Synopsis
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
1E1Lady Windemere's FanLord 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...2E2They Said 'Let's Live Together'3E3The First Thunder4E4The Stories Of D.H. Lawrence: The Prussian Officer5E5The Stories Of D.H. Lawrence: The Thorn In The Flesh6E6The Stories Of D.H. Lawrence: None Of ThatElizabeth 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.7E7Ten Days That Shook The World8E8The Waste SpacesA 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.9E9Children PlayingA group of school children arriving at their holiday camp hostel find themselves being challenged by strangers there for leadership of their group.10E10I Love You Miss Patterson11E11The Confession12E12Top Of The Ladder13E13Day Of The Tortoise14E14A Whistle And A Funny Hat15E15Seeds Of Destruction16E16Lucky For Some17E17The Curtis AffairA director has to provide an explanation to a public committee on how his firm made such a huge profit on a government contract.18E18On ApprovalTwo couples try to discover if they can live together (platonically) and life gets very complicated.19E19The Photographer20E20Rogue's Gallery: The Curious Adventures of Miss Jane Rawley21E21Rogues' Gallery: The Misfortunes of Lucy HodgesA simple country girl arrives in London and finds herself being accused of murder and the threat of extradition to the USA.22E22Rogues' Gallery: The Lives and Crimes of Jonathan Wild and Jack SheppardJack 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?23E23Rogues' Gallery: The Tale of Lancelot Wishart24E24The FatherParents struggle over the future of their child, resulting in the mother, using her cunning manipulative skills, subduing and finally destroying the father.25E25The Judge26E26The Detour27E27Public and Confidential28E28A Matter of Diamonds29E29The Brahmin Widow30E30Murder: A Professional Job31E31Murder: The Dancing Man32E32The BonegrinderPotter 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.78m33E33Horizontal Hold34E34The Retreat35E35Murder: The Rest of Our Lives36E36Murder: An Even ChanceA 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.37E37Murder: Killer's Odds38E38Boatman Do Not Tarry39E39Entertaining Mr. SloaneMr. Sloane is a murderer. But, as both his middle-aged landlady and her homosexual brother quickly notice, he's very handsome.40E40CountercrimeA bustling department store closes for the night, but now amongst the silence and the mannequins, there is an intruder.98E98delete99E99delete100E100delete
