ITV Playhouse(1967–1982)

You've Made Your Bed: Now Lie in It

Romans and Friends

Mixed Foursome

The Patriot Game

Omri's Burning

Like Puppies in a Basket

The Swan Won't Go in the Fridge

The Beauty Operators

Doreen's rather odd beauty shop gives it's women customers a unique opportunity to act out their fantasies.

Have You Any Washing, Mother Dear?

Suspect

A proud woman coldly concentrates on keeping up appearances when her 50-year old husband and a young schoolgirl go missing at the same time.

Ancient and Modern

An Orwellian world in which a Socialist Public School is opened,despite the good intentions and efforts from staff to produce a school of equal opportunity and excellence, the school ends up like all the others.

Plastic People

A Man for Loving

The Pueblo Affair

A reconstruction of an event in 1968 when a converted cargo ship the USS Pueblo was seized by the North Korean Navy as a spy ship. It was supposed to be protected by the US Pacific Fleet but they are out of range at this time. The play concerns Captain Bucher and his crew left on their own to deal with duty, their own lives and preventing another Korean War.

The People's Jack

Would You Look at Them Smashing all Those Lovely Windows?

Drama around the 1916 Easter uprising in Ireland.

Rumour

A hard-bitten newspaper reporter is drawn back into the world of sleaze he had hoped to have left behind, and this time it goes right to the top.

Unexpectantly Vacant

Don't Touch Him, He Might Resent It

A buffoon is mistaken for an important official.

Arthur Wants You for a Sunbeam

Dear Mr. Welfare

Thursday's Child

A crumbling marriage with a child in the middle of it all.

Private Lillywhite's Dead

The Bridesmaid

Special Co-respondent

A Family and a Fortune

The High Game

Brother and Sister

A Sound from the Sea

While hitchhiking towards the coast, two young men find themselves trapped at an inn by its strange landlord and his beautiful wife.

The Style of the Countess

Blind Love

Short Back and Sides

It's Not Quite Cricket

The Proofing Session

Graham, an executive, is ordered by his boss to look after a couple of out-of-town buyers - who make it clear they would like to visit a brothel.

Cork and Bottle

A disillusioned husband and wife take a trip across the Channel, hoping to find themselves. In fact they find the French are not what they expected.

Philby, Burgess & Maclean

The Bass Player and The Blonde

Last Summer

A school leaver is teamed up with experienced professional car thief (Beckinsale). The novice ends up going it alone hence car park ending.

It's Only Rock 'n' Roll

A rock star is kidnapped at the end of a concert. The record company ask the question is he worth more dead than alive?

Roadrunner

Love Lies Bleeding

The Best Of Enemies

A sixteen-year-old boy living in Occupied France develops an uneasy friendship with a Nazi officer billeted in his grandmother's house.

Daddy Kiss It Better

Star Quality

An aspiring playwright is delighted when a famous star agrees to appear in his new play. At first, that is.

Bon Voyage

A Heritage and Its History

Funeral Games

Religious cult leader, Pringle, calls in a private investigator, Caulfield, after receiving letters saying that his wife is having an affair. But Caulfield learns that the wife has more than love on her mind.

A Most Unfortunate Accident

Who Is Sylvia?

The Kindness of Mrs Radcliffe

There's a Hole in Your Dustbin Delilah

Number Ten

The Explorer

The Tigers of Subtopia

The Stealers of Darkness

Inventory for the Summer

Neutral Ground

An allied agent is sent out into an obscure country to find a Russian Agent who has been thrown out of Russia for defection. He finds a broken man who drowns his days in drink, and feels sympathy for him.

Your Name's Not God, It's Edgar

Edgar Lunt lives his life by scientific principles, that is, for every action there is a reaction. He believes that any pleasure he might have, will mean, somebody will suffer somewhere else. The result is he is not very happy at all, until Trevor, a young student,tries to show him a fresh outlook on life.

If Only the Trains Come

Camille 68

Camille is living in London, working as a prostitute with her friend Nanine. Her life has no happiness until she meets the son of one her customers 'Armand' a Cambridge undergraduate .

Thirteen Thousand and Eighty Three Pounds

The Best Pair of Legs in the Business

The Tycoon

Murder: When Robin Was a Boy

Murder: Return to Yesterday

Murder: Double Negative

Murder: Nobody Knows

Inspector Parker's instinct in trying to nail Pritchard for the horrific murder of a young girl becomes an obsession which puts pressure on both his health and marriage.

Murder: Mr Buchanan

Murder: Identikit

Double Agent

Public Face

Uncle Jonathan

Square on the Hypotenuse

Colombe

The Friendly Persuaders

A delegation from the planet Taran is made welcome by almost everyone in Britain. They talk of their planet as a promised land and a new beginning...but not everyone is convinced and decides to investigate further.

Beast in the Jungle

May and John had met years earlier by an act of fate. They had gone their separate ways but then bump into each other again by another act of fate. John seems to have forgotten much of the earlier encounter but May remembers every detail and reminds him that the young John had been alarmed about a premonition he had of a tragic event that would happen to him in later life.

The Marrying Kind

The history of an old four poster bed and its various occupants.

Justice Is a Woman

This drama inspired long running series Justice about a successful lady barrister.Here Julia Stafford is asked to defend a posh youth,an outsider in a conservative Scottish town, who is accused of murdering a girl.

End of Story

Remember the Germans

The John Hilarian Salt Exhibition and Numerous Illustrated Slides

Stables Theatre Company #1: In a Cottage Hospital

A man is suffering memory loss after slowly recovering from a car crash. Does fate offer a chance to re-invent himself and forget the past? - or is he doomed to make the same mistakes and have the same disappointments as he has always had?

Stables Theatre Company #2: Wedding Night

The Case of Cruelty to Prawns

I'm a Dreamer Montreal

A librarian hides from the harsh realities of life in Belfast by embracing a night-time career as a showband singer.

Where the Heart Is

The Reaper

Jilted by a fickle former pupil Rachel sometime ago, school teacher Nick had yearned someday she would return to him as predicted in the Tarot Cards he had read at the time. To his joy, Rachel does return but the world has moved on since.

No, Mama, No

The Winkler

The Blacktoft Diaries: True or False?

Village Wooing

Casting the Runes

Like Curse of the Demon (1957), this adaptation is only very loosely based on the original ghost story by M.R. James. However, it does feature eerie scenic views and is directed by Lawrence "Ghost Story For Christmas" Gordon Clark

The Daughters of Albion

The Beast

The Winter Ladies

Saint Vitus' Dance

A couple are drawn into a campaign to save their cathedral city from a new motorway.

Getting in on Concorde

Going Back

Friends In Space

Professor Rex Thornton summons a meeting of fellow UFO-nuts, "The Friends in Space Society", to unveil a wonderful surprise...

Visitors for Anderson

The Lady

The Gate of Eden: Part 1 - Mr. Falconer

The story concerns the relationship between Peter, a 15 year old boy, and Mr Faulkner, an old man whom he befriends. Mr Faulkner used to be a school teacher but had retired after allegations were made about him by a pupil. There was still gossip about him in the town. Mr Faulkner teaches Peter a lot about literature and introduces him to poetry and when Peter returns to school the two of them correspond. The friendship between them is threatened when Peter starts going out with Sue who disapproves of him spending time with the old man. In the end Peter confronts Mr Faulkner with the gossip but he refuses to discuss it. Peter later writes to Mr Faulkner but for the first time does not receive a reply.

The Gate of Eden: Part 2 - Sue

The Gate of Eden: Part 3 - Peter

A Rod of Iron

Midnight at the Starlight

Too Close to the Edge

The Specialist

Lindsey

Looking for Vicky

Kiss and Tell

Facing The Sun

Art critic Peter visits a pair of married artists in Brazil for Christmas, leading to romantic complications between him and the male half of the couple.

Hands

One Chance In Four

The Marquise

The Schoolmistress

Something's Got To Give

A straight-laced young businessman finds his life is changed when he literally bumps into a clumsy but attractive female while at the library.

The Houseboy

A gay couple get disturbed by the new boy they hire to work in their hotel.

The Reunion

The Breadwinner

Dogfood Dan And The Carmarthen Cowboy

Dogfood Dan And The Carmarthen Cowboy was a tale of two long-distance dogfood-carrying lorry drivers who, to the other's ignorance, are each having affairs with the other's wife. Although the men meet up on the road, exchange stories of their sexual escapades, and often talk to their wives about their travelling friend, the lies they spin and the false names they invent mean that neither the husbands nor the wives cotton on to the convoluted situation. Aubrey Owen likes to pass himself off as an MP, 'Aneurin', during his visits with Helen, while Dan claims he is carrying top secret 'abnormal' loads when pursuing the passionate Myfanwy.

Skirmishes

The Boxwallah

Nightlife

Grandad

The Day They Buried Cleaver

Rose and Fern

Up School

Old boys' reunion is an excuse for high spirits for some of the school's former pupils.

The Waters of Babylon

Two World Wars and a Gold Clock

The Mosedale Horseshoe

A Kiss Is Just a Kiss

The Switch

Refuge for a Hero

Two mountaineers stumble into the safe haven of a hut after being caught in a blizzard, seemingly unconcerned about the other two of their team still on the mountain.

Jo

Evening Class

Buggins' Ermine

Frank is elected mayor of a northern town, but wonders whether he's made the right decision.

Dear Octopus

A large gathering of the Randolph clan leads to reflections on the importance of family.

A Point in Time

Putting On The Agony

Operation Magic Carpet

Professional

Relics

A Friend Indeed

Vinegar Trip

Lady Windemere's Fan

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...

They Said 'Let's Live Together'

The First Thunder

The Stories Of D.H. Lawrence: The Prussian Officer

The Stories Of D.H. Lawrence: The Thorn In The Flesh

The Stories Of D.H. Lawrence: None Of That

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.

Ten Days That Shook The World

The Waste Spaces

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.

Children Playing

A group of school children arriving at their holiday camp hostel find themselves being challenged by strangers there for leadership of their group.

I Love You Miss Patterson

The Confession

Top Of The Ladder

Day Of The Tortoise

A Whistle And A Funny Hat

Seeds Of Destruction

Lucky For Some

The Curtis Affair

A director has to provide an explanation to a public committee on how his firm made such a huge profit on a government contract.

On Approval

Two couples try to discover if they can live together (platonically) and life gets very complicated.

The Photographer

Rogue's Gallery: The Curious Adventures of Miss Jane Rawley

Rogues' Gallery: The Misfortunes of Lucy Hodges

A simple country girl arrives in London and finds herself being accused of murder and the threat of extradition to the USA.

Rogues' Gallery: The Lives and Crimes of Jonathan Wild and Jack Sheppard

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?

Rogues' Gallery: The Tale of Lancelot Wishart

The Father

Parents struggle over the future of their child, resulting in the mother, using her cunning manipulative skills, subduing and finally destroying the father.

The Judge

The Detour

Public and Confidential

A Matter of Diamonds

The Brahmin Widow

Murder: A Professional Job

Murder: The Dancing Man

The Bonegrinder

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.

Horizontal Hold

The Retreat

Murder: The Rest of Our Lives

Murder: An Even Chance

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.

Murder: Killer's Odds

Boatman Do Not Tarry

Entertaining Mr. Sloane

Mr. Sloane is a murderer. But, as both his middle-aged landlady and her homosexual brother quickly notice, he's very handsome.

Countercrime

A bustling department store closes for the night, but now amongst the silence and the mannequins, there is an intruder.

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Beneath the Tide

The Chinese Prime Minister

The Panel

Funny

Tom and Phyl travel down to Wales to stay with friends Huw and Teg, a couple they hung around with in London some years back. Culturally the couples have their differences, and after a spell of unease, passions come to the surface.

Jack Squaler's Time

Seventeen Percent Said Push Off

A Splinter of Ice

The Greeks and Their Gifts

A man makes an unexpected appearance at his younger brother's house in the middle of the night. He needs somewhere to stay and convinces his brother and his wife that he is trouble. Or is he?

The Substitute

The Long Lease of Summer

Lucky

Set in Liverpool in the early 70s, the film tells the story of Samuel 'lucky' Ubooto, a half African, half Irish man in his 20s whose decidedly unlucky career as a criminal has resulted in a series of stretches in prison for theft. The story follows Lucky on the day of his release from his latest sentence. As he wanders around Liverpool, not really belonging anywhere, it becomes clear that he is still waiting for his father, a man who has long since abandoned Lucky and his family, to return and take him back 'home' to Africa.

What Would You Do?

Weekend Guest

A man arrives at a couple's home with news about their estranged son. They welcome him at first as a guest, but become suspicious of who he actually is. He in turn becomes uneasy and disturbed by the whole atmosphere in the home.

Mr. Axelford's Angel

Todays theme is Mr. Axelford's Angel.

The Finest Family in the Land

Life does not get boring for the Harrises living at the top of a 24 floor tower block, they have a moody teenage son Enoch, a lodger called Corrie and an irritating caller called Ponce which leads to a series of strange events.

The Couch

Elaine and Max are lovers, but is Elaine's psychiatrist too involved in their relationship?

Love Affair

A lonely elderly woman strikes up a friendship with a driving instructor.

A Kind of Bonus

The Nearly Man

The Gift of Friendship

Better at Murder

Graceless Go I

Little Girls Don't

Two girls, Sheryl (Toyah Willcox) and Abbey (Rosalyn Landor), have been inseparable friends since childhood. Then Billy (Robert Glenister) arrives on the scene.

The Perfect House

A woman's new house hides a sinister secret.

Only a Game

Out of Sight, Out of Mind

Sin with Our Permission

Set in the future about a new town that is under constant surveillance and also where a daily TV soap opera provides solutions to problems in the town.

Last Night Another Dissident...

The Day of the Janitor

Mild-mannered janitor Arthur Washbrook has been a trusted and respected employee of a City institution for many years. Despite his menial position the white-collar staff that he serves are always courteous and considerate. But this is the 1980s and things are changing in Britain. An arrogant new financial dealer joins the staff and his rudeness soon puts Arthur's nose out-of-joint, leaving him no option but to show the upstart who's really in charge. From his lair in the basement of the office block, surrounded by his pet lizards, and using all the tools at a janitors disposal, he sets about his enemies ruin.

Contract

Singles

A Ferry Ride Away

Friends and Other Lovers

Follows the life of Anna, who leaves school to become a prostitute. Three years later she becomes involved with a lecturer at a college in Oxford.

Home and Beauty

A Question of Time

Some Enchanted Evening

Aren't We All

Last Wishes

Partisans

Cold Harbour

A beautiful Chilean exile called Tina is stranded in a new country.

One of the Boys

Ten Days That Shook the Branch

We Never Do What They Want

Forty Weeks

Queen of a Distant Country

Something's Got To Give

The Houseboy

The Reunion

The Breadwinner

Dogfood Dan And The Carmarthen Cowboy

Dogfood Dan And The Carmarthen Cowboy was a tale of two long-distance dogfood-carrying lorry drivers who, to the other's ignorance, are each having affairs with the other's wife. Although the men meet up on the road, exchange stories of their sexual escapades, and often talk to their wives about their travelling friend, the lies they spin and the false names they invent mean that neither the husbands nor the wives cotton on to the convoluted situation. Aubrey Owen likes to pass himself off as an MP, 'Aneurin', during his visits with Helen, while Dan claims he is carrying top secret 'abnormal' loads when pursuing the passionate Myfanwy. Made by Yorkshire Television for the ITV Network.

Skirmishes

The Boxwallah

Nightlife

Grandad