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Play for Today

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Yr 1970
Rt 75m
Status Ended
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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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Credited 75
Regulars 23
Longest run 8 eps
Show 67 more
James Hazeldine as Patrick 3 episodes Kenneth Branagh 3 episodes Peter Firth as Dominick Hide 3 episodes John Challis as Victor Mintell 3 episodes Patsy Smart as The Cleaner 3 episodes Gwyneth Strong 4 episodes Paul Copley 3 episodes Graham Ashley as Arthur 4 episodes Doreen Mantle as Mary Hunter 3 episodes Michael Gambon as Piers 3 episodes Geoffrey Palmer as Detetective Chief Inspector Harris 3 episodes Frank Finlay 3 episodes Barbara Young as Typing Pool Supervisor 3 episodes Michael Byrne as Russell 3 episodes Joss Ackland as Malcolmson 3 episodes Ian Hogg as Arne 3 episodes Gerard Ryder as Hotel Manager 3 episodes George Pravda as Nikolay Tashkov 3 episodes Fulton Mackay as Dr. Leafer 3 episodes Bob Hoskins as Taxi Driver 3 episodes Stephen Moore as Farley-Smythe 3 episodes Liz Smith as Mrs. Mathews 7 episodes Warren Clarke as Alfred 3 episodes Richard Pasco as Maurice Stapleton 3 episodes Michael Graham Cox as David Pond 3 episodes Malcolm Terris as Client 5 episodes John Bird as Desmond Hughes 4 episodes Bernard Hill as Simon Simpson 7 episodes Colin Farrell as Daniel 3 episodes Patrick Troughton as Victor Marsden 4 episodes Simon Rouse as Blakeney 3 episodes Margery Mason as Maud 3 episodes Alison Steadman as Kay Pasmore 5 episodes Nigel Hawthorne as Graham 8 episodes Saeed Jaffrey as Merchant 3 episodes Pauline Quirke as Eleanor 3 episodes June Brown as Clara, in Psychiatric Hospital 5 episodes Caroline Langrishe as Jane Winters 3 episodes Jeremy Kemp as Reader, Kuznetsov's 'Prison Diaries' (voice) 3 episodes Colin Jeavons as Lytton 5 episodes Phil Davis as 2nd Youth (as Philip Davis) 4 episodes Thora Hird as Aunt KItty 3 episodes Tony Caunter as Alderman 5 episodes Edward Hardwicke as Brinson 3 episodes Albert Moses as Huq 4 episodes George A. Cooper as Ashcroft 3 episodes Rosalind Ayres as Maureen 4 episodes Trevor Peacock as Sgt-Major Pusey 4 episodes Colin Douglas as Father 5 episodes Roger Hammond as Fowler 3 episodes Dave Hill as Maurice 4 episodes Richard O'Callaghan as Tortoiseshell 3 episodes Frank Mills as Ashford 3 episodes Zena Walker as Lavinia 3 episodes Elizabeth Spriggs as Olive James 4 episodes Barbara Flynn as Margaret Hanson 3 episodes Constance Chapman as Marie Goodliffe 3 episodes Freda Bamford as Mrs. Vigo 3 episodes Donald Douglas as James Macleod 3 episodes Jonathan Duttine as Keith Nicholson 3 episodes Alan Ford as Mr. Chancer 3 episodes Frances Tomelty as Nun 5 episodes Julian Holloway as John 3 episodes Stanley Lebor as Major-Domo 4 episodes James Greene as John 4 episodes Tariq Yunus as Raji 3 episodes Julian Curry as Hooper 5 episodes
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anthology based on play or musical
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First Aired
October 15, 1970
Status
Ended
Episode Runtime
75 minutes
Origin
GB
TMDB Votes
10