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Play for Today
1970–1985 · 14 seasons, 314 episodes · 75m episodes · Drama · BBC One · United Kingdom
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.
Based on the novel by
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