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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.

Series Cast

  1. Nigel Hawthorne as Major Lewis Rolfe

    Nigel Hawthorne

    Major Lewis Rolfe

    6 Episodes

  2. Liz Smith as Mrs. Mathews, Keith's Granny, Elfie, Mrs. Thornley, Mrs. Oxfam, and Mrs. Pritchett

    Liz Smith

    Mrs. Mathews, Keith's Granny, Elfie, Mrs. Thornley and 2 more...

    6 Episodes

  3. Colin Douglas as

    Colin Douglas

    5 Episodes

  4. Bernard Hill as

    Bernard Hill

    4 Episodes

  5. Graham Ashley as Barman, Arthur, Mr. Hutton, and Jim Platt

    Graham Ashley

    Barman, Arthur, Mr. Hutton, Jim Platt

    4 Episodes

  6. Pauline Quirke as

    Pauline Quirke

    3 Episodes

  7. Patsy Smart as

    Patsy Smart

    3 Episodes

  8. Albert Moses as

    Albert Moses

    3 Episodes

  9. Thora Hird as

    Thora Hird

    3 Episodes

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Last Season

Season 14

7.0
1983 • 16 Episodes

Season 14 of Play for Today premiered on October 25, 1983.

The Amazing Miss Stella Estelle

(14x16, August 28, 1984) Season Finale

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Status Ended

Network

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Type Scripted

Original Language English

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