ITV Playhouse
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.
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Daddy Kiss It Better
Jul 29, 1968 -
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Star Quality
An aspiring playwright is delighted when a famous star agrees to appear in his new play. At first, that is.
Aug 8, 1968 -
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Bon Voyage
Aug 12, 1968 -
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E4
A Heritage and Its History
Aug 19, 1968 -
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Funeral Games
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.
Aug 26, 1968 · 60m -
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A Most Unfortunate Accident
Aug 29, 1968 -
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Who Is Sylvia?
Sep 2, 1968 -
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E8
The Kindness of Mrs Radcliffe
Sep 5, 1968 -
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E9
There's a Hole in Your Dustbin Delilah
Sep 9, 1968 -
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E10
Number Ten
Sep 12, 1968 · 75m -
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The Explorer
Sep 16, 1968 · 79m -
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E12
The Tigers of Subtopia
Sep 19, 1968 -
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E13
The Stealers of Darkness
Sep 23, 1968 -
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Inventory for the Summer
Sep 26, 1968 -
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E15
Neutral Ground
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.
Sep 30, 1968 -
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Your Name's Not God, It's Edgar
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.
Oct 3, 1968 -
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E17
If Only the Trains Come
Oct 7, 1968 · 75m -
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E18
Camille 68
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 .
Oct 10, 1968 -
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Thirteen Thousand and Eighty Three Pounds
Oct 14, 1968 · 90m -
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E20
The Best Pair of Legs in the Business
Oct 17, 1968 -
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The Tycoon
Oct 24, 1968 -
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Murder: When Robin Was a Boy
Mar 17, 1969 -
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Murder: Return to Yesterday
Mar 24, 1969 -
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E24
Murder: Double Negative
Mar 31, 1969 -
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Murder: Nobody Knows
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.
Apr 14, 1969 -
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Murder: Mr Buchanan
Apr 21, 1969 -
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E27
Murder: Identikit
Apr 28, 1969 -
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E28
Double Agent
May 12, 1969 -
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E29
Public Face
May 19, 1969 -
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E30
Uncle Jonathan
Jun 2, 1969 -
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E31
Square on the Hypotenuse
Jun 9, 1969 -
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Colombe
Jun 16, 1969 -
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E33
The Friendly Persuaders
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.
Jun 23, 1969 · 75m -
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E34
Beast in the Jungle
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.
Jun 30, 1969 · 90m -
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E35
The Marrying Kind
The history of an old four poster bed and its various occupants.
Jul 7, 1969 -
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E36
Justice Is a Woman
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.
Jul 14, 1969 -
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E37
End of Story
Jul 21, 1969 -
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E38
Remember the Germans
Jul 28, 1969 -
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E39
The John Hilarian Salt Exhibition and Numerous Illustrated Slides
Aug 4, 1969 -
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E40
Stables Theatre Company #1: In a Cottage Hospital
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?
Aug 11, 1969 -
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E41
Stables Theatre Company #2: Wedding Night
Aug 18, 1969 -
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E42
The Ha Ha
A young woman experiences a mental breakdown.
Aug 25, 1969