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2. Play for Today - Wikipedia

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   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.

3. Brimstone and Treacle - Wikipedia

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   Brimstone and Treacle is a 1976 BBC television play by Dennis Potter. Originally intended for broadcast as an episode of the series Play for Today, it remained untransmitted until 1987. The play was made into a film version (released in 1982) co-starring Sting. Both versions also star Denholm Elliott.

4. Robin Redbreast (Play for Today) - Wikipedia

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   "Robin Redbreast" is the ninth episode of first season of the British BBC anthology TV series Play for Today. The episode was a television play that was originally broadcast on 10 December 1970. "Robin Redbreast" was written by John Griffith Bowen, directed by James MacTaggart and produced by Graeme MacDonald. The play is about pagan rural ...

5. Bar Mitzvah Boy - Wikipedia

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   Programme notes for a Boston Jewish Film Festival screening in 2004 hailed the play as "a BBC classic... this bittersweet comedy about a British boy’s upcoming Bar Mitzvah features a strong sense of time and place [and] stellar acting", while the British Film Institute's website describes it as "a simple tale made memorable by genius writing and sympathetic performances."

6. Our Day Out - Wikipedia

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   The television play "Our Day Out" was commissioned by the BBC as part of BBC Two's Play of the Week series.. Willy Russell had taught at Tiber street school, one of the locations used in the film and called on his experiences of school trips — as a teacher and as a child — when writing the screenplay, which he finished in five days.

7. Evelyn (Play for Today) - Wikipedia

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   "Evelyn" is the third episode of second season of the British BBC anthology TV series Play for Today. The episode was a television play that was originally broadcast on 28 October 1971. "Evelyn" was written by Rhys Adrian, directed by Piers Haggard, produced by Graeme MacDonald, and starred Edward Woodward.

8. The Spongers - Wikipedia

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   British nostalgia website, TV Cream, describes the play as "one of the most powerful dramas the BBC, or anyone, have shown, and as such presents the strongest possible case for the "naturalism" that many Play for Today writers were determined to get away from. The ensemble playing is brilliantly done, with interruptions and improvised stutters ...

9. Hard Labour (Play for Today) - Wikipedia

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   "Hard Labour" is the 20th episode of third season of the British BBC anthology TV series Play for Today. The episode was a television play that was originally broadcast on 12 March 1973. "Hard Labour" was written and directed by Mike Leigh, produced by Tony Garnett, and starred Liz Smith in her first major role.