ITV Playhouse is a British comedy-drama TV series that ran from 1967 to 1983, which featured contributions from playwrights such as Dennis Potter, Rhys Adrian and Alan Sharp. The series began in black and white, but was later shot in colour and was produced by various companies for the ITV network, a format that would inspire Dramarama. Actors appearing in the series included Leslie Anderson, Gwen Nelson, Ricky Alleyne, Pat Heywood, Michael Elphick, Ian Hendry, Edward Woodward, Margaret Lockwood, Jessie Matthews and Lloyd Peters.
ITV Playhouse (Season 1)
Lady Windemere's Fan (Episode 1)
Writer: Oscar Wilde
Air date: 1967-09-25
Overview: Lord Windermere appears to all - including to his young wife Margaret - as the perfect husband. But their happy marriage is placed at risk when Lord Windermere starts spending his afternoons with an adventuress who is working her way through London's high society, Mrs. Erlynne. Worse, Windermere gives her big sums of money. To crown it all he asks his wife to invite the detestable woman to her own birthday party. Upset and outraged, the puritan Lady Windermere decides to leave her husband and goes to Lord Robert Darlington, who has been courting her for some time. Unfortunately she leaves her fan - the one Robert offered her for her birthday - in Robert's house...
They Said 'Let's Live Together' (Episode 2)
Writer: Hugh Forbes
Air date: 1967-10-02
The First Thunder (Episode 3)
Air date: 1967-10-09
The Stories Of D.H. Lawrence: The Prussian Officer (Episode 4)
Writer: Ken Taylor
Air date: 1967-10-16
The Stories Of D.H. Lawrence: The Thorn In The Flesh (Episode 5)
Writer: D. H. Lawrence
Air date: 1967-10-23
The Stories Of D.H. Lawrence: None Of That (Episode 6)
Writer: D. H. Lawrence
Air date: 1967-10-30
Overview: Elizabeth Cane arrives in Mexico and starts to take an interest in a bull fighter, but he can find only contempt for this refined American woman and what she represents.
Ten Days That Shook The World (Episode 7)
Air date: 1967-11-06
The Waste Spaces (Episode 8)
Writer: Gerald Vaughan-Hughes
Air date: 1967-11-13
Overview: A couple buy a house cheap unbeknown it has a sitting tenant in the form of Daniel Bloch, the wife is soon aware of an evil atmosphere.
Children Playing (Episode 9)
Writer: David Rudkin
Air date: 1967-11-20
Overview: A group of school children arriving at their holiday camp hostel find themselves being challenged by strangers there for leadership of their group.
I Love You Miss Patterson (Episode 10)
Writer: John Bowen
Air date: 1967-11-27
The Confession (Episode 11)
Writer: Maurice McLaughlin
Air date: 1967-12-04
Top Of The Ladder (Episode 12)
Air date: 1967-12-11
Day Of The Tortoise (Episode 13)
Writer: Julian Bond
Air date: 1967-12-18
A Whistle And A Funny Hat (Episode 14)
Writer: John Whitewood
Air date: 1967-12-25
Seeds Of Destruction (Episode 15)
Air date: 1968-01-01
Lucky For Some (Episode 16)
Writer: Kevin Laffan
Air date: 1968-01-01
The Curtis Affair (Episode 17)
Writer: Wilfred Greatorex
Air date: 1968-01-08
Overview: A director has to provide an explanation to a public committee on how his firm made such a huge profit on a government contract.
On Approval (Episode 18)
Writer: Stanley Miller
Air date: 1968-01-15
Overview: Two couples try to discover if they can live together (platonically) and life gets very complicated.
The Photographer (Episode 19)
Writer: Kenneth Jupp
Air date: 1968-01-22
Rogue's Gallery: The Curious Adventures of Miss Jane Rawley (Episode 20)
Writer: Peter Wildeblood
Air date: 1968-01-29
Rogues' Gallery: The Misfortunes of Lucy Hodges (Episode 21)
Writer: Peter Wildeblood
Air date: 1968-02-05
Overview: A simple country girl arrives in London and finds herself being accused of murder and the threat of extradition to the USA.
Rogues' Gallery: The Lives and Crimes of Jonathan Wild and Jack Sheppard (Episode 22)
Writer: Peter Wildeblood
Air date: 1968-02-12
Overview: Jack Sheppard is a working-class thief, whilst Jonathan Wild is thief-taker to the crown, the country's most senior law-enforcement officer. But which one is the greater criminal?
Rogues' Gallery: The Tale of Lancelot Wishart (Episode 23)
Writer: Peter Wildeblood
Air date: 1968-02-19
The Father (Episode 24)
Writer: August Strindberg
Air date: 1968-02-26
Overview: Parents struggle over the future of their child, resulting in the mother, using her cunning manipulative skills, subduing and finally destroying the father.
The Judge (Episode 25)
Writer: John Mortimer
Air date: 1968-03-04
The Detour (Episode 26)
Writer: Martin Walser
Air date: 1968-03-11
Public and Confidential (Episode 27)
Writer: Benn W. Levy
Air date: 1968-03-18
A Matter of Diamonds (Episode 28)
Air date: 1968-03-25
The Brahmin Widow (Episode 29)
Writer: John Mitchell
Air date: 1968-04-01
Murder: A Professional Job (Episode 30)
Writer: Marc Brandel
Air date: 1968-04-15
Murder: The Dancing Man (Episode 31)
Writer: Marc Brandel
Air date: 1968-04-22
The Bonegrinder (Episode 32)
Writer: Dennis Potter
Air date: 1968-05-06
Runtime: 78 min
Overview: Potter contrasted the fading heritage of the British empire with new American values, embodying national traits in his central characters proper British businessman George King, a London suburbanite, who encounters loud and crass sailor Sam Adams, an American who is disrespectful of British culture and traditions.
Horizontal Hold (Episode 33)
Writer: Stanley Price
Air date: 1968-05-20
The Retreat (Episode 34)
Writer: John Hale
Air date: 1968-06-03
Murder: The Rest of Our Lives (Episode 35)
Writer: Marc Brandel
Air date: 1968-06-10
Murder: An Even Chance (Episode 36)
Writer: Marc Brandel
Air date: 1968-06-17
Overview: A young white couple visiting a friend's flat in Harlem NY find themselves marooned there just as race riots start. The empty flat could be their only sanctuary during the mayhem... but then the flat has more visitors.
Murder: Killer's Odds (Episode 37)
Writer: Marc Brandel
Air date: 1968-06-24
Boatman Do Not Tarry (Episode 38)
Writer: John D. Stewart
Air date: 1968-07-01
Entertaining Mr. Sloane (Episode 39)
Writer: Joe Orton
Air date: 1968-07-08
Overview: Mr. Sloane is a murderer. But, as both his middle-aged landlady and her homosexual brother quickly notice, he's very handsome.
Countercrime (Episode 40)
Writer: Stanley Clayton
Air date: 1968-07-15
Overview: A bustling department store closes for the night, but now amongst the silence and the mannequins, there is an intruder.
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Air date: 1968-05-13
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Air date: 1968-05-27
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Air date: 1967-12-28
