Play for Today

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.

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Created By

Status

Ended

Original Name

Play for Today

First Air Date

October 15, 1970

Last Air Date

February 5, 1985

Seasons

Episodes

314

Language

English

Production Companies

Networks

BBC One

S14E21

Brigadista

When best-selling author James Fuller Hayes comes to Glasgow to publicise his personal account of the Spanish Civil War, a surprise reunion with two of his old comrades from the Int Brigade reveals contradictory & devastating information.

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