1955-09-27 4/10
Overview
A UK anthology series of single plays from major playwrights old and new. It ran from 1955 to 1974, producing about five hundred ninety-minute episodes from Granada Television. Season 1 also incorporates the Plays from the 'H.M. Tennant Globe Theatre' series, some of which were incorporated and labelled in listings as official Play of the Week episodes and some of which were played in place of Play of the Week episodes in alternative ITV regions. All 8 plays have been incorporated into this entry for convenience.
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Seasons List
Season 1
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1. A Month in the Country
2. The Pay Off
3. The Salt Land
4. No Other Verdict
5. The Green of the Year
6. Captain Carvallo
7. Favonia
8. Ignace
9. The Anatomist
10. We the Living
11. Both Ends Meet
12. Hamlet
13. Message for Margaret
14. George and Margaret
15. Uncle Harry
16. Misalliance
17. Skylark
18. One
19. The Living Room
20. The Golden Cuckoo
21. Seagulls Over Sorrento
22. Ten Minute Alibi
23. The Comedy of Errors
24. Pink Strings and Sealing Wax
25. Come Read Me a Riddle
26. I Killed the Count
27. Dear Charles
28. MacAdam and Eve
29. The Innocents
30. Rain on the Just
31. Rebecca
32. Golden Fleece
33. Down Came a Blackbird
34. The Golden Entry
35. The Adding Machine
36. Dark Journey
37. They Came By Night
38. The Terror
39. A Box at the Adelphi
40. Towards Zero
Season 2
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1. The Last Enemy
2. The Last of Mrs. Cheyney
3. Second Threshold
4. Corinth House
5. The Seagull
6. Traveller's Joy
7. Yellow Jack
8. Shooting Star
9. Act of Madness
10. Waters of the Moon
11. The Silver Cord
12. Look Back in Anger
13. A Time to be Born
14. The Doctor's Dilemma
15. The White Carnation
16. Action for Slander
17. The Giconda
18. The Two Headed Eagle
19. Another Part of the Forest
20. Tomorrow We Live
21. The Wild Duck
22. A Man About the House
23. Gertie Maude
24. Home of the Brave
25. The Day of the Monkey
26. Heaven and Earth
27. Adam's Apple
28. An Enemy of the People
29. Dead on Nine
30. Time Remembered
31. Dear Brutus
32. The Shop at Sly Corner
33. Granite Peak
34. The Scandalous Affair of Mr. Kettle and Mrs. Moon
35. The Age of Abandon
36. Accolade
37. Venus Observed
38. Hedda Gabler
39. The Druid's Rest
40. Boy Meets Girl
41. His and Hers
42. Victoria Regina
43. The Breath of Fools
44. The Glass Cage
45. Late Love
46. Mr. Bolfry
47. Summertime
48. The Tigress on the Hearth
49. Morning's at Seven
50. The Play's the Thing
Season 3
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1. The Wooden Dish
2. Knife in the Family
3. The Green Bay Tree
4. Wild Justice
5. Rope
6. Arrow in the Air
7. Ring Round the Moon
8. Lost Boundaries
9. The Guinea Pig
10. Mrs. Willie
11. The Springtime of Others
12. Widower's Houses
13. Death of a Salesman
14. Miss Mabel
15. The Grass Harp
16. A Voice in Vision
17. Johnny Belinda
18. Reunion in Vienna
19. The Witch
20. No. 17
21. Montserrat
22. Myself When Young
23. ...And Humanity
24. The Rossiters
25. The Iron Harp
26. The Importance of Being Ernest
27. Winterset
28. No Medals
29. The Mythmakers
30. School for Wives
31. Squaring the Circle
32. Cry, The Beloved Country
33. All My Sons
34. Shadow of the Vine
35. As the Twig is Bent
36. Disturbance
37. The Troublemakers
38. The Chigwell Chicken
39. The Linden Tree
40. A Room With A View
41. The Kidders
42. You Never Can Tell
43. How Charles Bravo Died
44. A Month in the Country
45. The Curious Savage
46. The Young May Moon
47. Arsenic and Old Lace
48. The Camel's Back
Season 4
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1. Mary Broome
2. The Publican's Story
3. Man and Superman
4. Women in Love
5. The Liberty Man
6. Dinner With The Family
7. Frenzy
8. The Strong are Lonely
9. The Quare Fellow
10. The Enchanted April
11. John Gabriel Borkman
12. Playboy of the Western World
13. In The Shadow of the Axe
14. Mrs. Dot
15. The Last Enemy
16. The Big Knife
17. The Bridge of San Luis Rey
18. Ten Little Niggers
19. The Education of Mr. Surrage
20. The Killing of the King
21. No Time For Comedy
22. Parnell
23. Garden of Loneliness
24. The Judge's Story
25. A Dead Secret
26. The Face of Treason
27. The Skin of our Teeth
28. Skyline For Two
29. A Day By The Sea
30. The Winner
31. Ebb Tide
32. Family on Trial
33. The Secret Agent
34. The Age of Juliet
35. Sheppey
36. Distinguished Gathering
37. A Touch of the Sun
38. The Square Ring
39. Sugar in the Morning
40. The Tortoise and the Hare
41. The Wild Bird
42. Fly Away, Peter
43. For Services Rendered
44. The Mark of the Warrior
45. Nude with Violin
46. Dandy Dick
47. Shadow of a Pale Horse
48. The Boy from the Gorbals
49. The Wind and the Rain
50. The Hungry God
Season 5
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1. The Younger Generation
2. Mr. Arcularis
3. Touch Wood
4. The Last Hours
5. Night of January 16th
6. The Traveller Without Luggage
7. Cynara
8. The Violent Years
9. The Crucible
10. The Enormous Shadow
11. Engineer Extraordinary
12. South
13. Gallows Glorious!
14. A Man Involved
15. Sweet Poison
16. Deep and Crisp and Even
17. The Signal
18. Moon on a Rainbow Shawl
19. In Search of Happiness
20. Carrington V.C.
21. Flowering Cherry
22. A Woman of No Importance
23. The Member of the Wedding
24. The House of Bernarda Alba
25. The Autumn Garden
26. The Trap
27. A Leap in the Dark
28. The Birthday Party
29. Double Indemnity
30. Loyalties
31. All Summer Long
32. House of Lies
33. Mademoiselle
34. The Green Pack
35. Beyond the Horizon
36. Caroline
37. Hay Fever
38. Lucky Strike
39. The Upstart
40. Night of the Big Heat
41. Reputation for a Song
42. The Shrike
43. Tess
44. The Darkness Outside
45. The Patchwork Quilt
46. The Search Party
47. The Ladies of the Corridor
48. The Watching Eye
49. Kind Lady
50. Dear Delinquent
51. Vitriol
Season 6
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1. Sparrow, Sparrow
2. Shadow of Guilt
3. Gaslight
4. The Protest
5. The Burning Glass
6. The Pets
7. Old Man in a Hurry
8. Tiger at the Gates
9. Square Dance
10. The Family First
11. The Pot Carriers
12. The Silver Whistle
13. The Watching Eye
14. The Accomplices
15. The Happy Man
16. The Girl in the Window
17. The Two Bouquets
18. The Jason Group
19. The Road To Hilda Brown
20. Ring of Truth
21. The Flashing Stream
22. A Spring of Love
23. Negative Evidence
24. Plough and the Stars
25. The Break-Up
26. The Poisoned Earth
27. Hell Hath No Fury
28. The Girl on the Via Flaminia
29. Doctor Everyman's Hour
30. Echoes on a Lonely Shore
31. The Threatening Storm
32. Midnight Sun
33. All on a Summer's Day
34. Break From Cover
35. Miss Treeves
36. Soldier in the Snow
37. Mrs. Skeffington
38. Any Other Business
39. All My Own Work
40. Fairy Tales of New York
41. Countdown at Woomera
42. The Paper Palace
43. I Remember Mama
44. Life With Father
45. The Burden of Proof
46. Hallelujah Corner
47. The Primitive
48. Ivanov
49. Conflict in the Sun
50. Harriet
51. A Shred of Evidence
52. Over the Bridge
Season 7
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1. Gilt and Gingerbread
2. Then We Fall
3. Faraway Music
4. Barchester Towers
5. Thinking of My Darling
6. A House of Strangers
7. Sergeant Musgrave's Dance
8. A Doll's House
9. The Candidate
10. Joker's Justice
11. The Two on the Beach
12. Whiteman
13. The Whisperers
14. The Wild Duck
15. The Visitors
16. Murder In Shorthand
17. A Perfect Woman
18. The Door
19. You In Your Small Corner
20. Some Other Love
21. I Don't Like You
22. Lean Liberty
23. My Three Angels
24. Rough Justice
25. The Week-Enders
26. A Righteous Woman
27. Bird In The Wilderness
28. Coach 7, Seat 15
29. Miracle on Mano
30. The Casualties
31. The Lark
Season 8
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1. The Gentle Assassin
2. A Matter of Principle
3. Freedom in September
4. Hobson's Choice
5. The Second Chef
6. A Lily in Little India
7. When the Kissing Had to Stop: Act 1 - The Hammer
8. Major Barbara
9. Misalliance
10. Don Juan in Hell
11. The Applecart
12. The Typewriter
13. Haven In Sunset
14. A Letter From the General
15. Alida
16. The Shifting Heart
17. The Rehearsal
18. All Good Children
19. Darkness at Noon
20. Danger Zone
21. Time and the Conways
22. The Tin Whistle Man
23. The Buried Man
24. The Cruel Deadline
25. The Search
26. JB Priestley Season #1: Eden End
27. JB Priestley Season #2: I Can't Bear Violence
28. JB Priestley Season #3: Dangerous Corner
29. War and Peace
30. The Kidnapping of Mary Smith
31. The Sandcastle
32. The Brimstone Butterfly
33. Ever Since Paradise
34. Cunningham
35. Double Stakes
36. Girl With a Difference
37. The Rainmaker
38. Breakthrough
39. The Truth About Alan
40. The Seventh Wave
41. The Eve of St. Mark's
42. True Love and Limbeck
43. The Heart of the Country
44. Double Yolk
45. The Touch of a Dead Hand
46. End of Conflict
47. Conspiracy of Silence
48. For King and Country #1: Out There
49. For King and Country #2: The Barricade
50. For King and Country #3: Tunnel Trench
51. For King and Country #4: The Enemy
Season 9
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1. Three Sisters
2. A Question of Morals
3. The Gioconda Smile
4. The Stone Dance
5. The Facing Chair
6. The Fixers
7. Stella
8. The Finambulists
9. Velvet Cage
10. London Wall
11. Nice Break for the Boys
12. The Quails
13. A Walk on the Water
14. Vicky and the Sultan
15. The Travelling Man
16. The Teachers
17. Pickwick
18. Three Roads to Rome
19. Acquit or Hang
20. The Rose Tattoo
21. The Glass Menagerie
22. Camino Real
23. Marching Song
24. Uncle Selwyn
25. I Can Walk Where I Like Can't I?
26. The Guilty Party
27. A Case of Character
28. The Rose Garden
29. Shadow in the Sun
30. Devil in the Wind
31. Where Are They Now?
32. Finger on the Balance
33. Flight From Reality
34. Jacko at War
35. A Question of Happiness #1: A Question About Hell
36. A Question of Happiness #2: Another Port. Another Town
37. A Question of Happiness #3: Watch Me I'm A Bird
38. A Question of Happiness #4: Fred
39. A Tricycle Made for Two
40. Celebration Dinner
41. The Bastow Affair
42. Valentina
43. A Midsummer Night's Dream
44. A Spanner in the Grass Roots
45. Samson By Moonshine
46. The Lovers of Florence
47. The Witnesses
48. Gina
49. The Offence
50. A Choice of Coward #1: Present Laughter
51. A Choice of Coward #2: Blithe Spirit
52. A Choice of Coward #3: The Vortex
53. A Choice of Coward #4: Design For Living
Season 10
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1. The Other Man
2. The Wife of Knightsbridge
3. The Man in the Panama Hat
4. Find Yourself a Mug
5. Goodnight to Heroes
6. Undercurrent
7. A Really Good Jazz Piano
8. The Sound of Murder
9. Crime and Punishment
10. The Bachelors
11. Tarnish on a Golden Boy
12. The Rules that Jack Made
13. Drill Pig
14. Deep and Crisp and Stolen
15. The Rise and Fall of Nellie Brown
16. Blood & Thunder: The Changeling
17. Blood & Thunder: Women Beware Women
18. A Tank of Fish
19. The Image
20. Giants on Saturday
21. No Baby, No Baby At All
22. The Rules of the Game
23. An Aspidistra in Babylon
24. The Fall of the Sparrow
25. Come Back Little Sheba
26. A Fearful Thing
27. I Remember the Battle
28. Finesse in Diamonds
29. Thick as Old Timber
30. We Thought You'd Like to be Caesar
31. Goodbye Johnny
32. The Edwardians #1: The Walls of Jericho
33. The Edwardians #2: Mid Channel
34. The Edwardians #3: Olive Latimer's Husband
35. The Edwardians #4: The Madras House
36. John Paddington
37. Beautiful Forever
38. A Couple of Dry Martinis
39. The Misunderstanding
40. The Death of Bessie Smith
41. The American Dream
42. Winter in Ischia
43. Between The Two Of Us
44. As The Crow Flies
45. When The Wind Blows
46. Helen and Edward and Henry
47. The Way of all Flesh
48. Their Obedient Servants
Season 11
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1. Strife
2. The Successor
3. The Winds of Green Monday
4. Four of Hearts #1: Tilt
5. Four of Hearts #2: Please Love My Wife
6. Four of Hearts #3: This Year's Girl
7. Four of Hearts #4: Summertime Ends Tonight
8. Breaking Point
9. Four Days to the Fireworks
10. The Corsican Brothers
11. Mr. Fowlds
12. Point of Order
13. Finder's Keepers
14. My Father's Keeper
15. The Cabbage Tree Hat Boys
16. Solo for the Banker
17. The Stories of DH Lawrence #1: White Stocking
18. The Stories of DH Lawrence #2: Daughters of the Vicar
19. The Stories of DH Lawrence #3: New Eve and Old Adam
20. The Stories of DH Lawrence #4: Samson and Delilah
21. The Stories of DH Lawrence #5: Tickets Please/Monkey Nuts
22. The Stories of DH Lawrence #6: The Blind Man
23. The Stories of DH Lawrence #7: Jimmy and the Desperate Woman
24. The Stories of DH Lawrence #8: Two Blue Birds/In Love
25. The Reluctant Debutante
26. The Dance of Death
27. Nelson - A Study in Miniature
28. Ivanov
29. All My Loving
30. A View from the Bridge
31. The First Thunder
32. Variation on a Theme
33. The Browning Version
34. The Move after Checkmate
35. Seven Deadly Sins #1: My Friend Corby
36. Seven Deadly Sins #2: File on Harry Jordan
37. Seven Deadly Sins #3: A Cold Heart
38. Seven Deadly Sins #4: A Temporary Typist
39. Seven Deadly Sins #5: In The Night
40. Seven Deadly Sins #6: A Lion In His Way
41. Seven Deadly Sins #7: The Erphinham Camp
42. The Cretan
43. Blue as his Eyes, The Tin Helmet he Wore
44. An Experience of Evil
45. The Climbers
46. Convalescence
47. You'll Know Me by the Stars in My Eyes
Season 12
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1. Plays of Married Life #1: A Catching Complaint
2. Plays of Married Life No. 2: Where Shall I Find What Will Change My Life?
3. Plays of Married Life No. 3: The Fat Woman's Tale
4. Plays of Married Life No. 4: The Bright Side
5. Home and Beauty
6. A Choice of Kings
7. Major Barbara
8. The Caretaker
9. Dear Liar
10. The New Men
11. The East Wind
12. End In Tears
13. The Tormentors
14. A Tot At The Local
15. The First Thing You Think Of
16. Come Laughing Home
17. Julie's Gone
18. On The Island
19. A Roof Over Our Mouths
20. Love On The Dole
21. Nice To Have You Back
22. That Old Black Magic
23. The Crossfire
24. A Drug on the Market
25. Cry Baby Bunting
26. Present Laughter
27. The Investigation
28. Dr. De Waldo's Therapy
29. Person Unknown
30. Seven Deadly Virtues #1: It's Your Move
31. Seven Deadly Virtues #2: The Good and Faithful Servant
32. Seven Deadly Virtues #3: Surface of Innocent
33. Seven Deadly Virtues #4: The Man with Two Heads
34. Seven Deadly Virtues #5: The Whole Truth
35. Seven Deadly Virtues #6: A Pain in the Neck
36. Seven Deadly Virtues #7: Are You By Yourself?
37. Little Moon of Alban
38. The Division
39. The Trial and Error of Colonel Winchip
40. The Stories of DH Lawrence #9: Strike Pay
41. The Stories of DH Lawrence #10: Blue Moccasins
42. The Stories of DH Lawrence #11: Mother and Daughter
43. The New Assistant
Season 13
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1. ITV Summer Playhouse #1: The Sleeping Partner
2. ITV Summer Playhouse #2: The English Climate
3. ITV Summer Playhouse #3: Death By Misadventure
4. ITV Summer Playhouse #4: Difference of Opinion
5. ITV Summer Playhouse #5: The Big Killing
6. ITV Summer Playhouse #6: The Small Rebellion of Jess Calvert
7. ITV Summer Playhouse #7: A Brand New Scrubbing Brush
8. ITV Summer Playhouse #8: One Fat Englishman
9. ITV Summer Playhouse #9: The Voysey Inheritance
10. ITV Summer Playhouse #10: Travelling Light
11. ITV Summer Playhouse #11: The Man Who Understood Women