List of episodes of the series «Play for Today»

  • Seasons count: 14
  • Episodes count: 309
  • Total viewing time: 16 d. 2 h. 5 m.
The Long Distance Piano Player
Release date: 10/15/1970

The Long Distance Piano Player

  • Episode number: 1
  • Episode duration: 75 min.
  • Episode description:
    A man tries to break the world's record for nonstop piano playing
The Right Prospectus
Release date: 10/22/1970

The Right Prospectus

  • Episode number: 2
  • Episode duration: 75 min.
  • Episode description:
    A couple look for the proper school, not for their children but for themselves.
The Lie
Release date: 10/29/1970

The Lie

  • Episode number: 3
  • Episode duration: 75 min.
  • Episode description:
    ""The Lie"" refers to the 8-year marriage of a couple who are constantly hurting each other.
Angels Are So Few
Release date: 11/5/1970

Angels Are So Few

  • Episode number: 4
  • Episode duration: 75 min.
  • Episode description:
    A man claiming to be an angel enters the household of a bored housewife and teaches the family a few lessons.
The Write-Off
Release date: 11/12/1970

The Write-Off

  • Episode number: 5
  • Episode duration: 75 min.
  • Episode description:
    A man is made redundant but can't bring himself to let anyone know, plunging into a web of deceit as he keeps up the charade he is still in work.
I Can't See My Little Willie
Release date: 11/19/1970

I Can't See My Little Willie

  • Episode number: 6
  • Episode duration: 75 min.
  • Episode description:
    A man has a mid-life crisis in his brother's pub where sees life as a game show
A Distant Thunder
Release date: 11/26/1970

A Distant Thunder

  • Episode number: 7
  • Episode duration: 75 min.
  • Episode description:
    A newly-appointed knight finds his celebrations cut short by someone who was witness to his treachery during the war.
Hearts and Flowers
Release date: 12/3/1970

Hearts and Flowers

  • Episode number: 8
  • Episode duration: 75 min.
  • Episode description:
    A TV host and his architect brother attend their father's funeral
Robin Redbreast
Release date: 12/10/1970

Robin Redbreast

  • Episode number: 9
  • Episode duration: 75 min.
  • Episode description:
    A woman living in a country cottage thinks that someone is trying to get her.
The Hallelujah Handshake
Release date: 12/17/1970

The Hallelujah Handshake

  • Episode number: 10
  • Episode duration: 75 min.
  • Episode description:
    A petty thief and social misfit finagles his way into a church congregation
Alma Mater
Release date: 1/7/1971

Alma Mater

  • Episode number: 11
  • Episode duration: 75 min.
  • Episode description:
    A civil servant working abroad revisits his old school
Circle Line
Release date: 1/14/1971

Circle Line

  • Episode number: 12
  • Episode duration: 75 min.
  • Episode description:
    A cynical student has a radically different view of life from his landlady, leading to conflict. Matters come to a head when he sleeps with her fourteen-year-old brother.
Hell's Angel
Release date: 1/21/1971

Hell's Angel

  • Episode number: 13
  • Episode duration: 75 min.
  • Episode description:
    A couple are distressed by the changes in their adopted teenage son when he joins a biker gang.
The Piano
Release date: 1/28/1971

The Piano

  • Episode number: 14
  • Episode duration: 75 min.
  • Episode description:
    An old couple refuse to move when they find out that they can't take their piano with them
Billy's Last Stand
Release date: 2/4/1971

Billy's Last Stand

  • Episode number: 15
  • Episode duration: 75 min.
  • Episode description:
    Billy, a self-employed coal-shoveller, gains a seedy business partner and competition in the form of a rival coal-shoveller.
The Rainbirds
Release date: 2/11/1971

The Rainbirds

  • Episode number: 16
  • Episode duration: 75 min.
  • Episode description:
    A man who attempted suicide by jumping out a window is saved only to live in a coma, in which he has fantasies about his relatives and nightmare creatures.
Reddick
Release date: 2/18/1971

Reddick

  • Episode number: 17
  • Episode duration: 75 min.
  • Episode description:
    Charges that the Rev 'Red' Reddick is exploiting his youth club members leads to an explosive confrontation.
The Foxtrot
Release date: 4/29/1971

The Foxtrot

  • Episode number: 18
  • Episode duration: 75 min.
  • Episode description:
    An odd menage a trois results when a woman and her lover are visited by her long-lost husband
When the Bough Breaks
Release date: 5/6/1971

When the Bough Breaks

  • Episode number: 19
  • Episode duration: 75 min.
  • Episode description:
    When an injured baby arrives at the hospital, a social worker looks for the parents
Orkney
Release date: 5/13/1971

Orkney

  • Episode number: 20
  • Episode duration: 75 min.
  • Episode description:
    A trilogy of plays--A Time to Keep, The Whaler's Return, and Celia--exploring the life of the islanders in the past and present
The Rank and File
Release date: 5/20/1971

The Rank and File

  • Episode number: 21
  • Episode duration: 75 min.
  • Episode description:
    The story of the Pilkington glass workers strike of 1970
The Man in the Sidecar
Release date: 5/27/1971

The Man in the Sidecar

  • Episode number: 22
  • Episode duration: 75 min.
  • Episode description:
    A succesful novelist Edith lives with her husband and his friend, but she decides to ask the friend to leave.
Everybody Say Cheese
Release date: 6/3/1971

Everybody Say Cheese

  • Episode number: 23
  • Episode duration: 75 min.
  • Episode description:
    The story of a disintegrating marriage told through family photos
The Cellar and the Almond Tree
Release date: 6/10/1971

The Cellar and the Almond Tree

  • Episode number: 24