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 (42)
1. Daddy Kiss It Better
Aired 29 July 1968
2. Star Quality
Aired 8 August 1968
An aspiring playwright is delighted when a famous star agrees to appear in his new play. At first, that is.
3. Bon Voyage
Aired 12 August 1968
4. A Heritage and Its History
Aired 19 August 1968
5. Funeral Games
Aired 26 August 1968
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.
6. A Most Unfortunate Accident
Aired 29 August 1968
7. Who Is Sylvia?
Aired 2 September 1968
8. The Kindness of Mrs Radcliffe
Aired 5 September 1968
9. There's a Hole in Your Dustbin Delilah
Aired 9 September 1968
10. Number Ten
Aired 12 September 1968
11. The Explorer
Aired 16 September 1968
12. The Tigers of Subtopia
Aired 19 September 1968
13. The Stealers of Darkness
Aired 23 September 1968
14. Inventory for the Summer
Aired 26 September 1968
15. Neutral Ground
Aired 30 September 1968
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.
16. Your Name's Not God, It's Edgar
Aired 3 October 1968
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.
17. If Only the Trains Come
Aired 7 October 1968
18. Camille 68
Aired 10 October 1968
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 .
19. Thirteen Thousand and Eighty Three Pounds
Aired 14 October 1968
20. The Best Pair of Legs in the Business
Aired 17 October 1968
21. The Tycoon
Aired 24 October 1968
22. Murder: When Robin Was a Boy
Aired 17 March 1969
23. Murder: Return to Yesterday
Aired 24 March 1969
24. Murder: Double Negative
Aired 31 March 1969
25. Murder: Nobody Knows
Aired 14 April 1969
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.
26. Murder: Mr Buchanan
Aired 21 April 1969
27. Murder: Identikit
Aired 28 April 1969
28. Double Agent
Aired 12 May 1969
29. Public Face
Aired 19 May 1969
30. Uncle Jonathan
Aired 2 June 1969
31. Square on the Hypotenuse
Aired 9 June 1969
32. Colombe
Aired 16 June 1969
33. The Friendly Persuaders
Aired 23 June 1969
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.
34. Beast in the Jungle
Aired 30 June 1969
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.
35. The Marrying Kind
Aired 7 July 1969
The history of an old four poster bed and its various occupants.
36. Justice Is a Woman
Aired 14 July 1969
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.
37. End of Story
Aired 21 July 1969
38. Remember the Germans
Aired 28 July 1969
39. The John Hilarian Salt Exhibition and Numerous Illustrated Slides
Aired 4 August 1969
40. Stables Theatre Company #1: In a Cottage Hospital
Aired 11 August 1969
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?
41. Stables Theatre Company #2: Wedding Night
Aired 18 August 1969
42. The Ha Ha
Aired 25 August 1969
A young woman experiences a mental breakdown.