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 2)
Daddy Kiss It Better (Episode 1)
Writer: Peter Nichols
Air date: 1968-07-29
Star Quality (Episode 2)
Writer: William Marchant
Air date: 1968-08-08
Overview: An aspiring playwright is delighted when a famous star agrees to appear in his new play. At first, that is.
Bon Voyage (Episode 3)
Writer: William Marchant
Air date: 1968-08-12
A Heritage and Its History (Episode 4)
Air date: 1968-08-19
Funeral Games (Episode 5)
Writer: Joe Orton
Air date: 1968-08-26
Overview: Religious cult leader, Pringle, calls in a private investigator, Caulfield, after receiving letters saying that his wife is having an affair. But Caulfield learns that the wife has more than love on her mind.
A Most Unfortunate Accident (Episode 6)
Air date: 1968-08-29
Who Is Sylvia? (Episode 7)
Writer: Terence Rattigan
Air date: 1968-09-02
The Kindness of Mrs Radcliffe (Episode 8)
Writer: Noël Coward
Air date: 1968-09-05
There's a Hole in Your Dustbin Delilah (Episode 9)
Writer: Jack Rosenthal
Air date: 1968-09-09
Number Ten (Episode 10)
Writer: Ronald Millar
Air date: 1968-09-12
The Explorer (Episode 11)
Writer: Kenneth Jupp
Air date: 1968-09-16
The Tigers of Subtopia (Episode 12)
Writer: Julian Symons
Air date: 1968-09-19
The Stealers of Darkness (Episode 13)
Writer: Jacques Gillies
Air date: 1968-09-23
Inventory for the Summer (Episode 14)
Writer: John Westgate
Air date: 1968-09-26
Neutral Ground (Episode 15)
Writer: Tom Stoppard
Air date: 1968-09-30
Overview: An allied agent is sent out into an obscure country to find a Russian Agent who has been thrown out of Russia for defection. He finds a broken man who drowns his days in drink, and feels sympathy for him.
Your Name's Not God, It's Edgar (Episode 16)
Writer: Jack Rosenthal
Air date: 1968-10-03
Overview: Edgar Lunt lives his life by scientific principles, that is, for every action there is a reaction. He believes that any pleasure he might have, will mean, somebody will suffer somewhere else. The result is he is not very happy at all, until Trevor, a young student,tries to show him a fresh outlook on life.
If Only the Trains Come (Episode 17)
Air date: 1968-10-07
Camille 68 (Episode 18)
Writer: Alexandre Dumas fils
Air date: 1968-10-10
Overview: Camille is living in London, working as a prostitute with her friend Nanine. Her life has no happiness until she meets the son of one her customers 'Armand' a Cambridge undergraduate .
Thirteen Thousand and Eighty Three Pounds (Episode 19)
Writer: Fay Weldon
Air date: 1968-10-14
The Best Pair of Legs in the Business (Episode 20)
Air date: 1968-10-17
The Tycoon (Episode 21)
Air date: 1968-10-24
Murder: When Robin Was a Boy (Episode 22)
Writer: Roger Marshall
Air date: 1969-03-17
Murder: Return to Yesterday (Episode 23)
Writer: Julian Bond
Air date: 1969-03-24
Murder: Double Negative (Episode 24)
Writer: John Foster
Air date: 1969-03-31
Murder: Nobody Knows (Episode 25)
Writer: John Foster
Air date: 1969-04-14
Overview: Inspector Parker's instinct in trying to nail Pritchard for the horrific murder of a young girl becomes an obsession which puts pressure on both his health and marriage.
Murder: Mr Buchanan (Episode 26)
Writer: Joseph Green
Air date: 1969-04-21
Murder: Identikit (Episode 27)
Writer: Eric Coltart
Air date: 1969-04-28
Double Agent (Episode 28)
Writer: Anthony Steven
Air date: 1969-05-12
Public Face (Episode 29)
Writer: David Ambrose
Air date: 1969-05-19
Uncle Jonathan (Episode 30)
Air date: 1969-06-02
Square on the Hypotenuse (Episode 31)
Writer: Anthony Skene
Air date: 1969-06-09
Colombe (Episode 32)
Writer: Jean Anouilh
Air date: 1969-06-16
The Friendly Persuaders (Episode 33)
Writer: Paul Wheeler
Air date: 1969-06-23
Overview: A delegation from the planet Taran is made welcome by almost everyone in Britain. They talk of their planet as a promised land and a new beginning...but not everyone is convinced and decides to investigate further.
Beast in the Jungle (Episode 34)
Writer: James Saunders
Air date: 1969-06-30
Overview: May and John had met years earlier by an act of fate. They had gone their separate ways but then bump into each other again by another act of fate. John seems to have forgotten much of the earlier encounter but May remembers every detail and reminds him that the young John had been alarmed about a premonition he had of a tragic event that would happen to him in later life.
The Marrying Kind (Episode 35)
Writer: David Reid
Air date: 1969-07-07
Overview: The history of an old four poster bed and its various occupants.
Justice Is a Woman (Episode 36)
Writer: Stanley Miller
Air date: 1969-07-14
Overview: This drama inspired long running series Justice about a successful lady barrister.Here Julia Stafford is asked to defend a posh youth,an outsider in a conservative Scottish town, who is accused of murdering a girl.
End of Story (Episode 37)
Writer: Leo Lehmann
Air date: 1969-07-21
Remember the Germans (Episode 38)
Writer: Leo Lehmann
Air date: 1969-07-28
The John Hilarian Salt Exhibition and Numerous Illustrated Slides (Episode 39)
Writer: Roy Clarke
Air date: 1969-08-04
Stables Theatre Company #1: In a Cottage Hospital (Episode 40)
Writer: Carey Harrison
Air date: 1969-08-11
Overview: A man is suffering memory loss after slowly recovering from a car crash. Does fate offer a chance to re-invent himself and forget the past? - or is he doomed to make the same mistakes and have the same disappointments as he has always had?
Stables Theatre Company #2: Wedding Night (Episode 41)
Writer: Carey Harrison
Air date: 1969-08-18
The Ha Ha (Episode 42)
Writer: Jennifer Lawson
Air date: 1969-08-25
Overview: A young woman experiences a mental breakdown.
