Social and sexual intrigue from Malcolm Bradbury/Christopher Bigsby set at a dinner party for the manipulative vice-chancellor of a cash-strapped new university...
By Elaine Feinstein. Angela Pleasance is a young mother isolated by her chronic asthma and descending into paranoia. Gareth Thomas is her...
By Willy Russell. A delinquent suspended from an urban school gets a job on a farm, which he really enjoys until events...
Alan Bennett makes his first contribution to Play for Today with some autobiographical sketches of the fag end of family life. ‘Mam’...
By Roy Minton. A day in the life of mental health nurse Tim Preece, struggling with not only the demands of his...
By Hugh Whitemore. An 18 year middle-class Maida Vale marriage is under threat when the wife walks out. With Peter Cellier, Paul...
Jon Morrison plays an eager young mace-twirling Orange Parade leader in Glasgow, gradually finding out the unpleasant, violent truth behind the symbolic...
Dramatisation by John Elliot and Joel Carlson of the trial of 37 black countrymen from South West Africa, prosecuted for terrorism by...
By Brian Clark. Stockbroker Peter Barkworth is made redundant but goes ahead with his planned Christmas party anyway, bringing a different air...
By Arthur Hopcraft. Two women have romantic encounters on their afternoon off in an out-of-hours drinking club.
By Wilson John Haire. Examined the Belfast Troubles through the eyes of a young girl missing her AWOL father, and counting the...
Brechtian distanciation which is all very well in the theatre but doesn't really work on the telly
By Peter Prince. Comic study of a court case awaiting hearing, with Richard Beckinsale as a solicitor’s clerk acting for his sick...
Paul Thompson’s “bourgeois fantasy” about an imaginary fascist regime of the near future, and the tribulations of young dissidents in City Zone...
Peter (Alan Bates), a divorce lawyer in the thick of middle age, wakes up in the bed-sit of his graphic designer mistress...
A companion piece to the previous week’s Plaintiffs and Defendants. Peter (Dinsdale Landen) and Hilary (Georgina Hale) wake up, facing the prospect...
By Bernard Kops. Warren Mitchell is a Jewish East End miser who changes his outlook when his only real love, son Sthephen...
By Hugh Whitemore and Helene Hanff. Frank Finlay owns the titular bookshop in this famous tale of a real bookshop proprietor’s long-term...
PfT acting veteran Brian Glover’s first foray into writing for the strand. Weight-lifting pigeon fancier David Daker neglects wife Susan Tracy, so...
By Michael O’Neill and Jeremy Seabrook. The passengers caught up in an airline hijack drama sweat it out, among them Georgina Hale...
By John Challen. Bleak tale of an awkward young boy whose brief success as a chorister is scuppered by puberty. Leonard Rossiter...
Harrowing and immensely popular look at NHS hospital life from the patient’s point of view, written by Trevor Griffiths after reading a...
By Leon Griffiths. A superficially light-hearted tale of Asians attempting illegal immigration from Amsterdam to British shores on a fishing vessel. Starring...
The original outing for John Mortimer's bellicose bailiff
Jewish wartime misfittery.
By Watson Gould. ‘Angry young lesbian artist’ Jane Lapotaire disrupts the lives of upper class lover Lynne Frederick and middle-aged alcoholic Michael...
A pair of lisping middle-class types getting back to nature
Experimental codswallop.
By Alick Rowe. John Barrett returns to his remote hill farm after 20 years to deal with some unfinished business, and finds...
By John Hopkins. Jon Laurimore and Geoffrey Palmer are police investigating a brutal murder on a high-rise estate, but finding fear of...
By Tom Hadaway. Neil Phillips is a young trawlerman working his way up the fishing hierarchy in various encounters in a harbour.
Public school glam rock a-go-go!
Trilogy of one-act plays adapted by Bill Craig from short stories by Lewis Grassic Gibbon, all dealing with the way the Scottish...
Rare incursion into play for today from the Godfather of the original theatrical kitchen sink explosion, Arnold Wesker. Elizabeth Spriggs tries to...
By Bill Bryden. Story of the beginnings of revolutionary socialism, set amongst the shipyards of greenock during the first half of the...
By Beryl Bainbridge. Two ‘singles’, Rosemary Leach and Michael Gambon, are ‘introduced’ to each other by well-meaning friends, but the encounter doesn’t...
By EA Whitehead. John Hurt plays a salesman of anti-depressants and other drugs, whose wife discovers his affair with a female doctor.
By Peter Prince. Pop Musician Paul Nicholas is left literally holding the baby when his wife walks out. With Tom Conti, Amanda...
Dennis Potter on... Dennis Potter. And sex.
Adaptation of a short story by the famed Spanish poet and author Federico Garcia Lorca of the conflict between a young woman...
Coming of age? Schmoming of schmage. (Hmm, might need to rethink that.)
Jon Morrison, supposedly gainfully employed as far as his family are concerned, instead takes off to the Scottish hillsides every day, and...
By Roy Kendall. Trouble arises when Frances de la Tour hires Sharon Duce as a nanny. With Bernard Hill.
By Colin Welland. Young boy Joseph Reynolds loses his dad in an IRA bomb blast and moves out to his uncle’s remote...
By Rhys Adrian. Tony Britton is a businessman hounded by the failing economy and his increasingly hazardous extra-marital affair, getting slowly drunk...
'Bit over the top, isn't it?' 'No idea, it's not actually on telly.'
By Malcolm Bradbury. Brummie couple Stephen Moore and Barbara Flynn court during the Suez crisis. 20 years later, against the backdrop of...
Shy and sarcastic teenage Oldham undertaker’s assistant Trevor (David Threlfall) knocks about with drinking pal Ronnie (John Wheatley) and his girlfriend Sandra...
By Mike Stott. Maternity comedy with Bernard Hill and Alison Steadman expecting their first baby, and opting for the then-modish ‘natural’ childbirth...
By Charles Wood. Angela Down is a rape victim whom no-one will take seriously.
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