Play for Today

Season 5 (22 Episodes)

1974 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 5 Episodes:

Episode 1 Leeds United!

1. Leeds United!

Aired: Oct 31, 1974

The true story of a strike in 1970 by female textile-factory workers in Leeds...

Episode 2 Baby Love

2. Baby Love

Aired: Nov 7, 1974

After the stillbirth of her illegitimate baby, a woman steals a baby at rando...

Episode 3 Back of Beyond

3. Back of Beyond

Aired: Nov 14, 1974

Olwen lives in a tumbledown farm up in the mountains - a lonely widow, virtua...

Episode 4 The Bevellers

4. The Bevellers

Aired: Nov 21, 1974

"Ye spend yer days grindin glass an' at the finish yer life's like slurry at ...

Episode 5 Taking Leave

5. Taking Leave

Aired: Nov 28, 1974

"Well, I hope I won'be seeing you come home in that uniform much more. Six ye...

Episode 6 Fugitive

6. Fugitive

Aired: Dec 5, 1974

After 18 years as a friar, Peter is no longer sure of his vocation. It is a h...

Episode 7 Eleanor

7. Eleanor

Aired: Dec 12, 1974

Eleanor is unable to communicate her inner thoughts as she's bullied at schoo...

Episode 8 Gangsters

8. Gangsters

Aired: Jan 9, 1975

Birmingham is a melting pot of races and every community has a stake in the c...

Episode 9 The After Dinner Game

9. The After Dinner Game

Aired: Jan 16, 1975

Vice-Chancellor Bartley Humbolt has problems. His young university is almost ...

Episode 10 Breath

10. Breath

Aired: Jan 23, 1975

Nell tries hard to cope with her husband, family and friends - but her asthma...

Episode 13 Funny Farm

13. Funny Farm

Aired: Feb 27, 1975

The working day of nurse Alan Welbeck at a psychiatric ward. Points out the c...

Episode 14 Goodbye

14. Goodbye

Aired: Mar 6, 1975

"All I said was the gramophone's too loud." Tony and Zoe Lyle 's silly row st...

Episode 16 Child of Hope

16. Child of Hope

Aired: Apr 24, 1975

Thirty-seven men from the disputed territory of South West Africa are on tria...

Episode 17 The Saturday Party

17. The Saturday Party

Aired: May 1, 1975

The invitations are out for Richard and Jane Elkinson's annual Christmas part...

Episode 18 Wednesday Love

18. Wednesday Love

Aired: May 8, 1975

Two women, looking for amusement on their afternoons off, visit a drinking club.

Episode 19 The Dandelion Clock

19. The Dandelion Clock

Aired: May 15, 1975

Belfast: 'On the hike' from school, her day controlled by the unreal time of ...

Episode 20 Brassneck

20. Brassneck

Aired: May 22, 1975

England, 1945-75: Builder Alfred Bagley makes a fortune, with a little help f...

Episode 21 The Floater

21. The Floater

Aired: May 29, 1975

A comedy about the law - seen from the inside. All formality and procedure on...

Episode 22 By Common Consent

22. By Common Consent

Aired: Jun 5, 1975

Adapted from Paul Thompson's celebrated play for the National Youth Theatre, ...

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Current Status: Ended

Network: BBC One

Genres: Comedy, Drama