Play for Today

1970 | 14 seasons | 309 episodes | 5.9 ★ (7)

Play for Today
  • 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.

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  • First Air Date

    15 October 1970

  • Last Air Date

    28 August 1984

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