Play for Today

Season 9 (21 Episodes)

1978 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 9 Episodes:

Episode 1 Nina

1. Nina

Aired: Oct 17, 1978

When Nina falls in love with Yuri he already has an exit permit from Russia. ...

Episode 2 Victims of Apartheid

2. Victims of Apartheid

Aired: Oct 24, 1978

George, a black South African, finds it hard to settle down in London after h...

Episode 5 Donal and Sally

5. Donal and Sally

Aired: Nov 14, 1978

Adolescent love can be difficult at the best of times, but Donal and Sally ha...

Episode 6 Sorry...

6. Sorry...

Aired: Nov 21, 1978

Arrested during the Charter 77 purge, Vanek is living under a suspended sente...

Episode 9 One Bummer News Day

9. One Bummer News Day

Aired: Dec 12, 1978

What happens to provincial journalists when there's nothing in the news and t...

Episode 10 The Out of Town Boys

10. The Out of Town Boys

Aired: Jan 2, 1979

"This could be a bit special, Maggie. This could be the first case of an offi...

Episode 11 Vampires

11. Vampires

Aired: Jan 9, 1979

Three boys watch horror films on late night TV and see a man in a local cemet...

Episode 12 The Chief Mourner

12. The Chief Mourner

Aired: Jan 16, 1979

For a successful man with public responsibilities Alan Berry is strangely rel...

Episode 13 Waterloo Sunset

13. Waterloo Sunset

Aired: Jan 23, 1979

Grace Dwyer, a 70-year-old woman, leaves an old people's home to return to he...

Episode 15 Who's Who

15. Who's Who

Aired: Feb 6, 1979

Slice-of-life look at class divisions among employees at a brokerage house.

Episode 17 Ploughman's Share

17. Ploughman's Share

Aired: Feb 27, 1979

"Ploughman. Nobody calls you that. You're a has-been. Your head and heart wen...

Episode 19 Light

19. Light

Aired: Mar 13, 1979

A village in Cheshire. A deserted cinema. A poet murdered by Stalin. A blown ...

Episode 20 Coming Out

20. Coming Out

Aired: Apr 10, 1979

Lewis, a gay writer of romantic novels, writes an article on gay issues under...


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Info about Play for Today

Current Status: Ended

Network: BBC One

Genres: Comedy, Drama