"Playhouse"
A Rod of Iron
Harry Watson has kept his feelings for his children to himself.
Going Back
A remote stone house nestles peacefully on the edge of the Yorkshire moors. In the garden. Faith Armstrong describes the flowers and the late afternoon skies to Jack, her blind husband. "The sun is almost setting. The sky is blue, with ... those little puffy clouds like meringues. There are still leaves on the trees. Oh . quite a few birds are gath..
The Marquise
The only period comedy written by Noel Coward. France, 1736. Two distinguished families are celebrating the engagement of their children. The young couple are putting on a brave face, but neither is happy. Adrienne, daughter of the Compte, is secretly in love with her father's penniless secretary, while Miguel, the Duke's son, has lost his heart t..
The Daughters of Albion
Three biscuit factory girls mix with students at a party.. Boozing, smoking, jaunty cross-talk and invitations to come to bed follow.
We Never Do What They Want
An everyday story of Alternative Society folk, beginning in 1969. It traced the developing relationship of three people from then until present 1978. Frank, a radical social worker just out of mental hospital after a nervous breakdown, was being nursed back to health by Linda, a hairdresser, in the absence of his 'girl friend. Joanna, on a social w..
It's Not Quite Cricket
Four people intend to register a protest at their firm's outing and cricket match. But it proves a strain on their team spirit.
Short Back and Sides
A city planner puts his breinchild into operation without considering the heartbreak it causes to the people affected.
Norma
Norma is a woman who appears to be leading a very complicated emotional life; she's involved with no less than four men. Michael is the friend she turns to for help in her emotional crisis.
Number Ten
The Prime Minister heads a cabinet divided on the question of either using force against an African state, or referring the matter to the United Nations.
A Man without Friends
A man can't account for his movements when a woman is discovered strangled.
Funny
In London, Tom and Phyl are self-assured and in control of the situation whenever they meet their friends Huw and Tegwen. But when they're not on home ground and when they accept an invitation to visit Huw and Tegwen’s home in Wales, relationships change more than a little Huw, a London barrister, whose heart is in the Welsh hills, is truly king..
The Greeks and Their Gifts
A man makes an unexpected appearance at his younger brother's house in the middle of the night. He needs somewhere to stay and convinces his brother and his wife that he is trouble. Or is he?
The Grass Widows
Newlyweds Jackson and Daphne are on honeymoon when they find themselves in the same hotel as Jackson's old headmaster.
The Professional
An insignificant little middle-aged man strikes a heinous bargain with an underworld expert. The man has a problem: his wife. A professional killer would seem to be the answer.
Vinegar Trip
The title is taken from a Liverpool saying, "Off on a vinegar trip," which is applied to a person behaving strangely. Barrie plays Sammy Chester, a pensioner who shocks his daughters and whose cavorting leads to a heart attack. His eldest daughter takes him to live with her, and calls a family conference to decide what is to be done Sammy is far fr..
The Mosedale Horseshoe
The story of four Lakeland walkers who attempt to climb a fell. The fells represent the highlight of their year. They all have dull and uninteresting jobs and their only chance of relieving the boredom is in the fells After five years of weekends together they had never managed to reach the top of the Horseshoe, but were always defeated by somethin..
A Man for Loving
James Beal is an advertising executive in his fifties who still lives his itfe at a pace that leaves his friends exhausted. But the moment of truth oomes to every man sooner or later—even to James.
Omri's Burning
A study of a man’s slide into the abyss of alcoholism and of the women who attempt to save him
The Day They Buried Cleaver
The Chief Constable of a grimy northern town runs it his particular way with all natural human failings, bending the rules for the benefit of the majority. According to the book he is wrong, blatantly wrong. Now his nephew, Police Constable Tom Corsby is out to expose his corruption.
The Day of the Janitor
Comedy about a maintenance supervisor in an office block whose idea of the company he works for is changed when he has to fix a leak in an executive's office.
