Play for TodayTV(1970–1985)

Overview

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.

Top Cast

Nigel Hawthorne

Police Captain

Liz Smith

Mrs. Oxfam

Bernard Hill

Edward

Alison Steadman

Kay Pasmore

Malcolm Terris

Psychiatrist, in Psychiatric Hospital

June Brown

Clara, in Psychiatric Hospital

Colin Douglas

Father

Tony Caunter

Pinnock

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