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Does anyone remember a Play for Today in 1977 called Nipper? I can remember being really upset when the kid playing Nipper got killed in the end by crashing his dead father's car.
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Does anyone remember a Play for Today in 1977 called Nipper? I can remember being really upset when the kid playing Nipper got killed in the end by crashing his dead father's car.
I wish they would repeat them as they were a spring board for many great writers of today |
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Dont remember that episode tbh but there are loads more that spring to mind
I wish they would repeat them as they were a spring board for many great writers of today |
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Seemingly the public's desire for one-off, thought provoking, adult themed 75 minute dramas waned in the late 70s /early 80s, this is what the BBC told us.
Yet they still produced great sdrama eries like The Singing Detective and Pennies From Heaven. |
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Of Play For Today, does anyone else remember Keep Smiling, the story of a suburban office worker and family man developing paranoid schizophrenia? Shown in 1980.
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I don't remember Keep Smiling, but others I remember watching are Barmitvah Boy, Spend Spend Spend and the Spongers, that had me in floods of tears at the end too!
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Seemingly the public's desire for one-off, thought provoking, adult themed 75 minute dramas waned in the late 70s /early 80s, this is what the BBC told us.
Yet they still produced great sdrama eries like The Singing Detective and Pennies From Heaven. They followed up with Screen One and Screen Two which didn't finish until 1994 according to Wiki. Wiki http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Play_for_Today TV Cream http://www.tvcream.co.uk/?cat=2682 The latter link is the one to follow if you want to waste some time ![]() Then you can toddle off to an auction site of your preference. |
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My favourite PFT is Dennis Potter's 'Double Dare' chilling and brilliant, about a playwright with writers block meeting an actress he's obsessed with in a hotel bar, and fantasy and reality clash. It was so well written. Anyone seen it?
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And there was Dennis Potter's Brimstone and Treacle and Blue Remembered Hills. Both brilliantly done but grim.
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And there was Dennis Potter's Brimstone and Treacle and Blue Remembered Hills. Both brilliantly done but grim.
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Does anyone remember a Play for Today in 1977 called Nipper? I can remember being really upset when the kid playing Nipper got killed in the end by crashing his dead father's car.
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Certainly Cathy Come Home was one of the most memorable with Ray Brooks
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Spongers was repeated a while back on BBC 4 I think. As hard hitting and shocking still. Cathy Come Home has also been shown on BBC 4 a couple of times recently. So many good Play for Today's; Barrie Keeffe is one of my favourite playwrights. I spoke with him about 10 years ago. He said he was writing a sequel to The Long Good Friday but I don't think it was ever made.
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I have just watched a Play for Today which someone had uploaded to YouTube and one which I had wanted to watch for some time. It was Shakespeare or Bust with the brilliant Brian Glover, and was one of a trio of plays about three miners.
Shakespeare or Bust was first aired in January 1973 and I remember watching it then, but cannot say whether it had been repeated, I suppose it must have but I have never saw it again. The quality on Youtube is not brilliant, so I wish the Beeb could repeat some of these so we could see them in all their glory. |
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Dont remember that episode tbh but there are loads more that spring to mind
I wish they would repeat them as they were a spring board for many great writers of today http://www.bfi.org.uk/archive-collec...play-for-today |
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Certainly Cathy Come Home was one of the most memorable with Ray Brooks
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Complete listing of Plays for Today here:
http://www.tvcream.co.uk/?cat=2682 Missing episodes listed here: http://www.lostshows.com/default.asp...9-67ce68895b65 |
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That just goes to the homepage?
Select "Telly" on the menu bar and Play for Today is a listed option. Select "more posts" at the foot of each page to bring up more titles. Click on each title for a very brief synopsis. There's more info on the Radio Times genome. |
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Any chance of bbc4 repeating 'land of green ginger' in time for hull's year as city of culture??
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It wouldn't let me link to the PFT page.
Select "Telly" on the menu bar and Play for Today is a listed option. Select "more posts" at the foot of each page to bring up more titles. Click on each title for a very brief synopsis. There's more info on the Radio Times genome. http://www.tvcreamtest.co.uk/categor...lay-for-today/ |
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I don't remember Keep Smiling, but others I remember watching are Barmitvah Boy, Spend Spend Spend and the Spongers, that had me in floods of tears at the end too!
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