Play for Today (1970)

Synopsis

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.

Cast

• Nigel Hawthorne as Fulton
• Liz Smith as Mrs. Oxfam
• Bernard Hill as Mick
• Alison Steadman as Jan Blincoe
• Malcolm Terris as Jennings
• June Brown as Clara, in Psychiatric Hospital
• Colin Douglas as Mr Leslie
• Tony Caunter as Pinnock
• Colin Jeavons as Neeley
• Frances Tomelty as Polly

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