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The Best Episodes of Playhouse Season 8

Every episode of Playhouse Season 8 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Playhouse Season 8!

The Best Episodes of Playhouse Season 8

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

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  1. Background image for Mrs. Reinhardt
    6.8/10(57 votes)

    #1 - Mrs. Reinhardt

    S8:E1

    An Englishwoman seeking to escape her marriage arrives at French hotel.

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  2. Background image for Last Summer's Child
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    #2 - Last Summer's Child

    S8:E2

    A boy feels restless during a hot summer in prewar Cornwall.

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    Director:Giles Foster
    Writer:Susan Hill
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    #3 - Autumn Sunshine

    S8:E3

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    #4 - The Grudge Fight

    S8:E4

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    Director:Mike Vardy
    Writer:John Hale
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    #5 - Virginia Fly Is Drowning

    S8:E5

    Secure in her suburban home, Virginia Fly dreams of a life of unbridled passion and romance. She feels her fantasies are about to become reality when she is asked to take part in a TV documentary about pre-marital love - a subject about which she is sadly ignorant...

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    #6 - Findings on a Late Afternoon

    S8:E6

    Gerald is on the edge of a complete breakdown. During an afternoon with his father, he starts to come to terms with the wounding confusions and mistakes of his past—his lies, his girlfriend's suicide, his mother's obsessive love of his younger brother, and her death in a hospital when he arrived too late to communicate his real feelings for her.

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    #7 - Dancing Country

    S8:E7

    The local country dancing team of old-age pensioners is forced to change its style when Jack, its leader, arrives with a new partner, one who is younger and prettier.

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    #8 - The Combination

    S8:E8

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  10. Background image for A Silly Little Habit
    6.0/10(9 votes)

    #9 - A Silly Little Habit

    S8:E9

    An apparently happy and privileged woman begins shoplifting.

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    #10 - Aubrey

    S8:E10

    The story of Aubrey Beardsley, an English illustrator and author, whose black ink drawings were influenced by Japanese woodcuts, and depicted the grotesque, the decadent, and the erotic. He was a leading figure in the aesthetic movement which also included Oscar Wilde and James McNeill Whistler.

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    #11 - Preview

    S8:E11

    Four television critics gather in a Wardour Street preview theatre to see a documentary and get the surprise of their lives.

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    Director:Jon Amiel
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    #12 - Out of Step

    S8:E12

    A keen ballroom dancer becomes an alcoholic after discovering she's infertile.

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    Director:Bill Hays
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    #13 - A Shilling Life

    S8:E13

    A once-famous writer, now long out of fashion, is interviewed by a disconcerting young woman.

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  15. Background image for The Workshop
    6.6/10(131 votes)

    #14 - The Workshop

    S8:E14

    In 1945, just a year since the allied troops entered Paris, Simone arrives for her first day at M. Leon's tailoring workshop.

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    Director:Nicholas Kent
    Writer:Unknown
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    #15 - How Many Miles to Babylon?

    S8:E15

    Wealthy Alexander Moore and working-class Jerry Crowe are childhood friends and, in 1914, find themselves in the same Army unit – Alex as an officer and Jerry as a private. They still remain close, however, until Jerry is court-martialed for desertion, and Alex is put in charge of the firing squad.

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    Writer:Unknown
  17. Background image for The Pigman's Protégé
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    #16 - The Pigman's Protégé

    S8:E16

    In 1919, the carnage of WWI has left the country desperately short of young men. Maud, who runs the farm for her crippled father, decides that it is time for her young sister Clara to be married, and a husband could provide a strong pair of hands around the place. Stan the pigman seems to fix most things, why not this?

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    Director:John Madden
  18. Background image for A Pocketful of Dreams
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    #17 - A Pocketful of Dreams

    S8:E17

    At the moment, money is scarce and times are hard for everyone—even villains like Charlie and Denny are feeling the pinch. But their luck could change when a chance encounter with a film crew provides them with an eccentric method of getting their hands on a lot of loot.

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    Director:Stuart Urban
    Writer:Jim Hill
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    #18 - Keeping in Touch

    S8:E18

    When James pays one of his periodic visits to his mother, he finds her curiously resigned to the loneliness she's suffered for the years since her husband's death. Somehow, she has managed to keep all the family ties intact.

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    Director:Terry Devaney
    Writer:Alan Drury
  20. Background image for The Guest
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    #19 - The Guest

    S8:E19

    Gerald fancies himself as a bit of a gourmet and a trip to the gastronomic delights of France promises well. His wife Hilary isn't so sure; she isn't sure of a lot of things about Gerald just recently, but the menu at the extravagantly recommended La Petite Chanson provides an unexpected solution.

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    Writer:Unknown
  21. Background image for The Sidmouth Letters
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    #20 - The Sidmouth Letters

    S8:E20

    Academic scavenger Shorty believes he's tracked down some letters that reveal an unexpected side to Miss Jane Austen's nature.

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    Writer:Unknown
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    #21 - The Queen of Annagh

    S8:E21

    Nancy is the sole inhabitant of the Isle of Annagh off the west coast of Scotland. Although World War III is raging all around she sees little of it until Michael, a young pilot officer, pays an involuntary visit and is in danger of dragging the hostilities along with him.

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  23. Background image for By George
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    #22 - By George

    S8:E22

    An anthropologist observed by one of his erstwhile victims — a sophisticated comedy.

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    #23 - Lunch

    S8:E23

    Two women meet for lunch every two weeks to swap news. But this week is different.

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    #24 - Passing Through

    S8:E24

    At a railway public house, two strangers engage in a conversation and begin to open up about their life's. Richard is an alcoholic and former stockbroker is just been released from jail. Arthur works for the railway as a points operator.

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    Director:Desmond Davis
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    #25 - Jake's End

    S8:E25

    Jake's a professional, a married man with a reputation to maintain—and a bank to rob.

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Season 8 Ratings Summary

"Mrs. Reinhardt" is the best rated episode of "Playhouse" season 8. It scored 6.8/10 based on 57 votes. Directed by Piers Haggard and written by Edna O'Brien, it aired on 10/30/1981. This episode is rated 6.8 points higher than the second-best, "Last Summer's Child".