Original title
ITV Playhouse
Released
9/25/1967
Origin country
GB
Genre
Drama
Status
Ended
Number of seasons
14
Number of episodes
255
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.
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...
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.
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.
A group of school children arriving at their holiday camp hostel find themselves being challenged by strangers there for leadership of their group.
A director has to provide an explanation to a public committee on how his firm made such a huge profit on a government contract.
Two couples try to discover if they can live together (platonically) and life gets very complicated.
A simple country girl arrives in London and finds herself being accused of murder and the threat of extradition to the USA.
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?
Parents struggle over the future of their child, resulting in the mother, using her cunning manipulative skills, subduing and finally destroying the father.
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.
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.
Mr. Sloane is a murderer. But, as both his middle-aged landlady and her homosexual brother quickly notice, he's very handsome.
A bustling department store closes for the night, but now amongst the silence and the mannequins, there is an intruder.
An aspiring playwright is delighted when a famous star agrees to appear in his new play. At first, that is.
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.
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.
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.
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 .
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.
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.
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 history of an old four poster bed and its various occupants.
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.
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?
A young woman experiences a mental breakdown.
Doreen's rather odd beauty shop gives it's women customers a unique opportunity to act out their fantasies.
A proud woman coldly concentrates on keeping up appearances when her 50-year old husband and a young schoolgirl go missing at the same time.
An Orwellian world in which a Socialist Public School is opened,despite the good intentions and efforts from staff to produce a school of equal opportunity and excellence, the school ends up like all the others.
A reconstruction of an event in 1968 when a converted cargo ship the USS Pueblo was seized by the North Korean Navy as a spy ship. It was supposed to be protected by the US Pacific Fleet but they are out of range at this time. The play concerns Captain Bucher and his crew left on their own to deal with duty, their own lives and preventing another Korean War.
Drama around the 1916 Easter uprising in Ireland.
A hard-bitten newspaper reporter is drawn back into the world of sleaze he had hoped to have left behind, and this time it goes right to the top.
A buffoon is mistaken for an important official.
A crumbling marriage with a child in the middle of it all.
While hitchhiking towards the coast, two young men find themselves trapped at an inn by its strange landlord and his beautiful wife.
Old boys' reunion is an excuse for high spirits for some of the school's former pupils.
Tom and Phyl travel down to Wales to stay with friends Huw and Teg, a couple they hung around with in London some years back. Culturally the couples have their differences, and after a spell of unease, passions come to the surface.
A man makes an unexpected appearance at his younger brother's house in the middle of the night. He needs somewhere to stay and convinces his brother and his wife that he is trouble. Or is he?
A young man who likes to cause a stir meets an older woman who refuses to rise to his bait.
Two mountaineers stumble into the safe haven of a hut after being caught in a blizzard, seemingly unconcerned about the other two of their team still on the mountain.
Frank is elected mayor of a northern town, but wonders whether he's made the right decision.
A large gathering of the Randolph clan leads to reflections on the importance of family.
Set in Liverpool in the early 70s, the film tells the story of Samuel 'lucky' Ubooto, a half African, half Irish man in his 20s whose decidedly unlucky career as a criminal has resulted in a series of stretches in prison for theft. The story follows Lucky on the day of his release from his latest sentence. As he wanders around Liverpool, not really belonging anywhere, it becomes clear that he is still waiting for his father, a man who has long since abandoned Lucky and his family, to return and take him back 'home' to Africa.
A man arrives at a couple's home with news about their estranged son. They welcome him at first as a guest, but become suspicious of who he actually is. He in turn becomes uneasy and disturbed by the whole atmosphere in the home.
Todays theme is Mr. Axelford's Angel.
Life does not get boring for the Harrises living at the top of a 24 floor tower block, they have a moody teenage son Enoch, a lodger called Corrie and an irritating caller called Ponce which leads to a series of strange events.
Elaine and Max are lovers, but is Elaine's psychiatrist too involved in their relationship?
A lonely elderly woman strikes up a friendship with a driving instructor.
Graham, an executive, is ordered by his boss to look after a couple of out-of-town buyers - who make it clear they would like to visit a brothel.
A disillusioned husband and wife take a trip across the Channel, hoping to find themselves. In fact they find the French are not what they expected.
A school leaver is teamed up with experienced professional car thief (Beckinsale). The novice ends up going it alone hence car park ending.
A rock star is kidnapped at the end of a concert. The record company ask the question is he worth more dead than alive?
A sixteen-year-old boy living in Occupied France develops an uneasy friendship with a Nazi officer billeted in his grandmother's house.
Mrs Alving is preparing a memorial for her late husband with Pastor Manders, but years of anger and frustration are exposed, as she confesses a life she kept hidden.
A beautiful Chilean exile called Tina is stranded in a new country.
Dogfood Dan And The Carmarthen Cowboy was a tale of two long-distance dogfood-carrying lorry drivers who, to the other's ignorance, are each having affairs with the other's wife. Although the men meet up on the road, exchange stories of their sexual escapades, and often talk to their wives about their travelling friend, the lies they spin and the false names they invent mean that neither the husbands nor the wives cotton on to the convoluted situation. Aubrey Owen likes to pass himself off as an MP, 'Aneurin', during his visits with Helen, while Dan claims he is carrying top secret 'abnormal' loads when pursuing the passionate Myfanwy. Made by Yorkshire Television for the ITV Network.
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