Playhouse (Season 7)

Caught on a Train (Episode 1)

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 (Episode 2)

Air date: 1980-11-07

The Black Madonna (Episode 3)

Air date: 1980-11-14

The Happy Autumn Fields (Episode 4)

Air date: 1980-11-21

Grown-Ups (Episode 5)

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 (Episode 6)

Air date: 1980-12-05

Shaping Up (Episode 7)

Air date: 1980-12-12

Standing in for Henry (Episode 8)

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 (Episode 9)

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!!! (Episode 10)

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 (Episode 11)

Air date: 1981-01-23

A Last Visitor for Mr. Hugh Peter (Episode 12)

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 (Episode 13)

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 (Episode 14)

Air date: 1981-02-13

Overview: Days at the Beach

Bobby Wants to Meet Me (Episode 15)

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 (Episode 16)

Air date: 1981-02-27

Clapperclaw (Episode 17)

Air date: 1981-03-06

The Potsdam Quartet (Episode 18)

Air date: 1981-03-13

Unity (Episode 19)

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 (Episode 20)

Air date: 1981-03-27

Elizabeth Alone: Part 1 (Episode 21)

Air date: 1981-04-03

Elizabeth Alone: Part 2 (Episode 22)

Air date: 1981-04-10

Elizabeth Alone: Part 3 (Episode 23)

Air date: 1981-04-17

The Man Who Almost Knew Eamonn Andrews (Episode 24)

Air date: 1981-04-24

You're All Right, How Am I? (Episode 25)

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 (Episode 26)

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 (Episode 27)

Air date: 1981-05-22

Going Gently (Episode 28)

Air date: 1981-06-05

Overview: Play about two elderly cancer patients suffering in hospital.

Marriage (Episode 29)

Air date: 1981-07-10