Play for Today

Season 2 (18 Episodes)

1971 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 2 Episodes:

Episode 1 Traitor

1. Traitor

Aired: Oct 14, 1971

Dishillusioned by his rich, aristocratic upbringing in Britain, top foreign o...

Episode 3 Evelyn

3. Evelyn

Aired: Oct 28, 1971

Frank is worried that he's over the hill when he reaches his 38th birthday. C...

Episode 4 O Fat White Woman

4. O Fat White Woman

Aired: Nov 4, 1971

The wife of a headmaster discovers that he has been physically abusing his st...

Episode 5 Thank You Very Much

5. Thank You Very Much

Aired: Nov 11, 1971

A social satire in which advertisers realise that having a blind beggar as th...

Episode 6 Michael Regan

6. Michael Regan

Aired: Nov 18, 1971

Michael Regan, a working-class Irishman, is humiliated when he takes his girl...

Episode 7 Skin Deep

7. Skin Deep

Aired: Nov 25, 1971

An awkward relationship develops between the families of a trade unionist and...

Episode 8 Pal

8. Pal

Aired: Dec 2, 1971

Two sworn enemies, one black and the other white, are forced to confront thei...

Episode 9 The Pigeon Fancier

9. The Pigeon Fancier

Aired: Dec 9, 1971

A retired miner devotes his waking hours to his racing pigeons. This edition ...

Episode 10 Home

10. Home

Aired: Jan 6, 1972

In a mental home, two elderly men become unlikely friends.

Episode 11 Still Waters

11. Still Waters

Aired: Jan 13, 1972

A marriage can be lonely when the children have left home, as Nelson and Maud...

Episode 12 Stocker's Copper

12. Stocker's Copper

Aired: Jan 20, 1972

It's not easy being a striker with a strike-breaking policeman billeted in yo...

Episode 16 The Villa Maroc

16. The Villa Maroc

Aired: Feb 17, 1972

The parochial Lionel and Doris take their daughter on a holiday to Morocco, w...

Episode 17 Cows

17. Cows

Aired: Feb 24, 1972

A social worker tries to help a painfully shy young man and takes him for a v...


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Info about Play for Today

Current Status: Ended

Network: BBC One

Genres: Comedy, Drama