Playhouse (1974)
BBC2 Playhouse is a one hour UK anthology television series of one-off contemporary and classic dramas created by Sara Pia Anderson and produced by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). Among its many notable guest stars were Helen Mirren, Daniel Day-Lewis, Judi Dench, Liam Neeson, Paul Scofield, Deborah Kerr, Ben Kingsley, Donald Pleasence, Brenda Blethyn, and Peggy Ashcroft. It premiered in the UK on March 13, 1974 and ran through May 20, 1983.
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Episode 1 - Caught on a Train
Release Date: 1980-10-31Peter boards a train to attend an important business meeting across Europe. His train trip is made more complicated by two women also assigned to his train compartment. One is an independent American whom Peter finds attractive. The other is Frau Messner - an extremely particular and demanding older European woman. Between the two of them, they try different aspects of Peter's patience...
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Episode 2 - Fatal Spring
Release Date: 1980-11-07 -
Episode 3 - The Black Madonna
Release Date: 1980-11-14 -
Episode 4 - The Happy Autumn Fields
Release Date: 1980-11-21 -
Episode 5 - Grown-Ups
Release Date: 1980-11-28Dick and Mandy, a young working class couple, move into a council house in Canterbury, and find Mr. Butcher, one of their former teachers, living next door. Mandy's unmarried sister, Gloria, is constantly dropping in, and will not take any hints that the couple would prefer to be left alone, until her presence finally goads them to action.
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Episode 6 - My Dear Palestrina
Release Date: 1980-12-05 -
Episode 7 - Shaping Up
Release Date: 1980-12-12 -
Episode 8 - Standing in for Henry
Release Date: 1980-12-19At an advertising agency in Nottingham, young graphic designer Graham is recruited as a temporary replacement for the iconic Henry. The agency are desperate to be part of the Swinging Sixties but not without Henry. Can Graham replace him?
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Episode 9 - Fothergill
Release Date: 1981-01-09John Fothergill, aesthete and scholar, becomes the proprietor of the Spread Eagle, in Thame, Oxfordshire, with the intent of turning it into the most celebrated Inn in England, catering to the brightest lights in London's literati.
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Episode 10 - One Hundred and Eighty!!!
Release Date: 1981-01-16A darts tournament is put in peril when the players' wives stage a sit-in in the pub.
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Episode 11 - The Kindness of Mrs. Radcliffe
Release Date: 1981-01-23 -
Episode 12 - A Last Visitor for Mr. Hugh Peter
Release Date: 1981-01-30In prison the night before his execution, republican preacher Hugh Peter prepares to be hanged, drawn and quartered for treason.
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Episode 13 - Journal of Bridget Hitler
Release Date: 1981-02-06An Irishwoman married to a German in pre-WW1 Liverpool prepares to meet her brother-in-law, a young man named Adolf Hitler.
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Episode 14 - Episode 14
Release Date: 1981-02-13Days at the Beach
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Episode 15 - Bobby Wants to Meet Me
Release Date: 1981-02-20It's 1978, journalist Neville Morris, from Changes magazine, writes an essay about Bob Dylan called "A Jewish Massiah". Dylan's publicist Elle Smith reaches out that Bobby wants to meet him at Earl's Court. Neville goes into panic mode.
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Episode 16 - Days
Release Date: 1981-02-27 -
Episode 17 - Clapperclaw
Release Date: 1981-03-06 -
Episode 18 - The Potsdam Quartet
Release Date: 1981-03-13 -
Episode 19 - Unity
Release Date: 1981-03-20Period Drama. The true story of Unity Mitford who in the 1930's went to live in Germany and was friends with Adolf Hitler.
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Episode 20 - Skylark
Release Date: 1981-03-27 -
Episode 21 - Elizabeth Alone: Part 1
Release Date: 1981-04-03 -
Episode 22 - Elizabeth Alone: Part 2
Release Date: 1981-04-10 -
Episode 23 - Elizabeth Alone: Part 3
Release Date: 1981-04-17 -
Episode 24 - The Man Who Almost Knew Eamonn Andrews
Release Date: 1981-04-24 -
Episode 25 - Episode 25
Release Date: 1981-05-01 -
Episode 26 - The Day War Broke Out
Release Date: 1981-05-15Albie Warren and girlfriend Carla are second on the bill of variety artists and musicians performing to half empty venues. Albie impersonates wartime comic Rob Wilton to people who don't know him. Will he take the chance to top the bill?
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Episode 27 - Random Moments in a May Garden
Release Date: 1981-05-22 -
Episode 28 - Going Gently
Release Date: 1981-06-05Play about two elderly cancer patients suffering in hospital.
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Episode 29 - Marriage
Release Date: 1981-07-10