Peter Prince (Writer)

Play for Today

Play for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC1 from 1970 to 1984. During the run, more than three hundred programmes, featuring original television plays, and adaptations of stage plays and novels, were transmitted. The individual episodes were between fifty and a hundred minutes in duration.

Release Date1970-10-15

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count2

Vote Count10

Playhouse

A one-hour anthology television series of one-off contemporary and classic dramas produced by the BBC.

Release Date1974-03-13

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count1

Vote Count1

American Playhouse

American Playhouse is an anthology television series periodically broadcast by Public Broadcasting Service in the United States.

Release Date1982-01-12

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count7

Vote Count8

ITV Playhouse

ITV Playhouse is a British comedy-drama TV series that ran from 1967 to 1983, which featured contributions from playwrights such as Dennis Potter, Rhys Adrian and Alan Sharp. The series began in black and white, but was later shot in colour and was produced by various companies for the ITV network, a format that would inspire Dramarama. Actors appearing in the series included Leslie Anderson, Gwen Nelson, Ricky Alleyne, Pat Heywood, Michael Elphick, Ian Hendry, Edward Woodward, Margaret Lockwood, Jessie Matthews and Lloyd Peters.

Release Date1967-09-25

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JobWriter

Episode Count2

Vote Count3

Thirty-Minute Theatre

An anthology of short plays shown on BBC Television between 1965 and 1973, used in part at least as a training ground for new writers, on account of its short length, and which therefore attracted many writers who later became well known.

Release Date1965-10-07

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JobWriter

Episode Count1

Vote Count8

Victorian Scandals

Featuring dramatised versions of true stories that shocked mainstream Victorian society.

Release Date1976-09-03

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JobWriter

Episode Count1

Vote Count1

Oppenheimer

This seven-part series highlights scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer from 1938 to 1953 as he develops the Atomic bomb.

Release Date1980-10-29

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count7

Vote Count13

The Hit

Ten years after ratting on his old mobster friends in exchange for personal immunity, two hit men drive a hardened criminal to Paris for his execution. However, while on the way, whatever can go wrong, does go wrong.

Release Date1984-09-07

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JobWriter

Vote Count238

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.

Release Date1982-04-13

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JobWriter

Episode Count1

Vote Count2

Waterland

The story of a mentally anguished high school history teacher going through a complete reassessment of his life. His method for reassessing his life is to narrate it to his class and interweave in it three generations of his family's history.

Release Date1992-08-21

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JobWriter

Vote Count40

The Floater

A comedy about the law - seen from the inside. All formality and procedure on the surface but not quite so convincing when you see the works.

Release Date1975-05-29

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JobWriter

Vote Count1

The Good Father

Bill is a man who's very bitter about his divorce and losing custody of his son. So, when one of his friends is being sued for divorce by his wife so that she can enter a lesbian relationship, Bill decides to help his friend gain custody of his son...in any way that they can devise, including using a sleazeball lawyer. But while Bill feels that feminism has robbed him of his family, he begins to be appalled at what he and Roger have done.

Release Date1985-11-01

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JobWriter

Vote Count16

Play Things

A young man volunteers to work with a children's play group in a deprived London area. Adapted by Peter Prince from his own novel.

Release Date1976-05-07

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JobWriter

A Song for Europe

Steven Dyer, an executive working for a giant multinational drugs company, decides to report his employer for breaches of Common Market trading regulations. One night in Basle, Switzerland, he leaves his home to post a letter, the start of a nightmare journey that leads to terrible consequences for his life, his career and for his wife and children.

Release Date1985-05-27

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JobWriter

Vote Count3

Early Struggles

Kevin's wife walked out and left him holding the baby – no sleep, dirty nappies, and a career in pop music at risk. And ahead lies a visit to the clinic. Will Kevin succeed as a mother?

Release Date1976-03-30

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JobWriter

Vote Count1

Cold Harbour

A beautiful Chilean exile called Tina is stranded in a new country.

Release Date1978-04-25

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JobWriter

Bright Eyes

1999: Examination of family life and political ideals in a war-ravaged future Europe, compared and contrasted with ’60s equivalents.

Release Date1982-04-20

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JobWriter

Last Summer

A 1976 play concerning an unemployed school leaver becomes involved with professional car thieves. Part of the ITV Playhouse strand.

Release Date1977-07-22

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count1