ITV Television Playhouse - Episode Guide

No one can deny that Clotilde is vastly attractive, and few will dispute the skill with which she manoeuvres 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.

Before the Party

Episode: 4x08 | Airdate: Oct 24, 1958

Strictly for the Sparrows

Episode: 4x09 | Airdate: Oct 31, 1958

Breakdown

Episode: 4x10 | Airdate: Nov 7, 1958

Various Heavens

Episode: 4x11 | Airdate: Nov 14, 1958

Close Quarters

Episode: 4x12 | Airdate: Nov 21, 1958

Special Occasion

Episode: 4x13 | Airdate: Nov 28, 1958

A Sense of Justice

Episode: 4x14 | Airdate: Dec 5, 1958

The Heat of the Evening

Episode: 4x15 | Airdate: Dec 12, 1958

What Shall We Tell Caroline?

Episode: 4x16 | Airdate: Dec 19, 1958

Village Wooing

Episode: 4x17 | Airdate: Jan 2, 1959

The Gift

Episode: 4x18 | Airdate: Jan 9, 1959

Private Lives

Episode: 4x19 | Airdate: Jan 16, 1959

A Guardsman's Cup of Tea

Episode: 4x20 | Airdate: Jan 23, 1959

No FIxed Abode

Episode: 4x21 | Airdate: Jan 30, 1959

Rock-a-Bye Barnie

Episode: 4x22 | Airdate: Feb 6, 1959

The Paraguayan Harp

Episode: 4x23 | Airdate: Feb 13, 1959

Before the Sun Goes Down

Episode: 4x24 | Airdate: Feb 20, 1959

What is the significance of a mysterious satellite that appears over London - is it alien or military in origin?

A Memory of Two Mondays

Episode: 4x25 | Airdate: Feb 27, 1959

The House Next Door

Episode: 4x26 | Airdate: Mar 6, 1959

Sunday Out of Season

Episode: 4x27 | Airdate: Mar 13, 1959

Notes for a Love Song

Episode: 4x28 | Airdate: Mar 20, 1959

To Keep Our Way of Life

Episode: 4x29 | Airdate: Mar 27, 1959

All God's Chillun Got Wings

Episode: 4x30 | Airdate: Apr 3, 1959

Ella had no one in the world but Jim - so what strange power drove her to destroy him?

Odd Man In

Episode: 4x31 | Airdate: Apr 10, 1959

The Jukebox

Episode: 4x32 | Airdate: Apr 17, 1959

A Bit of Happiness

Episode: 4x33 | Airdate: Apr 24, 1959

The Breaking Point

Episode: 4x34 | Airdate: May 1, 1959

A Phoenix Too Frequent

Episode: 4x35 | Airdate: May 8, 1959

Bellweather Nine

Episode: 4x36 | Airdate: May 15, 1959

A scatty professor plans to beat the government into the space race.

Promenade

Episode: 4x37 | Airdate: May 22, 1959

Broken Journey

Episode: 4x38 | Airdate: May 29, 1959

The Haven

Episode: 4x39 | Airdate: Jun 5, 1959

A Kind of Freedom

Episode: 4x40 | Airdate: Jun 12, 1959

Men Don't Make Passes

Episode: 4x41 | Airdate: Jun 19, 1959

Summer Pavilion

Episode: 4x42 | Airdate: Jun 26, 1959

The White Sheep of the Family

Episode: 4x43 | Airdate: Jul 3, 1959

Mr. Browne Comes Home

Episode: 4x44 | Airdate: Jul 10, 1959

Longitude 49

Episode: 4x45 | Airdate: Jul 17, 1959

The Extra Grave

Episode: 4x46 | Airdate: Jul 24, 1959

At Your Door

Episode: 4x47 | Airdate: Jul 31, 1959

My Side of the Story

Episode: 4x48 | Airdate: Aug 7, 1959

Queen's Corporal

Episode: 4x49 | Airdate: Aug 14, 1959

A drama set in a small army camp in Korea just after the fighting has ended. Sgt.Vale, a National Service man gets his first posting to the camp and is made unhappy by the atmosphere of tension and ill feeling. He begins to understand what is at the root of the trouble when he is caught up in the results of a mysterious accident.

The Midnight Family

Episode: 4x50 | Airdate: Aug 21, 1959

One a Penny, Two a Penny

Episode: 4x51 | Airdate: Aug 28, 1959

Season 5

Our Best for Harry

Episode: 5x01 | Airdate: Sep 1, 1959

The Silk Purse

Episode: 5x02 | Airdate: Sep 11, 1959

The Trouble Raiser

Episode: 5x03 | Airdate: Sep 18, 1959

Clutterbuck

Episode: 5x04 | Airdate: Sep 25, 1959

The Lean Years

Episode: 5x05 | Airdate: Oct 2, 1959

The Blood Fight

Episode: 5x06 | Airdate: Oct 9, 1959

Happy, a West Indian boy, living in London, and Tod, a Cockney have both given up All-In Wrestling for safer jobs. But now they need money badly. Happy wants to give his wife a proper home, and Tod is in love with a girl who has expensive tastes. In the end they are forced back into the ring and matched against each other.

Someone We Know

Episode: 5x07 | Airdate: Oct 16, 1959

A Card From Alison

Episode: 5x08 | Airdate: Oct 23, 1959

Movement of Troops

Episode: 5x09 | Airdate: Oct 30, 1959

Ticket for Tomorrow

Episode: 5x10 | Airdate: Nov 6, 1959

Oggie

Episode: 5x11 | Airdate: Nov 13, 1959

Our Miss Hammond

Episode: 5x12 | Airdate: Nov 20, 1959

The Manor of Northstead

Episode: 5x13 | Airdate: Nov 27, 1959

Shadow and Substance

Episode: 5x14 | Airdate: Dec 4, 1959

Brigid is a young, imaginative and simple-hearted Irish peasant girl. The two people she loves most are her employer, the Canon, and O'Flingsley, the village schoolmaster. But a bitter feud develops between the two men and when this reaches its climax the person who suffers most is Brigid.

The Advocate

Episode: 5x15 | Airdate: Dec 11, 1959

A treason trial set in a small European country and the drunken advocate chosen to represented the already convicted prisoner.

The Christmas Card

Episode: 5x16 | Airdate: Dec 18, 1959

The Small Servant

Episode: 5x17 | Airdate: Jan 1, 1960

The Man Who Could Find Things

Episode: 5x18 | Airdate: Jan 8, 1960

Other People's Houses

Episode: 5x19 | Airdate: Jan 15, 1960

Incident

Episode: 5x20 | Airdate: Jan 22, 1960

The Bush and The Tree

Episode: 5x21 | Airdate: Jan 29, 1960

Local politics, the bustle of local public life and a wry look at marriage and not taking one's partner and situation for granted. A touching look at the ordinary side of life.

The English Captain

Episode: 5x22 | Airdate: Feb 5, 1960

A Holiday Abroad

Episode: 5x23 | Airdate: Feb 21, 1960

The Song of Louise in the Morning

Episode: 5x24 | Airdate: Feb 19, 1960

Fiddler's Four

Episode: 5x25 | Airdate: Feb 26, 1960

Breakaway

Episode: 5x26 | Airdate: Mar 4, 1960

A Stop on the Way

Episode: 5x27 | Airdate: Mar 11, 1960

At Home

Episode: 5x28 | Airdate: Mar 18, 1960

Act of Terror

Episode: 5x29 | Airdate: Mar 25, 1960

Once a Crook

Episode: 5x30 | Airdate: Apr 1, 1960

Missing From Home

Episode: 5x31 | Airdate: Apr 8, 1960

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.

Each Wind That Blows

Episode: 5x32 | Airdate: Apr 15, 1960

Think of the Day

Episode: 5x33 | Airdate: Apr 22, 1960

Bridge of Sighs

Episode: 5x34 | Airdate: Apr 29, 1960

The Big Night

Episode: 5x35 | Airdate: May 6, 1960

A Moment in the Sun

Episode: 5x36 | Airdate: May 13, 1960

Private and Confidential

Episode: 5x37 | Airdate: May 20, 1960

Tells the story of Angela Robinson secretary to Walter Vintage, an up and coming MP. Miss Robinson finds herself engaged to Vintage's young son Horace - but what she doesn't know is that the engagement was engineered because she had stumbled across the Vintage family's guilty secret.

The Ostrich

Episode: 5x38 | Airdate: May 27, 1960

The Unquiet Spirit

Episode: 5x39 | Airdate: Jun 3, 1960

Margaret Moves On

Episode: 5x40 | Airdate: Jun 10, 1960

Place of My Own

Episode: 5x41 | Airdate: Jun 17, 1960

Four labourers working on a half-built house, which is a small, uninteresting and rather drab project, are pre-occupied with their dreams and ambitions. But Ken their foreman, an unpopular man, is determined to make them see that their dreams will never be fulfilled. He sets out to shatter their dreams, one by one.

The Moment of Milo

Episode: 5x42 | Airdate: Jun 24, 1960

Night Run to the West

Episode: 5x43 | Airdate: Jun 30, 1960

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.

After the Party

Episode: 5x44 | Airdate: Jul 7, 1960

Country Cousins

Episode: 5x45 | Airdate: Jul 14, 1960

Night School

Episode: 5x46 | Airdate: Jul 21, 1960

The Barber of Stamford Hill

Episode: 5x47 | Airdate: Jul 28, 1960

The Mirror Maze

Episode: 5x48 | Airdate: Aug 4, 1960

The Queen's Peace

Episode: 5x49 | Airdate: Aug 11, 1960

A Young Lady of Property

Episode: 5x50 | Airdate: Aug 18, 1960

The Out-of-Towners

Episode: 5x51 | Airdate: Aug 25, 1960

Season 6

The Problem of Girl Friends

Episode: 6x01 | Airdate: Sep 1, 1960

The Harsh World

Episode: 6x02 | Airdate: Sep 8, 1960

When country girl Pat Harper arrives in the big city, she discovers an old truth - that life is as good as the people you mix with. At first, Pat, who starts work in an office, is eager for romance and excitement, but she does not realise that disillusionment may await her when she strikes up a friendship with an older man.

The New Man

Episode: 6x03 | Airdate: Sep 15, 1960

Tomorrow

Episode: 6x04 | Airdate: Sep 29, 1960

Penelope

Episode: 6x05 | Airdate: Oct 6, 1960

Murder Stamp

Episode: 6x06 | Airdate: Oct 13, 1960

Changing Values

Episode: 6x07 | Airdate: Oct 20, 1960

Reprise

Episode: 6x08 | Airdate: Oct 27, 1960

Independent Means

Episode: 6x09 | Airdate: Nov 3, 1960

Who's Owen Stephens ...?

Episode: 6x10 | Airdate: Nov 10, 1960

The Essay Prize

Episode: 6x11 | Airdate: Nov 17, 1960

The End of the Tether

Episode: 6x12 | Airdate: Nov 24, 1960

The Honeymooners

Episode: 6x13 | Airdate: Dec 1, 1960

Mr. Krane

Episode: 6x14 | Airdate: Dec 8, 1960

Poor Sidney

Episode: 6x15 | Airdate: Dec 15, 1960

The Two Wise Virgins of Hove

Episode: 6x16 | Airdate: Dec 22, 1960

The Boy Next Door

Episode: 6x17 | Airdate: Dec 29, 1960

Not Many Mansions

Episode: 6x18 | Airdate: Jan 5, 1961

The Zoo Story

Episode: 6x19 | Airdate: Jan 12, 1961

The Debt Collector

Episode: 6x20 | Airdate: Jan 19, 1961

To everyone who knew her, Margaret Blair was without spirit or glamour. But an encounter with a young man in the South of France has a surprising effect on her - and her friends.

Nannie

Episode: 6x21 | Airdate: Jan 26, 1961

Witness - The Night

Episode: 6x22 | Airdate: Feb 2, 1961

When police investigate a hit-and-run accident their inquiries threaten to destroy the lives of both the guilty and innocent.

The Savages

Episode: 6x23 | Airdate: Feb 9, 1961

Hi Diddle Diddle

Episode: 6x24 | Airdate: Feb 16, 1961

Ben Spray

Episode: 6x25 | Airdate: Feb 23, 1961

The Serpent's Tooth

Episode: 6x26 | Airdate: Mar 2, 1961

The Summer's Pride

Episode: 6x27 | Airdate: Mar 9, 1961

The Balance of Her Mind

Episode: 6x28 | Airdate: Mar 16, 1961

The Widowing of Mrs. Holroyd

Episode: 6x29 | Airdate: Mar 23, 1961

A Blow to the Head

Episode: 6x30 | Airdate: Mar 30, 1961

Private Potter

Episode: 6x31 | Airdate: Apr 6, 1961

The Skint Boys

Episode: 6x32 | Airdate: Apr 13, 1961

Marking Time

Episode: 6x33 | Airdate: Apr 20, 1961

The Demands of Love

Episode: 6x34 | Airdate: Apr 27, 1961

A Diabolic Liberty

Episode: 6x35 | Airdate: May 4, 1961

The Collection

Episode: 6x36 | Airdate: May 11, 1961

The Reception

Episode: 6x37 | Airdate: May 18, 1961

An ex-boyfriend of the bride may not be popular at the wedding at any time. But when he arrives uninvited with a present, this threatens to wreck the wedding reception. This is the situation inThe Reception.

Johnny Dark

Episode: 6x38 | Airdate: May 25, 1961

The Portrait

Episode: 6x39 | Airdate: Jun 1, 1961

Death by Choice

Episode: 6x40 | Airdate: Jun 8, 1961

A Walk on the Water

Episode: 6x41 | Airdate: Jun 15, 1961

The Island

Episode: 6x42 | Airdate: Jun 22, 1961

Boule de Suif

Episode: 6x43 | Airdate: Jun 29, 1961

The Different Drum

Episode: 6x44 | Airdate: Jul 6, 1961

Paris Round the Corner

Episode: 6x45 | Airdate: Jul 13, 1961

Tells the story of the Scott family. Strict, chapel going father Thomas runs a family drapery business in Manchester. Daughter Annie has her dreams of Paris. Son Leonard wants to study for the Civil Service. Both can achieve their aims only if father sells his shop on a valuable corner site. When Scott gets an offer for the business it comes from the brash Wickstead who wants to turn it into a dance hall.

The Bad One

Episode: 6x46 | Airdate: Jul 27, 1961

The Dumb Waiter

Episode: 6x47 | Airdate: Aug 10, 1961

I Having Dreamt, Awoke

Episode: 6x48 | Airdate: Aug 17, 1961

Fly by Night

Episode: 6x49 | Airdate: Aug 24, 1961

Once More My Love

Episode: 6x50 | Airdate: Aug 31, 1961

Season 7

The Square

Episode: 7x01 | Airdate: Sep 7, 1961

On the first warm day of summer, two lonely people, a young girl and a middle-aged man, meet by chance at the fountain in a quiet garden square. In this haven, away from the clamour of the city, they talk about themselves as only strangers can. Both are enriched by the encounter - but are they too late to find the happiness that has eluded them so far?

The Missing Links

Episode: 7x02 | Airdate: Sep 14, 1961

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.

Take a Fellow Like Me

Episode: 7x03 | Airdate: Sep 21, 1961

Mr. Cole and the Middle Kingdom

Episode: 7x04 | Airdate: Sep 28, 1961

The Room

Episode: 7x05 | Airdate: Oct 5, 1961

A couple are quite happy living in a rented room of a seedy apartment building, but somebody keeps telling others, that the room is for rent.

God and Tony Lockwood

Episode: 7x06 | Airdate: Oct 12, 1961

The Jackpot Question

Episode: 7x07 | Airdate: Oct 19, 1961

Children of the Sun

Episode: 7x08 | Airdate: Oct 26, 1961

The Gold Hunter

Episode: 7x09 | Airdate: Nov 2, 1961

Flight 447 Delayed

Episode: 7x10 | Airdate: Nov 9, 1961

The Gentle Shade

Episode: 7x11 | Airdate: Nov 16, 1961

To Keep Our Way of Life

Episode: 7x12 | Airdate: Nov 23, 1961

A Resounding Tinkle

Episode: 7x13 | Airdate: Nov 30, 1961

The bizarre and surreal world of the Paradocks.

Heir for a Shoestring

Episode: 7x14 | Airdate: Dec 7, 1961

The Prizewinner

Episode: 7x15 | Airdate: Dec 21, 1961

Winner Takes the Lady

Episode: 7x16 | Airdate: Dec 28, 1961

Season 8

Peace with Terror

Episode: 8x01 | Airdate: Sep 21, 1962

The Jokers

Episode: 8x02 | Airdate: Sep 28, 1962

A Choice of Weapons

Episode: 8x03 | Airdate: Oct 5, 1962

Linda Came Today

Episode: 8x04 | Airdate: Oct 12, 1962

When the Kissing Had to Stop: Act 2: The Sickle

Episode: 8x05 | Airdate: Oct 19, 1962

A Free Weekend

Episode: 8x06 | Airdate: Oct 26, 1962

Until You Are Dead

Episode: 8x07 | Airdate: Nov 2, 1962

Nuncle

Episode: 8x08 | Airdate: Nov 9, 1962

The Morning After

Episode: 8x09 | Airdate: Nov 16, 1962

The Road to Anywhere

Episode: 8x10 | Airdate: Nov 23, 1962

When Silver Drinks

Episode: 8x11 | Airdate: Nov 30, 1962

The Pinkness of It All

Episode: 8x12 | Airdate: Dec 7, 1962

No Cause for Alarm

Episode: 8x13 | Airdate: Dec 14, 1962

Fiddlers All

Episode: 8x14 | Airdate: Dec 21, 1962

The Interview

Episode: 8x15 | Airdate: Dec 28, 1962

The Ordeal of Dr. Shannon

Episode: 8x16 | Airdate: Jan 4, 1963

Robert Shannon is lecturing under Professor Usher but spends his spare time on research to discover a vaccine that will kill a destructive flu virus. Usher is implacably opposed to this and warns his younger colleague not to go ahead with the research.