Play for Today

Season 10 (28 Episodes)

1979 NR 1h 15m 7.8

A British television anthology drama series that aired on BBC1 between 1970 and 1984.

This show was a British television anthology drama series. It was produced by the BBC, and it was transmitted on BBC1 between 1970 and 1984. During this period, more than three hundred different episodes, featuring original television plays, and adaptations of stage plays and novels, were broadcast. Each episode was between fifty minutes and one hour and forty minutes in duration. Some of these plays, for example, Rumpole of the Bailey, subsequently became a television series.

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Season 10 Episodes:

Episode 3 Comedians

3. Comedians

Aired: Oct 25, 1979

Six wannabe stand-up comedians attend an evening class run by Eddie Waters. E...

Episode 4 Even Solomon

4. Even Solomon

Aired: Nov 1, 1979

Everyone seems to have a theory about young Stephen's private life. So quiet ...

Episode 5 Just a Boys' Game

5. Just a Boys' Game

Aired: Nov 8, 1979

Jake lives in the shadow of his dying grandfather, who was once the town's to...

Episode 6 Billy

6. Billy

Aired: Nov 15, 1979

Four-year-old Billy lives with an abusive father in a terrible home situation...

Episode 7 A Hole in Babylon

7. A Hole in Babylon

Aired: Nov 29, 1979

A siege situation develops when an attempted robbery of a restaurant goes wrong.

Episode 8 The Slab Boys

8. The Slab Boys

Aired: Dec 6, 1979

Follows the antics of Slab Boys Phil, Spanky and Hector as they try to scrape...

Episode 10 The Network

10. The Network

Aired: Dec 20, 1979

What do Rose from Devon and Christina from Stuttgart have in common? And in w...

Episode 12 Keep Smiling

12. Keep Smiling

Aired: Jan 10, 1980

Family picnics should not be like this: bugging devices, men with X-ray eyes....

Episode 14 Thicker Than Water

14. Thicker Than Water

Aired: Jan 24, 1980

Various characters have adventures on the way to a black pudding festival in ...

Episode 15 Murder Rap

15. Murder Rap

Aired: Jan 31, 1980

An Englishman's home is his castle, and Wally aims to prove it.

Episode 17 No Defence

17. No Defence

Aired: Feb 14, 1980

Mr. Germanou arrives from Cyprus with his family to settle in England. But on...

Episode 18 'That crazy woman'

18. 'That crazy woman'

Aired: Feb 21, 1980

Twenty years ago, at the age of 56, this extraordinary woman became a nationa...

Episode 19 A Gift from Nessus

19. A Gift from Nessus

Aired: Feb 28, 1980

"You've been a good man with us, Eddie. Made a lot of contacts. But two thing...

Episode 21 Buses

21. Buses

Aired: Mar 13, 1980

In Yorkshire during the 20s, it seems that everyone who holds a driver's lice...

Episode 22 Shadows on Our Skin

22. Shadows on Our Skin

Aired: Mar 20, 1980

Joe is an 11-year-old boy growing up on the Bogside of Derry, Northern Irelan...

Episode 23 Ladies

23. Ladies

Aired: Mar 27, 1980

The A Shift at the MHS department store are organising a wedding gift present...

Episode 24 The Vanishing Army

24. The Vanishing Army

Aired: Apr 3, 1980

"Why don't you keep that missus o' yours under control? She ain't exactly doi...

Episode 26 The Executioner

26. The Executioner

Aired: Apr 17, 1980

Jan and Meg Citron are on holiday in Germany. Their car is stopped by the pol...

Episode 27 The Imitation Game

27. The Imitation Game

Aired: Apr 24, 1980

A young woman involved in secret work during World War II finds herself in di...

Episode 28 A Walk in the Forest

28. A Walk in the Forest

Aired: May 14, 1980

A group of people come together to help Soviet dissidents - "to act as horsef...


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Current Status: Ended

Network: BBC One

Genres: Comedy, Drama