Release Year: 1970
Nation: United Kingdom
Alternative Title: Пьеса дня, プレイ・フォー・トゥデイ
Director:
Jon Amiel , Lindsay Anderson , Michael Apted , Stephen Frears , Brian Gibson , Mike Newell , David Hare , Mike Leigh , Derek Lister , Sarah Pia Anderson , Paul Annett , Moira Armstrong , Bill Bain , Roger Bamford , Roy Battersby , Derek Bennett , Rodney Bennett , Tony Bicât , John Black , Les Blair , Gerald Blake , Ben Bolt , Philip Bonham-Carter , Mike Bradwell , Alan Bridges , John Bruce , Colin Bucksey , Stuart Burge , Douglas Camfield , James Cellan Jones , Alan Charlesworth , Les Chatfield , Alan Clarke , Alistair Clarke , Alan Cooke , Frank Cox , Bill Craske , Mark Cullingham , Fiona Cumming , Michael Custance , Michael Darlow , Gareth Davies , Barry Davis , Desmond Davis , John Davis , Peter Dews , Rudi Dorn , Alan Dossor , Peter Duffell , Graham Evans , Keith Evans , Richard Eyre , Brian Farnham , James Ferman , Bryan Forbes , Giles Foster , Martyn Friend , Anthony Garner , Alan Gibson , Peter Gill , John Glenister , Jim Goddard , Jack Gold , John Goldschmidt , John Gorrie , Roderick Graham , Peter Cregeen , Alan Grint , Piers Haggard , Maurice Hatton , Michael Hayes , Bill Hays , Jim Hill , Bob Hird , Jane Howell , Waris Hussein , Kenneth Ives , Pedr James , Peter Jefferies , Roland Joffé , Paul Joyce , Robert Knights , Ted Kotcheff , Diarmuid Lawrence , Michael Lindsay-Hogg , Ken Loach , Richard Loncraine , John Mackenzie , James MacTaggart , David Maloney , John McGrath , Christopher Menaul , Gavin Millar , Laurence Moody , Christopher Morahan , Silvio Narizzano , Jim O'Brien , James Ormerod , Horace Ové , Anthony Page , Brian Parker , Ben Rea , Alastair Reid , Nicholas Renton , Viktors Ritelis , John Robins , Matthew Robinson , Michael Rolfe , David Rose , Philip Saville , Paul Seed , Anthony Simmons , Michael Simpson , Tony Smith , Charles Stewart , Charles Sturridge , Baz Taylor , Chris Thompson , Michael Tuchner , Claude Whatham , Richard Wilson , Ronald Wilson , Herbert Wise , Carol Wiseman , Robert McIntosh , Alex Marshall , Ron Daniels , Mervyn Rosenzveig , Clive Halls , Tim King
Writer:
Ingmar Bergman , Jon Amiel , Noël Coward , David Hare , Alan Bennett , Mike Leigh , Derek Lister , Rhys Adrian , Jim Allen , Beryl Bainbridge , Howard Barker , J.M. Barrie , Dominic Behan , Tony Bicât , Rachel Billington , Charlotte Bingham , Les Blair , Alan Bleasdale , Dion Boucicault , John Bowen , Malcolm Bradbury , Terence Brady , Howard Brenton , Paul Britten Austin , Lesley Bruce , Bill Bryden , Carol Bunyan , John Burrows , John Byrne , Denis Cannan , Geoffrey Case , Robin Chapman , Brian Clark , Tom Clarke , Alan Clews , Paul Copley , Bill Craig , Alma Cullen , Ian Cullen , Wally K. Daly , Andrew Davies , Rosemary Davies , Daniel Defoe , David Edgar , John Elliot , John Esmonde , Colin Haydn Evans , Clive Exton , Richard Eyre , Gordon Flemyng , Bryan Forbes , Reg Gadney , Frances Galleymore , Anthony Garner , Lewis Grassic Gibbon , Alan Gibson , W. Stephen Gilbert , Brian Glover , Lionel Goldstein , Simon Gray , Leon Griffiths , Trevor Griffiths , James Andrew Hall , Willis Hall , David Halliwell , Helene Hanff , John Harding , Richard Harris , Michael Hastings , Václav Havel , Barry Hines , Raymond Hitchcock , Robert Holles , Arthur Hopcraft , David Hopkins , John Hopkins , Ron Hutchinson , Jennifer Johnston , Julia Jones , Paul Joyce , Barrie Keeffe , Bernard Kops , Bob Larbey , Ray Lawler , David Leland , Nemone Lethbridge , Henry Livings , Douglas Livingstone , Stephen Lowe , Doug Lucie , Derek Mahon , Philip Martin , Rita May , Sean McCarthy , Peter McDougall , Ian McEwan , John McGrath , William McIlvanney , Roddy McMillan , Christopher Menaul , David Mercer , Paula Milne , Roger Milner , Roy Minton , Adrian Mitchell , John Mortimer , Penelope Mortimer , GF Newman , Peter Nichols , Robert C. O'Brien , Mary O'Malley , Michael O'Neill , John Osborne , Horace Ové , Alun Owen , Stewart Parker , Jeremy Paul , Tony Perrin , David Pirie , Alan Plater , Stephen Poliakoff , Dennis Potter , Janey Preger , Leonard Preston , Peter Prince , Peter Ransley , Anthony Read , Piers Paul Read , Graham Reid , Jack Rosenthal , Alick Rowe , David Rudkin , Willy Russell , George Salverson , Jeremy Sandford , William Sansom , Munroe Scott , Alan Sharp , Don Shaw , N.F. Simpson , Neville Smith , Robert Smith , Roger Smith , Leslie Stewart , David Storey , Elizabeth Taylor , Rose Tremain , William Trevor , David Turner , John Wain , Colin Welland , Arnold Wesker , Ted Whitehead , Hugh Whitemore , Nigel Williams , Charles Wood , Charles Levinson , Peter Terson , Robert Holman , Jimmy O'Connor , Antonia Fraser , Mike Stott , Dusty Hughes , Caryl Churchill , Jeremy Seabrook , George Mackay Brown , Jim Hawkins , Alan Garner , Graham Williams , Edward Kuznetsov , Dixie Williams , John Challen , Brian Thompson , Don Haworth , Roy Kendall , Barry Collins , Elaine Feinstein , Maurice Edelman , Tom Hadaway , Andrew Carr , David Hodson , Gilly Fraser , Stephen Smith , H.O. Nazareth , Vivian Nicholson , Maurice Leitch , Paul Thompson , Eric Coltart , Michael Sadler , Christopher Bigsby , Robert Marshall , Stephen Mulrine , Tony Parker , Stephen Fagan , James Duthie , Peter Hankin , Douglas Dunn , John Bill , Andrew Taylor , Chris Kewbank , Barry Reckord , John Harvey-Flint , David Cregan , Marcella Evaristi , Sean Walsh , Judy Forrest , Hugh McManus , Wilson John Haire , Watson Gould , Joyce Neary , Andy McSmith , Jehane Markham , Vera Blackwell , John Norton , Jack Broome , Jan Griffiths
Production & Genre
Awards & Similar Awards: Won 11 BAFTA 16 wins & 16 nominations total
Similar: Amazing Stories (1985) Kraft Mystery Theatre (1961) Tomorrow and I (2024) What Really Happened to the Class of '65? (1977) So Long! (2013)
Keywords
Story 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.
