Play for Today
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.
Season 1
Season 2
Season 3
Season 4
Season 5
Season 6
Season 7
Season 8
Season 9
Season 10
Season 11
Season 12
Season 13
Season 14
Cast (722)
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Directors
Alan Clarke
Director
Ages 34-49
John Mackenzie
Director
Ages 38-52
Claude Whatham
Director
Ages 42-57
Philip Saville
Director
Ages 39-54
Mike Leigh
Director
Ages 27-41
Michael Lindsay-Hogg
Director
Ages 30-44
Moira Armstrong
Director
Mike Newell
Director
Ages 28-42
Michael Simpson
Director
Michael Apted
Director
Ages 29-43
James Ferman
Director
Ages 40-54
John Gorrie
Director
Jack Gold
Director
Ages 40-54
Piers Haggard
Director
Ages 31-45
Stephen Frears
Director
Ages 29-43
Les Blair
Director
Ages 28-43
Ken Loach
Director
Ages 34-48
Paul Seed
Director
Ages 23-37
Robert Knights
Director
Ages 28-42
Alan Bridges
Director
Ages 43-57
Gavin Millar
Director
Ages 32-47
Herbert Wise
Director
Ages 46-60
Michael Tuchner
Director
Ages 36-51
Gerald Blake
Director
Ages 41-56
Ted Kotcheff
Director
Ages 39-53
David Hare
Director
Ages 23-37
Richard Wilson
Director
Ages 34-48
Barry Davis
Director
Ages 34-48
Christopher Morahan
Director
Ages 41-55
Richard Loncraine
Director
Ages 23-38
David Maloney
Director
Ages 36-51
Alan Cooke
Director
Ages 44-58
Alan Gibson
Director
Ages 32-46
John McGrath
Director
Ages 35-49
James Cellan Jones
Director
Ages 39-53
Stuart Burge
Director
Ages 52-67
Roy Battersby
Director
Ages 34-48
Peter Cregeen
Director
Ages 30-45
Gareth Davies
Director
Mark Cullingham
Director
Ages 29-43
Jon Amiel
Director
Ages 22-36
Kenneth Ives
Director
Ages 36-50
John Glenister
Director
Ages 38-52
Frank Cox
Director
Waris Hussein
Director
Ages 31-46
Anthony Page
Director
Ages 35-49
Lindsay Anderson
Director
Ages 47-61
Bill Bain
Director
Ages 40-55
Diarmuid Lawrence
Director
Ages 23-37
Charles Sturridge
Director
Ages 19-33
Desmond Davis
Director
Michael Darlow
Director
Ages 36-50
Carol Wiseman
Director
Colin Bucksey
Director
Ages 24-39
Writers
Colin Welland
Writer
Ages 36-50
Dennis Potter
Writer
Ages 35-49
Mike Leigh
Writer
Ages 27-41
Jeremy Paul
Writer
Ages 31-45
Jack Rosenthal
Writer
Ages 39-53
Andrew Davies
Writer
Ages 34-48
Alan Bennett
Writer
Ages 36-50
Brian Clark
Writer
Ages 38-52
Alan Bleasdale
Writer
Ages 24-38
Howard Brenton
Writer
Ages 27-42
John Elliot
Writer
Ages 52-66
Stephen Poliakoff
Writer
Ages 17-32
Leon Griffiths
Writer
Ages 42-56
Arthur Hopcraft
Writer
Ages 37-52
David Rudkin
Writer
Ages 34-48
Philip Martin
Writer
Ages 32-46
Robert Holles
Writer
Clive Exton
Writer
Ages 40-54
David Mercer
Writer
Ages 42-56
Trevor Griffiths
Writer
Ages 35-49
John Hopkins
Writer
Ages 39-54
Richard Harris
Writer
Ages 36-51
David Halliwell
Writer
Ages 34-48
Hugh Whitemore
Writer
Ages 34-48
Watson Gould
Writer
Alan Sharp
Writer
Ages 36-51
Jeremy Sandford
Writer
Stephen Davis
Writer
Ages 20-34
Alun Owen
Writer
Ages 44-59
Ingmar Bergman
Writer
Ages 52-66
John Mortimer
Writer
Ages 47-61
Composers
Cinematographers
Editors
Original Language
en
Spoken Languages
English