BBC2 Playhouse is a one hour UK anthology television series of one-off contemporary and classic dramas created by Sara Pia Anderson and produced by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). Among its many notable guest stars were Helen Mirren, Daniel Day-Lewis, Judi Dench, Liam Neeson, Paul Scofield, Deborah Kerr, Ben Kingsley, Donald Pleasence, Brenda Blethyn, and Peggy Ashcroft. It premiered in the UK on March 13, 1974 and ran through May 20, 1983.
Playhouse (Season 7)
Caught on a Train 0.0
Air date: 1980-10-31
Overview: Peter boards a train to attend an important business meeting across Europe. His train trip is made more complicated by two women also assigned to his train compartment. One is an independent American whom Peter finds attractive. The other is Frau Messner - an extremely particular and demanding older European woman. Between the two of them, they try different aspects of Peter's patience...
Fatal Spring 0.0
Air date: 1980-11-07
The Black Madonna 0.0
Air date: 1980-11-14
The Happy Autumn Fields 0.0
Air date: 1980-11-21
Grown-Ups 0.0
Air date: 1980-11-28
Overview: Dick and Mandy, a young working class couple, move into a council house in Canterbury, and find Mr. Butcher, one of their former teachers, living next door. Mandy's unmarried sister, Gloria, is constantly dropping in, and will not take any hints that the couple would prefer to be left alone, until her presence finally goads them to action.
My Dear Palestrina 0.0
Air date: 1980-12-05
Shaping Up 0.0
Air date: 1980-12-12
Standing in for Henry 0.0
Air date: 1980-12-19
Overview: At an advertising agency in Nottingham, young graphic designer Graham is recruited as a temporary replacement for the iconic Henry. The agency are desperate to be part of the Swinging Sixties but not without Henry. Can Graham replace him?
Fothergill 0.0
Air date: 1981-01-09
Overview: John Fothergill, aesthete and scholar, becomes the proprietor of the Spread Eagle, in Thame, Oxfordshire, with the intent of turning it into the most celebrated Inn in England, catering to the brightest lights in London's literati.
One Hundred and Eighty!!! 0.0
Air date: 1981-01-16
Overview: A darts tournament is put in peril when the players' wives stage a sit-in in the pub.
The Kindness of Mrs. Radcliffe 0.0
Air date: 1981-01-23
A Last Visitor for Mr. Hugh Peter 0.0
Air date: 1981-01-30
Overview: In prison the night before his execution, republican preacher Hugh Peter prepares to be hanged, drawn and quartered for treason.
Journal of Bridget Hitler 0.0
Air date: 1981-02-06
Overview: An Irishwoman married to a German in pre-WW1 Liverpool prepares to meet her brother-in-law, a young man named Adolf Hitler.
Episode 14 0.0
Air date: 1981-02-13
Overview: Days at the Beach
Bobby Wants to Meet Me 0.0
Air date: 1981-02-20
Overview: It's 1978, journalist Neville Morris, from Changes magazine, writes an essay about Bob Dylan called "A Jewish Massiah". Dylan's publicist Elle Smith reaches out that Bobby wants to meet him at Earl's Court. Neville goes into panic mode.
Days 0.0
Air date: 1981-02-27
Clapperclaw 0.0
Air date: 1981-03-06
The Potsdam Quartet 0.0
Air date: 1981-03-13
Unity 0.0
Air date: 1981-03-20
Overview: Period Drama. The true story of Unity Mitford who in the 1930's went to live in Germany and was friends with Adolf Hitler.
Skylark 0.0
Air date: 1981-03-27
Elizabeth Alone: Part 1 0.0
Air date: 1981-04-03
Elizabeth Alone: Part 2 0.0
Air date: 1981-04-10
Elizabeth Alone: Part 3 0.0
Air date: 1981-04-17
The Man Who Almost Knew Eamonn Andrews 0.0
Air date: 1981-04-24
You're All Right, How Am I? 0.0
Air date: 1981-05-01
Overview: Michael Hordern and Denholm Elliot are perfectly cast and are ideal foils for each other.
The Day War Broke Out 0.0
Air date: 1981-05-15
Overview: Albie Warren and girlfriend Carla are second on the bill of variety artists and musicians performing to half empty venues. Albie impersonates wartime comic Rob Wilton to people who don't know him. Will he take the chance to top the bill?
Random Moments in a May Garden 0.0
Air date: 1981-05-22
Going Gently 0.0
Air date: 1981-06-05
Overview: Play about two elderly cancer patients suffering in hospital.
Marriage 0.0
Air date: 1981-07-10

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