Play for Today (1970)★ 7.8/10
- Comedy
- Drama
- Horror
- Mystery
Directed by: Barry Davis, Alan Clarke, John Mackenzie, Philip Saville, Brian Parker
Written by: Rhys Adrian, Jim Allen, Jon Amiel, Beryl Bainbridge, Howard Barker
BBC anthology series featuring original plays, theatrical and literary adaptations. Over 300 episodes of varying lengths aired from 1970-1984, with some later developed into series, including Rumpole of the Bailey and Gangsters.
- Original title
- Play for Today
- Storyline
- This show was a British television anthology drama series. It was produced by the BBC, and it was transmitted on BBC1 between 1970 and 1984. During this period, more than three hundred different episodes, featuring original television plays, and adaptations of stage plays and novels, were broadcast. Each episode was between fifty minutes and one hour and forty minutes in duration. Some of these plays, for example, Rumpole of the Bailey, subsequently became a television series.
- Rating
- 7.8 / 10 · 501
- Companies
- British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)
- Release dates
- GB October 15, 1970