Play for Today Main Title

Title sequence for season four of the BBC's famous anthology series of original dramas, which featured many award winning dramas and playwrights.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• BBC
• drama
• play
• today
• seventies

[Marillionboy]

Just thought I'd list what plays the title photos refer to: 0.00: Leeds United, 0:05 Baby Love, 0.10 Back of Beyond, 0.13 The Bevellers, 0.18 Taking Leave, 0.22 Fugitive, 0.25 Eleanor. All of them quite magnificent.

[gazhack]

@Marillionboy - Thank you very much. Good to know what they are.

[JCThomsonMA]

If there's any point to BBC Four at all (and it's hard to figure out whether there is one, given its output of absolute dreck, repeated ad nauseam), it is surely partly to present to today's more discerning viewers the good stuff from a time before they were born or able to see it.

Play For Today would be ideal. I'm old enough to have seen the original broadcasts, but I know I didn't see them all, so I'd love to see them now.

And btw, the theme music is a little gem of its type. Classy.

[BNCA70]

actors could really do with something like this nowadays to break in to the business - viewers would enjoy them too but of course the powers that be in the TV industry think they know best and will probably give us more 'reality' documentaries of people moving house - great.

[chatham43]

.....and where are all these Play For Todays Beeb..........don't tell me you wiped these too...

[puna5476]

Thanks for posting. Title soundtrack fab. Always wanted to play on piano.. anyone know name or where to get sheet music for it. V.

[SassySuzi]

Thanks for posting this. A young Pauline Quirke at 00:28 there.

it was a brilliant show at times. So many great writers getting to write about anything they wanted no matter how controversial. A shame there's nothing much like it on TV now.

[vordman]

Play for Today epitomized a golden age of TV for me. Thanks for posting this, it really takes me back.

[kevin45th]

Ampex196..what drama school did you go to in the 1970s ?

I used to go to "Red roofs drama school "littlewick greene in maidenhead..

[Ampex196]

This title sequence brings back so many memories of the mid 70's and my time at drama college.

Thanks for posting !!