The Best Episodes of Playhouse

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   8.7/10(15 votes)

   #1 - Speed King

   S6:E712/19/1979

   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.

   Director:Ferdinand Fairfax

   Writer:Roger Milner

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   Director:Ferdinand Fairfax

   Writer:Roger Milner
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   8.3/10(43 votes)

   #2 - Every Good Boy Deserves Favour

   S6:E211/14/1979

   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.

   Directors:Roger Bamford, Trevor Nunn

   Writer:Unknown

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   Directors:Roger Bamford, Trevor Nunn

   Writer:Unknown
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   8.2/10(22 votes)

   #3 - School Play

   S6:E111/7/1979

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

   Director:James Cellan Jones

   Writer:Frederic Raphael

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   Director:James Cellan Jones

   Writer:Frederic Raphael
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   8.2/10(18 votes)

   #4 - The Brylcreem Boys

   S6:E311/21/1979

   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.

   Director:Roger Bamford

   Writer:Peter Durrant

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   Director:Roger Bamford

   Writer:Peter Durrant
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   7.7/10(42 votes)

   #5 - The Mind Beyond: The Daedalus Equations

   S4:E410/20/1976

   During a séance, a medium transcribes complex equations that seem to be the final work of a recently deceased physicist revealing the secret of cold fusion, to the consternation of a rationalistic scientist.

   Director:David Reid

   Writer:Bruce Stewart

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   Director:David Reid

   Writer:Bruce Stewart
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   7.7/10(89 votes)

   #6 - Come Into the Garden, Maud

   S8:E317/7/1982

   A henpecked American visiting Europe is able to throw off his ghastly wife and find love.

   Director:Cedric Messina

   Writer:Noël Coward

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   Director:Cedric Messina

   Writer:Noël Coward
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   7.6/10(9 votes)

   #7 - The Unborn

   S6:E215/16/1980

   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.

   Director:Michael Custance

   Writer:Philip Martin

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   Director:Michael Custance

   Writer:Philip Martin
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   7.3/10(92 votes)

   #8 - Diane

   S2:E37/9/1975

   Teenager Diane Weaver lives with her abusive single father. A religious local boy only who wants to be her friend, but she doesn't like him as much as he does her. What no one realizes is how far the abuse goes.

   Director:Alan Clarke

   Writer:Anthony Read

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   Director:Alan Clarke

   Writer:Anthony Read
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   7.3/10(29 votes)

   #9 - The Mind Beyond: Meriel, the Ghost Girl

   S4:E19/29/1976

   Psychic investigator George Livingston is asked to attend a séance. Can it be that he has finally discovered a genuine supernatural phenomena!?

   Director:Philip Saville

   Writer:David Halliwell

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   Director:Philip Saville

   Writer:David Halliwell
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    6.9/10(16 votes)

    #10 - The Mind Beyond: Double Echo

    S4:E210/6/1976

    Alison has suffered Autism since childhood. Now 17, her parents take her to Dr. Mallam for psychotherapy. Alison is tested with Zener cards, leading him to suspect she is telepathic.

    Director:Alan Bridges

    Writer:Brian Hayles

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    Director:Alan Bridges

    Writer:Brian Hayles
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    6.9/10(44 votes)

    #11 - Chains

    S8:E306/18/1982

    Eddie's 40th birthday party reunites friends not seen since the old days of ton-up bikes and early rock and roll. It could be a chance to relive those 'good times', if the others can only match Eddie's enthusiasm.

    Director:Graham Theakston

    Writer:Janey Preger

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    Director:Graham Theakston

    Writer:Janey Preger
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    6.8/10(61 votes)

    #12 - Mrs. Reinhardt

    S8:E110/30/1981

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

    Director:Piers Haggard

    Writer:Edna O'Brien

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    Director:Piers Haggard

    Writer:Edna O'Brien
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    6.7/10(38 votes)

    #13 - The Mind Beyond: Stones

    S4:E510/27/1976

    Stones and curses go together. A series of strange events connected with Stonehenge lead Professor Reeve, an Oxford historian, to wonder if this superstition is true.

    Director:Graham Evans

    Writers:Christopher Bigsby, Malcolm Bradbury

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    Director:Graham Evans

    Writers:Christopher Bigsby, Malcolm Bradbury
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    6.6/10(29 votes)

    #14 - Mrs. Acland's Ghosts

    S2:E21/15/1975

    An isolated woman is haunted by the ghosts of her dead siblings.

    Director:Mike Newell

    Writer:William Trevor

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    Director:Mike Newell

    Writer:William Trevor
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    6.6/10(132 votes)

    #15 - The Workshop

    S8:E142/19/1982

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

    Director:Nicolas Kent

    Writer:Unknown

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    Director:Nicolas Kent

    Writer:Unknown
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    6.5/10(10 votes)

    #16 - The Mind Beyond: The Love of a Good Woman

    S4:E310/13/1976

    A pair of childhood sweethearts have their peaceful life interrupted when a vulgar woman from her dreams show up in reality.

    Director:John Gorrie

    Writer:William Trevor

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    Director:John Gorrie

    Writer:William Trevor
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    6.1/10(27 votes)

    #17 - The Breakthrough

    S2:E11/8/1975

    On a remote Cornish coast, a small group of scientists at an out of the way research laboratory delve into the mystery of what happens at the moment of death.

    Director:Graham Evans

    Writer:Unknown

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    Writer:Unknown
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    6.0/10(9 votes)

    #18 - A Silly Little Habit

    S8:E91/15/1982

    An apparently happy and privileged woman begins shoplifting.

    Director:Sarah Pia Anderson

    Writer:Carol Bunyan

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    Director:Sarah Pia Anderson

    Writer:Carol Bunyan
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    5.1/10(14 votes)

    #19 - The Mind Beyond: The Man with the Power

    S4:E611/3/1976

    An ordinary man suddenly discovers that he possesses psychic powers.

    Director:John Gorrie

    Writer:Evan Jones

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    Director:John Gorrie

    Writer:Evan Jones
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    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #20 - Sizwe Bansi Is Dead

    S1:E13/13/1974

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

    Director:John Davies

    Writers:Athol Fugard, John Kani, Winston Ntshona

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    Director:John Davies

    Writers:Athol Fugard, John Kani, Winston Ntshona
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    #21 - The Joke

    S1:E28/6/1974

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    Director:Voytek

    Writer:Unknown

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    Writer:Unknown
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    #22 - The Cafeteria

    S1:E38/13/1974

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

    Director:Silvio Narizzano

    Writer:Unknown

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    Writer:Unknown
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    #23 - Kites

    S3:E13/19/1976

    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.

    Director:Christopher King

    Writer:Don Shaw

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    Director:Christopher King

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

    S3:E23/26/1976

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    Director:Brian Parker

    Writer:Maggie Wadey

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    Writer:Maggie Wadey
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    #25 - A Martyr to the System

    S3:E34/2/1976

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

    Director:Peter Smith

    Writer:Andrew Davies

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    Director:Peter Smith

    Writer:Andrew Davies