Play for Today

Season 8 (18 Episodes)

1977 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 8 Episodes:

Episode 1 Stronger Than the Sun

1. Stronger Than the Sun

Aired: Oct 18, 1977

Kate works in the nuclear industry. She is concerned about the way things are...

Episode 2 Come the Revolution

2. Come the Revolution

Aired: Oct 25, 1977

Mike and his commune have a performance of their musical theatre "Diver" at t...

Episode 3 Abigail's Party

3. Abigail's Party

Aired: Nov 1, 1977

Arguably the most famous edition of Play For Today, and one of the most belov...

Episode 4 Oy Vay Maria

4. Oy Vay Maria

Aired: Nov 8, 1977

Jewish boy loves Catholic girl - will love triumph over family objections?

Episode 5 Nipper

5. Nipper

Aired: Nov 15, 1977

Teenager Jimmy's life begins to unravel after the death of his father. With h...

Episode 6 One Day at a Time

6. One Day at a Time

Aired: Nov 22, 1977

"People coming to their first AA meeting, prosperous people, sometimes, accus...

Episode 7 The Mayor's Charity

7. The Mayor's Charity

Aired: Nov 29, 1977

Olive Major is determined that her year of office as Mayor will be a happy an...

Episode 8 Catchpenny Twist

8. Catchpenny Twist

Aired: Dec 6, 1977

Roy and Martyn want to write the next Irish winner for the Eurovision Song Co...

Episode 9 Charades

9. Charades

Aired: Dec 13, 1977

"We've just got to get it right. It'll be our little secret. When all the oth...

Episode 12 Licking Hitler

12. Licking Hitler

Aired: Jan 10, 1978

1941 and Anna Seaton (Kate Nelligan) is hired as part of a radio propaganda p...

Episode 13 Red Shift

13. Red Shift

Aired: Jan 17, 1978

Three men at three different times in history come to Mow Cop Hill in search ...

Episode 14 The Spongers

14. The Spongers

Aired: Jan 24, 1978

Set against the backdrop of the Silver Jubilee of Elizabeth II, the play depi...

Episode 15 Destiny

15. Destiny

Aired: Jan 31, 1978

In a play mirroring real-life events, the fictional borough of Taddley is hol...

Episode 16 Our Day Out

16. Our Day Out

Aired: Feb 7, 1978

When a teacher takes a group of troubled school children on a school trip to ...


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Current Status: Ended

Network: BBC One

Genres: Comedy, Drama