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The Worst Episodes of Playhouse

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

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    #1 - Sizwe Bansi Is Dead

    S1:E1

    Two Black South Africans discover what it means to lose their passbooks, which they must carry to prove their identity during the apartheid era.

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    #2 - The Joke

    S1:E2

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    Director:Voytek
    Writer:Unknown
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    #3 - The Cafeteria

    S1:E3

    An eccentric Jewish writer is drawn into the world of an apparently delusional young woman and her invalid father.

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    Writer:Unknown
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    #4 - Kites

    S3:E1

    Retired prep school headmaster Lawrence Hastings has few pleasures in life. One is kite flying, until this too is spoilt by the intrusions of an irritating small boy.

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    Writer:Don Shaw
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    #5 - An Accident of Class and Sex

    S3:E2

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    Director:Brian Parker
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    #6 - A Martyr to the System

    S3:E3

    A school lecturer is possessed by the spirit of Othello during the teaching of Classics.

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    Director:Peter Smith
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    #7 - The Button Man

    S3:E4

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    #8 - Practical Experience

    S3:E5

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    Director:Bill Hays
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    #9 - Dad

    S3:E6

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    Director:Don Taylor
    Writer:Don Taylor
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    #10 - The Chauffeur

    S3:E7

    Joe, chauffeur to a South American embassy, enjoys the small perks of privilege his job provides. When a coup results in the ambassador's recall, his halcyon life is upended.

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    #11 - Play Things

    S3:E8

    A young man volunteers to work with a children's play group in a desolate London area.

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    #12 - Jumbo

    S3:E9

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    Director:Bill Hays
    Writer:Don Shaw
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    #13 - The Achurch Letters

    S5:E1

    A play about the (celibate) relationship between writer George Bernard Shaw and a famous drug addict actress.

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    Director:Don Taylor
    Writer:Don Taylor
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    #14 - An Affinity with Dr. Still

    S6:E4

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    Director:Derek Lister
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    #15 - 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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    #16 - Sweet Wine of Youth

    S6:E6

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    Director:Darrol Blake
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    #17 - 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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    #18 - 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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    #19 - 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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    #20 - Lifelike

    S6:E11

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

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    #21 - 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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    #22 - 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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    #23 - 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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    #24 - 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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    #25 - 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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Worst Episodes Summary

"Sizwe Bansi Is Dead" is the worst rated episode of "Playhouse". It scored /10 based on 0 votes. Directed by John Davies and written by Athol Fugard, John Kani, Winston Ntshona, it aired on 3/13/1974. This episode scored 0.0 points lower than the second lowest rated, "The Joke".