Play for Tomorrow


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.

Episode list

Episode no.TitleFirst transmission DirectorWriterCast
1Crimes13 April 1982Stuart BurgeCaryl ChurchillSylvestra Le Touzel
Peter Whitbread
Rufus Collins
T. P. McKenna
Julia Foster
Donald Gee
Glen Murphy
2Bright Eyes20 April 1982Peter DuffellPeter PrinceRobin Ellis
Sarah Berger
Kate Harper
Constantin De Goguel
Julian Curry
Stephen Greif
Julian Wadham
Adam Blackwood
3Cricket27 April 1982Michael DarlowMichael WilcoxMalcolm Terris
Terence Halliday
Jeremy Child
Paul Antony-Barber
Simon Rouse
Anne Raitt
4The Nuclear Family4 May 1982John GlenisterTom McGrathJimmy Logan
Ann Scott-Jones
Gerard Kelly
Lizzie Radford
Russell Hunter
5Shades11 May 1982Bill HaysStephen LoweTracey Childs
Stuart Mackenzie
Emily Moore
Neil Pearson
Shelagh McLeod
Francesca Gonshaw
Michael Feldman
6Easter 201618 May 1982Ben BoltGraham ReidDenys Hawthorne
Derrick O'Connor
Bill Nighy
Eileen Pollock
Lise Ann McLaughlin
Colm Meaney
Kenneth Branagh