Play for Today

Season 12 (22 Episodes)

1981 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 12 Episodes:

Episode 1 Country

1. Country

Aired: Oct 20, 1981

In 1945, the Carlions assemble at an English country house for a family gathe...

Episode 2 London Is Drowning

2. London Is Drowning

Aired: Oct 27, 1981

A docudrama about what would happen if London was hit by severe flooding.

Episode 3 A Room for the Winter

3. A Room for the Winter

Aired: Nov 3, 1981

A former South African anti-apartheid campaigner deals with life as an expatr...

Episode 4 No Visible Scar

4. No Visible Scar

Aired: Nov 17, 1981

A nurse is subjected to an interrogation after giving medical treatment to a ...

Episode 6 Protest

6. Protest

Aired: Dec 1, 1981

In an adaptation of Václav Havel's play, a dissident, newly released from pri...

Episode 8 P.Q. 17

8. P.Q. 17

Aired: Dec 15, 1981

Richard Briers plays Commander Jack Broome in a real-life story based on Broo...

Episode 9 The Factory

9. The Factory

Aired: Dec 22, 1981

"What's a lockout, my son? A lock-out is engraved in the history of the class...

Episode 11 A Cotswold Death

11. A Cotswold Death

Aired: Jan 12, 1982

Inspector Arrowsmith investigates the murder of a rich Arab Sheik at a countr...

Episode 12 Under the Skin

12. Under the Skin

Aired: Jan 19, 1982

Three women involved in different ways in the women's movement.

Episode 13 Commitments

13. Commitments

Aired: Jan 26, 1982

Three-day weeks, strikes and the lights going out - the winter of 1973-4 fina...

Episode 14 Life After Death

14. Life After Death

Aired: Feb 2, 1982

Meg: We were so close, we loved each other, we made a whole together. I feel ...

Episode 15 The Silly Season

15. The Silly Season

Aired: Feb 9, 1982

Malcolm goes through life hating the mundanity of his existence as a factory ...

Episode 17 Willie's Last Stand

17. Willie's Last Stand

Aired: Feb 23, 1982

Willie and his friends notice the passage of time around them, and how societ...

Episode 18

18. "Tishoo"

Aired: Mar 9, 1982

Frank has dedicated 19 years to researching a cure for the common cold, and i...

Episode 19 Home Sweet Home

19. Home Sweet Home

Aired: Mar 16, 1982

Three postal workers and their dysfunctional families interact over cups of t...

Episode 20 A Sudden Wrench

20. A Sudden Wrench

Aired: Mar 23, 1982

"My life is over - and I just didn't notice it passing." A call to a radio he...

Episode 22 Whistling Wally

22. Whistling Wally

Aired: Apr 6, 1982

While Wally was happy there wasn't much wrong with the world, and pints seeme...


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Current Status: Ended

Network: BBC One

Genres: Comedy, Drama