Play for Today was a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC1 from 1970 to 1984. Over three hundred original plays, most between an hour and ninety minutes in length, were transmitted during the fourteen-year period the series aired, and it is by far the most famous programme of its type to have been screened on British TV.
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Directors
- Barry Davis (14 episodes)
- Alan Clarke (12 episodes)
- Philip Saville (8 episodes)
Writers
- Dennis Potter (8 episodes)
- Mike Leigh (6 episodes)
- Colin Welland (5 episodes)
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- Originally scheduled for broadcast on 6 April 1976 as part of BBC1's Play For Today strand, but banned because it includes a rape scene. Eventually shown for the first time on 25 August 1987.
- SPOILER: At no time does the script of this play state that Martin is The Devil - this is something that has been assumed by viewers and writers over the years. In fact this is one several…
[show]SPOILER: At no time does the script of this play state that Martin is The Devil - this is something that has been assumed by viewers and writers over the years. In fact this is one several plays that Potter wrote which feature men who suffer the *delusion* that they have supernatural powers.
[hide] - One show which was made and never aired was Scum (1977) (TV) as it was deemed too violent and extremely politically incorrect.
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