

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.
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- Ep 1
1.Lady Windemere's Fan
25-09-1967Lord 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
30-10-1967Elizabeth 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
13-11-1967A 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
20-11-1967A 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
08-01-1968A 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
15-01-1968Two 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
05-02-1968A 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
12-02-1968Jack 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
26-02-1968Parents 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
06-05-196878mPotter 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
17-06-1968A 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
08-07-1968Mr. 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
15-07-1968A 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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