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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 - Stan's Last Game
Release Date: 1983-10-25James Grout and Bert Parnaby are rival chairmen of a northern football club in the run-up to an important cup match. As tempers fray, retiring president Charles Lamb provides a calming voice of sanity.
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Episode 2 - Young Shoulders
Release Date: 1984-02-14Cynical teenager Andrew Groves re-evaluates his attitude to life and his parents after his sister dies in a plane crash.
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Episode 3 - A Coming to Terms for Billy
Release Date: 1984-02-21When his father comes home to Belfast after more than 2 years in England, conflicts arise with Billy
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Episode 4 - Z for Zachariah
Release Date: 1984-02-28After a nuclear holocaust, only a man and a woman survive in a Welsh valley.
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Episode 5 - Moving on the Edge
Release Date: 1984-03-06A woman in a state of personal crisis finds it hard to communicate with her husband and family.
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Episode 6 - Desert of Lies
Release Date: 1984-03-13An expedition tracing the path of long-lost missionaries meets with tragedy in the Kalahari Desert.
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Episode 7 - Hard Feelings
Release Date: 1984-03-20A group of unemployed Oxford drop-outs living in a Brixton commune get their come-uppance by one of them.
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Episode 8 - Under the Hammer
Release Date: 1984-03-27Concerning the life of the artist Vincent Van Gogh
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Episode 9 - King
Release Date: 1984-04-03A man who has had a good life in England wants to retire to Jamaica, but the celebration with his daughters doesn't go as expected.
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Episode 10 - Rainy Day Women
Release Date: 1984-04-10In 1940, during World War II, an officer is sent to investigate rumors of German spies in a sleepy village where various people are the victims of war hysteria
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Episode 11 - Dog Ends
Release Date: 1984-07-17In a future society where euthansia is common, a man signs papers to have his father put down
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Episode 12 - The Groundling and the Kite
Release Date: 1984-07-24Peter is a songwriter, while his old friend Jimmy is an A and R (Artists and Repertoire) man. But when Jimmy tries to sell one of Peter's songs, Peter is furious. Can the friendship survive?
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Episode 13 - The Cry
Release Date: 1984-07-31In 1959 Ulster, a journalist witnesses the beating of a youth
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Episode 14 - It Could Happen to Anybody
Release Date: 1984-08-14A long-suffering Glasgow housewife puts up with years of her husband's violence and drunkenness - and then something happens which makes her snap and fight back.
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Episode 15 - Only Children
Release Date: 1984-08-21A young woman's comfortable life is turned upside down when she has a baby.
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Episode 16 - The Amazing Miss Stella Estelle
Release Date: 1984-08-28Miss Stella Estelle is a cabaret singer in working men's clubs, and she sings songs from the 1960s to support a large and difficult family. But how long can it go on? The backdrop is a family in decay: husband out of work, wife working and still doing the domestics, daughter the singer and hopeful star, son her "manager" but in reality going nowhere. Stella plays a crummy club circuit, singing songs for oldies for £50 a night - She's never going to be a star because of her parents' short-sighted greed.