Playhouse

Playhouse

1974
★★★★☆ 7.0/10
📺 8 Seasons
🎬 117 Episodes
📅 Ended
🌐 EN
⏱️ 35 min/episode
Drama
A one-hour anthology television series of one-off contemporary and classic dramas produced by the BBC.

Seasons

Season 1
1974 • 3 Episodes
Two Black South Africans discover what it means to lose their passbooks, which they must carry to prove their identity during the apartheid era.
Season 2
1975 • 3 Episodes
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.
Season 3
1976 • 9 Episodes
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.
Season 4
1976 • 6 Episodes
Psychic investigator George Livingston is asked to attend a séance. Can it be that he has finally discovered a genuine supernatural phenomena!?
Season 5
1977 • 1 Episode
A play about the (celibate) relationship between writer George Bernard Shaw and a famous drug addict actress.
Season 6
1979 • 31 Episodes
A play about the horrors of life at an English public school - with all the schoolboys played by adults.
Season 7
1980 • 29 Episodes
Peter boards a train to attend an important business meeting across Europe. His trip is complicated by two women also assigned to his compartment. One is an independent American whom Peter finds attractive. The other is Frau Messner, an extremely particular and demanding older European woman. Between the two of them, they try different aspects of Peter's patience...
Season 8
1981 • 35 Episodes
An Englishwoman seeking to escape her marriage arrives at French hotel.

Network

BBC Two

Production

BBC

Keywords

anthologybased on play or musicaladaptation