Play for Today

Season 13 (17 Episodes)

1982 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 13 Episodes:

Episode 1 Soft Targets

1. Soft Targets

Aired: Oct 19, 1982

A Russian in London finds himself targeted by British Intelligence.

Episode 2 3 Minute Heroes

2. 3 Minute Heroes

Aired: Oct 26, 1982

Out on the streets, young people looking for fun. They come together at night...

Episode 3 The Remainder Man

3. The Remainder Man

Aired: Nov 2, 1982

Jack's obsession with the possibility of nuclear war sees him usher his famil...

Episode 4 Intensive Care

4. Intensive Care

Aired: Nov 9, 1982

When Denis Midgley's father is rushed to hospital, Midgley drops everything t...

Episode 5 A Mother Like Him

5. A Mother Like Him

Aired: Nov 16, 1982

A family of five orphaned children are going to be split up into different ho...

Episode 6 John David

6. John David

Aired: Nov 23, 1982

After giving birth to a Down's Syndrome baby, Judith decides she doesn't want...

Episode 7 Aliens

7. Aliens

Aired: Nov 30, 1982

In June 1940 Italy entered the war. With Britain threatened by a German invas...

Episode 9 Last Love

9. Last Love

Aired: Mar 1, 1983

Annabel, an upper-middle-class widow, falls in love with Jack, a self-made ma...

Episode 10 Gates of Gold

10. Gates of Gold

Aired: Mar 8, 1983

In 1959, ten years before the present Troubles began, two glamorous travellin...

Episode 11 Wayne and Albert

11. Wayne and Albert

Aired: Mar 15, 1983

Wayne goes to live with his grandfather Albert. Initial generation gap hostil...

Episode 12 Atlantis

12. Atlantis

Aired: Mar 22, 1983

Goff and Lytton have a dream - a canal boat of their own on which to cruise t...

Episode 13 The Last Term

13. The Last Term

Aired: Apr 5, 1983

Devon 1940. The boys of the local public school are alerted after a German pa...

Episode 14 Reluctant Chickens

14. Reluctant Chickens

Aired: Apr 12, 1983

Malcolm is a GP wrestling with ideas of retirement, while his wife Jo is a fr...

Episode 15 Shall I Be Mother?

15. Shall I Be Mother?

Aired: Apr 19, 1983

Susan and Jenny are aged 13 and 14 and in care. Jenny's mother has died, Susa...

Episode 16 The Falklands Factor

16. The Falklands Factor

Aired: Apr 26, 1983

A controversial war breaks out in the far-off Falkland Islands. Dr. Samuel Jo...


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Current Status: Ended

Network: BBC One

Genres: Comedy, Drama