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ITV Television Playhouse
  Episode Guide - January 2006
compiled by
The Classic TV Archive
with contributions by:
references:
TV Times/ The Viewer
Library of Congress (telnet://locis.loc.gov)
Internet Movie Database (http://us.imdb.com)
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ITV TELEVISION PLAYHOUSE (1956 -1968)
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Rotating contributions by:
Granada/Associated-Redifussion/ATV
for
the ITV network -  Fridays (1956-63) / Thursdays (1963-68)(around 9:00pm)

Plays were live or tape (mainly 60 min)

UK Dramatic Anthology Series 1955-68 ( number of plays ?) x 60 min


22Sept1955 ATV London on air
? Sep55 Associated-Rediffusion -go on air

Episode List on IMDB

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Thursdays

[--] Television Playhouse: WOMAN IN A DRESSING GOWN (60 min)
Associated-Rediffusion / 1x60m-e / 1956 black and white
Producer/Director: Peter Cotes
Writer: Ted Willis
With:-
JOAN MILLER
Drama. A middle aged wife descends into slovenliness whilst her husband
is tempted by a younger woman. One of the first of the kitchen sink style
realist dramas that became prevalent throughout the late 1950's and
early 60's.

[--] Television Playhouse: THE BURNING GLASS (60 min)
26 April 1956 ITV Thursday (black and white)
Associated-Rediffusion Production
Writer: Barry Thomas / Play: Charles Morgan / Director: Cyril Coke
Cast:
Christopher Terriford........... JOHN ROBINSON
Mary Terriford.................. URSULA HOWELLS
Tony Locke...................... ALFRED BURKE
Montague Winthropp............. DONALD WOLFIT
Scifi drama. A British scientist has discovered a device that can harness
the power of the sun, the Government however decides they want to make use
of it.
(see later version on PLAY OF THE WEEK 04Oct60)


[--] Television Playhouse: THE CONFIDENCE MAN
12Jul57 ITV Thur 9:15 pm
Written by Ernest Kinoy
Directed by Clifford Owen
starring
Bonar Colleano
and a
Full Supporting Cast


######### ITV Television Playhouse ###########
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[--] Television Playhouse: ON APPROVAL
1Aug57 ITV Thur 9.15pm
H.M. Tennent Globe production for ATV
. a comedy play by Frederick Lonsdale
adapted for television by Denis Webb
produced and directed by Desmond Davis
starring
Marian Spencer ....... __ Wislack (Maria)
Cyril Raymond ........ Lord Halton
Ann Firbank .......... __ Hayle
Daniel Massey ........ Duke of Bristol


[--] Television Playhouse: PICKUP GIRL
06Dec57 ITV Fri (from www.janetmunro.com)
Granada Television
starring
Janet Munro


[--] Picture Playhouse: HAMMER THE ROOF (60 min)
17Jan58 ITV Fri 9pm
Associated-Rediffusion production
produced by Ernest G. Ray
adapted from the book by John Creasey
directed by Maclean Rogers
starring
John Bentley
Patricia Dainton

[--] 24Jan58 - no details
[--] 31Jan58 - no details
[--] 7Feb58 - no details

[--] Television Playhouse: SO CLOSE TO THE TOP
14Feb58 ITV Fri 9pm
production company unknown
produced and directed by Lionel Harris
written by Rex Reinits
based on a short story by Stewart Howard
starring
Bill Kerr
Lloyd Lamble
Trader Faulkner
George Pravda

[--] 21Feb58 - no details

[--] Television Playhouse: ONE OF OUR MEN IS GUILTY (75 min)
28Feb58 ITV Fri 9pm
Canadian Broadcating Company (CBC)
starring
Lloyd Bochner


[--] 7Mar58 - no details

[--] Television Playhouse: DO AS I DO (75 min)(60 min on STV)
14Mar58 ITV Fri 9pm
production company unknown
play written by Peter Rosser
produced and directed by Peter Wood
starring
Alan Webb
Mary Hinton
Christine Silver
Ernest Thesiger
(full details in TV Times - Scottish edition)


[--] Television Playhouse?: 2000 MINUS 60

Granada / 1x70?m-e / 1958 4 April Friday

Writer: James Workman / Director: Peter Graham-Scott
Cast:-
ERIC LANDER as Devlin
JUNE THORNBURN as Lucy
CAMPBELL SINGER as Sinclair
CHARLES LLOYD PACK as Professor James
JOHN ROBINSON as General Trent
Scifi drama. A runaway rocket is on a direct collision course for London.



[--] Television Playhouse: THE CONFIDENCE MAN
18July58 ? ITV Fri 9.15pm
production company unknown
written by Ernest Kinoy
directed by Clifford Owen
starring
Bonar Colleano


[--] (play series?) CORNELIUS
18Jul58 ?
Associated-Rediffusion production


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Fridays


[--] ITV Television Playhouse: REST IN VIOLENCE
12Sep58 ITV Fri
production company unknown


[--] ITV Television Playhouse: PARISIENNE (60 min.)
17Oct58 ITV Fri 9:00 pm
production company unknown
[possibly - Associated-Rediffusion production]
Written by Henry Becque
Translated by Ashley Dukes
Directed by Michael Currer-Briggs
designed by John Clements
starring
Greta Gynt ........... Clotilde Dumesnil
Hugh Burden .......... Lafeill
Bryan Coleman ........ Adolphe Dumesnil
Francis Matthews ..... Simson
Sheila Ballantine .... Adele
No one can deny that Clotilde is vastlt attractive, and few
will dispute the skill with which she manoevres the men in her
life. The delightful comedy of manners, set in Paris in 1885,
rings some original and often witty changes on the eternal
triangle.

[--] Television Playhouse: PRIVATE LIVES
16Jan59 ITV Fri 9pm
ATV production
produced by H.M. Tennent
written by Noel Coward
settings by Paul Mayo
directed by Lionel Harris
starring
Maxine Audley ......... Amanda Prynne
Peter Gray ............ Elyot Chase
Yolande Turner ........ Sibyl Chase
Gordon Chater ......... Victor Prynne
Bridget Panet ......... Louise, the maid


[--] Television Playhouse: A GUARDSMAN'S CUP OF TEA
23Jan59 ITV Fri 9:00 pm
Associated-Rediffusion production
written by Thomas Browne
directed by Roger Jenkins
designer Henry Federer
starring
Michael Craig
Barbara Shelley
Brian Oulton
Margot Graham
Harry Fowler

[--] Television Playhouse: NO FIXED ABODE (60 min)
30Jan59 ITV Fri 9:00 pm
Production Company Not Known
Written by Clive Exton
Directed James Ormerod
Designed by Darrell Lass
starring
Robin Wentworth ...... The Governor
Wilfrid Brambell ..... Grandpa
Michael Gwynn ........ Lofty
Jack Hedley .......... Corp
Jack Rodney .......... Tich

[--] Television Playhouse: BEFORE THE SUN GOES DOWN (60 min)
20Feb59 ITV Friday
Associated-Rediffusion production
Writer: Lester Fuller / Music: Ron Grainer / Design: John Clements /
Director: Robert Tronson
Cast:
Vek..................... EDDIE BYRNE
Ann...................... MARGOT VAN DER BURGH
Newsreader.............. PAUL MARTIN
Madame.................... JOYCE BARBER
Prime Minister.......... MOULTRIE KELSALL
SciFi drama. What is the significance of a mysterious satellite that
appears over London - is it alien or military in origin?


(02Apr59 Thur - A-R "Salute The Toff")

[--] Television Playhouse: ALL GOD'S CHILLUN GOT WINGS
3Apr59 ITV Fri 9:00 pm
Associated-Rediffusion production
Written by Eugene O'Neill
Directed by John Kemp-Welch
settings designed by Henry Federer
starring
Pat Sandys ........... Ella
Lloyd Reckord ........ Jim
with
Ida Sheley ........... Hattie
also
Igor Tamarin ......... Shorty
Johnnie Sekka ........ Joe
Tom Busby ............ Mickey
Connie Smith ......... Mrs. Harris
Ella had no one in the world but Jim - so what strange power
drove her to destroy him?

[--] Television Playhouse: BELLWEATHER NINE (60 min)
15May59 ITV Fri
Associated-Rediffusion production
Writer: A.P. Dearsley / Design: Frank Gillman
Director: John Rhodes
Cast:-
CHARLES LLOYD PACK as Humphrey Bellweather
JOYCE CAREY as Amanda
PETER MYERS as Monty
JOSE READ as Doris
ANTHONY SHARP as Fingle
SciFi drama. A scatty professor plans to beat the government into the
space race.

[--] Television Playhouse: AT YOUR DOOR
31Jul59 ITV Fri 9:0pm
ATV Production H.M. Tennent
starring
Heather Sears

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[--] Television Playhouse: THE SILK PURSE (60 min)
11Sep59 ITV Fri 9:00 pm
Granada Production
Written by Clive Exton
Directed by Henry Kaplan
Designed by Paul Bernard
Starring:
Donald Pleasance as Robert Robertson
Gillian Lind as Doris Robertson
With:
Sylvia Kay as Ann Marshall
Peter Marshall as Peter Mashall
(Details in The Viewer)



[--] Television Playhouse: TICKET FOR TOMORROW
06Nov59 ITV Fri 9:35 pm
Granada Production
Written by Eilzabeth Baker
Directed by John Knight
starring
June Thorburn ........... Maggie Massey

[--] 13Nov59 - no details
[--] 20Nov59 - no details

[--] Television Playhouse: THE MANOR OF NORTHSTEAD
27Nov59 ITV Fri 9:35pm
starring
A.E. Matthews
Marie Lohr
Charles Heslop
(full details in TV Times - Shirley Bassey cover


[--] A MEMORY OF TWO MONDAYS (according to Drama Research Guide)
27Nov59 ITV Fri (clash)
Granada Television Production


[--] Television Playhouse: INCIDENT
22Jan60 ITV
Associated-Rediffusion production

[--] Television Playhouse: A HOLIDAY ABROAD (60 min)
12Feb60 ITV Fri 9:35 pm
ATV Production by H.M. Tennent
(full details in TV Times)

[--] Television Playhouse: MISSING FROM HOME
8Apr60 ITV Fri 9:35 pm
ATV Production by H.M. Tennent
Play for Television by Rosemary Timperley
Adapted from the Story "An Idyll"
Directed by Toby Robertson
starring:
Hugh Burden ........... Leonard Wheedler ("George")
Jessica Dunning ....... Jacqueline Merriman
Richard Pearson ....... Supt. Marlowe
Wendy Turner .......... Nell Merriman
with:
Diana Beaumont ........ Mrs. Perrott
Willoughby Gray ....... Clive Merriman
James Maxwell ......... Fred Cathcart
also:
Phyllida Law .......... Julia Cathcart
Therese McMurray ...... Sally Cathcart
Mike Hall ............. Sergeant Tenby
Stephanie Bidmead ..... Wendy
June Brown ............ Freda
John Grayson .......... Man at Window
Nell Merriman disappears from home and the police organise a
large-scale search. Anxiety for her safety mounts, but the one
person who is completely happy and undisturbed by events is Nell.

[--] Television Playhouse: PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL
20May60 ITV Fri 9:35 pm
starring
Pauline Yates
Dinsdale Landen

[--] Television Playhouse: BRIDGE OF SIGHS
29Apr60 ITV Friday 9:50 pm (NOT Thur)
Anglia Television Production
starring (pictured on cover of TV Times)
Desmond Walter-Ellis
Sydney Tafler

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Possibly changed from Fridays to Thursdays around here - Summer 1960
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[--] ITV Television Playhouse: NIGHT RUN TO THE WEST
30Jun60 ITV Thur 9:35 pm
ATV Production by H.M. Tennent
Play for Television by G.C. Brown
Based on the Story by H.E. Bates
Directed by Peter Potter
starring
Robert Shaw ......... ______ Williams
Jill Malcom ......... ______ Broderick
Ernest Thesiger ..... ______ Broderick
with
Victor Platt
Dandy Michols
June Brown
A lorry driver who breaks down and stops for help at an
isolated house. He becomes dangerously involved in the lives
of a woman and her rich, invalid husband.

[--] ITV Television Playhouse: NIGHT SCHOOL
21Jul60 ITV Thur

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[--] ITV Television Playhouse: THE QUEEN'S PEACE
11Aug60
Granada Television



[--] ITV Television Playhouse: THE OUT-OF-TOWNERS (60 min)
25Aug60 ITV Thur 9:36 pm
Associated TeleVision Production
(full details in "TV TImes")


[--] ITV Television Playhouse: WHO'S OWEN STEPHENS ....? (60 min)
10Nov60, ITV Thur 9:35 pm
Associated-Rediffusion Network Production
Written by Philip Broadley
Directed by David Boiseau
starring
Colin Jeavons
Patrick Magee
James Villiers
(full details in "The Viewer")

[--] ITV Television Playhouse: THE ESSAY PRIZE (60 min)
17Nov60, ITV Thur 9:35 pm
ATV Production by H.M. Tennent
Written by John Bowen
Directed by Toby Robertson
starring
James Maxwell
Peter McEnery
Leslie French
with
Arthur Hewlett
Jean Harvey
Peter Collingwood
Diana Beaumont

[--] ITV Television Playhouse: THE END OF THE TETHER (60 min)
24Nov60, ITV Thur 9:35 pm
Associated-Rediffusion Network Production
Written by Robert Urquhart Based on an Original Story by Joseph Conrad
Directed by Cyril Coke
Settings Designed by John Emery
Starring:
John Philips
(Details in TV Times)


[--] ITV Television Playhouse: THE ZOO STORY (60 min)
12Jan61, ITV Thur 9:35 pm
Granada Production
Written by Edward Albee
Directed by Henry Kaplan
starring
?
Peter Sallis


[--] ITV Television Playhouse: THE DEBT COLLECTOR (60 min.)
19Jan61, ITV Thur 9:35 pm
Associated-Rediffusion production
A play written for television by A.P. Dearsley
Based on a Story by Dan Sutherland
Directed by Tania Lieven
Starring
Lally Bowers
Barrie Ingham
Peggy Thorpe-Bates
William Kendall
Heather Chasen
To everyone who knew her, Margaret Blair was without spirit or
glamour. But an encouter with a young man in the South of France
has a surprising effect on her - and her friends.

[--] 26Jan61 - no details


[--] ITV Television Playhouse: WITNESS - THE NIGHT (60 min.)
2Feb61, ITV Thur 9:35 pm
Associated-Rediffusion production
Written by J. H. B. Peel
Directed by Ian Fordyce
starring
Maxine Audley
Cyril Raymond
Joanna Dunham
with
Peter Vaughan
When police investigate a hit-and-run accident their inquiries
threaten to destroy the lives of both the guilty and innocent
(Maxine Audley is appearing in "Settled Out of Court" at the
Strand Theatre)

[--] ITV Television Playhouse: THE SAVAGES (60 min.)
9Feb61 ITV Thur 9:35 pm
ATV Production by H.M. Tennent
Written by Peter Draper
Directed by Peter Potter
starring
Fay Compton
Maggie Smith
Victor Maddern
Ursula Howells
John Laurie
Rose Hill
Hennie Scott

[--] 16Feb61 - no details
[--] 23Feb61 - no details

[--] Television Playhouse: THE SERPENT'S TOOTH (60 min.)
2Mar61 ITV Thur 9:35 pm
Associated-Rediffusion
Written by Angus Cooper
Directed by Tania Lieven
starring
Mona Washbourne
Dandy Nichols
Sheila Burrell
Lola Brooks

[--] 9Mar61 - no details

[--] Television Playhouse: HI DIDDLE DIDDLE (60 min.)
16Mar61 ITV Thur 9:35 pm
Associated-Rediffusion
Written by Mike Watts
Directed by Michael Westmore
starring
Thora Hird
Richard Pearson
Bill Owen

[--] Television Playhouse: THE WIDOWING OF MRS. HOLROYD (60 min.)
23Mar61 ITV Thur 9.35 pm
Granada tv production
written by D.H. Lawrence
adapted for television by Ken Taylor
designed by Peter Phillips
directed by Claude Whatham
starring
Jennifer Wilson ...... Lizzie Holroyd
Paul Daneman ......... Tom Blackmore
Edward Judd .......... Charlie Holroyd

[--] 30Mar61 - no details
[--] 6Apr61 - no details
[--] 13Apr61 - no details
[--] 20Apr61 - no details

[--] Television Playhouse: THE DEMANDS OF LOVE
27Apr61 ITV Thur 9:35 pm
Associated-Rediffusion Network Production
Written by Rosemary Timperley
Directed by Cyril Coke
starring
Rachel Gurney
Ronald Howard
Gene Anderson
Terence Alexander

[--] Television Playhouse: A DIABOLIC LIBERTY (60 min)
4May61 ITV THur 9:35 pm
ATV Production by H.M. Tennent
A Comic Strip Written by Peter Draper
Directed by Tony Robertson
Starring:
Richard Briers
Lally Bowers
Douglas Wilmer
(full details in TV Times)

[--] Television Playhouse: THE COLLECTION (60 min.)
11May61 ITV Thur 9:35 pm
Associated-Rediffusion Network Production
Written by Harold Pinter
Directed by Joan Kemp-Welch
starring
Griffith Jones
Vivien Merchant
(full details in TV tIMES)


[--] Television Playhouse: DEATH BY CHOICE (60 min.)
08Jun61 ITV Thur 9:35 pm
Associated-Rediffusion Network Production
Written by Gerd Oelschlegel
English television version by Adrian Vale
Directed by Mark Lawton
Starring:
Donald Wolfit
with:
Alan Wheatley
Guy Deghey
(full details in THE VIEWER)



[--] Television Playhouse: THE ISLAND (60 min.)
22Jun61 ITV Thur 9:35 pm
Associated-Rediffusion Network Production
(full details in TV tIMES)





[--] Television Playhouse: THE DUMB WAITER (60 min)
10Aug61 ITV Thur
Granada Television
p: Julian Amyes;
d: Paul Almond;
sc: Harold Pinter
design:Stanley Mills;
starring:
Kenneth MacMillan.


[--] Television Playhouse: I HAVING DREAMT, AWOKE (60 min)
17Aug61 ITV Thur 9:35PM
Associated-Rediffusion
(details in the Viewer)

[--] Television Playhouse: FLY BY NIGHT (60 min)
24Aug61 ITV Thur 9:35PM
ATV Production by H.M. Tennent
(details in the Viewer/TV Times)


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[--] Television Playhouse: THE MISSING LINKS
14Sep61 ITV Thur 9:35 pm
Associated-Rediffusion Network Production
Written by John Antrobus
Directed by Cyril Coke
designed by John Emery
music by David Lee
Starring:
Jack Hedley ........ Maurice
Brian Wilde ........ Sebastian
The oddest thing can happen in big old house. Take Maurice's
approaching marriage for instance. Will his friend Sebastian
have to move on? The solution to this problem is unexpected,
to say the least.


[--] ITV Television Playhouse: TAKE A FELLOW LIKE ME
21Sep61 ITV Thur 9.35pm
ATV Network production
produced by H.M. Tennent
written by Ronald Harwood
directed by Casper Wrede
starring
Lee Montague ......... The Man
Maxwell Shaw ......... Halfa
Ruth Goring .......... Esther
Catherine Lancaster .. Riza

[--] ITV Television Playhouse: THE ROOM
05Oct61 ITV Thur
Granada Television Production

[--] ITV Television Playhouse: CHILDREN OF THE SUN
26Oct61 ITV Thur
Anglia Television production



[--] ITV Television Playhouse: THE EXAM
17Nov61 ITV Thur
Anglia Television Production


[--] ITV Television Playhouse: A RESOUNDING TINKLE (60 min. slot)
30Nov61 ITV Thur
Granada Television Production (Video Taped July 1961)
p. Silvio Narizzano,
d:Paul Almond,
sc.- N.F. Simpson;
design: B. Grimes;
m: Stanley Myers;
Cast:
Tenniel Evans (as Bro Paradock)
Billie Whitelaw (as Middie Paradock),
Joan Hickson, Norman Rossington,
Dinsdale Landen, Geoffrey Bayldon.
See also "Three Rousing Tinkles" and "Four Tall Tinkles".

Comedy. The bizarre and surreal world of the Paradocks.

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5 months actors strike - circa Jan-May 62
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ITV 'Play of the Week' ALIDA / 1x60m-e / 1962 bw
(if this is 60 min more likely Television Playhouse)

Drama. A young sculptor finds himself becoming obsessed with the sculpted
head of a young girl.




[--] Television Playhouse: A CHOICE OF WEAPONS (60 min)
05Oct62 ITV Fri 9:45 pm
Granada tv production
(details in "The Viewer")

[--] included here for reference:-
Play of the Week: WHEN THE KISSING HAD TO STOP (60 min)
Act 2: THE SICKLE
Associated-Rediffusion production
19Oct62 ITV Fri 9:45 pm
Act 1 of this "Play of the Week" was on Tue 16Oct62)
(this was normally the "Television Playhouse" slot)

[--] Television Playhouse: NUNCLE (60 min.)
9Nov62 ITV Fri 9:15 pm
ATV Network Production by H. M. Tennent
Written by John Bowen
Directed by Graham Evans
Settings by Kenneth Mellor
Starring:
Raymond Huntley .......... Alec
Jennifer Wilson .......... Daphne
Norman Bird .............. Tom Rogers
with:
Frederick Farley ......... Bonzo
June Brown ............... Nellie
Gilbert Wynne ............ Jarvis
Robert Peters ............ Barman
Norman Scace ............. Registrar
John Colin ............... A doctor
Charles Lawrence ......... TV director
Anthony Carrick .......... TV producer
Denys Graham ............. TV interviewer
June Thody ............... Masha, a P.A.
Bill Corlett ............. Studio Manager
Pat Connell .............. A prop man
Jon Laurimore ............ The Singer
Tom Rogers is a famous writer who has not written a word for
15 years. When he marries a woman who has a rich father, he
gets more than he bargained for.

[--] ITV Television Playhouse: THE MORNING AFTER (60 min)
16Nov1962 ITV Friday
ATV Production
Writter: G. C. Brown
Director: John Hale
Cast:
Leonard Rossiter as Harry
Drama.

[--] ITV Television Playhouse: WHEN SILVER DRINKS (60 min)
30Nov62 ITV Fri 9.15pm
Granada Television production
Produced by Gordon Flemyng
Written by Forbes Bramble
starring
Colin Blakely
Dinsdale Landen
Delphi Lawrence
Dudley Foster


[--] ITV Television Playhouse: THE PINKNESS OF IT ALL
07Dec62 ITV Fri
Associated-Rediffusion Production


[--] ITV Television Playhouse: NO CAUSE FOR ALARM (60 min)
14Dec62 ITV Fri 9:15 pm
Associated-Rediffusion Production
(full details in "TV Times")


[--] ITV Television Playhouse: THE PALETO CONFESSION
25Jan63 ITV Fri
Associated-Rediffusion Production


[--] (title not known)
8Mar63 ITV Fri 9:15 pm

[--] Television Playhouse: BEN AGAIN (60 min)
22Mar63 ITV Fri 9:15 pm
Granada Production
(full details in "TV Times")

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Possibly changed day from Friday to Thursday here
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(28Mar63 ITV Thur "The Lover" A-R)


[--] ITV Television Playhouse: THE TWO-SEATER BACHELOR DAYS (60 min)
11Apr63 ITV Thur 8:00 pm (yes - Thursday)
Associated-Rediffusion Network Production
Directed by Michael Currer-Briggs
Written by Paul Jones
Designed by Frank Nerini
starring
Dinsdale Landen
Zena Walker
Ann Bell
(full details in TV Times)
("The Odd Man" was in the Friday Slot)

[--] ITV Television Playhouse: MONEY WITH MENACES (60 min)
01Aug63 ITV Thur
Anglia Television Production
Writer: Ken Taylor / Story: Patrick Hamilton
Director: June Howson
Cast:
Andrew Carruthers........... RONALD LEWIS
Jenny....................... PRISCILLA HIRD
Poland...................... PHILIP MADOC
Thriller. The daughter of a newspaper tycoon is kidnapped and held to ransom.

[--] ITV Television Playhouse: THE FRUIT AT THE BOTTOM OF THE BOWL (60 min)
08Aug63 ITV Thur
ATV Production
Writer: Ilona Ference / Story: Ray Bradbury / Director: John Hale
With:- LEONARD ROSSITER as William Acton
Thriller about a ruthless murderer.
 
LOVE IN A SMALL TOWN
ITV / 1x60m-e / 1963
Writer: Lewis Griefer / Producer: Hugh Rennie / Executive Producer: Stella Richman
Drama. A disillusioned Town Clerk living in a small town falls for a literary agent.
With:- TONY BRITTON as Tom / JUDI DENCH as Pat McKendrick / FAITH BROOK

[--] ITV Television Playhouse: GREEN GROWS THE GRASS
24Oct63 ITV Thur
Anglia Television Production

[--] ITV Television Playhouse: GIRL IN THE OFFICE
05Dec63 ITV Thur
Anglia Television Production

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######### ITV Television Playhouse ###########
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A LOVING DISPOSITION
Granada / 1x60m-e / 1965 black and white
Writer/Producer: Peter Wildeblood / Design: Michael Grimes / Director: Gordon Flemyng
Drama. A psychiatrist falls in love with one of his patients.
With:- FREDERICK BARTMAN / DAVID LANGTON / HENRY McGEE / NYREE DAWN PORTER / FRANK THORNTON

THE BRIGHT SIDE
possibly Television Playhouse
ITV / 1x60m-e / 1966 black and white
Writer: Hugh Forbes
Drama. A newspaper reporter contemplates beginning an affair.
With:- WILLIAM LUCAS / COLETTE O'NEILL / JUDY PARFITT

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[--] ITV Television Playhouse: A ROOF OVER OUR MOUTHS (60 min)
12Jan67 ITV Thur
ATV Production
Producer: Cecil Clarke
Writer: Peter Draper
Director: Graham Evans
Cast:-
PETER BARKWORTH / JENNIFER HILARY / MOIRA REDMOND
Drama. Thanks to their infidelities a couple's marriage is on the verge of
collapse.

[--] ITV Television Playhouse: REASON UNKNOWN
23Mar67 ITV Thur
Anglia Television Production

(note: 21Mar67 "Person Unknown" on "Play of the Week")

[--] ITV Television Playhouse: LITTLE MOON OF ALBION (60 min)
18May67 ITV Thur
Anglia Television Production
Producer: John Jacobs
Writer: James Costigan
Cast:
Brigid Mary................. VALERIE GEARON
Lt Kenneth Boyd............. DAVID BUCK
father Curran............... LIAM REDMOND
Dennis....................... DONAL McCANN
Period drama. A young nun working in a hospital falls for a wounded soldier.

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################ Summer 1967 #################
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(03Jul67-18Sep67)
ITV Mondays



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(final season before franchise changes)
Mondays

[--] ITV Television Playhouse: CHILDREN PLAYING
20Nov67 ITV Mon
ATV Network Production


[--] ITV Television Playhouse: THE CONFESSION (60 min)
04Dec67 ITV Mon
Anglia Television Production
Producer: John Jacobs
Writer: Maurice McLaughlin
Design: Michael Wield
Cast:-
MARIE KEAN / ANN LYNN / FRANCIS MATTHEWS / LIAM REDMOND / LESLIE SANDS
Drama. A man is murdered in strange circumstances.


[--] ITV Television Playhouse: THE PHOTOGRAPHER
29Jan68 ITV Mon
Anglia Television Production

[--] ITV Television Playhouse: THE BONEGRINDER
13May1968 ITV Mon
Associated Rediffusion Production
Written by Dennis Potter
Director: Joan Kemp-Welch
A strange man inveigles his way into a household.
(A common theme among Potter's work).


[--] ITV Television Playhouse: HORIZONTAL HOLD
27May68
Anglia Television Production


[--] ITV Television Playhouse: ENTERTAINING MR. SLOANE
15Jul68 ITV Mon
Associated Rediffusion Production


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