Play for Today

1970    75m
Drama, Comedy, Science Fiction
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Play for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC1 from 1970 to 1984. During the run, more than three hundred programmes, featuring original television plays, and adaptations of stage plays and novels, were transmitted. The individual episodes were between fifty and a hundred minutes in duration.
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14 Seasons
  • Specials
    Specials1 Episode
  • Season 1
    Season 124 Episodes
  • Season 2
    Season 219 Episodes
  • Season 3
    Season 328 Episodes
  • Season 4
    Season 422 Episodes
  • Season 5
    Season 522 Episodes
  • Season 6
    Season 625 Episodes
  • Season 7
    Season 719 Episodes
  • Season 8
    Season 818 Episodes
  • Season 9
    Season 921 Episodes
  • Season 10
    Season 1028 Episodes
  • Season 11
    Season 1127 Episodes
  • Season 12
    Season 1222 Episodes
  • Season 13
    Season 1318 Episodes
  • Season 14
    Season 1416 Episodes
Cast of Play for Today
  • Nigel HawthorneMajor Lewis Rolfe
  • Liz SmithElfie
  • Colin Douglas
  • Bernard Hill
  • Malcolm TerrisMr. Dowdeswell
  • Graham AshleyMr. Hutton
  • John BirdDesmond Hughes
  • Pauline Quirke
  • Patsy Smart
  • Albert Moses
  • Thora Hird
  • Edward Hardwicke
  • James Ellis
  • Leonard RossiterArthur
  • James HazeldineChris
  • George A. Cooper
  • Tony Caunter
  • Bob HoskinsBlake
  • Alison SteadmanVeronica
  • Gwyneth Strong
  • Kenneth Branagh
  • Patrick Troughton
  • George Pravda
  • Elizabeth Spriggs
  • John Challis
  • June BrownClara, in Psychiatric Hospital
  • Doreen MantleJulia Branston
  • Michael GambonMax
  • Barbara YoungGreta
  • Joss AcklandEllis Cripper
  • Colin JeavonsNeeley
  • Gerard RyderHotel Manager
  • Stephen MooreFarley-Smythe
  • Michael Graham CoxWillie de Salis
  • Anthony Hopkins
  • Peter Cellier
  • Gareth Thomas
  • Julian Holloway
  • Amanda Barrie
  • Linda Robson
  • Iain Cuthbertson
  • Michael Byrne
  • Hywel Bennett
  • Roy Boyd
  • Peter Sallis
  • Richard Briers
  • Caroline LangrisheJane Winters
  • Fulton Mackay
  • Stephen Greif
  • Sydney Tafler
  • Maurice O'Connell
  • Carmen Silvera
  • Paul Copley
  • Paul Freeman
  • Timothy SpallGordon
  • Billy ConnollyJody
  • Frank Finlay
  • Frank Windsor
  • Christopher Villiers
  • Peter FirthDominick Hide
  • Frances de la TourMaria Waite
  • John Woodvine
  • Ian Hogg
  • Elizabeth DawnEnid
  • Geoffrey PalmerDetetective Chief Inspector Harris
  • Deborah FairfaxMiss Benson
  • Michael KitchenAlan
  • Warren ClarkeAlfred
  • Hal GaliliThe Hit
  • Karl Howman1st Policeman
  • Peter BarkworthRichard Elkinson
  • Sheila GishJane Elkinson
  • Jan WatersSarah
  • Nigel HaversHarman
  • Saeed JaffreyGurjeet Singh Khera
  • Eve PearceMrs. Hutton
  • Stephanie TurnerGillian Otway
  • Anita CareySharon
  • Alan RoweMinistry Official
  • Caroline BlakistonEsther
  • Leo McKernSir Frederic Carlion
  • Janine DuvitskiVera
  • Laurence Payne
  • John Thaw
  • Warren Mitchell
  • Jennifer Daniel
  • Tony Haygarth
  • Dinah Sheridan
  • André Morell
  • Janet Munro
  • John Le Mesurier
  • Brian Cant
  • Martin Shaw
  • Hildegard Neil
  • Harry Towb
  • Tom ChadbonLen
  • Alastair Sim
  • Bernard Hepton
  • Maggie Jones
  • Maurice Roëves
  • Richard Pasco
  • Anne Reid
  • James Bolam
  • Sarah Sutton
  • Roy Kinnear
  • Brenda Bruce
  • Jan Francis
  • Alun Armstrong
  • Frances Tomelty
  • Don Henderson
  • Bart Allison
  • Moray Black
  • Pam St. Clement
  • Angela Pleasence
  • Michael Bilton
  • Richard Beckinsale
  • Bob Peck
  • David Daker
  • Vernon Dobtcheff
  • Geoffrey Hinsliff
  • Joan Hickson
  • Brenda Fricker
  • Ron Moody
  • Ray Winstone
  • Kenneth Colley
  • Alan Lake
  • Michael Crawford
  • Philip Locke
  • Bruce Purchase
  • Nicholas Ball
  • Patricia Routledge
  • Lynn Farleigh
  • Paul McGann
  • Nick Tate
  • Steven Berkoff
  • Eric Porter
  • James Fox
  • Patrick Godfrey
  • Roger Sloman
  • Sheila Hancock
  • Derek Fowlds
  • George Sewell
  • Georgina Hale
  • Michael Sheard
  • Terence Bayler
  • Connie Booth
  • David Neal
  • Hilda Braid
  • Patrick Stewart
  • Charles Gray
  • Geoffrey Hughes
  • John GielgudHarry
  • Gerard Murphy
  • John Bryans
  • Terry Molloy
  • Michael Barrington
  • George Lazenby
  • John Cater
  • John Franklyn-Robbins
  • Arnold Diamond
  • Spencer Banks
  • Tim Preece
  • Benjamin Whitrow
  • Leslie Dwyer
  • Vivian Pickles
  • David Jackson
  • Myra Frances
  • Helen Mirren
  • Freddie Jones
  • William Simons
  • Danny Webb
  • Philip Latham
  • Christopher Benjamin
  • Graham Crowden
  • Christopher Ryan
  • Jim Broadbent
  • Brian Capron
  • Martin Boddey
  • John Salthouse
  • Lynda La Plante
  • Cheryl Hall
  • Max Adrian
  • Dandy Nichols
  • Derek Martin
  • John Woodnutt
  • Georgine Anderson
  • Lynne Perrie
  • Floella Benjamin
  • Hilary Mason
  • Daphne Heard
  • George Sweeney
  • Roger Avon
  • Donald Sumpter
  • Lesley Dunlop
  • Simon Rouse
  • Morag Hood
  • Rhys McConnochie
  • Elisabeth Sladen
  • Rupert Everett
  • Aubrey Morris

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