Playhouse (シーズン 8)

Mrs. Reinhardt (エピソード 1)

脚本家: Edna O'Brien

放送日: 1981-10-30

上映時間: 115 min

概要: An Englishwoman seeking to escape her marriage arrives at French hotel.

Last Summer's Child (エピソード 2)

脚本家: Susan Hill

放送日: 1981-11-06

概要: A boy feels restless during a hot summer in prewar Cornwall.

Autumn Sunshine (エピソード 3)

脚本家: William Trevor

放送日: 1981-11-13

The Grudge Fight (エピソード 4)

脚本家: John Hale

放送日: 1981-11-27

Virginia Fly Is Drowning (エピソード 5)

脚本家: Angela Huth

放送日: 1981-12-04

概要: Secure in her suburban home, Virginia Fly dreams of a life of unbridled passion and romance. She feels her fantasies are about to become reality when she is asked to take part in a TV documentary about pre-marital love - a subject about which she is sadly ignorant...

Findings on a Late Afternoon (エピソード 6)

脚本家: Rose Tremain

放送日: 1981-12-11

概要: Gerald is on the edge of a complete breakdown. During an afternoon with his father, he starts to come to terms with the wounding confusions and mistakes of his past—his lies, his girlfriend's suicide, his mother's obsessive love of his younger brother, and her death in a hospital when he arrived too late to communicate his real feelings for her.

Dancing Country (エピソード 7)

脚本家: Peter Buckman

放送日: 1981-12-18

概要: The local country dancing team of old-age pensioners is forced to change its style when Jack, its leader, arrives with a new partner, one who is younger and prettier.

The Combination (エピソード 8)

放送日: 1982-01-08

A Silly Little Habit (エピソード 9)

脚本家: Carol Bunyan

放送日: 1982-01-15

概要: An apparently happy and privileged woman begins shoplifting.

Aubrey (エピソード 10)

脚本家: John Selwyn Gilbert

放送日: 1982-01-22

概要: The story of Aubrey Beardsley, an English illustrator and author, whose black ink drawings were influenced by Japanese woodcuts, and depicted the grotesque, the decadent, and the erotic. He was a leading figure in the aesthetic movement which also included Oscar Wilde and James McNeill Whistler.

Preview (エピソード 11)

脚本家: Sylvia Clayton

放送日: 1982-01-29

概要: Four television critics gather in a Wardour Street preview theatre to see a documentary and get the surprise of their lives.

Out of Step (エピソード 12)

脚本家: Carol Bunyan

放送日: 1982-02-05

概要: A keen ballroom dancer becomes an alcoholic after discovering she's infertile.

A Shilling Life (エピソード 13)

脚本家: Guy Meredith

放送日: 1982-02-12

概要: A once-famous writer, now long out of fashion, is interviewed by a disconcerting young woman.

The Workshop (エピソード 14)

放送日: 1982-02-19

概要: In 1945, just a year since the allied troops entered Paris, Simone arrives for her first day at M. Leon's tailoring workshop.

How Many Miles to Babylon? (エピソード 15)

放送日: 1982-02-26

上映時間: 111 min

概要: Wealthy Alexander Moore and working-class Jerry Crowe are childhood friends and, in 1914, find themselves in the same Army unit – Alex as an officer and Jerry as a private. They still remain close, however, until Jerry is court-martialed for desertion, and Alex is put in charge of the firing squad.

The Pigman's Protégé (エピソード 16)

脚本家: Thomas Ellice

放送日: 1982-03-05

概要: In 1919, the carnage of WWI has left the country desperately short of young men. Maud, who runs the farm for her crippled father, decides that it is time for her young sister Clara to be married, and a husband could provide a strong pair of hands around the place. Stan the pigman seems to fix most things, why not this?

A Pocketful of Dreams (エピソード 17)

脚本家: Jim Hill

放送日: 1982-03-12

上映時間: 29 min

概要: At the moment, money is scarce and times are hard for everyone—even villains like Charlie and Denny are feeling the pinch. But their luck could change when a chance encounter with a film crew provides them with an eccentric method of getting their hands on a lot of loot.

Keeping in Touch (エピソード 18)

脚本家: Alan Drury

放送日: 1982-03-19

概要: When James pays one of his periodic visits to his mother, he finds her curiously resigned to the loneliness she's suffered for the years since her husband's death. Somehow, she has managed to keep all the family ties intact.

The Guest (エピソード 19)

放送日: 1982-03-26

概要: Gerald fancies himself as a bit of a gourmet and a trip to the gastronomic delights of France promises well. His wife Hilary isn't so sure; she isn't sure of a lot of things about Gerald just recently, but the menu at the extravagantly recommended La Petite Chanson provides an unexpected solution.

The Sidmouth Letters (エピソード 20)

放送日: 1982-04-02

上映時間: 35 min

概要: Academic scavenger Shorty believes he's tracked down some letters that reveal an unexpected side to Miss Jane Austen's nature.

The Queen of Annagh (エピソード 21)

脚本家: Terry Hodgkinson

放送日: 1982-04-16

概要: Nancy is the sole inhabitant of the Isle of Annagh off the west coast of Scotland. Although World War III is raging all around she sees little of it until Michael, a young pilot officer, pays an involuntary visit and is in danger of dragging the hostilities along with him.

By George (エピソード 22)

脚本家: Denis Cannan

放送日: 1982-04-23

概要: An anthropologist observed by one of his erstwhile victims — a sophisticated comedy.

Lunch (エピソード 23)

脚本家: Elaine Feinstein

放送日: 1982-04-30

概要: Two women meet for lunch every two weeks to swap news. But this week is different.

Passing Through (エピソード 24)

脚本家: Rhys Adrian

放送日: 1982-05-07

概要: At a railway public house, two strangers engage in a conversation and begin to open up about their life's. Richard is an alcoholic and former stockbroker is just been released from jail. Arthur works for the railway as a points operator.

Jake's End (エピソード 25)

脚本家: Desmond Lowden

放送日: 1982-05-14

概要: Jake's a professional, a married man with a reputation to maintain—and a bank to rob.

Housewarming (エピソード 26)

脚本家: Stephen Bill

放送日: 1982-05-21

概要: Her husband Gary is behind on the central heating installation. Eunice, her best friend, has a crush on the lodger — an actor appearing in a violent play at the local rep. No wonder Tina is anxious about the housewarming.

Easy Money (エピソード 27)

脚本家: Michael Abbensetts

放送日: 1982-05-28

概要: At a concert, Marcia picked Terry out of the crowd. So he no longer feels alone. Until he learns about her secret life and dare not tell his friends.

Potatohead Blues (エピソード 28)

脚本家: Bill Morrison

放送日: 1982-06-04

概要: Stan McVay has given up smoking, gone on a diet and feels like hell. He's also abandoned the Ulster spud and just learned that his teenage daughter is having an affair with a married man.

Irwin Shaw Triple Bill: The Man Who Married a French Wife / The Monument / The Girls in Their Summer Dresses (エピソード 29)

放送日: 1982-06-11

概要: Three short stories by Irwin Shaw.

Chains (エピソード 30)

脚本家: Janey Preger

放送日: 1982-06-18

概要: Eddie's 40th birthday party reunites friends not seen since the old days of ton-up bikes and early rock and roll. It could be a chance to relive those 'good times', if the others can only match Eddie's enthusiasm.

Come Into the Garden, Maud (エピソード 31)

脚本家: Noël Coward

放送日: 1982-07-07

概要: A henpecked American visiting Europe is able to throw off his ghastly wife and find love.

A Song at Twilight (エピソード 32)

脚本家: Noël Coward

放送日: 1982-07-09

概要: A famous writer finds that a long-suppressed secret is about to be revealed by his former mistress.

Fraulein Else (エピソード 33)

放送日: 1983-01-14

Imaginary Friends (エピソード 34)

放送日: 1983-04-01

Possibilities (エピソード 35)

放送日: 1983-05-20