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The Wednesday Play (BBC1 1964-70) and Play for Today (BBC1 1970-84): canon formation and commercial availability

'Play For Today: Plaintiffs & Defendants' (BBC1, 14 October 1975), one of ten Play For Today titles added to the BFI Mediatheque this year in association with the Forgotten Television Drama project.

This article was first published as a blog post on the Critical Studies in Television site on 12 December 2014. I’ve re-posted it here in the light of the launch of the BBC Store last week, and added a postscript listing the  Wednesday Play and Play For Today titles that have been added to the […]