Play for Today Season 3
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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Play for Today Season 3 Full Episode Guide
They no longer live together because, after 11 years, the marriage is over. So why is she always turning up to see him at the most embarrassing times? And why doesn't he send her away?
Everyone always looked after Maureen. But her husband comes home after two years in prison and finds she has grown up and he's not ready for the change.
The problems of four people sharing an apartment
Edward G. is nothing like a film star; his life has been ordinary - until now. But he's just had a shattering experience. This edition is missing from the BBC archives.
Are Maggie and Tony using each other as a means of communicating with Dr Leafer? Or are they using Dr Leafer as a means of communicating with each other?
"Fifteen years since I was forced t' leave, forced t' leave me roots, the territory of me heart." When Gerry takes his fiancée Nita home to Brighouse, what will they find?
Three underachievers have fun at a school speech day
"I'm the judge's daughter - I think he's a monstrous old man. I think all men who say 'I'm only doing my job' are monstrous. I've despaired of changing him. But I'd stop short of killing him."
The trials of an overworked and underappreciated housecleaner
Malcolmson spends every Sunday taking his children to the zoo, reflecting on the breakdown of his marriage and the events that brought about his divorce. Is there a chance the family can be brought back together?
David Adler is an operator. He strips assets, other men's wives, and his oldest friend's soul - anything for a cool million.
Was this the finest hour? Sifting the truth and fiction about the Battle of Britain, Burrows and Harding give their own account of how the nation sees its heroes - and itself.
As a playwright dictates notes about his newest play to his secretary, scenes from the play are acted out.
The story of a defiant football manager in terminal decline
A man fights council plans to demolish his home to make way for a new bypass.
A long-married husband leaves his family for a barmaid.
Faced with the prospect of being sent to work abroad, Sally Brown returns home from London to Hull, to see if she still feels the same attachment for her home town - and for her old boyfriend Mike Thurlow. Will she decide to take the job abroad or return to live with Mike in Hull?
The adventures of three Derbyshire miners going to Stratford-upon-Avon on a barge
A young couple have a baby boy. However, the new father doesn't take to his new position quite as well as expected.
A pregnant teenager sets about wooing a sailor in a sectarian council estate in Greenock.
A washed-up executive is on the verge of bankruptcy.
An elderly general woos a shy school teacher.
A man celebrating his birthday comes to appreciate the difference between media fantasy and mundane reality.
A hippie breaks into the house of a middle-aged couple and forms a relationship with them
The story of Robinson Crusoe from Man Friday's viewpoint
A story about the origin of the Stormont state
The story of a man serving a 30-year prison sentence for killing a cop
Two provincial newspaper reporters - one a young idealist starting out on his career, the other an embittered man who previously wrote for a failed national daily - swap views.
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