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. A handful of these plays, including
Rumpole of the Bailey and
The Blackstuff (later
Boys from the Blackstuff), subsequently became television series in their own right.