Play for Today

Season 6 (25 Episodes)

1975 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 6 Episodes:

Episode 2 Two Sundays

2. Two Sundays

Aired: Oct 21, 1975

Two boys at school in the 1950s. Two professional men in their dubious prime ...

Episode 3 Moss

3. Moss

Aired: Oct 28, 1975

Moss is a miser whose only love is his grandson. Then tragedy strikes, and Mo...

Episode 5 Keep an Eye on Albert

5. Keep an Eye on Albert

Aired: Nov 11, 1975

Terry has begun to neglect his wife for a life of drinking, weight lifting, p...

Episode 6 Children of the Sun

6. Children of the Sun

Aired: Nov 18, 1975

"You expect to face a bit of danger when you travel. Half the fun of it. But ...

Episode 7 After the Solo

7. After the Solo

Aired: Nov 25, 1975

"The voice will make its effect. And it will, undoubtedly, be very touching. ...

Episode 8 Through the Night

8. Through the Night

Aired: Dec 2, 1975

Christine Potts, in hospital for a routine operation, comes to face the most ...

Episode 9 A Passage to England

9. A Passage to England

Aired: Dec 9, 1975

Anand, his pretty cousin and their sick uncle. Stranded in Amsterdam. To them...

Episode 11 The Other Woman

11. The Other Woman

Aired: Jan 6, 1976

A feisty lesbian moves in with a beautiful younger gay woman. But one of the ...

Episode 12 'Nuts in May'

12. 'Nuts in May'

Aired: Jan 13, 1976

A middle-class couple go camping in Dorset, but peace and quiet elude them.

Episode 13 Doran's Box

13. Doran's Box

Aired: Jan 20, 1976

A long-distance lorry driver; a spaceman; a volunteer under reduced environme...

Episode 14 Packman's Barn

14. Packman's Barn

Aired: Jan 27, 1976

John Barrett returns to his remote hill farm after 20 years to deal with some...

Episode 17 Jumping Bean Bag

17. Jumping Bean Bag

Aired: Feb 17, 1976

An end-of-term play with a difference as Ozzie and the boys break into a hard...

Episode 20 Willie Rough

20. Willie Rough

Aired: Mar 9, 1976

"Ah walked 15 miles tae Greenock tae get a job and ah'm no' going hame withou...

Episode 22 The Peddler

22. The Peddler

Aired: Mar 23, 1976

One pill, and you're floating on air. A different one, and you're full of lea...

Episode 23 Early Struggles

23. Early Struggles

Aired: Mar 30, 1976

Kevin's wife walked out, and left him holding the baby. No sleep, dirty nappi...

Episode 24 Double Dare

24. Double Dare

Aired: Apr 6, 1976

Dennis Potter's meta commentary on scriptwriting, as Helen meets writer Marti...


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Info about Play for Today

Current Status: Ended

Network: BBC One

Genres: Comedy, Drama