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.

Director

Barry Davis,Alan Clarke,John Mackenzie,Philip Saville,Brian Parker,Claude Whatham,Robert Knights,Mike Newell,Michael Apted,Mike Leigh,Michael Lindsay-Hogg,James MacTaggart,John Gorrie,Richard Eyre,James Ferman,Michael Simpson,Moira Armstrong,Alan Cooke,Alan Bridges,John Bruce,Baz Taylor,Matthew Robinson,John Goldschmidt,Michael Tuchner,Bill Craske,Gerald Blake,Stephen Frears,Richard Wilson,Paul Seed,Kenneth Ives,Ken Loach,Ronald Wilson,John Glenister,Roland Joffé,Jack Gold,Gavin Millar,Piers Haggard,James Cellan Jones,Gareth Davies,Roy Battersby,Les Blair,Herbert Wise,Richard Loncraine,Jane Howell,Alan Gibson,Alistair Clarke,Brian Gibson,Viktors Ritelis,David Hare,Michael Darlow,Colin Bucksey,Pedr James,Graham Evans,Carol Wiseman,Alan Dossor,Tony Smith,David Maloney,Ted Kotcheff,Jon Amiel,Christopher Morahan,Silvio Narizzano,John McGrath,Derek Lister,Anthony Garner ,Tim King,Giles Foster,Christopher Menaul,Horace Ové,Roderick Graham,Les Chatfield,Jim O'Brien,Waris Hussein,David Rose,Alastair Reid,Frank Cox,Stuart Burge,Diarmuid Lawrence,Martyn Friend,Peter Dews,Rudi Dorn,Chris Thompson,Bill Bain,John Robins,Ron Daniels,Mike Bradwell,Peter Gill,Jim Hill,Bob Hird,Clive Halls,Bryan Forbes,John Black,Philip Bonham-Carter,Michael Custance,Jim Goddard,Alan Grint,Nicholas Renton,Sarah Pia Anderson,Michael Hayes,Desmond Davis,Michael Rolfe,Brian Farnham,Rodney Bennett,Peter Duffell,Derek Bennett,Charles Sturridge,John Davis,Lindsay Anderson,Paul Joyce,Robert McIntosh,Fiona Cumming,Alan Charlesworth,Peter Jefferies,Roger Bamford,Ben Rea,Ben Bolt,James Ormerod,Alex Marshall,Charles Stewart,Douglas Camfield,Paul Annett,Laurence Moody,Bill Hays,Mervyn Rosenzveig,Maurice Hatton,Anthony Simmons,Mark Cullingham,Peter Cregeen,Anthony Page,Tony Bicât

Writers

Dennis Potter,Mike Leigh,Brian Clark,John McGrath