Playhouse - Season 7

1. Caught on a Train

Aired: 10/31/1980

Peter boards a train to attend an important business meeting across Europe. His train trip is made more complicated by two women also assigned to his train compartment. One is an independent American whom Peter finds attractive. The other is Frau Messner - an extremely particular and demanding older European woman. Between the two of them, they try different aspects of Peter's patience...

2. Fatal Spring

Aired: 11/7/1980

3. The Black Madonna

Aired: 11/14/1980

4. The Happy Autumn Fields

Aired: 11/21/1980

5. Grown-Ups

Aired: 11/28/1980

Dick and Mandy, a young working class couple, move into a council house in Canterbury, and find Mr. Butcher, one of their former teachers, living next door. Mandy's unmarried sister, Gloria, is constantly dropping in, and will not take any hints that the couple would prefer to be left alone, until her presence finally goads them to action.

6. My Dear Palestrina

Aired: 12/5/1980

7. Shaping Up

Aired: 12/12/1980

8. Standing in for Henry

Aired: 12/19/1980

At an advertising agency in Nottingham, young graphic designer Graham is recruited as a temporary replacement for the iconic Henry. The agency are desperate to be part of the Swinging Sixties but not without Henry. Can Graham replace him?

9. Fothergill

Aired: 1/9/1981

John Fothergill, aesthete and scholar, becomes the proprietor of the Spread Eagle, in Thame, Oxfordshire, with the intent of turning it into the most celebrated Inn in England, catering to the brightest lights in London's literati.

10. One Hundred and Eighty!!!

Aired: 1/16/1981

A darts tournament is put in peril when the players' wives stage a sit-in in the pub.

11. The Kindness of Mrs. Radcliffe

Aired: 1/23/1981

12. A Last Visitor for Mr. Hugh Peter

Aired: 1/30/1981

In prison the night before his execution, republican preacher Hugh Peter prepares to be hanged, drawn and quartered for treason.

13. Journal of Bridget Hitler

Aired: 2/6/1981

An Irishwoman married to a German in pre-WW1 Liverpool prepares to meet her brother-in-law, a young man named Adolf Hitler.

14. Episode 14

Aired: 2/13/1981

Days at the Beach

15. Bobby Wants to Meet Me

Aired: 2/20/1981

It's 1978, journalist Neville Morris, from Changes magazine, writes an essay about Bob Dylan called "A Jewish Massiah". Dylan's publicist Elle Smith reaches out that Bobby wants to meet him at Earl's Court. Neville goes into panic mode.

16. Days

Aired: 2/27/1981

17. Clapperclaw

Aired: 3/6/1981

18. The Potsdam Quartet

Aired: 3/13/1981

19. Unity

Aired: 3/20/1981

Period Drama. The true story of Unity Mitford who in the 1930's went to live in Germany and was friends with Adolf Hitler.

20. Skylark

Aired: 3/27/1981

21. Elizabeth Alone: Part 1

Aired: 4/3/1981

22. Elizabeth Alone: Part 2

Aired: 4/10/1981

23. Elizabeth Alone: Part 3

Aired: 4/17/1981

24. The Man Who Almost Knew Eamonn Andrews

Aired: 4/24/1981

25. You're All Right, How Am I?

Aired: 5/1/1981

Michael Hordern and Denholm Elliot are perfectly cast and are ideal foils for each other.

26. The Day War Broke Out

Aired: 5/15/1981

Albie Warren and girlfriend Carla are second on the bill of variety artists and musicians performing to half empty venues. Albie impersonates wartime comic Rob Wilton to people who don't know him. Will he take the chance to top the bill?

27. Random Moments in a May Garden

Aired: 5/22/1981

28. Going Gently

Aired: 6/5/1981

Play about two elderly cancer patients suffering in hospital.

29. Marriage

Aired: 7/10/1981