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The Best Episodes of Playhouse Season 6

Every episode of Playhouse Season 6 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Playhouse Season 6!

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    Playhouse Season 6 Episode 1 - School Play
    8.2/10(22 votes)

    #1 - School Play

    S6:E1

    A play about the horrors of life at an English public school - with all the schoolboys played by adults.

    Director:James Cellan Jones
    Writer:Frederic Raphael

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  2. Playhouse Season 6 Episode 2 - Every Good Boy Deserves Favour
    8.3/10(43 votes)

    #2 - Every Good Boy Deserves Favour

    S6:E2

    A dissident, Alexander, has been pronounced insane by the authorities (although he isn't), and finds himself sharing a cell with a genuine mental patient, Ivanov.

    Directors:Roger Bamford, Trevor Nunn
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. Playhouse Season 6 Episode 3 - The Brylcreem Boys
    8.2/10(18 votes)

    #3 - The Brylcreem Boys

    S6:E3

    Cpl. George Hunn's sentry post is knocked over and he wakes to find he is suffering from frost bite of the face. Sent to hospital he is put on a ward with aircrew who have mental issues. He is trapped reenacting their missions at night.

    Director:Roger Bamford
    Writer:Peter Durrant

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  4. Playhouse Season 6 Episode 4 - An Affinity with Dr. Still
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #4 - An Affinity with Dr. Still

    S6:E4

    No description available

    Director:Derek Lister
    Writer:David Snodin

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  5. Playhouse Season 6 Episode 5 - Home Movies
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #5 - Home Movies

    S6:E5

    Keith and Alec have been making holiday movies, together for 25 years. Alec suddenly spots a moment between wife Sybil and Keith. He realises daughter Katie is actually Keith's and she is in a sexual relationship with her 'brother' John.

    Director:Philip Dudley
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. Playhouse Season 6 Episode 6 - Sweet Wine of Youth
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #6 - Sweet Wine of Youth

    S6:E6

    No description available

    Director:Darrol Blake
    Writer:Darrol Blake

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  7. Playhouse Season 6 Episode 7 - Speed King
    8.7/10(15 votes)

    #7 - Speed King

    S6:E7

    In 1935, Sir Malcolm Campbell's obsession is to win the World's Land Speed Record in his car Bluebird. Speed King is about the man, the car, and the ruthless, but irresistible, public ambition of a world hero.

    Director:Ferdinand Fairfax
    Writer:Roger Milner

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  8. Playhouse Season 6 Episode 8 - Pews
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #8 - Pews

    S6:E8

    Set in a north country synagogue, a group of Jewish men have to organise a shiva, however, not having the required number of their faith, resort to recruiting George, a 'non-Jew', to make up the numbers.

    Director:Barry Davis
    Writer:Chaim Bermant

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  9. Playhouse Season 6 Episode 9 - Gentle Folk
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #9 - Gentle Folk

    S6:E9

    An Edwardian house party given by a Fabian woman, her business-man husband and assorted guests from politics and the Arts—including a young man prone to disturbing premonitions.

    Director:Rodney Bennett
    Writer:Alexander Baron

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  10. Playhouse Season 6 Episode 10 - Trouble with Gregory
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #10 - Trouble with Gregory

    S6:E10

    Gregory has troubles enough when Ella moves him out and sets him up for a job with the radio. Suspicions of infidelity can make the world a disturbing place. But then he still has to meet the new neighbours...

    Director:John Glenister
    Writer:Stephen Davis

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  11. Playhouse Season 6 Episode 11 - Lifelike
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #11 - Lifelike

    S6:E11

    A comprehensive school is praised for its authenticity, but one schoolboy does not agree with this assessment.

    Director:Peter Bartlett
    Writer:John Challen

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  12. Playhouse Season 6 Episode 12 - The Enigma
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #12 - The Enigma

    S6:E12

    An upper-class young man has rejected his affluent background, but, when a crisis comes, reverts to type pretty quickly.

    Director:Robert Knights
    Writer:John Fowles

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  13. Playhouse Season 6 Episode 13 - Hesther for Example
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #13 - Hesther for Example

    S6:E13

    Cousin, W. Clifford Mill, ran a dirty postcard business; which brings Paul to the country in search of a profitable afternoon. Hesther knows the value of most things and, when evening falls, she turns his visit to her own advantage.

    Director:Carol Wiseman
    Writer:Michael Sullivan

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  14. Playhouse Season 6 Episode 14 - The Best of Friends
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #14 - The Best of Friends

    S6:E14

    What is friendship? Why do two grown men behave like egomaniac children or flustered prima donnas? And when they meet unexpectedly after ten years, how will things be?

    Director:Derek Lister
    Writer:Frederic Raphael

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  15. Playhouse Season 6 Episode 15 - In Hiding
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #15 - In Hiding

    S6:E15

    A teenager learns about life and death while staying with his aunt during the school holidays.

    Director:Don Taylor
    Writer:Don Taylor

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  16. Playhouse Season 6 Episode 16 - Rottingdean
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #16 - Rottingdean

    S6:E16

    Mother is manic, Father frustrated. Son sees himself as quite an operator. Daughter wants to change the dreary world of Jubilee-year England. The day has come. Back to Rottingdean... if all goes smoothly.

    Director:Mark Cullingham
    Writer:Richard Crane

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  17. Playhouse Season 6 Episode 17 - The Dig
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #17 - The Dig

    S6:E17

    No description available

    Director:Carol Wilks
    Writer:James Robson

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  18. Playhouse Season 6 Episode 18 - Happy
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #18 - Happy

    S6:E18

    No description available

    Director:Derek Lister
    Writer:Derrick Buttress

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  19. Playhouse Season 6 Episode 19 - Mary's Wife
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #19 - Mary's Wife

    S6:E19

    A married transvestite comes to terms with their true gender identity.

    Director:Peter Jefferies
    Writer:David Cook

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  20. Playhouse Season 6 Episode 20 - Games Without Frontiers
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #20 - Games Without Frontiers

    S6:E20

    Nobody goes to Amsterdam to wander about. It's either the Rijksmuseum or the red-light district. On the boat going home Clive and Stewart admit to not having spent long in the museums – so what did they get up to in Amsterdam?

    Director:Mike Bradwell
    Writer:Mike Bradwell

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  21. Playhouse Season 6 Episode 21 - The Unborn
    7.6/10(9 votes)

    #21 - The Unborn

    S6:E21

    A physicist has visions of his unborn baby – it turns out that the child will grow up to become a Hitler-like dictator responsible for World War III.

    Director:Michael Custance
    Writer:Philip Martin

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  22. Playhouse Season 6 Episode 22 - Electric in the City
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #22 - Electric in the City

    S6:E22

    No description available

    Director:Tony Bicât
    Writer:Tony Bicât

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  23. Playhouse Season 6 Episode 23 - Blue Remembered Hills
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #23 - Blue Remembered Hills

    S6:E23

    Repeated from Play for Today

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  24. Playhouse Season 6 Episode 24 - Thank You Comrades
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #24 - Thank You Comrades

    S6:E24

    No description available

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  25. Playhouse Season 6 Episode 25 - Coming Out
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #25 - Coming Out

    S6:E25

    No description available

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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Season 6 Ratings Summary

"School Play" is the best rated episode of "Playhouse" season 6. It scored 8.2/10 based on 22 votes. Directed by James Cellan Jones and written by Frederic Raphael, it aired on 11/7/1979. This episode is rated 0.1 points higher than the second-best, "Every Good Boy Deserves Favour".