ITV Play of the Week (1955)

A UK anthology series of single plays from major playwrights old and new. It ran from 1955 to 1974, producing about five hundred ninety-minute episodes from Granada Television. Season 1 also incorporates the Plays from the 'H.M. Tennant Globe Theatre' series, some of which were incorporated and labelled in listings as official Play of the Week episodes and some of which were played in place of Play of the Week episodes in alternative ITV regions. All 8 plays have been incorporated into this entry for convenience.

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Seasons

Season 1

Season 1

Season 2

Season 2

Season 3

Season 3

Season 4

Season 4

Season 5

Season 5

Season 6

Season 6

Season 7

Season 7

Season 8

Season 8

Season 9

Season 9

Season 10

Season 10

Season 11

Season 11

Season 12

Season 12

Season 13

Season 13

Episodes season 1

  • 1x1

    A month in the country

  • 1x2

    The pay off

  • 1x3

    The salt land

  • 1x4

    No other verdict

  • 1x5

    The green of the year

  • 1x6

    Captain carvallo

  • 1x7

    Favonia

  • 1x8

    Ignace

  • 1x9

    The anatomist

  • 1x10

    We the living

  • 1x11

    Both ends meet

  • 1x12

    Hamlet

  • 1x13

    Message for margaret

  • 1x14

    George and margaret

  • 1x15

    Uncle harry

  • 1x16

    Misalliance

  • 1x17

    Skylark

  • 1x18

    One

  • 1x19

    The living room

  • 1x20

    The golden cuckoo

  • 1x21

    Seagulls over sorrento

  • 1x22

    Ten minute alibi

  • 1x23

    The comedy of errors

  • 1x24

    Pink strings and sealing wax

  • 1x25

    Come read me a riddle

  • 1x26

    I killed the count

  • 1x27

    Dear charles

  • 1x28

    Macadam and eve

  • 1x29

    The innocents

  • 1x30

    Rain on the just

  • 1x31

    Rebecca

  • 1x32

    Golden fleece

  • 1x33

    Down came a blackbird

  • 1x34

    The golden entry

  • 1x35

    The adding machine

  • 1x36

    Dark journey

  • 1x37

    They came by night

  • 1x38

    The terror

  • 1x39

    A box at the adelphi

  • 1x40

    Towards zero

Episodes season 2

  • 2x1

    The last enemy

  • 2x2

    The last of mrs. cheyney

  • 2x3

    Second threshold

  • 2x4

    Corinth house

  • 2x5

    The seagull

  • 2x6

    Traveller's joy

  • 2x7

    Yellow jack

  • 2x8

    Shooting star

  • 2x9

    Act of madness

  • 2x10

    Waters of the moon

  • 2x11

    The silver cord

  • 2x12

    Look back in anger

  • 2x13

    A time to be born

  • 2x14

    The doctor's dilemma

  • 2x15

    The white carnation

  • 2x16

    Action for slander

  • 2x17

    The giconda

  • 2x18

    The two headed eagle

  • 2x19

    Another part of the forest

  • 2x20

    Tomorrow we live

  • 2x21

    The wild duck

  • 2x22

    A man about the house

  • 2x23

    Gertie maude

  • 2x24

    Home of the brave

  • 2x25

    The day of the monkey

  • 2x26

    Heaven and earth

  • 2x27

    Adam's apple

  • 2x28

    An enemy of the people

  • 2x29

    Dead on nine

  • 2x30

    Time remembered

  • 2x31

    Dear brutus

  • 2x32

    The shop at sly corner

  • 2x33

    Granite peak

  • 2x34

    The scandalous affair of mr. kettle and mrs. moon

  • 2x35

    The age of abandon

  • 2x36

    Accolade

  • 2x37

    Venus observed

  • 2x38

    Hedda gabler

  • 2x39

    The druid's rest

  • 2x40

    Boy meets girl

  • 2x41

    His and hers

  • 2x42

    Victoria regina

  • 2x43

    The breath of fools

  • 2x44

    The glass cage

  • 2x45

    Late love

  • 2x46

    Mr. bolfry

  • 2x47

    Summertime

  • 2x48

    The tigress on the hearth

  • 2x49

    Morning's at seven

  • 2x50

    The play's the thing

Episodes season 3

  • 3x1

    The wooden dish

  • 3x2

    Knife in the family

  • 3x3

    The green bay tree

  • 3x4

    Wild justice

  • 3x5

    Rope

  • 3x6

    Arrow in the air

  • 3x7

    Ring round the moon

  • 3x8

    Lost boundaries

  • 3x9

    The guinea pig

  • 3x10

    Mrs. willie

  • 3x11

    The springtime of others

  • 3x12

    Widower's houses

  • 3x13

    Death of a salesman

  • 3x14

    Miss mabel

  • 3x15

    The grass harp

  • 3x16

    A voice in vision

  • 3x17

    Johnny belinda

  • 3x18

    Reunion in vienna

  • 3x19

    The witch

  • 3x20

    No. 17

  • 3x21

    Montserrat

  • 3x22

    Myself when young

  • 3x23

    ...and humanity

  • 3x24

    The rossiters

  • 3x25

    The iron harp

  • 3x26

    The importance of being ernest

  • 3x27

    Winterset

  • 3x28

    No medals

  • 3x29

    The mythmakers

  • 3x30

    School for wives

  • 3x31

    Squaring the circle

  • 3x32

    Cry, the beloved country

  • 3x33

    All my sons

  • 3x34

    Shadow of the vine

  • 3x35

    As the twig is bent

  • 3x36

    Disturbance

  • 3x37

    The troublemakers

  • 3x38

    The chigwell chicken

  • 3x39

    The linden tree

  • 3x40

    A room with a view

  • 3x41

    The kidders

  • 3x42

    You never can tell

  • 3x43

    How charles bravo died

  • 3x44

    A month in the country

  • 3x45

    The curious savage

  • 3x46

    The young may moon

  • 3x47

    Arsenic and old lace

  • 3x48

    The camel's back

Episodes season 4

  • 4x1

    Mary broome

  • 4x2

    The publican's story

  • 4x3

    Man and superman

  • 4x4

    Women in love

  • 4x5

    The liberty man

  • 4x6

    Dinner with the family

  • 4x7

    Frenzy

  • 4x8

    The strong are lonely

  • 4x9

    The quare fellow

  • 4x10

    The enchanted april

  • 4x11

    John gabriel borkman

  • 4x12

    Playboy of the western world

  • 4x13

    In the shadow of the axe

  • 4x14

    Mrs. dot

  • 4x15

    The last enemy

  • 4x16

    The big knife

  • 4x17

    The bridge of san luis rey

  • 4x18

    Ten little niggers

  • 4x19

    The education of mr. surrage

  • 4x20

    The killing of the king

  • 4x21

    No time for comedy

  • 4x22

    Parnell

  • 4x23

    Garden of loneliness

  • 4x24

    The judge's story

  • 4x25

    A dead secret

  • 4x26

    The face of treason

  • 4x27

    The skin of our teeth

  • 4x28

    Skyline for two

  • 4x29

    A day by the sea

  • 4x30

    The winner

  • 4x31

    Ebb tide

  • 4x32

    Family on trial

  • 4x33

    The secret agent

  • 4x34

    The age of juliet

  • 4x35

    Sheppey

  • 4x36

    Distinguished gathering

  • 4x37

    A touch of the sun

  • 4x38

    The square ring

  • 4x39

    Sugar in the morning

  • 4x40

    The tortoise and the hare

  • 4x41

    The wild bird

  • 4x42

    Fly away, peter

  • 4x43

    For services rendered

  • 4x44

    The mark of the warrior

  • 4x45

    Nude with violin

  • 4x46

    Dandy dick

  • 4x47

    Shadow of a pale horse

  • 4x48

    The boy from the gorbals

  • 4x49

    The wind and the rain

  • 4x50

    The hungry god

Episodes season 5

  • 5x1

    The younger generation

  • 5x2

    Mr. arcularis

  • 5x3

    Touch wood

  • 5x4

    The last hours

  • 5x5

    Night of january 16th

  • 5x6

    The traveller without luggage

  • 5x7

    Cynara

  • 5x8

    The violent years

  • 5x9

    The crucible

  • 5x10

    The enormous shadow

  • 5x11

    Engineer extraordinary

  • 5x12

    South

  • 5x13

    Gallows glorious!

  • 5x14

    A man involved

  • 5x15

    Sweet poison

  • 5x16

    Deep and crisp and even

  • 5x17

    The signal

  • 5x18

    Moon on a rainbow shawl

  • 5x19

    In search of happiness

  • 5x20

    Carrington v.c.

  • 5x21

    Flowering cherry

  • 5x22

    A woman of no importance

  • 5x23

    The member of the wedding

  • 5x24

    The house of bernarda alba

  • 5x25

    The autumn garden

  • 5x26

    The trap

  • 5x27

    A leap in the dark

  • 5x28

    The birthday party

  • 5x29

    Double indemnity

  • 5x30

    Loyalties

  • 5x31

    All summer long

  • 5x32

    House of lies

  • 5x33

    Mademoiselle

  • 5x34

    The green pack

  • 5x35

    Beyond the horizon

  • 5x36

    Caroline

  • 5x37

    Hay fever

  • 5x38

    Lucky strike

  • 5x39

    The upstart

  • 5x40

    Night of the big heat

  • 5x41

    Reputation for a song

  • 5x42

    The shrike

  • 5x43

    Tess

  • 5x44

    The darkness outside

  • 5x45

    The patchwork quilt

  • 5x46

    The search party

  • 5x47

    The ladies of the corridor

  • 5x48

    The watching eye

  • 5x49

    Kind lady

  • 5x50

    Dear delinquent

  • 5x51

    Vitriol

Episodes season 6

  • 6x1

    Sparrow, sparrow

  • 6x2

    Shadow of guilt

  • 6x3

    Gaslight

  • 6x4

    The protest

  • 6x5

    The burning glass

  • 6x6

    The pets

  • 6x7

    Old man in a hurry

  • 6x8

    Tiger at the gates

  • 6x9

    Square dance

  • 6x10

    The family first

  • 6x11

    The pot carriers

  • 6x12

    The silver whistle

  • 6x13

    The watching eye

  • 6x14

    The accomplices

  • 6x15

    The happy man

  • 6x16

    The girl in the window

  • 6x17

    The two bouquets

  • 6x18

    The jason group

  • 6x19

    The road to hilda brown

  • 6x20

    Ring of truth

  • 6x21

    The flashing stream

  • 6x22

    A spring of love

  • 6x23

    Negative evidence

  • 6x24

    Plough and the stars

  • 6x25

    The break-up

  • 6x26

    The poisoned earth

  • 6x27

    Hell hath no fury

  • 6x28

    The girl on the via flaminia

  • 6x29

    Doctor everyman's hour

  • 6x30

    Echoes on a lonely shore

  • 6x31

    The threatening storm

  • 6x32

    Midnight sun

  • 6x33

    All on a summer's day

  • 6x34

    Break from cover

  • 6x35

    Miss treeves

  • 6x36

    Soldier in the snow

  • 6x37

    Mrs. skeffington

  • 6x38

    Any other business

  • 6x39

    All my own work

  • 6x40

    Fairy tales of new york

  • 6x41

    Countdown at woomera

  • 6x42

    The paper palace

  • 6x43

    I remember mama

  • 6x44

    Life with father

  • 6x45

    The burden of proof

  • 6x46

    Hallelujah corner

  • 6x47

    The primitive

  • 6x48

    Ivanov

  • 6x49

    Conflict in the sun

  • 6x50

    Harriet

  • 6x51

    A shred of evidence

  • 6x52

    Over the bridge

Episodes season 7

  • 7x1

    Gilt and gingerbread

  • 7x2

    Then we fall

  • 7x3

    Faraway music

  • 7x4

    Barchester towers

  • 7x5

    Thinking of my darling

  • 7x6

    A house of strangers

  • 7x7

    Sergeant musgrave's dance

  • 7x8

    A doll's house

  • 7x9

    The candidate

  • 7x10

    Joker's justice

  • 7x11

    The two on the beach

  • 7x12

    Whiteman

  • 7x13

    The whisperers

  • 7x14

    The wild duck

  • 7x15

    The visitors

  • 7x16

    Murder in shorthand

  • 7x17

    A perfect woman

  • 7x18

    The door

  • 7x19

    You in your small corner

  • 7x20

    Some other love

  • 7x21

    I don't like you

  • 7x22

    Lean liberty

  • 7x23

    My three angels

  • 7x24

    Rough justice

  • 7x25

    The week-enders

  • 7x26

    A righteous woman

  • 7x27

    Bird in the wilderness

  • 7x28

    Coach 7, seat 15

  • 7x29

    Miracle on mano

  • 7x30

    The casualties

  • 7x31

    The lark

Episodes season 8

  • 8x1

    The gentle assassin

  • 8x2

    A matter of principle

  • 8x3

    Freedom in september

  • 8x4

    Hobson's choice

  • 8x5

    The second chef

  • 8x6

    A lily in little india

  • 8x7

    When the kissing had to stop: act 1 - the hammer

  • 8x8

    Major barbara

  • 8x9

    Misalliance

  • 8x10

    Don juan in hell

  • 8x11

    The applecart

  • 8x12

    The typewriter

  • 8x13

    Haven in sunset

  • 8x14

    A letter from the general

  • 8x15

    Alida

  • 8x16

    The shifting heart

  • 8x17

    The rehearsal

  • 8x18

    All good children

  • 8x19

    Darkness at noon

  • 8x20

    Danger zone

  • 8x21

    Time and the conways

  • 8x22

    The tin whistle man

  • 8x23

    The buried man

  • 8x24

    The cruel deadline

  • 8x25

    The search

  • 8x26

    Jb priestley season #1: eden end

  • 8x27

    Jb priestley season #2: i can't bear violence

  • 8x28

    Jb priestley season #3: dangerous corner

  • 8x29

    War and peace

  • 8x30

    The kidnapping of mary smith

  • 8x31

    The sandcastle

  • 8x32

    The brimstone butterfly

  • 8x33

    Ever since paradise

  • 8x34

    Cunningham

  • 8x35

    Double stakes

  • 8x36

    Girl with a difference

  • 8x37

    The rainmaker

  • 8x38

    Breakthrough

  • 8x39

    The truth about alan

  • 8x40

    The seventh wave

  • 8x41

    The eve of st. mark's

  • 8x42

    True love and limbeck

  • 8x43

    The heart of the country

  • 8x44

    Double yolk

  • 8x45

    The touch of a dead hand

  • 8x46

    End of conflict

  • 8x47

    Conspiracy of silence

  • 8x48

    For king and country #1: out there

  • 8x49

    For king and country #2: the barricade

  • 8x50

    For king and country #3: tunnel trench

  • 8x51

    For king and country #4: the enemy

Episodes season 9

  • 9x1

    Three sisters

  • 9x2

    A question of morals

  • 9x3

    The gioconda smile

  • 9x4

    The stone dance

  • 9x5

    The facing chair

  • 9x6

    The fixers

  • 9x7

    Stella

  • 9x8

    The finambulists

  • 9x9

    Velvet cage

  • 9x10

    London wall

  • 9x11

    Nice break for the boys

  • 9x12

    The quails

  • 9x13

    A walk on the water

  • 9x14

    Vicky and the sultan

  • 9x15

    The travelling man

  • 9x16

    The teachers

  • 9x17

    Pickwick

  • 9x18

    Three roads to rome

  • 9x19

    Acquit or hang

  • 9x20

    The rose tattoo

  • 9x21

    The glass menagerie

  • 9x22

    Camino real

  • 9x23

    Marching song

  • 9x24

    Uncle selwyn

  • 9x25

    I can walk where i like can't i?

  • 9x26

    The guilty party

  • 9x27

    A case of character

  • 9x28

    The rose garden

  • 9x29

    Shadow in the sun

  • 9x30

    Devil in the wind

  • 9x31

    Where are they now?

  • 9x32

    Finger on the balance

  • 9x33

    Flight from reality

  • 9x34

    Jacko at war

  • 9x35

    A question of happiness #1: a question about hell

  • 9x36

    A question of happiness #2: another port. another town

  • 9x37

    A question of happiness #3: watch me i'm a bird

  • 9x38

    A question of happiness #4: fred

  • 9x39

    A tricycle made for two

  • 9x40

    Celebration dinner

  • 9x41

    The bastow affair

  • 9x42

    Valentina

  • 9x43

    A midsummer night's dream

  • 9x44

    A spanner in the grass roots

  • 9x45

    Samson by moonshine

  • 9x46

    The lovers of florence

  • 9x47

    The witnesses

  • 9x48

    Gina

  • 9x49

    The offence

  • 9x50

    A choice of coward #1: present laughter

  • 9x51

    A choice of coward #2: blithe spirit

  • 9x52

    A choice of coward #3: the vortex

  • 9x53

    A choice of coward #4: design for living

Episodes season 10

  • 10x1

    The other man

  • 10x2

    The wife of knightsbridge

  • 10x3

    The man in the panama hat

  • 10x4

    Find yourself a mug

  • 10x5

    Goodnight to heroes

  • 10x6

    Undercurrent

  • 10x7

    A really good jazz piano

  • 10x8

    The sound of murder

  • 10x9

    Crime and punishment

  • 10x10

    The bachelors

  • 10x11

    Tarnish on a golden boy

  • 10x12

    The rules that jack made

  • 10x13

    Drill pig

  • 10x14

    Deep and crisp and stolen

  • 10x15

    The rise and fall of nellie brown

  • 10x16

    Blood & thunder: the changeling

  • 10x17

    Blood & thunder: women beware women

  • 10x18

    A tank of fish

  • 10x19

    The image

  • 10x20

    Giants on saturday

  • 10x21

    No baby, no baby at all

  • 10x22

    The rules of the game

  • 10x23

    An aspidistra in babylon

  • 10x24

    The fall of the sparrow

  • 10x25

    Come back little sheba

  • 10x26

    A fearful thing

  • 10x27

    I remember the battle

  • 10x28

    Finesse in diamonds

  • 10x29

    Thick as old timber

  • 10x30

    We thought you'd like to be caesar

  • 10x31

    Goodbye johnny

  • 10x32

    The edwardians #1: the walls of jericho

  • 10x33

    The edwardians #2: mid channel

  • 10x34

    The edwardians #3: olive latimer's husband

  • 10x35

    The edwardians #4: the madras house

  • 10x36

    John paddington

  • 10x37

    Beautiful forever

  • 10x38

    A couple of dry martinis

  • 10x39

    The misunderstanding

  • 10x40

    The death of bessie smith

  • 10x41

    The american dream

  • 10x42

    Winter in ischia

  • 10x43

    Between the two of us

  • 10x44

    As the crow flies

  • 10x45

    When the wind blows

  • 10x46

    Helen and edward and henry

  • 10x47

    The way of all flesh

  • 10x48

    Their obedient servants

Episodes season 11

  • 11x1

    Strife

  • 11x2

    The successor

  • 11x3

    The winds of green monday

  • 11x4

    Four of hearts #1: tilt

  • 11x5

    Four of hearts #2: please love my wife

  • 11x6

    Four of hearts #3: this year's girl

  • 11x7

    Four of hearts #4: summertime ends tonight

  • 11x8

    Breaking point

  • 11x9

    Four days to the fireworks

  • 11x10

    The corsican brothers

  • 11x11

    Mr. fowlds

  • 11x12

    Point of order

  • 11x13

    Finder's keepers

  • 11x14

    My father's keeper

  • 11x15

    The cabbage tree hat boys

  • 11x16

    Solo for the banker

  • 11x17

    The stories of dh lawrence #1: white stocking

  • 11x18

    The stories of dh lawrence #2: daughters of the vicar

  • 11x19

    The stories of dh lawrence #3: new eve and old adam

  • 11x20

    The stories of dh lawrence #4: samson and delilah

  • 11x21

    The stories of dh lawrence #5: tickets please/monkey nuts

  • 11x22

    The stories of dh lawrence #6: the blind man

  • 11x23

    The stories of dh lawrence #7: jimmy and the desperate woman

  • 11x24

    The stories of dh lawrence #8: two blue birds/in love

  • 11x25

    The reluctant debutante

  • 11x26

    The dance of death

  • 11x27

    Nelson - a study in miniature

  • 11x28

    Ivanov

  • 11x29

    All my loving

  • 11x30

    A view from the bridge

  • 11x31

    The first thunder

  • 11x32

    Variation on a theme

  • 11x33

    The browning version

  • 11x34

    The move after checkmate

  • 11x35

    Seven deadly sins #1: my friend corby

  • 11x36

    Seven deadly sins #2: file on harry jordan

  • 11x37

    Seven deadly sins #3: a cold heart

  • 11x38

    Seven deadly sins #4: a temporary typist

  • 11x39

    Seven deadly sins #5: in the night

  • 11x40

    Seven deadly sins #6: a lion in his way

  • 11x41

    Seven deadly sins #7: the erphinham camp

  • 11x42

    The cretan

  • 11x43

    Blue as his eyes, the tin helmet he wore

  • 11x44

    An experience of evil

  • 11x45

    The climbers

  • 11x46

    Convalescence

  • 11x47

    You'll know me by the stars in my eyes

Episodes season 12

  • 12x1

    Plays of married life #1: a catching complaint

  • 12x2

    Plays of married life no. 2: where shall i find what will change my life?

  • 12x3

    Plays of married life no. 3: the fat woman's tale

  • 12x4

    Plays of married life no. 4: the bright side

  • 12x5

    Home and beauty

  • 12x6

    A choice of kings

  • 12x7

    Major barbara

  • 12x8

    The caretaker

  • 12x9

    Dear liar

  • 12x10

    The new men

  • 12x11

    The east wind

  • 12x12

    End in tears

  • 12x13

    The tormentors

  • 12x14

    A tot at the local

  • 12x15

    The first thing you think of

  • 12x16

    Come laughing home

  • 12x17

    Julie's gone

  • 12x18

    On the island

  • 12x19

    A roof over our mouths

  • 12x20

    Love on the dole

  • 12x21

    Nice to have you back

  • 12x22

    That old black magic

  • 12x23

    The crossfire

  • 12x24

    A drug on the market

  • 12x25

    Cry baby bunting

  • 12x26

    Present laughter

  • 12x27

    The investigation

  • 12x28

    Dr. de waldo's therapy

  • 12x29

    Person unknown

  • 12x30

    Seven deadly virtues #1: it's your move

  • 12x31

    Seven deadly virtues #2: the good and faithful servant

  • 12x32

    Seven deadly virtues #3: surface of innocent

  • 12x33

    Seven deadly virtues #4: the man with two heads

  • 12x34

    Seven deadly virtues #5: the whole truth

  • 12x35

    Seven deadly virtues #6: a pain in the neck

  • 12x36

    Seven deadly virtues #7: are you by yourself?

  • 12x37

    Little moon of alban

  • 12x38

    The division

  • 12x39

    The trial and error of colonel winchip

  • 12x40

    The stories of dh lawrence #9: strike pay

  • 12x41

    The stories of dh lawrence #10: blue moccasins

  • 12x42

    The stories of dh lawrence #11: mother and daughter

  • 12x43

    The new assistant

Episodes season 13

  • 13x1

    Itv summer playhouse #1: the sleeping partner

  • 13x2

    Itv summer playhouse #2: the english climate

  • 13x3

    Itv summer playhouse #3: death by misadventure

  • 13x4

    Itv summer playhouse #4: difference of opinion

  • 13x5

    Itv summer playhouse #5: the big killing

  • 13x6

    Itv summer playhouse #6: the small rebellion of jess calvert

  • 13x7

    Itv summer playhouse #7: a brand new scrubbing brush

  • 13x8

    Itv summer playhouse #8: one fat englishman

  • 13x9

    Itv summer playhouse #9: the voysey inheritance

  • 13x10

    Itv summer playhouse #10: travelling light

  • 13x11

    Itv summer playhouse #11: the man who understood women

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