Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- ~75 min/episode
- Length
- 14 seasons · 314 episodes
- Status
- Ended · complete
- Language
- English
- Country
- United Kingdom
The story
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.
- anthology
- based on play or musical
The bill
- Iain Cuthbertson
- Hywel Bennett
- Roy Boyd
- Peter Sallis
- Laurence Payne
- John Thaw
- Warren Mitchell
- Jennifer Daniel
- Tony Haygarth
- Dinah Sheridan
- André Morell
- Directed
- Bob Hird, Kenneth Ives, Charles Stewart, James Ormerod, Carol Wiseman, Bill Bain & 123 more
- Written
- Peter McDougall, Bill Bryden, Stephen Mulrine, Bernard Kops, Arthur Hopcraft, John Elliot & 204 more
Production
- Network & studio
- BBC One
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