Playhouse
A one-hour anthology television series of one-off contemporary and classic dramas produced by the BBC.
Season 8 Episodes
An Englishwoman seeking to escape her marriage arrives at French hotel.
A boy feels restless during a hot summer in prewar Cornwall.
Secure in her suburban home, Virginia Fly dreams of a life of unbridled passion and romance. She feels her fantasies are…
Gerald is on the edge of a complete breakdown. During an afternoon with his father, he starts to come to terms with the …
The local country dancing team of old-age pensioners is forced to change its style when Jack, its leader, arrives with a…
An apparently happy and privileged woman begins shoplifting.
The story of Aubrey Beardsley, an English illustrator and author, whose black ink drawings were influenced by Japanese w…
Four television critics gather in a Wardour Street preview theatre to see a documentary and get the surprise of their li…
A keen ballroom dancer becomes an alcoholic after discovering she's infertile.
A once-famous writer, now long out of fashion, is interviewed by a disconcerting young woman.
In 1945, just a year since the allied troops entered Paris, Simone arrives for her first day at M. Leon's tailoring work…
Wealthy Alexander Moore and working-class Jerry Crowe are childhood friends and, in 1914, find themselves in the same Ar…
In 1919, the carnage of WWI has left the country desperately short of young men. Maud, who runs the farm for her cripple…
At the moment, money is scarce and times are hard for everyone—even villains like Charlie and Denny are feeling the pinc…
When James pays one of his periodic visits to his mother, he finds her curiously resigned to the loneliness she's suffer…
Gerald fancies himself as a bit of a gourmet and a trip to the gastronomic delights of France promises well. His wife Hi…
Academic scavenger Shorty believes he's tracked down some letters that reveal an unexpected side to Miss Jane Austen's n…
Nancy is the sole inhabitant of the Isle of Annagh off the west coast of Scotland. Although World War III is raging all …
An anthropologist observed by one of his erstwhile victims — a sophisticated comedy.
Two women meet for lunch every two weeks to swap news. But this week is different.
At a railway public house, two strangers engage in a conversation and begin to open up about their life's. Richard is an…
Jake's a professional, a married man with a reputation to maintain—and a bank to rob.
Her husband Gary is behind on the central heating installation. Eunice, her best friend, has a crush on the lodger — an …
At a concert, Marcia picked Terry out of the crowd. So he no longer feels alone. Until he learns about her secret life a…
Stan McVay has given up smoking, gone on a diet and feels like hell. He's also abandoned the Ulster spud and just learne…
Three short stories by Irwin Shaw.
Eddie's 40th birthday party reunites friends not seen since the old days of ton-up bikes and early rock and roll. It cou…
A henpecked American visiting Europe is able to throw off his ghastly wife and find love.
A famous writer finds that a long-suppressed secret is about to be revealed by his former mistress.
