About Play for Today
- Released on October 15, 1970
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.
Full Cast of Play for Today
Bobby Lockwood plays Patch (voice)
Susanne Blakeslee plays Cruella (voice)
Samuel West plays Pongo (voice)
Mary MacLeod plays Nanny (voice)
Michael Lerner plays Producer (voice)
Kathryn Beaumont plays Additional Voices (voice)
Nicolette Little plays Additional Voices (voice)
Ursula Brooks plays Additional Voices (voice)
Nick Meaney plays Additional Voices (voice)
Sean Cameron Michael plays Additional Voices (voice)
Jim Cummings plays Additional Voices (voice)
Cornelia Hayes O'Herlihy plays Additional Voices (voice)
Aria Noelle Curzon plays Additional Voices (voice)
Sophie Uliano plays Additional Voices (voice)
Phil Proctor plays Additional Voices (voice)
Nikita Hopkins plays Additional Voices (voice)
Clive Revill plays Additional Voices (voice)
Daamen J. Krall plays Additional Voices (voice)
MacKenzie Sells plays Additional Voices (voice)
Kasha Kropinski plays Additional Voices (voice)
Joe Lavery plays Additional Voices (voice)
Peter Lavin plays Additional Voices (voice)
Clive Swift plays Additional Voices (voice)
Eli Russell Linnetz plays Additional Voices (voice)
Ben Tibber plays Additional Voices (voice)
Phil Davis plays 2nd Youth (as Philip Davis)
Annette Crosbie
Michael Carter plays 1st Youth
Denis Lawson plays Felix
Graham Ashley plays Arthur , Mr. Hutton , Barman , Jim Platt
Paul Freeman
Tom Chadbon plays Len
Danny Webb
Barbara Flynn
Christopher Benjamin
Tim Curry plays Glen
Lynn Farleigh
Elizabeth Spriggs
Terence Bayler
Lesley Manville plays Vivienne
Frances Barber plays Melody
David Bradley plays Policeman
Christopher Villiers
Georgine Anderson
Crew of Play for Today
Sound
Writing
Directing
Editing
Production
Art
Visual Effects
- Bobby Lockwood
- Susanne Blakeslee
- Samuel West
- Mary MacLeod
- Michael Lerner
- Kathryn Beaumont
- Nicolette Little
- Ursula Brooks
- Nick Meaney
- Sean Cameron Michael
- Jim Cummings
- Cornelia Hayes O'Herlihy
- Aria Noelle Curzon
- Sophie Uliano
- Phil Proctor
- Nikita Hopkins
- Clive Revill
- Daamen J. Krall
- MacKenzie Sells
- Kasha Kropinski
- Joe Lavery
- Peter Lavin
- Clive Swift
- Eli Russell Linnetz
- Ben Tibber
- Phil Davis
- Annette Crosbie
- Anne Reid
- Angela Pleasence
- Aubrey Morris
- Michael Carter
- Nick Tate
- Kenneth Colley
- Frances Tomelty
- Denis Lawson
- Graham Ashley
- Don Henderson
- Kenneth Branagh
- Bernard Hill
- Paul Freeman
- Ronald Lacey
- Michael Sheard
- Bob Peck
- Rupert Everett
- Charles Dance
- Donald Sumpter
- Tom Chadbon
- Penelope Wilton
- Elisabeth Sladen
- Christopher Ryan
- Danny Webb
- Barbara Flynn
- John Hurt
- Christopher Benjamin
- Tim Curry
- Ian Holm
- Vernon Dobtcheff
- Stephen Moore
- Julian Holloway
- Lynn Farleigh
- Ray Winstone
- Julie Walters
- Elizabeth Spriggs
- Terence Bayler
- Lesley Manville
- Brian Cox
- Jim Broadbent
- Julian Sands
- Frances Barber
- David Bradley
- Steven Berkoff
- Christopher Villiers
- Georgine Anderson
- Patrick Stewart
- Helen Mirren
- Anthony Hopkins
- Alan Bennett