TV Playhouse - Season 1
Season 1
Episodes
Mid Level
Man of Destiny
Box Thirteen
The Rescue
The Concert
Drama set in Montreal. A novelist, Dr Richard Jennings (who is never seen, only heard), decides to leave his apartment at short notice. His acquaintances cannot understand why he would want to leave so suddenly; so his friend, Professor Standish, visits him to find out why.
French for Love
Victor lives contentedly in the South of France, separated from his wife for several years and being looked after by his housekeeper Hortense. His quiet life is disrupted by the arrival of his daughter Gabrielle and her boyfriend Robin, the latter come to ask Victor for Gabrielle's hand in marriage.
The Facts of Life
A Question of Fact
Paul Gardiner, a young schoolmaster who has been brought up as an orphan knowing little of his past is suddenly prompted to find out more about his background - and his parents.
Frolic Wind
Lady Athaliah lives with her three elderly sisters at Pagnell Bois and the exposure of long-held family secrets at a gathering of guests.
I Passed By Your Window
Walter Turnbull tells the police he was on his way to a cricket club meeting at the time of his wife's murder. But neither his sister-in-law, Lillian Harvey, whom he claims to have seen on his way, nor her daughter, Margaret, remember seeing him.
The Last Reunion
A group of World War II veteran airmen meet annually for a dinner, to meet up and reminisce. However, at the latest dinner there is a ghostly presence and the revelation of a shocking secret.
Quay South
Set in 1940 in Quay South, a harbour in the North East of England, and the struggle of Captain Thwaite when the authorities try to take over his blockship the "Ebb Tide".
The Boy about the Place
Major Hyland and his wife become worried when their young daughter starts to have an imaginary friend, a young boy, when they rent a house in Norfolk. They become more uneasy when they learn that the young son of a former inhabitant of the house drowned in the river running along the bottom of the garden.
The Golden Fleece
Television production of the play by J.B. Priestley about the wealthy inhabitants of the Golden Fleece hotel and what happens when ex-chambermaid Molly Cudden finds she is a rich woman.
Skipper Next to God
The Old Ladies
No Escape
Rachel Lloyd lives a hollow, pointless life in her farm in Wales. Fifteen years earlier Stephen Meredith, the man she was to have married, ran off with another woman. She has never been able to kill her love or longing for him. Then one evening as she is working at her desk she feels a presence in the room. She turns and sees Stephen Meredith.
The Lady Asks for Help
A woman asks her husband's advice when she hears that an old admirer of hers is talking injudiciously.
Teddy Gang
Young delinquent, Nick Gates, leader of a gang of Teddy Boys is currently engaged in the theft of motor cycles/cars, and taking them to the gang's hideout in a garage.
Bamboo Bars
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