ITV Playhouse (1977-1982)

UK, 26 April 1977-10 August 1982
7 series, 66 episodes, average 50m
videotape, colour, 4:3
mono, English

A British drama anthology television series with some genre epsiodes.

Premise

An anthology of plays.

Episodes

Genre episodes are noted in bold and are linked to further information – other episodes are listed for reference only.

Series One
Blind Love (26 April 1977)
Short Back and Sides (3 May 1977)
Not Quite Cricket (10 May 1977)
The Proofing Session (17 May 1977)
Cork and Bottle (24 May 1977)
Philby, Burgess and Maclean (31 May 1977)
The Bass Player and the Blonde (14 June 1977)
Last Summer (21 June 1977)
It’s Only Rock ‘n’ Roll (28 June 1977)
Roadrunner (5 July 1977)
Love-Lies-Bleeding (12 July 1977)
The Best of Enemies (19 July 1977)
Ghosts (26 July 1977)

Series Two
A Question of Time (12 January 1978)
Some Enchanted Evening (19 January 1978)
Aren’t We All (1 February 1978)
Last Wishes (8 February 1978)
Partisans (22 February 1978)
Cold Harbour (25 April 1978)
One of the Boys (2 May 1978)
Two Days That Shook the Branch (9 May 1978)
We Never Do What They Want (16 May 1978)
40 Weeks (23 May 1978)
Queen of a Distant Country (12 July 1978)

Series Three
The Case of Cruelty to Prawns (27 February 1979)
‘I’m a Dreamer Montreal’ (6 March 1979)
Where the Heart Is (13 March 1979)
The Reaper (20 March 1979)
No Mama No (27 March 1979)
The Winkler (3 April 1979)
The Blacktoft Diaries True or False? (10 April 1979)
Village Wooing (17 April 1979)
Casting the Runes (24 April 1979)
The Daughters of Albion (1 May 1979)
The Beast (8 May 1979)
The Winter Ladies (15 May 1979)

Series Four
St. Vitus’s Dance (10 July 1979)
Getting in On Concorde (17 July 1979)
Going Back (24 July 1979)
You’re Not Watching Me, Mummy (30 August 1979)

Season Five
Friends in Space (5 March 1980)
Visitors for Anderson (12 March 1980)
The Lady (19 March 1980)
The Marquise (7 September 1980)
The Schoolmistress (21 December 1980)

Season Six
Little Girls Don’t (10 March 1981)
The Perfect House (17 March 1981)
Only a Game (24 March 1981)
Out of Sight, Out of Mind (19 May 1981)
Sin With Our Permission (26 May 1981)
Last Night another Dissident… (1 July 1981)
The Day of the Janitor (8 July 1981)
Contract (15 July 1981)
Singles (19 July 1981)
A Ferry Ride Away (22 July 1981)
Friends and Other Lovers (5 August 1981)
The Quiet Days of Mrs Stafford (12 August 1981)

Season Seven
The Houseboy (3 July 1982)
The Reunion (10 July 1982)
The Breadwinner (17 July 1982)
Dogfood Dan and the Carmarthen Cowboy (24 July 1982)
Skirmishes (27 July 1982)
The Boxwallah (31 July 1982)
Nightlife (3 August 1982)
Grandad (7 August 1982)
The Glory Hole (10 August 1982)