Playhouse: Season 8
Season 8 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 7.
- 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 8 Progress Shield
Mrs. Reinhardt
Oct 30, 1981 · 115 min
An Englishwoman seeking to escape her marriage arrives at French hotel.
Last Summer's Child
Nov 6, 1981
A boy feels restless during a hot summer in prewar Cornwall.
Virginia Fly Is Drowning
Dec 4, 1981
Secure in her suburban home, Virginia Fly dreams of a life of unbridled passion and romance. She feels her fantasies are about to become reality when she is asked to take part in a
Findings on a Late Afternoon
Dec 11, 1981
Gerald is on the edge of a complete breakdown. During an afternoon with his father, he starts to come to terms with the wounding confusions and mistakes of his past—his lies, his g
Dancing Country
Dec 18, 1981
The local country dancing team of old-age pensioners is forced to change its style when Jack, its leader, arrives with a new partner, one who is younger and prettier.
A Silly Little Habit
Jan 15, 1982
An apparently happy and privileged woman begins shoplifting.
Aubrey
Jan 22, 1982
The story of Aubrey Beardsley, an English illustrator and author, whose black ink drawings were influenced by Japanese woodcuts, and depicted the grotesque, the decadent, and the e
Preview
Jan 29, 1982
Four television critics gather in a Wardour Street preview theatre to see a documentary and get the surprise of their lives.
Out of Step
Feb 5, 1982
A keen ballroom dancer becomes an alcoholic after discovering she's infertile.
A Shilling Life
Feb 12, 1982
A once-famous writer, now long out of fashion, is interviewed by a disconcerting young woman.
The Workshop
Feb 19, 1982
In 1945, just a year since the allied troops entered Paris, Simone arrives for her first day at M. Leon's tailoring workshop.
How Many Miles to Babylon?
Feb 26, 1982 · 111 min
Wealthy Alexander Moore and working-class Jerry Crowe are childhood friends and, in 1914, find themselves in the same Army unit – Alex as an officer and Jerry as a private. They st
The Pigman's Protégé
Mar 5, 1982
In 1919, the carnage of WWI has left the country desperately short of young men. Maud, who runs the farm for her crippled father, decides that it is time for her young sister Clara
A Pocketful of Dreams
Mar 12, 1982 · 29 min
At the moment, money is scarce and times are hard for everyone—even villains like Charlie and Denny are feeling the pinch. But their luck could change when a chance encounter with
Keeping in Touch
Mar 19, 1982
When James pays one of his periodic visits to his mother, he finds her curiously resigned to the loneliness she's suffered for the years since her husband's death. Somehow, she has
The Guest
Mar 26, 1982
Gerald fancies himself as a bit of a gourmet and a trip to the gastronomic delights of France promises well. His wife Hilary isn't so sure; she isn't sure of a lot of things about
The Sidmouth Letters
Apr 2, 1982 · 35 min
Academic scavenger Shorty believes he's tracked down some letters that reveal an unexpected side to Miss Jane Austen's nature.
The Queen of Annagh
Apr 16, 1982
Nancy is the sole inhabitant of the Isle of Annagh off the west coast of Scotland. Although World War III is raging all around she sees little of it until Michael, a young pilot of
By George
Apr 23, 1982
An anthropologist observed by one of his erstwhile victims — a sophisticated comedy.
Lunch
Apr 30, 1982
Two women meet for lunch every two weeks to swap news. But this week is different.
Passing Through
May 7, 1982
At a railway public house, two strangers engage in a conversation and begin to open up about their life's. Richard is an alcoholic and former stockbroker is just been released from
Jake's End
May 14, 1982
Jake's a professional, a married man with a reputation to maintain—and a bank to rob.
Housewarming
May 21, 1982
Her husband Gary is behind on the central heating installation. Eunice, her best friend, has a crush on the lodger — an actor appearing in a violent play at the local rep. No wonde
Easy Money
May 28, 1982
At a concert, Marcia picked Terry out of the crowd. So he no longer feels alone. Until he learns about her secret life and dare not tell his friends.
Potatohead Blues
Jun 4, 1982
Stan McVay has given up smoking, gone on a diet and feels like hell. He's also abandoned the Ulster spud and just learned that his teenage daughter is having an affair with a marri
Irwin Shaw Triple Bill: The Man Who Married a French Wife / The Monument / The Girls in Their Summer Dresses
Jun 11, 1982
Three short stories by Irwin Shaw.
Chains
Jun 18, 1982
Eddie's 40th birthday party reunites friends not seen since the old days of ton-up bikes and early rock and roll. It could be a chance to relive those 'good times', if the others c
Come Into the Garden, Maud
Jul 7, 1982
A henpecked American visiting Europe is able to throw off his ghastly wife and find love.
A Song at Twilight
Jul 9, 1982
A famous writer finds that a long-suppressed secret is about to be revealed by his former mistress.