ITV Television Playhouse - Season 5

ITV Television Playhouse - Season 5

Season 5

Network
Episodes51
DatesSep 1, 1959 - Aug 25, 1960
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Episodes

Our Best for Harry
Season 5Episode 160 min

Our Best for Harry

Sep 1, 1959
The Silk Purse
Season 5Episode 260 min

The Silk Purse

Sep 11, 1959
The Trouble Raiser
Season 5Episode 360 min

The Trouble Raiser

Sep 18, 1959
Clutterbuck
Season 5Episode 460 min

Clutterbuck

Sep 25, 1959
The Lean Years
Season 5Episode 560 min

The Lean Years

Oct 2, 1959
The Blood Fight
Season 5Episode 660 min

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. 

Oct 9, 1959
Someone We Know
Season 5Episode 760 min

Someone We Know

Oct 16, 1959
A Card From Alison
Season 5Episode 860 min

A Card From Alison

Oct 23, 1959
Movement of Troops
Season 5Episode 960 min

Movement of Troops

Oct 30, 1959
Ticket for Tomorrow
Season 5Episode 1060 min

Ticket for Tomorrow

Nov 6, 1959
Oggie
Season 5Episode 1160 min

Oggie

Nov 13, 1959
Our Miss Hammond
Season 5Episode 1260 min

Our Miss Hammond

Nov 20, 1959
The Manor of Northstead
Season 5Episode 1360 min

The Manor of Northstead

Nov 27, 1959
Shadow and Substance
Season 5Episode 1460 min

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.

Dec 4, 1959
The Advocate
Season 5Episode 1560 min

The Advocate

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

Dec 11, 1959
The Christmas Card
Season 5Episode 1660 min

The Christmas Card

Dec 18, 1959
The Small Servant
Season 5Episode 1760 min

The Small Servant

Jan 1, 1960
The Man Who Could Find Things
Season 5Episode 1860 min

The Man Who Could Find Things

Jan 8, 1960
Other People's Houses
Season 5Episode 1960 min

Other People's Houses

Jan 15, 1960
Incident
Season 5Episode 2060 min

Incident

Jan 22, 1960
The Bush and The Tree
Season 5Episode 2160 min

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.

Jan 29, 1960
The English Captain
Season 5Episode 2260 min

The English Captain

Feb 5, 1960
A Holiday Abroad
Season 5Episode 2360 min

A Holiday Abroad

Feb 21, 1960
The Song of Louise in the Morning
Season 5Episode 2460 min

The Song of Louise in the Morning

Feb 19, 1960
Fiddler's Four
Season 5Episode 2560 min

Fiddler's Four

Feb 26, 1960
Breakaway
Season 5Episode 2660 min

Breakaway

Mar 4, 1960
A Stop on the Way
Season 5Episode 2760 min

A Stop on the Way

Mar 11, 1960
At Home
Season 5Episode 2860 min

At Home

Mar 18, 1960
Act of Terror
Season 5Episode 2960 min

Act of Terror

Mar 25, 1960
Once a Crook
Season 5Episode 3060 min

Once a Crook

Apr 1, 1960
Missing From Home
Season 5Episode 3160 min

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. 

Apr 8, 1960
Each Wind That Blows
Season 5Episode 3260 min

Each Wind That Blows

Apr 15, 1960
Think of the Day
Season 5Episode 3360 min

Think of the Day

Apr 22, 1960
Bridge of Sighs
Season 5Episode 3460 min

Bridge of Sighs

Apr 29, 1960
The Big Night
Season 5Episode 3560 min

The Big Night

May 6, 1960
A Moment in the Sun
Season 5Episode 3660 min

A Moment in the Sun

May 13, 1960
Private and Confidential
Season 5Episode 3760 min

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.

May 20, 1960
The Ostrich
Season 5Episode 3860 min

The Ostrich

May 27, 1960
The Unquiet Spirit
Season 5Episode 3960 min

The Unquiet Spirit

Jun 3, 1960
Margaret Moves On
Season 5Episode 4060 min

Margaret Moves On

Jun 10, 1960
Place of My Own
Season 5Episode 4160 min

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. 

Jun 17, 1960
The Moment of Milo
Season 5Episode 4260 min

The Moment of Milo

Jun 24, 1960
Night Run to the West
Season 5Episode 4360 min

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.

Jun 30, 1960
After the Party
Season 5Episode 4460 min

After the Party

Jul 7, 1960
Country Cousins
Season 5Episode 4560 min

Country Cousins

Jul 14, 1960
Night School
Season 5Episode 4660 min

Night School

Jul 21, 1960
The Barber of Stamford Hill
Season 5Episode 4760 min

The Barber of Stamford Hill

Jul 28, 1960
The Mirror Maze
Season 5Episode 4860 min

The Mirror Maze

Aug 4, 1960
The Queen's Peace
Season 5Episode 4960 min

The Queen's Peace

Aug 11, 1960
A Young Lady of Property
Season 5Episode 5060 min

A Young Lady of Property

Aug 18, 1960
The Out-of-Towners
Season 5Episode 5160 min

The Out-of-Towners

Aug 25, 1960

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