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 (31)
1. You've Made Your Bed: Now Lie in It
Aired 8 September 1969
2. Romans and Friends
Aired 29 September 1969
3. Mixed Foursome
Aired 6 October 1969
4. The Patriot Game
Aired 13 October 1969
5. Omri's Burning
Aired 16 October 1969
6. Like Puppies in a Basket
Aired 20 October 1969
7. The Swan Won't Go in the Fridge
Aired 27 October 1969
8. The Beauty Operators
Aired 3 November 1969
Doreen's rather odd beauty shop gives it's women customers a unique opportunity to act out their fantasies.
9. Have You Any Washing, Mother Dear?
Aired 10 November 1969
10. Suspect
Aired 17 November 1969
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.
11. Ancient and Modern
Aired 29 December 1969
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.
12. Plastic People
Aired 5 January 1970
13. A Man for Loving
Aired 12 January 1970
14. The Pueblo Affair
Aired 19 January 1970
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.
15. The People's Jack
Aired 26 January 1970
16. Would You Look at Them Smashing all Those Lovely Windows?
Aired 2 February 1970
Drama around the 1916 Easter uprising in Ireland.
17. Rumour
Aired 2 March 1970
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.
18. Unexpectantly Vacant
Aired 9 March 1970
19. Don't Touch Him, He Might Resent It
Aired 4 April 1970
A buffoon is mistaken for an important official.
20. Arthur Wants You for a Sunbeam
Aired 11 April 1970
21. Dear Mr. Welfare
Aired 15 April 1970
22. Thursday's Child
Aired 18 April 1970
A crumbling marriage with a child in the middle of it all.
23. Private Lillywhite's Dead
Aired 1 May 1970
24. The Bridesmaid
Aired 20 June 1970
25. Special Co-respondent
Aired 24 June 1970
26. A Family and a Fortune
Aired 27 June 1970
27. The High Game
Aired 3 July 1970
28. Brother and Sister
Aired 10 July 1970
29. A Sound from the Sea
Aired 17 July 1970
While hitchhiking towards the coast, two young men find themselves trapped at an inn by its strange landlord and his beautiful wife.
30. The Style of the Countess
Aired 24 July 1970
31. The Creeper
Aired 9 December 1970