Playhouse
A one-hour anthology television series of one-off contemporary and classic dramas produced by the BBC.
Season 6 Episodes
A play about the horrors of life at an English public school - with all the schoolboys played by adults.
A dissident, Alexander, has been pronounced insane by the authorities (although he isn't), and finds himself sharing a c…
Cpl. George Hunn's sentry post is knocked over and he wakes to find he is suffering from frost bite of the face. Sent to…
Keith and Alec have been making holiday movies, together for 25 years. Alec suddenly spots a moment between wife Sybil a…
In 1935, Sir Malcolm Campbell's obsession is to win the World's Land Speed Record in his car Bluebird. Speed King is abo…
Set in a north country synagogue, a group of Jewish men have to organise a shiva, however, not having the required numbe…
An Edwardian house party given by a Fabian woman, her business-man husband and assorted guests from politics and the Art…
Gregory has troubles enough when Ella moves him out and sets him up for a job with the radio. Suspicions of infidelity c…
A comprehensive school is praised for its authenticity, but one schoolboy does not agree with this assessment.
An upper-class young man has rejected his affluent background, but, when a crisis comes, reverts to type pretty quickly.
Cousin, W. Clifford Mill, ran a dirty postcard business; which brings Paul to the country in search of a profitable afte…
What is friendship? Why do two grown men behave like egomaniac children or flustered prima donnas? And when they meet un…
A teenager learns about life and death while staying with his aunt during the school holidays.
Mother is manic, Father frustrated. Son sees himself as quite an operator. Daughter wants to change the dreary world of …
A married transvestite comes to terms with their true gender identity.
Nobody goes to Amsterdam to wander about. It's either the Rijksmuseum or the red-light district. On the boat going home …
A physicist has visions of his unborn baby – it turns out that the child will grow up to become a Hitler-like dictator r…
Repeated from Play for Today
A talented, independent artist lives by the sea with her daughter. As summer approaches, she faces two threats to her wa…
Our gamble is over, Dalhousie. You'll walk at dawn tomorrow as agreed, but in case you've no mind to return, there's one…
German composer Anton Webern survives Naziism only to be shot by an American GI in the closing days of WWII. His son, ag…
