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.
Showing Season 5 of 15
Season 5
1974
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01. Leeds--United!
1974-10-31
About a strike in a textile factory, based on a true story
02. Baby Love
1974-11-07
After the stillbirth of her illegitimate baby, a woman steals a baby at random and is sentenced to 9 months in prison.
03. Back of Beyond
1974-11-14
Olwen lives in a tumbledown farm up in the mountains - a lonely widow, virtually a recluse. Her only human contact is with the occasional shopkeeper and young Rachel, who delivers her papers. For Rachel, her visits to Olwen are half adventure, half honest friendship. But they also mean a time to 'put aside childish things.'
04. The Bevellers
1974-11-21
The first (and last) day at work of a young apprentice in a bevelling shop at a Glasgow glass factory
05. Taking Leave
1974-11-28
"Well, I hope I won'be seeing you come home in that uniform much more. Six years - that's long enough out of any man's life." Mike's time is nearly up. The army gives him a weekend pass so he's home from Ulster to decide whether to sign on again. His parents want him to stay but he's wondering whether the family's own flare-ups aren't a bit too like the Troubles he has left behind.
06. Fugitive
1974-12-05
After 18 years as a friar, Peter is no longer sure of his vocation. It is a happy life, maybe too much so, and now he has met Clare. Will his doubts run away with him? Runaway friars are officially "fugitives" who must be persuaded back to their order.
07. Eleanor
1974-12-12
Eleanor is unable to communicate her inner thoughts as she's bullied at school and virtually ignored by her parents. With a mundane working existence awaiting her, she desires a chance at another life - but at what cost?
08. Gangsters
1975-01-09
A story exploring the Birmingham underworld
09. The After Dinner Game
1975-01-16
Vice-Chancellor Bartley Humbolt has problems. His young university is almost bankrupt, his wife is threatening to leave him, his protége professor from industry is threatening to overshadow him, and his prestigious professor of history is threatening to resign. But Bartley is a born manipulator. And when he gives a dinner party, he has something very special in mind - for afters.
10. Breath
1975-01-23
A story about an asthma sufferer
11. The Death of a Young, Young Man
1975-01-30
Three young students suspended from school face various problems.
12. Sunset Across the Bay
1975-02-20
A elderly couple become disillusioned when they retire to their favorite holiday resort.
13. Funny Farm
1975-02-27
One day in the life a nurse in a mental hospital
14. Goodbye
1975-03-06
"All I said was the gramophone's too loud." Tony and Zoe Lyle 's silly row starts like any other, but Tony finds that Zoe means it this time. She's walking out and he's got a week to save a marriage that he hasn't looked at in 18 years, and with it all the trappings of a good life in Maida Vale.
15. Just Another Saturday
1975-03-13
A young man participating in the Orange Parade in Glasgow becomes disillusioned with the pageant when he discovers its unpleasant and violent history and witnesses the participants' attacks on Catholics.
16. A Child of Hope
1975-04-24
Thirty-seven men from the disputed territory of South West Africa are on trial for their lives in Pretoria, 1,000 miles from their home. They are to be tried under South Africa's Terrorism Act despite the UN ruling that South Africa must abandon its "illegal administration" of their country.
17. The Saturday Party
1975-05-01
When a stockbroker loses his job, he decides to throw a party.
18. Wednesday Love
1975-05-08
Two women, looking for amusement on their afternoons off, visit a drinking club.
19. The Dandelion Clock
1975-05-15
In Belfast, a girl awaits the return of her missing father.
20. Brassneck
1975-05-22
England, 1945-75: Builder Alfred Bagley makes a fortune, with a little help from his friends.
21. The Floater
1975-05-29
A comedy about the law - seen from the inside. All formality and procedure on the surface but not quite so convincing when you see the works.
22. By Common Consent
1975-06-05
Political fantasy about a fascist regime