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The Best Episodes of Playhouse Season 6

Every episode of Playhouse Season 6 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Playhouse Season 6!

The Best Episodes of Playhouse Season 6

A one-hour anthology television series of one-off contemporary and classic dramas produced by the BBC.

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    #1 - School Play

    S6:E1

    A play about the horrors of life at an English public school - with all the schoolboys played by adults.

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    #2 - Every Good Boy Deserves Favour

    S6:E2

    A dissident, Alexander, has been pronounced insane by the authorities (although he isn't), and finds himself sharing a cell with a genuine mental patient, Ivanov.

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    #3 - The Brylcreem Boys

    S6:E3

    Cpl. George Hunn's sentry post is knocked over and he wakes to find he is suffering from frost bite of the face. Sent to hospital he is put on a ward with aircrew who have mental issues. He is trapped reenacting their missions at night.

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    #4 - An Affinity with Dr. Still

    S6:E4

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    Director:Derek Lister
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    #5 - Home Movies

    S6:E5

    Keith and Alec have been making holiday movies, together for 25 years. Alec suddenly spots a moment between wife Sybil and Keith. He realises daughter Katie is actually Keith's and she is in a sexual relationship with her 'brother' John.

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    Director:Philip Dudley
    Writer:Unknown
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    #6 - Sweet Wine of Youth

    S6:E6

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    Director:Darrol Blake
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    #7 - Speed King

    S6:E7

    In 1935, Sir Malcolm Campbell's obsession is to win the World's Land Speed Record in his car Bluebird. Speed King is about the man, the car, and the ruthless, but irresistible, public ambition of a world hero.

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    #8 - Pews

    S6:E8

    Set in a north country synagogue, a group of Jewish men have to organise a shiva, however, not having the required number of their faith, resort to recruiting George, a 'non-Jew', to make up the numbers.

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    Director:Barry Davis
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    #9 - Gentle Folk

    S6:E9

    An Edwardian house party given by a Fabian woman, her business-man husband and assorted guests from politics and the Arts—including a young man prone to disturbing premonitions.

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    #10 - Trouble with Gregory

    S6:E10

    Gregory has troubles enough when Ella moves him out and sets him up for a job with the radio. Suspicions of infidelity can make the world a disturbing place. But then he still has to meet the new neighbours...

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    #11 - Lifelike

    S6:E11

    A comprehensive school is praised for its authenticity, but one schoolboy does not agree with this assessment.

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    #12 - The Enigma

    S6:E12

    An upper-class young man has rejected his affluent background, but, when a crisis comes, reverts to type pretty quickly.

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    #13 - Hesther for Example

    S6:E13

    Cousin, W. Clifford Mill, ran a dirty postcard business; which brings Paul to the country in search of a profitable afternoon. Hesther knows the value of most things and, when evening falls, she turns his visit to her own advantage.

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    #14 - The Best of Friends

    S6:E14

    What is friendship? Why do two grown men behave like egomaniac children or flustered prima donnas? And when they meet unexpectedly after ten years, how will things be?

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    #15 - In Hiding

    S6:E15

    A teenager learns about life and death while staying with his aunt during the school holidays.

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    Director:Don Taylor
    Writer:Don Taylor
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    #16 - Rottingdean

    S6:E16

    Mother is manic, Father frustrated. Son sees himself as quite an operator. Daughter wants to change the dreary world of Jubilee-year England. The day has come. Back to Rottingdean... if all goes smoothly.

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    #17 - The Dig

    S6:E17

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    Director:Carol Wilks
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    #18 - Happy

    S6:E18

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    #19 - Mary's Wife

    S6:E19

    A married transvestite comes to terms with their true gender identity.

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    #20 - Games Without Frontiers

    S6:E20

    Nobody goes to Amsterdam to wander about. It's either the Rijksmuseum or the red-light district. On the boat going home Clive and Stewart admit to not having spent long in the museums – so what did they get up to in Amsterdam?

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    #21 - The Unborn

    S6:E21

    A physicist has visions of his unborn baby – it turns out that the child will grow up to become a Hitler-like dictator responsible for World War III.

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    #22 - Electric in the City

    S6:E22

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    Director:Tony Bicât
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    #23 - Blue Remembered Hills

    S6:E23

    Repeated from Play for Today

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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    #24 - Thank You Comrades

    S6:E24

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    Director:Unknown
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    #25 - Coming Out

    S6:E25

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    Director:Unknown
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Season 6 Ratings Summary

"School Play" is the best rated episode of "Playhouse" season 6. It scored /10 based on 0 votes. Directed by James Cellan Jones and written by Frederic Raphael, it aired on 11/7/1979. This episode is rated 0.0 points higher than the second-best, "Every Good Boy Deserves Favour".