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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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Episode 1 - Country
Release Date: 1981-10-20The story of the disintegration of an aristocratic country estate after World War II
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Episode 2 - London Is Drowning
Release Date: 1981-10-27A docudrama about what would happen if London was hit by severe flooding
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Episode 3 - A Room for the Winter
Release Date: 1981-11-03James, an expatriate South African anti-apartheid fighter, deals with his nightmares and his complaining landlady in a run-down area of London, while dreaming of his lover Stephen, left behind.
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Episode 4 - No Visible Scar
Release Date: 1981-11-17A nurse is subjected to an interrogation after giving medical treatment to a terrorist leader.
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Episode 5 - Iris in the Traffic, Ruby in the Rain
Release Date: 1981-11-24In Belfast, Ruby has a cold and is caught in the rain while Iris is looking for work and gets caught in traffic
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Episode 6 - Protest
Release Date: 1981-12-01In an adaptation of Václav Havel's play, a dissident, newly released from prison for political reasons, attempts to get his well-connected friend to sign a protest. In this one man play, both the roles are played by Nigel Hawthorne.
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Episode 7 - United Kingdom
Release Date: 1981-12-08Two men on a local council fight the system when forced with massive spending cuts.
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Episode 8 - PQ17
Release Date: 1981-12-15During World War II, a British officer is ordered to abandon a Russian convoy.
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Episode 9 - The Factory
Release Date: 1981-12-22A manager, a foreman, and two workers are all that remains of a factory yet labor relations stay the same
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Episode 10 - England's Green and Pleasant Land
Release Date: 1982-01-05A planning decision must be made, and the motorway extension must go through on either the Golf Course or the Allotments - will the greens survive or the peasant lands?
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Episode 11 - A Cotswold Death
Release Date: 1982-01-12A police inspector investigates the murder of an Arab sheik who had become a village's Lord of the Manor.
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Episode 12 - Under the Skin
Release Date: 1982-01-19Three women involved in different ways in the women's movement.
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Episode 13 - Commitments
Release Date: 1982-01-26Politics and relationships during the last years of the Heath government
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Episode 14 - Life After Death
Release Date: 1982-02-02Meg: We were so close, we loved each other, we made a whole together. I feel cut in half.
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Episode 15 - The Silly Season
Release Date: 1982-02-09Malcolm goes through life hating the mundanity of his existence as a factory worker and an unloved husband. But when students take up summer jobs at the factory, it reawakens both his passion for political feeling and romantic urges.
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Episode 16 - Too Late to Talk to Billy
Release Date: 1982-02-16A family in Belfast deals with life after the death of the mother from cancer
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Episode 17 - Willie's Last Stand
Release Date: 1982-02-23Willie and his friends notice the passage of time around them, and how society is changing as their marriages stagnate. Can Willie prove to himself that he still has it, by being able to cheat on his wife just once?
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Episode 18 - Tishoo
Release Date: 1982-03-09Frank has dedicated 19 years to researching a cure for the common cold, and is almost ready to publish a paper. Yet budget cuts and his own inability to form real relationships with those around him threaten to derail the project.
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Episode 19 - Home Sweet Home
Release Date: 1982-03-16Home Sweet Home is a 1982 television film devised and directed by Mike Leigh, for BBC TV, 'about postmen, parenthood, social workers and sex.' It was Leigh's second collaboration with Play for Today producer Louis Marks, and cinematographer Remi Adefarasin, and with composer Carl Davis - the music score featured a quartet of basses -. It stars Timothy Spall, here working with Leigh for the first time, Eric Richard, Tim Barker, Kay Stonham, Su Elliot, Frances Barber, Sheila Kelley, and Lorraine Brunning. It was first broadcast on 16 March 1982. The film was shot on location in Hitchin, Hertfordshire. 90 minutes.
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Episode 20 - A Sudden Wrench
Release Date: 1982-03-23"My life is over - and I just didn't notice it passing." A call to a radio helpline leads to depressed housewife Christine finding a new direction in life.
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Episode 21 - Eve Set the Balls of Corruption Going
Release Date: 1982-03-30Adolescents will always be obsessed by the same old subject, even when they are educated by nuns. Six ex-Classmates meet for the first time in 12 years and hilarious memories change into highly emotional situations.
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Episode 22 - Whistling Wally
Release Date: 1982-04-06While Wally was happy there wasn't much wrong with the world, and pints seemed a small price to pay for what he gave us. But don't forget what we gave him. We gave him the knowledge he was important, at least to us.