Playhouse
Drama • Series

Playhouse

7.0/10 1974 8 Seasons 117 Episodes Ended

A one-hour anthology television series of one-off contemporary and classic dramas produced by the BBC.

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Season 7 Episodes

E1
Caught on a Train
1980

Peter boards a train to attend an important business meeting across Europe. His trip is complicated by two women also as…

E2
Fatal Spring
1980

Using a remarkable blend of dramatic techniques, this study of three English poets – also three courageous soldiers – gr…

E3
The Black Madonna
50 min 1980

Lou Parker feels very strongly that she and her husband, Ray, are different from the Farrells and the Ackerleys. With th…

E4
The Happy Autumn Fields
1980
E5
Grown-Ups
95 min 1980

Young working class couple Dick and Mandy move into a council house in Canterbury, and find Mr. Butcher, one of their fo…

E6
My Dear Palestrina
1980
E7
Shaping Up
1980
E8
Standing in for Henry
1980

At a Nottingham advertising agency, young graphic designer Graham is recruited as a temporary replacement for the iconic…

E9
Fothergill
1981

John Fothergill, aesthete and scholar, becomes the proprietor of the Spread Eagle, in Thame, Oxfordshire, with the inten…

E10
One Hundred and Eighty!!!
1981

A darts tournament is put in peril when the players' wives stage a sit-in in the pub.

E11
The Kindness of Mrs. Radcliffe
1981

A day in the life of Mrs Radcliffe, who believes that the advice she so freely gives is done only out of kindness.

E12
A Last Visitor for Mr. Hugh Peter
1981

In prison the night before his execution, Republican preacher Hugh Peter prepares to be hanged, drawn and quartered for …

E13
Journal of Bridget Hitler
1981

An Irishwoman married to a German in pre-WWI Liverpool prepares to meet her brother-in-law, a young man named Adolf Hitl…

E14
Days at the Beach
90 min 1981

In 1920, a trio of British soldiers have to guard an unexploded mine that has washed up on a beach.

E15
Bobby Wants to Meet Me
1981

In 1978, Changes Magazine journalist Neville Morris writes an essay about Bob Dylan called 'A Jewish Massiah'. Dylan's p…

E16
Days
1981

A mother, waiting for a visit through a hospital day, reflects on her life. Dreams haunt her, fantasies seduce her, memo…

E17
Clapperclaw
1981

VE Night, 1945: In a Yorkshire pub, not everyone is in a mood to celebrate. Lorna Thorpe's 'All-Star' dance band is down…

E18
The Potsdam Quartet
1981

An exploration of the personal and professional conflicts of a string quartet who have been playing together for many ye…

E19
Unity
1981

The true story of Unity Mitford who, in the 1930s, moves to Germany, where she befriends Adolf Hitler.

E20
Skylark
1981
E21
Elizabeth Alone: Part 1
1981

After nineteen years of marriage, three children, and a brief but passionate affair followed by a quick divorce, Elizabe…

E22
Elizabeth Alone: Part 2
1981

After nineteen years of marriage, three children, and a brief but passionate affair followed by a quick divorce, Elizabe…

E23
Elizabeth Alone: Part 3
1981

After nineteen years of marriage, three children, and a brief but passionate affair followed by a quick divorce, Elizabe…

E24
The Man Who Almost Knew Eamonn Andrews
1981
E25
You're All Right, How Am I?
1981
E26
The Day War Broke Out
1981

Albie Warren and his girlfriend Carla are second on the bill of variety artists and musicians performing to half empty v…

E27
Random Moments in a May Garden
1981
E28
Going Gently
1981

Two men sharing a hospital room after their diagnoses of terminal cancer struggle with fear, physical pain, the difficul…

E29
Marriage
1981

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