About this season
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.
Episodes (43)
1. Lady Windemere's Fan
Aired 25 September 1967
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...
2. They Said 'Let's Live Together'
Aired 2 October 1967
3. The First Thunder
Aired 9 October 1967
4. The Stories Of D.H. Lawrence: The Prussian Officer
Aired 16 October 1967
5. The Stories Of D.H. Lawrence: The Thorn In The Flesh
Aired 23 October 1967
6. The Stories Of D.H. Lawrence: None Of That
Aired 30 October 1967
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.
7. Ten Days That Shook The World
Aired 6 November 1967
8. The Waste Spaces
Aired 13 November 1967
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.
9. Children Playing
Aired 20 November 1967
A group of school children arriving at their holiday camp hostel find themselves being challenged by strangers there for leadership of their group.
10. I Love You Miss Patterson
Aired 27 November 1967
11. The Confession
Aired 4 December 1967
12. Top Of The Ladder
Aired 11 December 1967
13. Day Of The Tortoise
Aired 18 December 1967
14. A Whistle And A Funny Hat
Aired 25 December 1967
15. Seeds Of Destruction
Aired 1 January 1968
16. Lucky For Some
Aired 1 January 1968
17. The Curtis Affair
Aired 8 January 1968
A director has to provide an explanation to a public committee on how his firm made such a huge profit on a government contract.
18. On Approval
Aired 15 January 1968
Two couples try to discover if they can live together (platonically) and life gets very complicated.
19. The Photographer
Aired 22 January 1968
20. Rogue's Gallery: The Curious Adventures of Miss Jane Rawley
Aired 29 January 1968
21. Rogues' Gallery: The Misfortunes of Lucy Hodges
Aired 5 February 1968
A simple country girl arrives in London and finds herself being accused of murder and the threat of extradition to the USA.
22. Rogues' Gallery: The Lives and Crimes of Jonathan Wild and Jack Sheppard
Aired 12 February 1968
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?
23. Rogues' Gallery: The Tale of Lancelot Wishart
Aired 19 February 1968
24. The Father
Aired 26 February 1968
Parents struggle over the future of their child, resulting in the mother, using her cunning manipulative skills, subduing and finally destroying the father.
25. The Judge
Aired 4 March 1968
26. The Detour
Aired 11 March 1968
27. Public and Confidential
Aired 18 March 1968
28. A Matter of Diamonds
Aired 25 March 1968
29. The Brahmin Widow
Aired 1 April 1968
30. Murder: A Professional Job
Aired 15 April 1968
31. Murder: The Dancing Man
Aired 22 April 1968
32. The Bonegrinder
Aired 6 May 1968 • 78 min
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.
33. Horizontal Hold
Aired 20 May 1968
34. The Retreat
Aired 3 June 1968
35. Murder: The Rest of Our Lives
Aired 10 June 1968
36. Murder: An Even Chance
Aired 17 June 1968
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.
37. Murder: Killer's Odds
Aired 24 June 1968
38. Boatman Do Not Tarry
Aired 1 July 1968
39. Entertaining Mr. Sloane
Aired 8 July 1968
Mr. Sloane is a murderer. But, as both his middle-aged landlady and her homosexual brother quickly notice, he's very handsome.
40. Countercrime
Aired 15 July 1968
A bustling department store closes for the night, but now amongst the silence and the mannequins, there is an intruder.
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Aired 13 May 1968
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Aired 27 May 1968
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Aired 28 December 1967