayes
- Michael Lindsay-Hogg
- Michael Rolfe
- Michael Simpson
- Michael Tuchner
- Mike Bradwell
- Mike Leigh
- Mike Newell
- Moira Armstrong
- Nicholas Renton
- Paul Annett
- Paul Joyce
- Paul Seed
- Pedr James
- Peter Cregeen
- Peter Dews
- Peter Duffell
- Peter Gill
- Peter Jefferies
- Philip Bonham-Carter
- Philip Saville
- Piers Haggard
- Richard Eyre
- Richard Loncraine
- Richard Wilson
- Robert Knights
- Robert McIntosh
- Roderick Graham
- Rodney Bennett
- Roger Bamford
- Roland Joffé
- Ron Daniels
- Ronald Wilson
- Roy Battersby
- Rudi Dorn
- Sarah Pia Anderson
- Silvio Narizzano
- Stephen Frears
- Stuart Burge
- Ted Kotcheff
- Tim King
- Tony Bicât
- Tony Smith
- Viktors Ritelis
- Waris Hussein
Writing211
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- Andrew Davies
- Andrew Taylor
- Andy McSmith
- Anthony Garner
- Anthony Read
- Antonia Fraser
- Arnold Wesker
- Arthur Hopcraft
- Barrie Keeffe
- Barry Collins
- Barry Hines
- Barry Reckord
- Bernard Kops
- Beryl Bainbridge
- Bill Bryden
- Bill Craig
- Bob Larbey
- Brian Clark
- Brian Glover
- Brian Thompson
- Bryan Forbes
- Carol Bunyan
- Caryl Churchill
- Charles Levinson
- Charles Wood
- Charlotte Bingham
- Chris Kewbank
- Christopher Bigsby
- Christopher Menaul
- Clive Exton
- Colin Haydn Evans
- Colin Welland
- David Cregan
- David Edgar
- David Halliwell
- David Hare
- David Hodson
- David Hopkins
- David Leland
- David Mercer
- David Pirie
- David Rudkin
- David Storey
- David Storey
- David Turner
- Denis Cannan
- Dennis Potter
- Derek Lister
- Derek Mahon
- Dion Boucicault
- Dixie Williams
- Dominic Behan
- Don Haworth
- Don Shaw
- Doug Lucie
- Douglas Dunn
- Douglas Livingstone
- Dusty Hughes
- Edward Kuznetsov
- Elaine Feinstein
- Elizabeth Taylor
- Eric Coltart
- Frances Galleymore
- G.F. Newman
- Geoffrey Case
- George Mackay Brown
- George Salverson
- Gilly Fraser
- Gordon Flemyng
- Graham Reid
- Graham Williams
- H.O. Nazareth
- Helene Hanff
- Henry Livings
- Horace Ové
- Howard Barker
- Howard Brenton
- Hugh McManus
- Hugh Whitemore
- Ian Cullen
- Ian McEwan
- Ingmar Bergman
- J.M. Barrie
- Jack Rosenthal
- James Andrew Hall
- James Duthie
- Jan Griffiths
- Janey Preger
- Jehane Markham
- Jennifer Johnston
- Jeremy Paul
- Jeremy Sandford
- Jeremy Seabrook
- Jim Allen
- Jim Hawkins
- Jimmy O'Connor
- Joel Carlson
- John Bowen
- John Burrows
- John Byrne
- John Challen
- John Elliot
- John Esmonde
- John Harding
- John Harvey-Flint
- John Hopkins
- John McGrath
- John Mortimer
- John Norton
- John Wain
- Jon Amiel
- Joyce Neary
- Judy Forrest
- Julia Jones
- Leon Griffiths
- Leonard Preston
- Les Blair
- Lesley Bruce
- Leslie Stewart
- Lewis Grassic Gibbon
- Lionel Goldstein
- Malcolm Bradbury
- Marcella Evaristi
- Mary O'Malley
- Maurice Edelman
- Maurice Leitch
- Michael Hastings
- Michael O'Neill
- Michael Sadler
- Mike Leigh
- Mike Stott
- Munroe Scott
- N.F. Simpson
- Nemone Lethbridge
- Neville Smith
- Nigel Williams
- Noël Coward
- Paul Joyce
- Paula Milne
- Penelope Mortimer
- Peter Hankin
- Peter McDougall
- Peter Nichols
- Peter Prince
- Peter Ransley
- Peter Terson
- Philip Martin
- Piers Paul Read
- Rachel Billington
- Ray Lawler
- Raymond Hitchcock
- Reg Gadney
- Rhys Adrian
- Richard Eyre
- Richard Harris
- Rita May
- Robert C. O'Brien
- Robert Holles
- Robert Holman
- Robert Marshall
- Robert Smith
- Robin Chapman
- Roddy McMillan
- Roger Milner
- Roger Smith
- Ron Hutchinson
- Rose Tremain
- Rosemary Davies
- Roy Kendall
- Roy Minton
- Sean McCarthy
- Sean Walsh
- Simon Gray
- Stephen Davis
- Stephen Fagan
- Stephen Lowe
- Stephen Mulrine
- Stephen Poliakoff
- Stewart Parker
- Ted Whitehead
- Terence Brady
- Tom Clarke
- Tom Hadaway
- Tony Bicât
- Tony Parker
- Tony Perrin
- Trevor Griffiths
- Vera Blackwell
- Václav Havel
- W. Stephen Gilbert
- Wally K. Daly
- Watson Gould
- William McIlvanney
- William Sansom
- William Trevor
- Willis Hall
- Willy Russell
- Wilson John Haire
- Daniel DefoeNovel
