ITV Playhouse — Season 1, Episode 1: Lady Windemere's Fan

Episode synopsis

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...

About 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.

More episodes from Season 1

• E2They Said 'Let's Live Together'
• E3The First Thunder
• E4The Stories Of D.H. Lawrence: The Prussian Officer
• E5The Stories Of D.H. Lawrence: The Thorn In The Flesh
• E6The Stories Of D.H. Lawrence: None Of That
• E7Ten Days That Shook The World
• E8The Waste Spaces
• E9Children Playing
• E10I Love You Miss Patterson
• E11The Confession
• E12Top Of The Ladder
• E13Day Of The Tortoise