ITV Television Playhouse - Season 5
Season 5
Episodes
Our Best for Harry
The Silk Purse
The Trouble Raiser
Clutterbuck
The Lean Years
The Blood Fight
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
A Card From Alison
Movement of Troops
Ticket for Tomorrow
Oggie
Our Miss Hammond
The Manor of Northstead
Shadow and Substance
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
A treason trial set in a small European country and the drunken advocate chosen to represented the already convicted prisoner.
The Christmas Card
The Small Servant
The Man Who Could Find Things
Other People's Houses
Incident
The Bush and The Tree
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
A Holiday Abroad
The Song of Louise in the Morning
Fiddler's Four
Breakaway
A Stop on the Way
At Home
Act of Terror
Once a Crook
Missing From Home
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
Think of the Day
Bridge of Sighs
The Big Night
A Moment in the Sun
Private and Confidential
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
The Unquiet Spirit
Margaret Moves On
Place of My Own
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
Night Run to the West
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
Country Cousins
Night School
The Barber of Stamford Hill
The Mirror Maze
The Queen's Peace
A Young Lady of Property
The Out-of-Towners
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