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.
Season 1 Episodes
Lord Windermere appears to all - including to his young wife Margaret - as the perfect husband. But their happy marriage…
Elizabeth Cane arrives in Mexico and starts to take an interest in a bull fighter, but he can find only contempt for thi…
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 e…
A group of school children arriving at their holiday camp hostel find themselves being challenged by strangers there for…
A director has to provide an explanation to a public committee on how his firm made such a huge profit on a government c…
Two couples try to discover if they can live together (platonically) and life gets very complicated.
A simple country girl arrives in London and finds herself being accused of murder and the threat of extradition to the U…
Jack Sheppard is a working-class thief, whilst Jonathan Wild is thief-taker to the crown, the country's most senior law-…
Parents struggle over the future of their child, resulting in the mother, using her cunning manipulative skills, subduin…
Potter contrasted the fading heritage of the British empire with new American values, embodying national traits in his c…
A young white couple visiting a friend's flat in Harlem NY find themselves marooned there just as race riots start. The …
Mr. Sloane is a murderer. But, as both his middle-aged landlady and her homosexual brother quickly notice, he's very han…
A bustling department store closes for the night, but now amongst the silence and the mannequins, there is an intruder.
