ITV Playhouse: Season 2
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.
Episode Guide
Season 2 Progress Shield
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.
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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
The Marrying Kind
Jul 7, 1969
The history of an old four poster bed and its various occupants.
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
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