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The Worst Episodes of Playhouse

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  1. #1 Worst Episode
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    Playhouse Season 1 Episode 1 - Sizwe Bansi Is Dead
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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.

    Director:John Davies
    Writers:Athol Fugard, John Kani, Winston Ntshona

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  2. Playhouse Season 1 Episode 2 - The Joke
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    #2 - The Joke

    S1:E2

    No description available

    Director:Voytek
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. Playhouse Season 1 Episode 3 - The Cafeteria
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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.

    Director:Silvio Narizzano
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. Playhouse Season 2 Episode 1 - The Breakthrough
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    #4 - 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.

    Director:Graham Evans
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. Playhouse Season 2 Episode 2 - Mrs. Acland's Ghosts
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    #5 - Mrs. Acland's Ghosts

    S2:E2

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

    Director:Mike Newell
    Writer:William Trevor

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  6. Playhouse Season 2 Episode 3 - Diane
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    #6 - 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.

    Director:Alan Clarke
    Writer:Anthony Read

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  7. Playhouse Season 3 Episode 1 - Kites
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    #7 - 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.

    Director:Christopher King
    Writer:Don Shaw

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  8. Playhouse Season 3 Episode 2 - An Accident of Class and Sex
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    #8 - An Accident of Class and Sex

    S3:E2

    No description available

    Director:Brian Parker
    Writer:Maggie Wadey

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  9. Playhouse Season 3 Episode 3 - A Martyr to the System
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    #9 - A Martyr to the System

    S3:E3

    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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  10. Playhouse Season 3 Episode 4 - The Button Man
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    #10 - The Button Man

    S3:E4

    No description available

    Director:Kenneth Ives
    Writer:Ewart Alexander

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  11. Playhouse Season 3 Episode 5 - Practical Experience
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    #11 - Practical Experience

    S3:E5

    No description available

    Director:Bill Hays
    Writer:Alan Plater

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  12. Playhouse Season 3 Episode 6 - Dad
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    #12 - Dad

    S3:E6

    No description available

    Director:Don Taylor
    Writer:Don Taylor

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  13. Playhouse Season 3 Episode 7 - The Chauffeur
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    #13 - 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.

    Director:Brian Gibson
    Writers:Denis Plimmer, Charlotte Plimmer

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  14. Playhouse Season 3 Episode 8 - Play Things
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    #14 - Play Things

    S3:E8

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

    Director:Stephen Frears
    Writer:Peter Prince

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  15. Playhouse Season 3 Episode 9 - Jumbo
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    #15 - Jumbo

    S3:E9

    No description available

    Director:Bill Hays
    Writer:Don Shaw

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  16. Playhouse Season 4 Episode 1 - The Mind Beyond: Meriel, the Ghost Girl
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    #16 - 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!?

    Director:Philip Saville
    Writer:David Halliwell

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  17. Playhouse Season 4 Episode 2 - The Mind Beyond: Double Echo
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    #17 - 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.

    Director:Alan Bridges
    Writer:Brian Hayles

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  18. Playhouse Season 4 Episode 3 - The Mind Beyond: The Love of a Good Woman
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    #18 - 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.

    Director:John Gorrie
    Writer:William Trevor

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  19. Playhouse Season 4 Episode 4 - The Mind Beyond: The Daedalus Equations
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    #19 - 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.

    Director:David Reid
    Writer:Bruce Stewart

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  20. Playhouse Season 4 Episode 5 - The Mind Beyond: Stones
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    #20 - 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.

    Director:Graham Evans
    Writers:Christopher Bigsby, Malcolm Bradbury

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  21. Playhouse Season 4 Episode 6 - The Mind Beyond: The Man with the Power
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    #21 - The Mind Beyond: The Man with the Power

    S4:E6

    An ordinary man suddenly discovers that he possesses psychic powers.

    Director:John Gorrie
    Writer:Evan Jones

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  22. Playhouse Season 5 Episode 1 - The Achurch Letters
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    #22 - The Achurch Letters

    S5:E1

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

    Director:Don Taylor
    Writer:Don Taylor

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  23. Playhouse Season 6 Episode 1 - School Play
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    #23 - School Play

    S6:E1

    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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  24. Playhouse Season 6 Episode 2 - Every Good Boy Deserves Favour
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    #24 - 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.

    Directors:Roger Bamford, Trevor Nunn
    Writer:Unknown

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  25. Playhouse Season 6 Episode 3 - The Brylcreem Boys
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    #25 - 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.

    Director:Roger Bamford
    Writer:Peter Durrant

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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".