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Playhouse

  • 1974 – 1983
  • Ended
  • Drama
  • ~43m / ep
  • 8 seasons
  • 7.0/10

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

Latest: Season 8 · 1981

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  1. E1. Mrs. Reinhardt

    Oct 30, 1981 · 115m

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

  2. E2. Last Summer's Child

    Nov 6, 1981

    A boy feels restless during a hot summer in prewar Cornwall.

  3. E3. Autumn Sunshine

    Nov 13, 1981

  4. E4. The Grudge Fight

    Nov 27, 1981

  5. E5. Virginia Fly Is Drowning

    Dec 4, 1981

    Secure in her suburban home, Virginia Fly dreams of a life of unbridled passion and romance. She feels her fantasies are about to become reality when she is asked to take part in a TV documentary about pre-marital love - a subject about which she is sadly ignorant...

  6. E6. Findings on a Late Afternoon

    Dec 11, 1981

    Gerald is on the edge of a complete breakdown. During an afternoon with his father, he starts to come to terms with the wounding confusions and mistakes of his past—his lies, his girlfriend's suicide, his mother's obsessive love of his younger brother, and her death in a hospital when he arrived too late to communicate his real feelings for her.

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