Episode guide: 1983


LAST LOVE (1 Mar 1983)

wr. Reg Gadney
pr. Alan Shallcross
dr. Nicholas Renton

GATES OF GOLD (8 Mar 1983)

wr. Maurice Leitch
pr. Andrée Molyneux, Chris Parr
dr. Jon Amiel

WAYNE AND ALBERT (15 Mar 1983)

wr. David Hopkins
pr. Alan Shallcross
dr. Sarah Pia Anderson

ATLANTIS (29 Mar 1983)

wr. Peter Terson
pr. Colin Rogers
dr. Les Chatfield

THE LAST TERM (5 Apr 1983)

wr. Raymond Hitchcock
pr. Rosemary Hill
dr. Philip Bonham-Carter

RELUCTANT CHICKENS (12 Apr 1983)

wr. David Cregan
pr. Roger Gregory
dr. Gareth Davies

SHALL I BE MOTHER? (19 Apr 1983)

wr. Peter Ransley
pr. Anne Head
dr. Ronald Wilson

THE FALKLANDS FACTOR (26 Apr 1983)

Essay by Oliver Wake
wr. Don Shaw
pr. Louis Marks
dr. Colin Bucksey

A MATTER OF CHOICE FOR BILLY (10 May 1983)

wr. Graham Reid
pr. Chris Parr, Neil Zeiger
dr. Paul Seed

Go to 1984.

See also this list of plays broadcast in 1983 but whose status as part of Play for Today is less clear

A Matter of Choice for Billy was available on BBC Store but it closed on 1 November 2017. Note that some titles that were previously available via BBC Store, and some others, are now available to buy to stream on Amazon Prime Video in the UK.

For researchers interested in these plays and their archival status, we strongly recommend the BBC drama research guide available here from Kaleidoscope.

Updates:
16 November 2015: replaced missing link to one essay
6 Jun 2015: simplified layout; added producer credits; checked archival status; added DVD availability; minor corrections.
10 July 2016: updated release information; added ‘go to’ link.
25 February 2017: checked latest BBC Store release information: no addition required since 2016 update; tidied presentation of BBC Store information.
12 June 2018: replaced ‘Episodes’ with ‘Episode guide’; removed BBC Store release information from individual entries and noted its closure.
14 October 2020: added Amazon note.