TV series

Play for Tomorrow

1982 · 1 season

Thoughtful, talky speculative dramas that imagine ordinary British lives reshaped by technology and social change.

Created by: Neil Zeiger
Genres: Drama
Starring: Sylvestra Le Touzel, Peter Whitbread, Rufus Collins

Overview: Play for Tomorrow is a British television anthology science fiction series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC1 in 1982. It spun off from the anthology drama series Play for Today after the success of The Flipside of Dominick Hide on that strand. Each of the six episodes paints a vision of life in a future year, near the end of the 20th Century or at the beginning of the 21st.

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Created by: Neil Zeiger
Genres: Drama
Starring: Sylvestra Le Touzel, Peter Whitbread, Rufus Collins

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Tone: earneststrength 2 of 3
melancholicstrength 2 of 3
tensestrength 1 of 3
Pacing: measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: technology
identity
politics
class
family
Places: big city
suburbs
workplace
Era: near-future
Audience: adult
Form: anthology
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex mild

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Action	3
Horror	2
Humour	2
Realism	5
Romance	2
Tension	4
Darkness	5
Complexity	6
Emotional weight	5

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Genres: drama
Created by: Neil Zeiger
Written by: Stephen Lowe, Graham Reid, Tom McGrath, Caryl Churchill
Starring: Sylvestra Le Touzel, Peter Whitbread, Rufus Collins, Steve Sweeney, T. P. McKenna, Julia Foster, Dave Hill, Donald Gee
Music: George Fenton
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Network: BBC One
Languages: English

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