All about Play for Today
A dingy municipal hall in a nondescript northern town plays host to Pete (Ray Davies) a phenomenon, a true one-off of Herculean...
A strange entry in the Play for Today canon from John Osborne, the ‘father of kitchen sink drama’, following the efforts of...
Ingmar Bergman drama concerning violent break-up of a marriage between Frank Finlay and Gemma Jones, much in the manner of Bergman’s later...
Tom Bell plays a charismatic stranger who arrives at the door of a bored housewife trapped in a dreary marriage claiming to...
Play by George Salverson. A man is made redundant but can’t bring himself to let anyone know, plunging into a web of...
Council officer Nigel Stock’s mid-life crisis at his brother’s pub causes him to see life as a game show populated by Donald...
It wasn’t all revolutionary iconoclasm within the walls of the Play for Today strand. Take this sedate and uncharacteristically old fashioned drawing...
Thirtysomething, Bristolian, married-two-kids municipal architect Bob (Anthony Hopkins) has trouble getting wife Jean interested in a round of saucy bedtime ‘treats’. She...
Recently-separated thirtysomething metropolitan script editor Norah (Anna Cropper) moves into a remote Vale of Evesham cottage reluctantly inherited from her ex. Various...
A social misfit gets the friendship and affection he craves by deceitfully insinuating himself into various church congregations. Directed by Alan Clarke,...
Civil servant Ian Carmichael returns home after a long period working abroad, to visit his old school’s sports day, and old school...
W. Stephen Gilbert’s first broadcast work was the winner of a BBC playwriting competition, but it’s a play far from the sort...
Upper-crust Katherine Blake and Richard Morant are pressured by the behaviour of their fast-growing adopted son (Michael Kitchen) when he joins a...
Taut tragicomic tale by Julia Jones, of progress and its opposition across the generations in a small Northern town...
First PFT outing for Kes author Barry Hines, a weird, minimalist story of young Billy, a self-sufficient coal-shoveller, who falls in with...
We've got, as Kenneth Tynan might say, a right one here, Alan...
Left-wing vicar Donald Harron rubs the local community up the wrong way
Colonial soul-searching with Rudolph Walker.
Social services on the case.
Fiftysomething marital dalliances.
Edward Woodward shags around.
Triumvirate of crofting tales.
St Helens goes on strike, Ken Loach gets out the camera.
A very middle class threesome.
Roy Kinnear has a long lens for the ladies.
Le Mesurier - busted!
Patricia Hayes is homeless in Hackney.
Public school beatings cause hands-on visual tomfoolery.
NF Simpson, unsurprisingly, 'does' absurd.
Irish builder takes off coat - chaos ensues.
Semi-comic look by Michael O’Neill and Jeremy Seabrook at the effects of American-style corporate culture on a lower-middle-class provincial family. In the...
By Alun Owen. Two mutual enemies, one black, one white, are forced together by circumstance and confront their prejudices.
Retired mine-worker Philip Jackson tends to his pigeons. With Geoffrey Hughes, Anna Carteret and Martin Shaw. By Peter Hankin.
Four senile old duffers drive each other mad.
Record player-based argument spoils picnic.
Gareth Thomas is a good, if Cornish, cop.
Er, there's this house, right...
Black Power reggae in the Play School studio.
'Meh' of a salesman.
Thora Goes Tunisian.
Tessa Wyatt goes moo.
Brian Glover and pals go fishing, throw up, leg it.
Grizzled reporters grizzle.
Prison is grim.
By Dominic Behan. Working class protestant life in Ulster circa 1920, during the formation of Home Rule. With Sam Kydd and Harry...
Robinson Crusoe reversed.
Odd tale by David Halliwell of a hippyish youth breaking into a middle-aged couple’s house and their subsequent relationship with him, niftily...
The discrepancy between media fantasy and mundane reality is made plain to Bryan Marshall on his birthday. By John Elliot.
William Trevor serves up another fine comedy of manners in this battle of wills between ageing general Alastair Sim and cantankerous charlady...