
Playhouse (1974)
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Innes Lloyd — Producer
Episodes 22
Sizwe Bansi Is Dead
Two Black South Africans discover what it means to lose their passbooks, which they must carry to prove their identity during the apartheid era.
Read MoreThe Joke
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The Cafeteria
An eccentric Jewish writer is drawn into the world of an apparently delusional young woman and her invalid father.
Read MoreThe Breakthrough
On a remote Cornish coast, a small group of scientists at an out of the way research laboratory delve into the mystery of what happens at the moment of death.
Read MoreMrs. Acland's Ghosts
An isolated woman is haunted by the ghosts of her dead siblings.
Read MoreAn Accident of Class and Sex
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A Martyr to the System
A school lecturer is possessed by the spirit of Othello during the teaching of Classics.
Read MoreThe Button Man
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Practical Experience
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Dad
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The Chauffeur
Joe, chauffeur to a South American embassy, enjoys the small perks of privilege his job provides. When a coup results in the ambassador's recall, his halcyon life is upended.
Read MorePlay Things
A young man volunteers to work with a children's play group in a desolate London area.
Read MoreJumbo
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The Brylcreem Boys
Cpl. George Hunn's sentry post is knocked over and he wakes to find he is suffering from frost bite of the face. Sent to hospital he is put on a ward with aircrew who have mental issues. He is trapped reenacting their missions at night.
Read MoreSpeed King
In 1935, Sir Malcolm Campbell's obsession is to win the World's Land Speed Record in his car Bluebird. Speed King is about the man, the car, and the ruthless, but irresistible, public ambition of a world hero.
Read MoreGentle Folk
An Edwardian house party given by a Fabian woman, her business-man husband and assorted guests from politics and the Arts—including a young man prone to disturbing premonitions.
Read MoreFothergill
John Fothergill, aesthete and scholar, becomes the proprietor of the Spread Eagle, in Thame, Oxfordshire, with the intent of turning it into the most celebrated Inn in England, catering to the brightest lights in London's literati.
Read MoreYou're All Right, How Am I?
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Going Gently
Two men sharing a hospital room after their diagnoses of terminal cancer struggle with fear, physical pain, the difficulties of being in hospital, family members unable to cope, loneliness, and their unusual friendship.
Read MoreHow Many Miles to Babylon?
Wealthy Alexander Moore and working-class Jerry Crowe are childhood friends and, in 1914, find themselves in the same Army unit – Alex as an officer and Jerry as a private. They still remain close, however, until Jerry is court-martialed for desertion, and Alex is put in charge of the firing squad.
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