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The Best Episodes of Playhouse

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The Best Episodes of Playhouse

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

Seasons8

  1. Background image for Speed King
    8.8/10(14 votes)

    #1 - 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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  2. Background image for Every Good Boy Deserves Favour
    8.3/10(42 votes)

    #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. Background image for School Play
    8.2/10(22 votes)

    #3 - 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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  4. Background image for The Brylcreem Boys
    8.2/10(18 votes)

    #4 - 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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  5. Background image for The Mind Beyond: The Daedalus Equations
    7.8/10(41 votes)

    #5 - The Mind Beyond: The Daedalus Equations

    S4:E4

    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.

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    Director:David Reid
  6. Background image for Come Into the Garden, Maud
    7.6/10(85 votes)

    #6 - Come Into the Garden, Maud

    S8:E31

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

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  8. Background image for The Mind Beyond: Meriel, the Ghost Girl
    7.4/10(27 votes)

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

    S4:E1

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

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  9. Background image for The Mind Beyond: Double Echo
    6.8/10(15 votes)

    #8 - The Mind Beyond: Double Echo

    S4:E2

    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.

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    Director:Alan Bridges
  10. Background image for The Mind Beyond: The Love of a Good Woman
    6.8/10(9 votes)

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

    S4:E3

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

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

    #10 - Mrs. Reinhardt

    S8:E1

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

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  12. Background image for Chains
    6.8/10(41 votes)

    #11 - Chains

    S8:E30

    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.

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  13. Background image for The Mind Beyond: Stones
    6.7/10(36 votes)

    #12 - The Mind Beyond: Stones

    S4:E5

    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.

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    6.6/10(131 votes)

    #13 - 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
  15. Background image for A Silly Little Habit
    6.0/10(9 votes)

    #14 - A Silly Little Habit

    S8:E9

    An apparently happy and privileged woman begins shoplifting.

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  16. Background image for The Mind Beyond: The Man with the Power
    5.5/10(13 votes)

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

    S4:E6

    An ordinary man suddenly discovers that he possesses psychic powers.

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    Director:John Gorrie
    Writer:Evan Jones
  17. Background image for Sizwe Bansi Is Dead
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    #16 - 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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    #17 - The Joke

    S1:E2

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    Director:Voytek
    Writer:Unknown
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    #18 - 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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    #19 - The Breakthrough

    S2:E1

    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.

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    Director:Graham Evans
    Writer:Unknown
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    #20 - Mrs. Acland's Ghosts

    S2:E2

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

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    #21 - Diane

    S2:E3

    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.

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    Director:Alan Clarke
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    #22 - 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
  24. Background image for An Accident of Class and Sex
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    #23 - An Accident of Class and Sex

    S3:E2

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    Director:Brian Parker
  25. Background image for A Martyr to the System
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    #24 - 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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    #25 - The Button Man

    S3:E4

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Best Episodes Summary

"Speed King" is the best rated episode of "Playhouse". It scored 8.8/10 based on 14 votes. Directed by Ferdinand Fairfax and written by Roger Milner, it aired on 12/19/1979. This episode scored 0.5 points higher than the second highest rated, "Every Good Boy Deserves Favour".