Play for Today

Season 3 (28 Episodes)

1972 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 3 Episodes:

Episode 1 The Reporters

1. The Reporters

Aired: Oct 9, 1972

Two provincial newspaper reporters - one a young idealist starting out on his...

Episode 2 A Life Is Forever

2. A Life Is Forever

Aired: Oct 16, 1972

Johnson begins his life sentence for the murder of a policeman. It is not lon...

Episode 4 Man Friday

4. Man Friday

Aired: Oct 30, 1972

The familiar story of Robinson Crusoe - this time told from the viewpoint of ...

Episode 5 Triple Exposure

5. Triple Exposure

Aired: Nov 6, 1972

A hippie breaks into the house of a middle-aged couple and forms a relationsh...

Episode 8 The Bankrupt

8. The Bankrupt

Aired: Nov 27, 1972

Ellis is 50, bankrupt and showing signs of psychosis. He fantasises about kil...

Episode 9 Just Your Luck

9. Just Your Luck

Aired: Dec 4, 1972

A pregnant teenager sets about wooing a sailor in a sectarian council estate ...

Episode 10 The Bouncing Boy

10. The Bouncing Boy

Aired: Dec 11, 1972

A young couple have a baby boy. However, the new father doesn't take to his n...

Episode 12 Land of Green Ginger

12. Land of Green Ginger

Aired: Jan 15, 1973

Faced with the prospect of being sent to work abroad, Sally Brown returns hom...

Episode 13 Kisses at Fifty

13. Kisses at Fifty

Aired: Jan 22, 1973

A fifty-year-old factory worker leaves his wife of many years for another woman.

Episode 14 Highway Robbery

14. Highway Robbery

Aired: Jan 29, 1973

A man fights council plans to demolish his home to make way for a new bypass....

Episode 15 Song at Twilight

15. Song at Twilight

Aired: Feb 5, 1973

The story of a defiant football manager in terminal decline. This edition is ...

Episode 16 Only Make Believe

16. Only Make Believe

Aired: Feb 12, 1973

Playwright Christopher Hudson finds his medical problem hinders his writing. ...

Episode 18 The Operation

18. The Operation

Aired: Feb 26, 1973

David Adler is an operator. He strips assets, other men's wives, and his olde...

Episode 20 Hard Labour

20. Hard Labour

Aired: Mar 12, 1973

A quiet and put-upon house cleaner breaks her silence.

Episode 21 Man Above Men

21. Man Above Men

Aired: Mar 19, 1973

"I'm the judge's daughter - I think he's a monstrous old man. I think all men...

Episode 22 Speech Day

22. Speech Day

Aired: Mar 26, 1973

Three underachievers have fun at a school speech day.

Episode 23 Steps Back

23. Steps Back

Aired: May 14, 1973

"Fifteen years since I was forced t' leave, forced t' leave me roots, the ter...

Episode 24 Three's One

24. Three's One

Aired: Jun 4, 1973

Are Maggie and Tony using each other as a means of communicating with Dr Leaf...

Episode 26 Blooming Youth

26. Blooming Youth

Aired: Jun 18, 1973

Four students go through their third year studying literature at a polytechni...

Episode 27 The Stretch

27. The Stretch

Aired: Jun 25, 1973

Everyone always looked after Maureen. But her husband comes home after two ye...

Episode 28 Making the Play

28. Making the Play

Aired: Jul 2, 1973

They no longer live together because, after 11 years, the marriage is over. S...


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Info about Play for Today

Current Status: Ended

Network: BBC One

Genres: Comedy, Drama