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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 - Leeds--United!
Release Date: 1974-10-31About a strike in a textile factory, based on a true story
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Episode 2 - Baby Love
Release Date: 1974-11-07After the stillbirth of her illegitimate baby, a woman steals a baby at random and is sentenced to 9 months in prison.
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Episode 3 - Back of Beyond
Release Date: 1974-11-14Olwen 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.'
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Episode 4 - The Bevellers
Release Date: 1974-11-21The first (and last) day at work of a young apprentice in a bevelling shop at a Glasgow glass factory
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Episode 5 - Taking Leave
Release Date: 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.
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Episode 6 - Fugitive
Release Date: 1974-12-05After 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.
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Episode 7 - Eleanor
Release Date: 1974-12-12Eleanor 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?
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Episode 8 - Gangsters
Release Date: 1975-01-09A story exploring the Birmingham underworld
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Episode 9 - The After Dinner Game
Release Date: 1975-01-16Vice-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.
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Episode 10 - Breath
Release Date: 1975-01-23A story about an asthma sufferer
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Episode 11 - The Death of a Young, Young Man
Release Date: 1975-01-30Three young students suspended from school face various problems.
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Episode 12 - Sunset Across the Bay
Release Date: 1975-02-20A elderly couple become disillusioned when they retire to their favorite holiday resort.
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Episode 13 - Funny Farm
Release Date: 1975-02-27One day in the life a nurse in a mental hospital
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Episode 14 - Goodbye
Release Date: 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.
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Episode 15 - Just Another Saturday
Release Date: 1975-03-13A 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.
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Episode 16 - A Child of Hope
Release Date: 1975-04-24Thirty-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.
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Episode 17 - The Saturday Party
Release Date: 1975-05-01When a stockbroker loses his job, he decides to throw a party.
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Episode 18 - Wednesday Love
Release Date: 1975-05-08Two women, looking for amusement on their afternoons off, visit a drinking club.
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Episode 19 - The Dandelion Clock
Release Date: 1975-05-15In Belfast, a girl awaits the return of her missing father.
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Episode 20 - Brassneck
Release Date: 1975-05-22England, 1945-75: Builder Alfred Bagley makes a fortune, with a little help from his friends.
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Episode 21 - The Floater
Release Date: 1975-05-29A 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.
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Episode 22 - By Common Consent
Release Date: 1975-06-05Political fantasy about a fascist regime