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ITV Playhouse is a British comedy-drama TV series that ran from 1967 to 1983, which featured contributions from playwrights such as Dennis Potter, Rhys Adrian and Alan Sharp. The series began in black and white,
Season 1
N/A/100 votesLady Windemere's Fan
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 9/25/1967
Lord Windermere appears to all - including to his young wife Margaret - as the perfect husband. But their happy marriage is placed at risk when Lord Windermere starts spending his afternoons with an adventuress who is working her way through London's high society, Mrs. Erlynne. Worse, Windermere gives her big sums of money. To crown it all he asks his wife to invite the detestable woman to her own birthday party. Upset and outraged, the puritan Lady Windermere decides to leave her husband and goes to Lord Robert Darlington, who has been courting her for some time. Unfortunately she leaves her fan - the one Robert offered her for her birthday - in Robert's house...
Director: Joan Kemp-Welch
Writer: Oscar Wilde, Stanley Miller
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They Said 'Let's Live Together'
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 10/2/1967
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Director: Marc Miller
Writer: Hugh Forbes
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The Stories Of D.H. Lawrence: The Prussian Officer
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/16/1967
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Director: Barry Davis
Writer: Ken Taylor, D. H. Lawrence
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The Stories Of D.H. Lawrence: The Thorn In The Flesh
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 10/23/1967
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Director: Mike Newell
Writer: D. H. Lawrence, John Hale
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The Stories Of D.H. Lawrence: None Of That
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 10/30/1967
Elizabeth Cane arrives in Mexico and starts to take an interest in a bull fighter, but he can find only contempt for this refined American woman and what she represents.
Director: Mike Newell
Writer: D. H. Lawrence, John Hale
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The Waste Spaces
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 11/13/1967
A couple buy a house cheap unbeknown it has a sitting tenant in the form of Daniel Bloch, the wife is soon aware of an evil atmosphere.
Director: John Gorrie
Writer: Gerald Vaughan-Hughes
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Children Playing
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 11/20/1967
A group of school children arriving at their holiday camp hostel find themselves being challenged by strangers there for leadership of their group.
Director: Unknown
Writer: David Rudkin
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I Love You Miss Patterson
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 11/27/1967
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Director: Unknown
Writer: John Bowen
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The Confession
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 12/4/1967
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Director: John Jacobs
Writer: Maurice McLaughlin
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Day Of The Tortoise
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 12/18/1967
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Director: Michael Currer-Briggs
Writer: Julian Bond, H. E. Bates
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A Whistle And A Funny Hat
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 12/25/1967
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Director: Unknown
Writer: John Whitewood
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Lucky For Some
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 1/1/1968
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Director: Christopher Hodson
Writer: Kevin Laffan
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The Curtis Affair
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 1/8/1968
A director has to provide an explanation to a public committee on how his firm made such a huge profit on a government contract.
Director: David Reid
Writer: Wilfred Greatorex
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On Approval
Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 1/15/1968
Two couples try to discover if they can live together (platonically) and life gets very complicated.
Director: Peter Moffatt
Writer: Stanley Miller, Frederick Lonsdale
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The Photographer
Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 1/22/1968
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Director: John Jacobs
Writer: Kenneth Jupp
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Rogue's Gallery: The Curious Adventures of Miss Jane Rawley
Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 1/29/1968
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Director: David Cunliffe
Writer: Peter Wildeblood
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Rogues' Gallery: The Misfortunes of Lucy Hodges
Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 2/5/1968
A simple country girl arrives in London and finds herself being accused of murder and the threat of extradition to the USA.
Director: David Cunliffe
Writer: Peter Wildeblood
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Rogues' Gallery: The Lives and Crimes of Jonathan Wild and Jack Sheppard
Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 2/12/1968
Jack Sheppard is a working-class thief, whilst Jonathan Wild is thief-taker to the crown, the country's most senior law-enforcement officer. But which one is the greater criminal?
Director: David Cunliffe
Writer: Peter Wildeblood
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Rogues' Gallery: The Tale of Lancelot Wishart
Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired 2/19/1968
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Director: Barry Davis
Writer: Peter Wildeblood
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The Father
Season 1 Episode 24 - Aired 2/26/1968
Parents struggle over the future of their child, resulting in the mother, using her cunning manipulative skills, subduing and finally destroying the father.
Director: Dennis Vance
Writer: August Strindberg, Michael Meyer
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The Judge
Season 1 Episode 25 - Aired 3/4/1968
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Director: Dennis Vance
Writer: John Mortimer
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The Detour
Season 1 Episode 26 - Aired 3/11/1968
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Director: Dennis Vance
Writer: Martin Walser, Barry Bermange
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Public and Confidential
Season 1 Episode 27 - Aired 3/18/1968
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Director: Dennis Vance
Writer: Benn W. Levy
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A Matter of Diamonds
Season 1 Episode 28 - Aired 3/25/1968
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Director: Graham Evans
Writer: Unknown
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The Brahmin Widow
Season 1 Episode 29 - Aired 4/1/1968
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Director: John Jacobs
Writer: John Mitchell, James Halliday
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Murder: A Professional Job
Season 1 Episode 30 - Aired 4/15/1968
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Director: Michael Apted
Writer: Marc Brandel
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Murder: The Dancing Man
Season 1 Episode 31 - Aired 4/22/1968
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Director: Bob Hird
Writer: Marc Brandel
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The Bonegrinder
Season 1 Episode 32 - Aired 5/6/1968
Potter contrasted the fading heritage of the British empire with new American values, embodying national traits in his central characters proper British businessman George King, a London suburbanite, who encounters loud and crass sailor Sam Adams, an American who is disrespectful of British culture and traditions.
Director: Joan Kemp-Welch
Writer: Dennis Potter
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Horizontal Hold
Season 1 Episode 33 - Aired 5/20/1968
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Director: John Jacobs
Writer: Stanley Price
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The Retreat
Season 1 Episode 34 - Aired 6/3/1968
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Director: Herbert Wise
Writer: John Hale
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Murder: The Rest of Our Lives
Season 1 Episode 35 - Aired 6/10/1968
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Director: Michael Apted
Writer: Marc Brandel
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Murder: An Even Chance
Season 1 Episode 36 - Aired 6/17/1968
A young white couple visiting a friend's flat in Harlem NY find themselves marooned there just as race riots start. The empty flat could be their only sanctuary during the mayhem... but then the flat has more visitors.
Director: Alvin Rakoff
Writer: Marc Brandel
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Murder: Killer's Odds
Season 1 Episode 37 - Aired 6/24/1968
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Director: Michael Cox
Writer: Marc Brandel
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Boatman Do Not Tarry
Season 1 Episode 38 - Aired 7/1/1968
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Director: Derek Bailey
Writer: John D. Stewart
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Entertaining Mr. Sloane
Season 1 Episode 39 - Aired 7/8/1968
Mr. Sloane is a murderer. But, as both his middle-aged landlady and her homosexual brother quickly notice, he's very handsome.
Director: Peter Moffatt
Writer: Joe Orton
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Countercrime
Season 1 Episode 40 - Aired 7/15/1968
A bustling department store closes for the night, but now amongst the silence and the mannequins, there is an intruder.
Director: John Jacobs
Writer: Stanley Clayton, Olive Chase