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Season guide

ITV Playhouse: Season 3

31 episodes Premiered Sep 8, 1969
Previously on ITV Playhouse

Season 3 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 2.
  • ⚡ 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 3 Episodes

Episode Guide

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Season 3: 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 (28): Character development & subplots
Side Quest (0): Standalone / filler
S3·E8 Core

The Beauty Operators

Nov 3, 1969

Doreen's rather odd beauty shop gives it's women customers a unique opportunity to act out their fantasies.

S3·E10 Core

Suspect

Nov 17, 1969

A proud woman coldly concentrates on keeping up appearances when her 50-year old husband and a young schoolgirl go missing at the same time.

S3·E11 Core

Ancient and Modern

Dec 29, 1969

An Orwellian world in which a Socialist Public School is opened,despite the good intentions and efforts from staff to produce a school of equal opportunity and excellence, the scho

S3·E14 Core

The Pueblo Affair

Jan 19, 1970

A reconstruction of an event in 1968 when a converted cargo ship the USS Pueblo was seized by the North Korean Navy as a spy ship. It was supposed to be protected by the US Pacific

S3·E17 Core

Rumour

Mar 2, 1970

A hard-bitten newspaper reporter is drawn back into the world of sleaze he had hoped to have left behind, and this time it goes right to the top.

S3·E22 Core

Thursday's Child

Apr 18, 1970

A crumbling marriage with a child in the middle of it all.

S3·E29 Core

A Sound from the Sea

Jul 17, 1970

While hitchhiking towards the coast, two young men find themselves trapped at an inn by its strange landlord and his beautiful wife.

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