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Playhouse (1974 – 1983)

1974 • 8 seasons • Drama
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Playhouse — Season 7

29 episodes · Oct 31, 1980

1. Caught on a Train
Oct 31, 1980

Peter boards a train to attend an important business meeting across Europe. His trip is complicated by two women also assigned to his compartment. One is an independent American whom Peter finds attractive. The other is Frau Messner, an ext…

2. Fatal Spring
Nov 7, 1980

Using a remarkable blend of dramatic techniques, this study of three English poets – also three courageous soldiers – gradually develops towards their historical and crucial meeting.

3. The Black Madonna
Nov 14, 1980 · 50m

Lou Parker feels very strongly that she and her husband, Ray, are different from the Farrells and the Ackerleys. With them it's all television. But she and Ray have the local library and The Observer. They keep abreast. They're different.

4. The Happy Autumn Fields
Nov 21, 1980
5. Grown-Ups
Nov 28, 1980 · 95m

Young working class couple Dick and Mandy 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 hint…

6. My Dear Palestrina
Dec 5, 1980
7. Shaping Up
Dec 12, 1980
8. Standing in for Henry
Dec 19, 1980

At a Nottingham advertising agency, 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?

9. Fothergill
Jan 9, 1981

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.

10. One Hundred and Eighty!!!
Jan 16, 1981

A darts tournament is put in peril when the players' wives stage a sit-in in the pub.

11. The Kindness of Mrs. Radcliffe
Jan 23, 1981

A day in the life of Mrs Radcliffe, who believes that the advice she so freely gives is done only out of kindness.

12. A Last Visitor for Mr. Hugh Peter
Jan 30, 1981

In prison the night before his execution, Republican preacher Hugh Peter prepares to be hanged, drawn and quartered for treason.

13. Journal of Bridget Hitler
Feb 6, 1981

An Irishwoman married to a German in pre-WWI Liverpool prepares to meet her brother-in-law, a young man named Adolf Hitler.

14. Days at the Beach
Feb 13, 1981 · 90m

In 1920, a trio of British soldiers have to guard an unexploded mine that has washed up on a beach.

15. Bobby Wants to Meet Me
Feb 20, 1981

In 1978, Changes Magazine journalist Neville Morris writes an essay about Bob Dylan called 'A Jewish Massiah'. Dylan's publicist Elle Smith reaches out that The Bard wants to meet him at Earl's Court.

16. Days
Feb 27, 1981

A mother, waiting for a visit through a hospital day, reflects on her life. Dreams haunt her, fantasies seduce her, memories crowd in on her, distorting the drab reality of her day to day existence. Must her daughter follow in her footsteps…

17. Clapperclaw
Mar 6, 1981

VE Night, 1945: In a Yorkshire pub, not everyone is in a mood to celebrate. Lorna Thorpe's 'All-Star' dance band is down two members, the beer has run out, and some influential friends on the city council have booked flights to Buenos Aires…

18. The Potsdam Quartet
Mar 13, 1981

An exploration of the personal and professional conflicts of a string quartet who have been playing together for many years, but are on the point of disintegrating.

19. Unity
Mar 20, 1981

The true story of Unity Mitford who, in the 1930s, moves to Germany, where she befriends Adolf Hitler.

20. Skylark
Mar 27, 1981
21. Elizabeth Alone: Part 1
Apr 3, 1981

After nineteen years of marriage, three children, and a brief but passionate affair followed by a quick divorce, Elizabeth Aidallbery has to go for an emergency operation. From her bed, she has the leisure to take stock of her life, and fra…

22. Elizabeth Alone: Part 2
Apr 10, 1981

After nineteen years of marriage, three children, and a brief but passionate affair followed by a quick divorce, Elizabeth Aidallbery has to go for an emergency operation. From her bed, she has the leisure to take stock of her life, and fra…

23. Elizabeth Alone: Part 3
Apr 17, 1981

After nineteen years of marriage, three children, and a brief but passionate affair followed by a quick divorce, Elizabeth Aidallbery has to go for an emergency operation. From her bed, she has the leisure to take stock of her life, and fra…

24. The Man Who Almost Knew Eamonn Andrews
Apr 24, 1981
25. You're All Right, How Am I?
May 1, 1981
26. The Day War Broke Out
May 15, 1981

Albie Warren and his 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…

27. Random Moments in a May Garden
May 22, 1981
28. Going Gently
Jun 5, 1981 · 7.0

Two men sharing a hospital room after their diagnoses of terminal cancer struggle with fear, physical pain, the difficulties of being in hospital, family members unable to cope, loneliness, and their unusual friendship.

29. Marriage
Jul 10, 1981