| Play for Today | |
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 Logo as seen in the opening title sequence from 1976 | |
| Genre | Drama, television plays, anthology, social realism, kitchen-sink drama |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Original language | English |
| No. of episodes | 306 (28 missing, 1 incomplete) |
| Production | |
| Running time | Various |
| Original release | |
| Network | BBC1 |
| Release | 15 October 1970 – 28 August 1984 |
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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 (with a few exceptions noted below) between fifty and a hundred minutes in duration. A handful of these plays, including Rumpole of the Bailey, subsequently became television series in their own right.