Playhouse

Season 6

31 episodes · Nov 7, 1979

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  • S6E1

    School Play

    Nov 7, 1979

    A play about the horrors of life at an English public school - with all the schoolboys played by adults.

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  • S6E2

    Every Good Boy Deserves Favour

    Nov 14, 1979

    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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  • S6E3

    The Brylcreem Boys

    Nov 21, 1979

    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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  • S6E4

    An Affinity with Dr. Still

    Nov 28, 1979
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  • S6E5

    Home Movies

    Dec 5, 1979

    Keith and Alec have been making holiday movies, together for 25 years. Alec suddenly spots a moment between wife Sybil and Keith. He realises daughter Katie is actually Keith's and she is in a sexual relationship with her 'brother' John.

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  • S6E6

    Sweet Wine of Youth

    Dec 12, 1979
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  • S6E7

    Speed King

    Dec 19, 1979

    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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  • S6E8

    Pews

    Jan 12, 1980

    Set in a north country synagogue, a group of Jewish men have to organise a shiva, however, not having the required number of their faith, resort to recruiting George, a 'non-Jew', to make up the numbers.

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  • S6E9

    Gentle Folk

    Jan 19, 198075m

    An Edwardian house party given by a Fabian woman, her business-man husband and assorted guests from politics and the Arts—including a young man prone to disturbing premonitions.

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  • S6E10

    Trouble with Gregory

    Jan 23, 1980

    Gregory has troubles enough when Ella moves him out and sets him up for a job with the radio. Suspicions of infidelity can make the world a disturbing place. But then he still has to meet the new neighbours...

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  • S6E11

    Lifelike

    Jan 26, 1980

    A comprehensive school is praised for its authenticity, but one schoolboy does not agree with this assessment.

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  • S6E12

    The Enigma

    Feb 9, 1980

    An upper-class young man has rejected his affluent background, but, when a crisis comes, reverts to type pretty quickly.

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  • S6E13

    Hesther for Example

    Feb 16, 1980

    Cousin, W. Clifford Mill, ran a dirty postcard business; which brings Paul to the country in search of a profitable afternoon. Hesther knows the value of most things and, when evening falls, she turns his visit to her own advantage.

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  • S6E14

    The Best of Friends

    Mar 8, 1980

    What is friendship? Why do two grown men behave like egomaniac children or flustered prima donnas? And when they meet unexpectedly after ten years, how will things be?

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  • S6E15

    In Hiding

    Mar 15, 1980

    A teenager learns about life and death while staying with his aunt during the school holidays.

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  • S6E16

    Rottingdean

    Mar 22, 1980

    Mother is manic, Father frustrated. Son sees himself as quite an operator. Daughter wants to change the dreary world of Jubilee-year England. The day has come. Back to Rottingdean... if all goes smoothly.

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  • S6E17

    The Dig

    Apr 18, 1980
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  • S6E18

    Happy

    Apr 25, 1980
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  • S6E19

    Mary's Wife

    May 2, 1980

    A married transvestite comes to terms with their true gender identity.

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  • S6E20

    Games Without Frontiers

    May 9, 1980

    Nobody goes to Amsterdam to wander about. It's either the Rijksmuseum or the red-light district. On the boat going home Clive and Stewart admit to not having spent long in the museums – so what did they get up to in Amsterdam?

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  • S6E21

    The Unborn

    May 16, 1980

    A physicist has visions of his unborn baby – it turns out that the child will grow up to become a Hitler-like dictator responsible for World War III.

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  • S6E22

    Electric in the City

    May 23, 1980
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  • S6E23

    Blue Remembered Hills

    May 30, 1980

    Repeated from Play for Today

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  • S6E24

    Thank You Comrades

    Jun 6, 1980
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  • S6E25

    Coming Out

    Jun 13, 1980
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  • S6E26

    Crest of a Wave

    Jun 20, 1980
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  • S6E27

    Freedom of the Dig

    Jun 20, 1980
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  • S6E28

    A Walk in the Forest

    Jul 6, 1980
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  • S6E29

    Hallelujah, Mary Plum

    Jul 13, 1980

    A talented, independent artist lives by the sea with her daughter. As summer approaches, she faces two threats to her way of life: the local doctor who is in love with her and her unhappy sister who comes to stay.

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  • S6E30

    Dalhousie's Luck

    Aug 3, 1980

    Our gamble is over, Dalhousie. You'll walk at dawn tomorrow as agreed, but in case you've no mind to return, there's one fact might persuade you. On what you do hangs not only your life but hers .

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  • S6E31

    An Ordered Life

    Aug 10, 1980

    German composer Anton Webern survives Naziism only to be shot by an American GI in the closing days of WWII. His son, against his father's wishes, joins the Wehrmacht and is killed in a railway accident in 1943.

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