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Play for Tomorrow (1982–1982) on BBC One

The answer: Concluded May 18, 1982.
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Network / streamer
BBC One
Premiered
April 13, 1982
Ended
May 18, 1982
Runtime
~60 min per episode
1season
6episodes

About Play for Tomorrow

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.

Play for Tomorrow episode schedule

6 aired

Aired · 6

DateEp.Title
May 18, 1982 S1·E6 Easter 2016
May 11, 1982 S1·E5 Shades
May 4, 1982 S1·E4 The Nuclear Family
April 27, 1982 S1·E3 Cricket
April 20, 1982 S1·E2 Bright Eyes
April 13, 1982 S1·E1 Crimes