TV Playhouse - Season 1

TV Playhouse - Season 1

Season 1

Network
DatesSep 24, 1955 - Feb 11, 1956

Episodes

Mid Level
Season 1Episode 160 min

Mid Level

Sep 24, 1955
Man of Destiny
Season 1Episode 260 min

Man of Destiny

Oct 1, 1955
Box Thirteen
Season 1Episode 360 min

Box Thirteen

Oct 8, 1955
The Rescue
Season 1Episode 460 min

The Rescue

Oct 15, 1955
The Concert
Season 1Episode 560 min

The Concert

Drama set in Montreal. A novelist, Dr Richard Jennings (who is never seen, only heard), decides to leave his apartment at short notice. His acquaintances cannot understand why he would want to leave so suddenly; so his friend, Professor Standish, visits him to find out why. 

Oct 22, 1955
French for Love
Season 1Episode 660 min

French for Love

Victor lives contentedly in the South of France, separated from his wife for several years and being looked after by his housekeeper Hortense. His quiet life is disrupted by the arrival of his daughter Gabrielle and her boyfriend Robin, the latter come to ask Victor for Gabrielle's hand in marriage. 

Oct 29, 1955
The Facts of Life
Season 1Episode 760 min

The Facts of Life

Nov 5, 1955
A Question of Fact
Season 1Episode 860 min

A Question of Fact

Paul Gardiner, a young schoolmaster who has been brought up as an orphan knowing little of his past is suddenly prompted to find out more about his background - and his parents. 

Nov 12, 1955
Frolic Wind
Season 1Episode 960 min

Frolic Wind

Lady Athaliah lives with her three elderly sisters at Pagnell Bois and the exposure of long-held family secrets at a gathering of guests.  

Nov 19, 1955
I Passed By Your Window
Season 1Episode 1060 min

I Passed By Your Window

Walter Turnbull tells the police he was on his way to a cricket club meeting at the time of his wife's murder. But neither his sister-in-law, Lillian Harvey, whom he claims to have seen on his way, nor her daughter, Margaret, remember seeing him. 

Nov 26, 1955
The Last Reunion
Season 1Episode 1160 min

The Last Reunion

A group of World War II veteran airmen meet annually for a dinner, to meet up and reminisce. However, at the latest dinner there is a ghostly presence and the revelation of a shocking secret.

Dec 3, 1955
Quay South
Season 1Episode 1260 min

Quay South

Set in 1940 in Quay South, a harbour in the North East of England, and the struggle of Captain Thwaite when the authorities try to take over his blockship the "Ebb Tide".  

Dec 10, 1955
The Boy about the Place
Season 1Episode 1360 min

The Boy about the Place

Major Hyland and his wife become worried when their young daughter starts to have an imaginary friend, a young boy, when they rent a house in Norfolk. They become more uneasy when they learn that the young son of a former inhabitant of the house drowned in the river running along the bottom of the garden. 

Dec 17, 1955
The Golden Fleece
Season 1Episode 1460 min

The Golden Fleece

Television production of the play by J.B. Priestley about the wealthy inhabitants of the Golden Fleece hotel and what happens when ex-chambermaid Molly Cudden finds she is a rich woman.

Dec 31, 1955
Skipper Next to God
Season 1Episode 1560 min

Skipper Next to God

Jan 7, 1956
The Old Ladies
Season 1Episode 1660 min

The Old Ladies

Jan 14, 1956
No Escape
Season 1Episode 1760 min

No Escape

Rachel Lloyd lives a hollow, pointless life in her farm in Wales. Fifteen years earlier Stephen Meredith, the man she was to have married, ran off with another woman. She has never been able to kill her love or longing for him. Then one evening as she is working at her desk she feels a presence in the room. She turns and sees Stephen Meredith.

Jan 21, 1956
The Lady Asks for Help
Season 1Episode 1860 min

The Lady Asks for Help

A woman asks her husband's advice when she hears that an old admirer of hers is talking injudiciously. 

Jan 28, 1956
Teddy Gang
Season 1Episode 1960 min

Teddy Gang

Young delinquent, Nick Gates, leader of a gang of Teddy Boys is currently engaged in the theft of motor cycles/cars, and taking them to the gang's hideout in a garage.

Feb 4, 1956
Bamboo Bars
Season 1Episode 2060 min

Bamboo Bars

Feb 11, 1956

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