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.
A month in the country
The pay off
The salt land
No other verdict
The green of the year
Captain carvallo
Favonia
Ignace
The anatomist
We the living
Both ends meet
Hamlet
Message for margaret
George and margaret
Uncle harry
Misalliance
Skylark
One
The living room
The golden cuckoo
Seagulls over sorrento
Ten minute alibi
The comedy of errors
Pink strings and sealing wax
Come read me a riddle
I killed the count
Dear charles
Macadam and eve
The innocents
Rain on the just
Rebecca
Golden fleece
Down came a blackbird
The golden entry
The adding machine
Dark journey
They came by night
The terror
A box at the adelphi
Towards zero
The last enemy
The last of mrs. cheyney
Second threshold
Corinth house
The seagull
Traveller's joy
Yellow jack
Shooting star
Act of madness
Waters of the moon
The silver cord
Look back in anger
A time to be born
The doctor's dilemma
The white carnation
Action for slander
The giconda
The two headed eagle
Another part of the forest
Tomorrow we live
The wild duck
A man about the house
Gertie maude
Home of the brave
The day of the monkey
Heaven and earth
Adam's apple
An enemy of the people
Dead on nine
Time remembered
Dear brutus
The shop at sly corner
Granite peak
The scandalous affair of mr. kettle and mrs. moon
The age of abandon
Accolade
Venus observed
Hedda gabler
The druid's rest
Boy meets girl
His and hers
Victoria regina
The breath of fools
The glass cage
Late love
Mr. bolfry
Summertime
The tigress on the hearth
Morning's at seven
The play's the thing
The wooden dish
Knife in the family
The green bay tree
Wild justice
Rope
Arrow in the air
Ring round the moon
Lost boundaries
The guinea pig
Mrs. willie
The springtime of others
Widower's houses
Death of a salesman
Miss mabel
The grass harp
A voice in vision
Johnny belinda
Reunion in vienna
The witch
No. 17
Montserrat
Myself when young
...and humanity
The rossiters
The iron harp
The importance of being ernest
Winterset
No medals
The mythmakers
School for wives
Squaring the circle
Cry, the beloved country
All my sons
Shadow of the vine
As the twig is bent
Disturbance
The troublemakers
The chigwell chicken
The linden tree
A room with a view
The kidders
You never can tell
How charles bravo died
A month in the country
The curious savage
The young may moon
Arsenic and old lace
The camel's back
Mary broome
The publican's story
Man and superman
Women in love
The liberty man
Dinner with the family
Frenzy
The strong are lonely
The quare fellow
The enchanted april
John gabriel borkman
Playboy of the western world
In the shadow of the axe
Mrs. dot
The last enemy
The big knife
The bridge of san luis rey
Ten little niggers
The education of mr. surrage
The killing of the king
No time for comedy
Parnell
Garden of loneliness
The judge's story
A dead secret
The face of treason
The skin of our teeth
Skyline for two
A day by the sea
The winner
Ebb tide
Family on trial
The secret agent
The age of juliet
Sheppey
Distinguished gathering
A touch of the sun
The square ring
Sugar in the morning
The tortoise and the hare
The wild bird
Fly away, peter
For services rendered
The mark of the warrior
Nude with violin
Dandy dick
Shadow of a pale horse
The boy from the gorbals
The wind and the rain
The hungry god
The younger generation
Mr. arcularis
Touch wood
The last hours
Night of january 16th
The traveller without luggage
Cynara
The violent years
The crucible
The enormous shadow
Engineer extraordinary
South
Gallows glorious!
A man involved
Sweet poison
Deep and crisp and even
The signal
Moon on a rainbow shawl
In search of happiness
Carrington v.c.
Flowering cherry
A woman of no importance
The member of the wedding
The house of bernarda alba
The autumn garden
The trap
A leap in the dark
The birthday party
Double indemnity
Loyalties
All summer long
House of lies
Mademoiselle
The green pack
Beyond the horizon
Caroline
Hay fever
Lucky strike
The upstart
Night of the big heat
Reputation for a song
The shrike
Tess
The darkness outside
The patchwork quilt
The search party
The ladies of the corridor
The watching eye
Kind lady
Dear delinquent
Vitriol
Sparrow, sparrow
Shadow of guilt
Gaslight
The protest
The burning glass
The pets
Old man in a hurry
Tiger at the gates
Square dance
The family first
The pot carriers
The silver whistle
The watching eye
The accomplices
The happy man
The girl in the window
The two bouquets
The jason group
The road to hilda brown
Ring of truth
The flashing stream
A spring of love
Negative evidence
Plough and the stars
The break-up
The poisoned earth
Hell hath no fury
The girl on the via flaminia
Doctor everyman's hour
Echoes on a lonely shore
The threatening storm
Midnight sun
All on a summer's day
Break from cover
Miss treeves
Soldier in the snow
Mrs. skeffington
Any other business
All my own work
Fairy tales of new york
Countdown at woomera
The paper palace
I remember mama
Life with father
The burden of proof
Hallelujah corner
The primitive
Ivanov
Conflict in the sun
Harriet
A shred of evidence
Over the bridge
Gilt and gingerbread
Then we fall
Faraway music
Barchester towers
Thinking of my darling
A house of strangers
Sergeant musgrave's dance
A doll's house
The candidate
Joker's justice
The two on the beach
Whiteman
The whisperers
The wild duck
The visitors
Murder in shorthand
A perfect woman
The door
You in your small corner
Some other love
I don't like you
Lean liberty
My three angels
Rough justice
The week-enders
A righteous woman
Bird in the wilderness
Coach 7, seat 15
Miracle on mano
The casualties
The lark
The gentle assassin
A matter of principle
Freedom in september
Hobson's choice
The second chef
A lily in little india
When the kissing had to stop: act 1 - the hammer
Major barbara
Misalliance
Don juan in hell
The applecart
The typewriter
Haven in sunset
A letter from the general
Alida
The shifting heart
The rehearsal
All good children
Darkness at noon
Danger zone
Time and the conways
The tin whistle man
The buried man
The cruel deadline
The search
Jb priestley season #1: eden end
Jb priestley season #2: i can't bear violence
Jb priestley season #3: dangerous corner
War and peace
The kidnapping of mary smith
The sandcastle
The brimstone butterfly
Ever since paradise
Cunningham
Double stakes
Girl with a difference
The rainmaker
Breakthrough
The truth about alan
The seventh wave
The eve of st. mark's
True love and limbeck
The heart of the country
Double yolk
The touch of a dead hand
End of conflict
Conspiracy of silence
For king and country #1: out there
For king and country #2: the barricade
For king and country #3: tunnel trench
For king and country #4: the enemy
Three sisters
A question of morals
The gioconda smile
The stone dance
The facing chair
The fixers
Stella
The finambulists
Velvet cage
London wall
Nice break for the boys
The quails
A walk on the water
Vicky and the sultan
The travelling man
The teachers
Pickwick
Three roads to rome
Acquit or hang
The rose tattoo
The glass menagerie
Camino real
Marching song
Uncle selwyn
I can walk where i like can't i?
The guilty party
A case of character
The rose garden
Shadow in the sun
Devil in the wind
Where are they now?
Finger on the balance
Flight from reality
Jacko at war
A question of happiness #1: a question about hell
A question of happiness #2: another port. another town
A question of happiness #3: watch me i'm a bird
A question of happiness #4: fred
A tricycle made for two
Celebration dinner
The bastow affair
Valentina
A midsummer night's dream
A spanner in the grass roots
Samson by moonshine
The lovers of florence
The witnesses
Gina
The offence
A choice of coward #1: present laughter
A choice of coward #2: blithe spirit
A choice of coward #3: the vortex
A choice of coward #4: design for living
The other man
The wife of knightsbridge
The man in the panama hat
Find yourself a mug
Goodnight to heroes
Undercurrent
A really good jazz piano
The sound of murder
Crime and punishment
The bachelors
Tarnish on a golden boy
The rules that jack made
Drill pig
Deep and crisp and stolen
The rise and fall of nellie brown
Blood & thunder: the changeling
Blood & thunder: women beware women
A tank of fish
The image
Giants on saturday
No baby, no baby at all
The rules of the game
An aspidistra in babylon
The fall of the sparrow
Come back little sheba
A fearful thing
I remember the battle
Finesse in diamonds
Thick as old timber
We thought you'd like to be caesar
Goodbye johnny
The edwardians #1: the walls of jericho
The edwardians #2: mid channel
The edwardians #3: olive latimer's husband
The edwardians #4: the madras house
John paddington
Beautiful forever
A couple of dry martinis
The misunderstanding
The death of bessie smith
The american dream
Winter in ischia
Between the two of us
As the crow flies
When the wind blows
Helen and edward and henry
The way of all flesh
Their obedient servants
Strife
The successor
The winds of green monday
Four of hearts #1: tilt
Four of hearts #2: please love my wife
Four of hearts #3: this year's girl
Four of hearts #4: summertime ends tonight
Breaking point
Four days to the fireworks
The corsican brothers
Mr. fowlds
Point of order
Finder's keepers
My father's keeper
The cabbage tree hat boys
Solo for the banker
The stories of dh lawrence #1: white stocking
The stories of dh lawrence #2: daughters of the vicar
The stories of dh lawrence #3: new eve and old adam
The stories of dh lawrence #4: samson and delilah
The stories of dh lawrence #5: tickets please/monkey nuts
The stories of dh lawrence #6: the blind man
The stories of dh lawrence #7: jimmy and the desperate woman
The stories of dh lawrence #8: two blue birds/in love
The reluctant debutante
The dance of death
Nelson - a study in miniature
Ivanov
All my loving
A view from the bridge
The first thunder
Variation on a theme
The browning version
The move after checkmate
Seven deadly sins #1: my friend corby
Seven deadly sins #2: file on harry jordan
Seven deadly sins #3: a cold heart
Seven deadly sins #4: a temporary typist
Seven deadly sins #5: in the night
Seven deadly sins #6: a lion in his way
Seven deadly sins #7: the erphinham camp
The cretan
Blue as his eyes, the tin helmet he wore
An experience of evil
The climbers
Convalescence
You'll know me by the stars in my eyes
Plays of married life #1: a catching complaint
Plays of married life no. 2: where shall i find what will change my life?
Plays of married life no. 3: the fat woman's tale
Plays of married life no. 4: the bright side
Home and beauty
A choice of kings
Major barbara
The caretaker
Dear liar
The new men
The east wind
End in tears
The tormentors
A tot at the local
The first thing you think of
Come laughing home
Julie's gone
On the island
A roof over our mouths
Love on the dole
Nice to have you back
That old black magic
The crossfire
A drug on the market
Cry baby bunting
Present laughter
The investigation
Dr. de waldo's therapy
Person unknown
Seven deadly virtues #1: it's your move
Seven deadly virtues #2: the good and faithful servant
Seven deadly virtues #3: surface of innocent
Seven deadly virtues #4: the man with two heads
Seven deadly virtues #5: the whole truth
Seven deadly virtues #6: a pain in the neck
Seven deadly virtues #7: are you by yourself?
Little moon of alban
The division
The trial and error of colonel winchip
The stories of dh lawrence #9: strike pay
The stories of dh lawrence #10: blue moccasins
The stories of dh lawrence #11: mother and daughter
The new assistant
Itv summer playhouse #1: the sleeping partner
Itv summer playhouse #2: the english climate
Itv summer playhouse #3: death by misadventure
Itv summer playhouse #4: difference of opinion
Itv summer playhouse #5: the big killing
Itv summer playhouse #6: the small rebellion of jess calvert
Itv summer playhouse #7: a brand new scrubbing brush
Itv summer playhouse #8: one fat englishman
Itv summer playhouse #9: the voysey inheritance
Itv summer playhouse #10: travelling light
Itv summer playhouse #11: the man who understood women
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