ITV Playhouse: Season 3
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.
Episode Guide
Season 3 Progress Shield
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.
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.
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
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
Would You Look at Them Smashing all Those Lovely Windows?
Feb 2, 1970
Drama around the 1916 Easter uprising in Ireland.
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.
Don't Touch Him, He Might Resent It
Apr 4, 1970
A buffoon is mistaken for an important official.
Thursday's Child
Apr 18, 1970
A crumbling marriage with a child in the middle of it all.
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.