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Season guide

ITV Playhouse: Season 2

42 episodes Premiered Jul 29, 1968
Previously on ITV Playhouse

Season 2 Lore Primer

Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.

  • ⚡ Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of ITV Playhouse Season 1.
  • ⚡ Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
  • ⚡ Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
  • ⚡ Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
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Season 2 Episodes

Episode Guide

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Season 2: Filler vs. Essential Canon

Filter episodes by narrative weight. Focus on essential mytharc and skip standalone side quests.

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Mytharc (3): Crucial lore & season climaxes
Core (39): Character development & subplots
Side Quest (0): Standalone / filler
S2·E2 Core

Star Quality

Aug 8, 1968

An aspiring playwright is delighted when a famous star agrees to appear in his new play. At first, that is.

S2·E5 Core

Funeral Games

Aug 26, 1968

Religious cult leader, Pringle, calls in a private investigator, Caulfield, after receiving letters saying that his wife is having an affair. But Caulfield learns that the wife has

S2·E15 Core

Neutral Ground

Sep 30, 1968

An allied agent is sent out into an obscure country to find a Russian Agent who has been thrown out of Russia for defection. He finds a broken man who drowns his days in drink, and

S2·E16 Core

Your Name's Not God, It's Edgar

Oct 3, 1968

Edgar Lunt lives his life by scientific principles, that is, for every action there is a reaction. He believes that any pleasure he might have, will mean, somebody will suffer some

S2·E18 Core

Camille 68

Oct 10, 1968

Camille is living in London, working as a prostitute with her friend Nanine. Her life has no happiness until she meets the son of one her customers 'Armand' a Cambridge undergradua

S2·E25 Core

Murder: Nobody Knows

Apr 14, 1969

Inspector Parker's instinct in trying to nail Pritchard for the horrific murder of a young girl becomes an obsession which puts pressure on both his health and marriage.

S2·E32 Core

Colombe

Jun 16, 1969

S2·E33 Core

The Friendly Persuaders

Jun 23, 1969

A delegation from the planet Taran is made welcome by almost everyone in Britain. They talk of their planet as a promised land and a new beginning...but not everyone is convinced a

S2·E34 Core

Beast in the Jungle

Jun 30, 1969

May and John had met years earlier by an act of fate. They had gone their separate ways but then bump into each other again by another act of fate. John seems to have forgotten muc

S2·E35 Core

The Marrying Kind

Jul 7, 1969

The history of an old four poster bed and its various occupants.

S2·E36 Core

Justice Is a Woman

Jul 14, 1969

This drama inspired long running series Justice about a successful lady barrister.Here Julia Stafford is asked to defend a posh youth,an outsider in a conservative Scottish town, w

S2·E40 Core

Stables Theatre Company #1: In a Cottage Hospital

Aug 11, 1969

A man is suffering memory loss after slowly recovering from a car crash. Does fate offer a chance to re-invent himself and forget the past? - or is he doomed to make the same mista

S2·E42 Mytharc

The Ha Ha

Aug 25, 1969

A young woman experiences a mental breakdown.

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