Play for Tomorrow: Story, Cast and Series Facts

Story and premise

An anthology of 6 science fiction plays ; In "Crimes" a psychologist tries to cope with marital problems while working on the problem of prison overcrowding in the year 2002 ; In "Bright Eyes" Britain is seen to be in the middle of a Euro-war in the year 1999 ; In "Cricket" 2 village communities take unusual measures to win a local cricket match in the year 1997 ; In "The Nuclear Family" a 1999 British family take a working holiday in an underwater missile base ; in "Shades", set in 1999 again, the government has paid unemployed youths to live in converted office blocks and amuse themselves through virtual reality ; and in "Easter 2016" students in a Northern Ireland college stage an uprising to commemorate the Easter Rising of 1916.

Series details

• Title: Play for Tomorrow
• Format: Scripted
• Language: English
• Premiere date: 1982-04-13
• Final broadcast date listed: 1982-05-18
• Status in TVmaze: Ended
• Network listed by TVmaze: BBC One
• Network country: United Kingdom
• Typical episode runtime: 60 minutes
• TVMaze ID: 19338
• IMDb ID: tt0174417
• TVDB ID: 71068

Seasons in the TVmaze catalogue

• Season 1: premiered 1982-04-13; final listed air date 1982-05-18.

Source and licence

Adapted from Play for Tomorrow on TVmaze. The synopsis is reproduced as plain text; catalogue facts, cast and season records are selected and reformatted. This adapted text is available under CC BY-SA 4.0, following the TVmaze API licence. Network and web-channel credits identify the service listed in this source; they do not establish current streaming availability.