Playhouse: Season 7
Season 7 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 Playhouse Season 6.
- 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 7 Progress Shield
Caught on a Train
Oct 31, 1980
Peter boards a train to attend an important business meeting across Europe. His trip is complicated by two women also assigned to his compartment. One is an independent American wh
Fatal Spring
Nov 7, 1980
Using a remarkable blend of dramatic techniques, this study of three English poets – also three courageous soldiers – gradually develops towards their historical and crucial meetin
The Black Madonna
Nov 14, 1980 · 50 min
Lou Parker feels very strongly that she and her husband, Ray, are different from the Farrells and the Ackerleys. With them it's all television. But she and Ray have the local libra
Grown-Ups
Nov 28, 1980 · 95 min
Young working class couple Dick and Mandy move into a council house in Canterbury, and find Mr. Butcher, one of their former teachers, living next door. Mandy's unmarried sister, G
Standing in for Henry
Dec 19, 1980
At a Nottingham advertising agency, young graphic designer Graham is recruited as a temporary replacement for the iconic Henry. The agency are desperate to be part of the Swinging
Fothergill
Jan 9, 1981
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, cat
One Hundred and Eighty!!!
Jan 16, 1981
A darts tournament is put in peril when the players' wives stage a sit-in in the pub.
The Kindness of Mrs. Radcliffe
Jan 23, 1981
A day in the life of Mrs Radcliffe, who believes that the advice she so freely gives is done only out of kindness.
A Last Visitor for Mr. Hugh Peter
Jan 30, 1981
In prison the night before his execution, Republican preacher Hugh Peter prepares to be hanged, drawn and quartered for treason.
Journal of Bridget Hitler
Feb 6, 1981
An Irishwoman married to a German in pre-WWI Liverpool prepares to meet her brother-in-law, a young man named Adolf Hitler.
Days at the Beach
Feb 13, 1981 · 90 min
In 1920, a trio of British soldiers have to guard an unexploded mine that has washed up on a beach.
Bobby Wants to Meet Me
Feb 20, 1981
In 1978, Changes Magazine journalist Neville Morris writes an essay about Bob Dylan called 'A Jewish Massiah'. Dylan's publicist Elle Smith reaches out that The Bard wants to meet
Days
Feb 27, 1981
A mother, waiting for a visit through a hospital day, reflects on her life. Dreams haunt her, fantasies seduce her, memories crowd in on her, distorting the drab reality of her day
Clapperclaw
Mar 6, 1981
VE Night, 1945: In a Yorkshire pub, not everyone is in a mood to celebrate. Lorna Thorpe's 'All-Star' dance band is down two members, the beer has run out, and some influential fri
The Potsdam Quartet
Mar 13, 1981
An exploration of the personal and professional conflicts of a string quartet who have been playing together for many years, but are on the point of disintegrating.
Unity
Mar 20, 1981
The true story of Unity Mitford who, in the 1930s, moves to Germany, where she befriends Adolf Hitler.
Elizabeth Alone: Part 1
Apr 3, 1981
After nineteen years of marriage, three children, and a brief but passionate affair followed by a quick divorce, Elizabeth Aidallbery has to go for an emergency operation. From her
Elizabeth Alone: Part 2
Apr 10, 1981
After nineteen years of marriage, three children, and a brief but passionate affair followed by a quick divorce, Elizabeth Aidallbery has to go for an emergency operation. From her
Elizabeth Alone: Part 3
Apr 17, 1981
After nineteen years of marriage, three children, and a brief but passionate affair followed by a quick divorce, Elizabeth Aidallbery has to go for an emergency operation. From her
The Day War Broke Out
May 15, 1981
Albie Warren and his girlfriend Carla are second on the bill of variety artists and musicians performing to half empty venues. Albie impersonates wartime comic Rob Wilton to people
Going Gently
Jun 5, 1981
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, lo