Play for Today

Season 7 (19 Episodes)

1976 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 7 Episodes:

Episode 1 Bar Mitzvah Boy

1. Bar Mitzvah Boy

Aired: Sep 14, 1976

On the eve of his Bar Mitzvah, young Elliot finds that all the grown men in h...

Episode 2 Bet Your Life

2. Bet Your Life

Aired: Sep 21, 1976

Like alcoholism, gambling is a disease. Ches, a compulsive gambler, is sent f...

Episode 5 Housewives' Choice

5. Housewives' Choice

Aired: Oct 19, 1976

When Joyce appears on the door-step she looks like the perfect 'kindly, respe...

Episode 7 Buffet

7. Buffet

Aired: Nov 2, 1976

Freddie is going through an existential crisis as everyone around him seems t...

Episode 8 Love on a Gunboat

8. Love on a Gunboat

Aired: Jan 4, 1977

In 1956 Britain staggers through crises in Suez and Cyprus while Leslie Potte...

Episode 9 The Kiss of Death

9. The Kiss of Death

Aired: Jan 11, 1977

Trevor is an extremely shy undertaker's assistant. He always tags along with ...

Episode 11 Do As I Say

11. Do As I Say

Aired: Jan 25, 1977

A quietly unhappy housewife finds a stranger in her house and is raped at kni...

Episode 12 Spend Spend Spend

12. Spend Spend Spend

Aired: Mar 15, 1977

Autobiographical tale about Viv Nicholson who had a large Football Pools win ...

Episode 13 A Photograph

13. A Photograph

Aired: Mar 22, 1977

A couple receives a photograph in the mail of two girls sitting in front of a...

Episode 17 A Choice of Evils

17. A Choice of Evils

Aired: Apr 12, 1977

Cardinal Volponi tries to save his old friend, a priest turned militant commu...

Episode 18 The Country Party

18. The Country Party

Aired: Apr 19, 1977

Richard Elkinson, the former stockbroker, is now running a country restaurant...

Episode 19 The Country Party

19. The Country Party

Aired: Apr 26, 1977

Richard Elkinson, the former stockbroker, is now running a country restaurant...


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Info about Play for Today

Current Status: Ended

Network: BBC One

Genres: Comedy, Drama