Play for Today
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Play for Today

6.6
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
Kenneth Branagh 3 episodes Patsy Smart as The Cleaner 3 episodes Peter Firth as Dominick Hide 3 episodes Paul Copley 3 episodes Graham Ashley as Arthur 4 episodes Doreen Mantle as Mother 3 episodes Michael Gambon as Max 3 episodes Geoffrey Palmer 3 episodes Frank Finlay as Dearth 3 episodes Barbara Young as Maggie 3 episodes Michael Byrne as Russell 3 episodes Joss Ackland as Ellis Cripper 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 Thomas - Celia 3 episodes Pauline Quirke as Eleanor 3 episodes Stephen Moore as Simon Hulse 3 episodes Liz Smith as Mrs. Mathews 7 episodes Alison Steadman as Susan 5 episodes Warren Clarke as Narrator 3 episodes Michael Graham Cox as Willie de Salis 3 episodes Richard Pasco as Dean 3 episodes Malcolm Terris as Jim 5 episodes John Bird as Desmond Hughes 4 episodes Bernard Hill as Mick 7 episodes Colin Farrell as Ralph 3 episodes Patrick Troughton as Malcolm 4 episodes Simon Rouse as Blakeney 3 episodes Margery Mason as Celia's Mother 3 episodes Nigel Hawthorne as Fulton 8 episodes June Brown as Melanie 5 episodes Jeremy Kemp as Roderick Bagley 3 episodes Bob Hoskins as Taxi Driver 3 episodes Caroline Langrishe as Jill 3 episodes Trevor Peacock as Sheldon 4 episodes Phil Davis as Mr. Destry 4 episodes Colin Douglas as Jackson Arnott 5 episodes Thora Hird as Aunt KItty 3 episodes Edward Hardwicke as Brinson 3 episodes Tony Caunter as Thomas Dwyer 5 episodes Albert Moses as Huq 4 episodes Colin Jeavons as Neeley 5 episodes George A. Cooper as Lionel 3 episodes Saeed Jaffrey as Merchant 3 episodes Roger Hammond as Victor, Helper at 'Jesus Saves' 3 episodes Dave Hill as Gerry Broadbent 4 episodes Richard O'Callaghan as Tortoiseshell 3 episodes Rosalind Ayres as Annabel 4 episodes Frank Mills as Mr. James 3 episodes Zena Walker as Lavinia 3 episodes Elizabeth Spriggs as Sonia Marsden 4 episodes Barbara Flynn as Monica Potter 3 episodes Constance Chapman as Marion 3 episodes Freda Bamford as Vera Lambert 3 episodes Gwyneth Strong as Penny Shepherd 4 episodes John Duttine as Stone 3 episodes Frances Tomelty as Polly 5 episodes Donald Douglas as Ronald - Celia 3 episodes John Challis as Victor Mintell 3 episodes James Greene as John 4 episodes Julian Holloway as Dennis Saunders 3 episodes Stanley Lebor as Major-Domo 4 episodes Alan Ford 3 episodes Tariq Yunus as Raji 3 episodes Julian Curry as Hooper 5 episodes Bill Paterson as Luke 3 episodes
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Keywords

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