Playhouse

Season 8

35 episodes · Oct 30, 1981

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  • S8E1

    Mrs. Reinhardt

    Oct 30, 1981115m

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

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  • S8E2

    Last Summer's Child

    Nov 6, 1981

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

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  • S8E3

    Autumn Sunshine

    Nov 13, 1981
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  • S8E4

    The Grudge Fight

    Nov 27, 1981
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  • S8E5

    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...

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  • S8E6

    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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  • S8E7

    Dancing Country

    Dec 18, 1981

    The local country dancing team of old-age pensioners is forced to change its style when Jack, its leader, arrives with a new partner, one who is younger and prettier.

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  • S8E8

    The Combination

    Jan 8, 1982
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  • S8E9

    A Silly Little Habit

    Jan 15, 1982

    An apparently happy and privileged woman begins shoplifting.

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  • S8E10

    Aubrey

    Jan 22, 1982

    The story of Aubrey Beardsley, an English illustrator and author, whose black ink drawings were influenced by Japanese woodcuts, and depicted the grotesque, the decadent, and the erotic. He was a leading figure in the aesthetic movement which also included Oscar Wilde and James McNeill Whistler.

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  • S8E11

    Preview

    Jan 29, 1982

    Four television critics gather in a Wardour Street preview theatre to see a documentary and get the surprise of their lives.

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  • S8E12

    Out of Step

    Feb 5, 1982

    A keen ballroom dancer becomes an alcoholic after discovering she's infertile.

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  • S8E13

    A Shilling Life

    Feb 12, 1982

    A once-famous writer, now long out of fashion, is interviewed by a disconcerting young woman.

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  • S8E14

    The Workshop

    Feb 19, 1982

    In 1945, just a year since the allied troops entered Paris, Simone arrives for her first day at M. Leon's tailoring workshop.

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  • S8E15

    How Many Miles to Babylon?

    Feb 26, 1982111m

    Wealthy Alexander Moore and working-class Jerry Crowe are childhood friends and, in 1914, find themselves in the same Army unit – Alex as an officer and Jerry as a private. They still remain close, however, until Jerry is court-martialed for desertion, and Alex is put in charge of the firing squad.

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  • S8E16

    The Pigman's Protégé

    Mar 5, 1982

    In 1919, the carnage of WWI has left the country desperately short of young men. Maud, who runs the farm for her crippled father, decides that it is time for her young sister Clara to be married, and a husband could provide a strong pair of hands around the place. Stan the pigman seems to fix most things, why not this?

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  • S8E17

    A Pocketful of Dreams

    Mar 12, 198229m

    At the moment, money is scarce and times are hard for everyone—even villains like Charlie and Denny are feeling the pinch. But their luck could change when a chance encounter with a film crew provides them with an eccentric method of getting their hands on a lot of loot.

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  • S8E18

    Keeping in Touch

    Mar 19, 1982

    When James pays one of his periodic visits to his mother, he finds her curiously resigned to the loneliness she's suffered for the years since her husband's death. Somehow, she has managed to keep all the family ties intact.

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  • S8E19

    The Guest

    Mar 26, 1982

    Gerald fancies himself as a bit of a gourmet and a trip to the gastronomic delights of France promises well. His wife Hilary isn't so sure; she isn't sure of a lot of things about Gerald just recently, but the menu at the extravagantly recommended La Petite Chanson provides an unexpected solution.

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  • S8E20

    The Sidmouth Letters

    Apr 2, 198235m

    Academic scavenger Shorty believes he's tracked down some letters that reveal an unexpected side to Miss Jane Austen's nature.

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  • S8E21

    The Queen of Annagh

    Apr 16, 1982

    Nancy is the sole inhabitant of the Isle of Annagh off the west coast of Scotland. Although World War III is raging all around she sees little of it until Michael, a young pilot officer, pays an involuntary visit and is in danger of dragging the hostilities along with him.

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  • S8E22

    By George

    Apr 23, 1982

    An anthropologist observed by one of his erstwhile victims — a sophisticated comedy.

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  • S8E23

    Lunch

    Apr 30, 1982

    Two women meet for lunch every two weeks to swap news. But this week is different.

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  • S8E24

    Passing Through

    May 7, 1982

    At a railway public house, two strangers engage in a conversation and begin to open up about their life's. Richard is an alcoholic and former stockbroker is just been released from jail. Arthur works for the railway as a points operator.

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  • S8E25

    Jake's End

    May 14, 1982

    Jake's a professional, a married man with a reputation to maintain—and a bank to rob.

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  • S8E26

    Housewarming

    May 21, 1982

    Her husband Gary is behind on the central heating installation. Eunice, her best friend, has a crush on the lodger — an actor appearing in a violent play at the local rep. No wonder Tina is anxious about the housewarming.

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  • S8E27

    Easy Money

    May 28, 1982

    At a concert, Marcia picked Terry out of the crowd. So he no longer feels alone. Until he learns about her secret life and dare not tell his friends.

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  • S8E28

    Potatohead Blues

    Jun 4, 1982

    Stan McVay has given up smoking, gone on a diet and feels like hell. He's also abandoned the Ulster spud and just learned that his teenage daughter is having an affair with a married man.

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  • S8E29

    Irwin Shaw Triple Bill: The Man Who Married a French Wife / The Monument / The Girls in Their Summer Dresses

    Jun 11, 1982

    Three short stories by Irwin Shaw.

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  • S8E30

    Chains

    Jun 18, 1982

    Eddie's 40th birthday party reunites friends not seen since the old days of ton-up bikes and early rock and roll. It could be a chance to relive those 'good times', if the others can only match Eddie's enthusiasm.

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  • S8E31

    Come Into the Garden, Maud

    Jul 7, 1982

    A henpecked American visiting Europe is able to throw off his ghastly wife and find love.

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  • S8E32

    A Song at Twilight

    Jul 9, 1982

    A famous writer finds that a long-suppressed secret is about to be revealed by his former mistress.

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  • S8E33

    Fraulein Else

    Jan 14, 1983
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  • S8E34

    Imaginary Friends

    Apr 1, 1983
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  • S8E35

    Possibilities

    May 20, 1983
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