ITV Playhouse
ITV Playhouse
TV ShowEnded

ITV Playhouse

6.5 / 10
1967
14 seasons
255 episodes
Drama

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.

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  • Ep 1

    1.Lady Windemere's Fan

    25-09-1967

    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...

  • Ep 2

    2.They Said 'Let's Live Together'

    02-10-1967
  • Ep 3

    3.The First Thunder

    09-10-1967
  • Ep 4

    4.The Stories Of D.H. Lawrence: The Prussian Officer

    16-10-1967
  • Ep 5

    5.The Stories Of D.H. Lawrence: The Thorn In The Flesh

    23-10-1967
  • Ep 6

    6.The Stories Of D.H. Lawrence: None Of That

    30-10-1967

    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.

  • Ep 7

    7.Ten Days That Shook The World

    06-11-1967
  • Ep 8

    8.The Waste Spaces

    13-11-1967

    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.

  • Ep 9

    9.Children Playing

    20-11-1967

    A group of school children arriving at their holiday camp hostel find themselves being challenged by strangers there for leadership of their group.

  • Ep 10

    10.I Love You Miss Patterson

    27-11-1967
  • Ep 11

    11.The Confession

    04-12-1967
  • Ep 12

    12.Top Of The Ladder

    11-12-1967
  • Ep 13

    13.Day Of The Tortoise

    18-12-1967
  • Ep 14

    14.A Whistle And A Funny Hat

    25-12-1967
  • Ep 15

    15.Seeds Of Destruction

    01-01-1968
  • Ep 16

    16.Lucky For Some

    01-01-1968
  • Ep 17

    17.The Curtis Affair

    08-01-1968

    A director has to provide an explanation to a public committee on how his firm made such a huge profit on a government contract.

  • Ep 18

    18.On Approval

    15-01-1968

    Two couples try to discover if they can live together (platonically) and life gets very complicated.

  • Ep 19

    19.The Photographer

    22-01-1968
  • Ep 20

    20.Rogue's Gallery: The Curious Adventures of Miss Jane Rawley

    29-01-1968
  • Ep 21

    21.Rogues' Gallery: The Misfortunes of Lucy Hodges

    05-02-1968

    A simple country girl arrives in London and finds herself being accused of murder and the threat of extradition to the USA.

  • Ep 22

    22.Rogues' Gallery: The Lives and Crimes of Jonathan Wild and Jack Sheppard

    12-02-1968

    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?

  • Ep 23

    23.Rogues' Gallery: The Tale of Lancelot Wishart

    19-02-1968
  • Ep 24

    24.The Father

    26-02-1968

    Parents struggle over the future of their child, resulting in the mother, using her cunning manipulative skills, subduing and finally destroying the father.

  • Ep 25

    25.The Judge

    04-03-1968
  • Ep 26

    26.The Detour

    11-03-1968
  • Ep 27

    27.Public and Confidential

    18-03-1968
  • Ep 28

    28.A Matter of Diamonds

    25-03-1968
  • Ep 29

    29.The Brahmin Widow

    01-04-1968
  • Ep 30

    30.Murder: A Professional Job

    15-04-1968
  • Ep 31

    31.Murder: The Dancing Man

    22-04-1968
  • Ep 32

    32.The Bonegrinder

    06-05-196878m

    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...

  • Ep 33

    33.Horizontal Hold

    20-05-1968
  • Ep 34

    34.The Retreat

    03-06-1968
  • Ep 35

    35.Murder: The Rest of Our Lives

    10-06-1968
  • Ep 36

    36.Murder: An Even Chance

    17-06-1968

    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.....

  • Ep 37

    37.Murder: Killer's Odds

    24-06-1968
  • Ep 38

    38.Boatman Do Not Tarry

    01-07-1968
  • Ep 39

    39.Entertaining Mr. Sloane

    08-07-1968

    Mr. Sloane is a murderer. But, as both his middle-aged landlady and her homosexual brother quickly notice, he's very handsome.

  • Ep 40

    40.Countercrime

    15-07-1968

    A bustling department store closes for the night, but now amongst the silence and the mannequins, there is an intruder.

  • Ep 98

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    13-05-1968
  • Ep 99

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    27-05-1968
  • Ep 100

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    28-12-1967

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