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.
Episodes
43 episodes. Playback and audio depend on the available source.
S1:E1 Lady Windemere's Fan
Lord Windermere appears to all - including to his young wife Margaret - as the perfect husband. But their happy marriage is placed at risk when Lord Windermere starts spending his afternoons with an adventuress who is working her way through London's high society, Mrs. Erlynne. Worse, Windermere gives her big sums of money. To crown it all he asks his wife to invite the detestable woman to her own birthday party. Upset and outraged, the puritan Lady Windermere decides to leave her husband and goes to Lord Robert Darlington, who has been courting her for some time. Unfortunately she leaves her fan - the one Robert offered her for her birthday - in Robert's house...
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E2 They Said 'Let's Live Together'
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E3 The First Thunder
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E4 The Stories Of D.H. Lawrence: The Prussian Officer
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E5 The Stories Of D.H. Lawrence: The Thorn In The Flesh
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E6 The Stories Of D.H. Lawrence: None Of That
Elizabeth Cane arrives in Mexico and starts to take an interest in a bull fighter, but he can find only contempt for this refined American woman and what she represents.
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E7 Ten Days That Shook The World
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E8 The Waste Spaces
A couple buy a house cheap unbeknown it has a sitting tenant in the form of Daniel Bloch, the wife is soon aware of an evil atmosphere.
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E9 Children Playing
A group of school children arriving at their holiday camp hostel find themselves being challenged by strangers there for leadership of their group.
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E10 I Love You Miss Patterson
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E11 The Confession
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E12 Top Of The Ladder
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E13 Day Of The Tortoise
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E14 A Whistle And A Funny Hat
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E15 Seeds Of Destruction
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E16 Lucky For Some
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E17 The Curtis Affair
A director has to provide an explanation to a public committee on how his firm made such a huge profit on a government contract.
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E18 On Approval
Two couples try to discover if they can live together (platonically) and life gets very complicated.
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E19 The Photographer
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E20 Rogue's Gallery: The Curious Adventures of Miss Jane Rawley
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E21 Rogues' Gallery: The Misfortunes of Lucy Hodges
A simple country girl arrives in London and finds herself being accused of murder and the threat of extradition to the USA.
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E22 Rogues' Gallery: The Lives and Crimes of Jonathan Wild and Jack Sheppard
Jack Sheppard is a working-class thief, whilst Jonathan Wild is thief-taker to the crown, the country's most senior law-enforcement officer. But which one is the greater criminal?
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E23 Rogues' Gallery: The Tale of Lancelot Wishart
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E24 The Father
Parents struggle over the future of their child, resulting in the mother, using her cunning manipulative skills, subduing and finally destroying the father.
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E25 The Judge
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E26 The Detour
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E27 Public and Confidential
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E28 A Matter of Diamonds
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E29 The Brahmin Widow
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E30 Murder: A Professional Job
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E31 Murder: The Dancing Man
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E32 The Bonegrinder
Potter contrasted the fading heritage of the British empire with new American values, embodying national traits in his central characters proper British businessman George King, a London suburbanite, who encounters loud and crass sailor Sam Adams, an American who is disrespectful of British culture and traditions.
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E33 Horizontal Hold
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E34 The Retreat
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E35 Murder: The Rest of Our Lives
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E36 Murder: An Even Chance
A young white couple visiting a friend's flat in Harlem NY find themselves marooned there just as race riots start. The empty flat could be their only sanctuary during the mayhem... but then the flat has more visitors.
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E37 Murder: Killer's Odds
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E38 Boatman Do Not Tarry
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E39 Entertaining Mr. Sloane
Mr. Sloane is a murderer. But, as both his middle-aged landlady and her homosexual brother quickly notice, he's very handsome.
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E40 Countercrime
A bustling department store closes for the night, but now amongst the silence and the mannequins, there is an intruder.
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