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  1. #1 Worst Episode
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    Playhouse Season 1 Episode 1 - Sizwe Bansi Is Dead
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    #1 - Sizwe Bansi Is Dead

    S1:E1

    Two Black South Africans discover what it means to lose their passbooks, which they must carry to prove their identity during the apartheid era.

    Director:John Davies
    Writers:Athol Fugard, John Kani, Winston Ntshona

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  2. Playhouse Season 1 Episode 2 - The Joke
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    #2 - The Joke

    S1:E2

    No description available

    Director:Voytek
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. Playhouse Season 1 Episode 3 - The Cafeteria
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    #3 - The Cafeteria

    S1:E3

    An eccentric Jewish writer is drawn into the world of an apparently delusional young woman and her invalid father.

    Director:Silvio Narizzano
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. Playhouse Season 3 Episode 1 - Kites
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    #4 - Kites

    S3:E1

    Retired prep school headmaster Lawrence Hastings has few pleasures in life. One is kite flying, until this too is spoilt by the intrusions of an irritating small boy.

    Director:Christopher King
    Writer:Don Shaw

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  5. Playhouse Season 3 Episode 2 - An Accident of Class and Sex
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    #5 - An Accident of Class and Sex

    S3:E2

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    Director:Brian Parker
    Writer:Maggie Wadey

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  6. Playhouse Season 3 Episode 3 - A Martyr to the System
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    #6 - A Martyr to the System

    S3:E3

    A school lecturer is possessed by the spirit of Othello during the teaching of Classics.

    Director:Peter Smith
    Writer:Andrew Davies

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  7. Playhouse Season 3 Episode 4 - The Button Man
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    #7 - The Button Man

    S3:E4

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    Director:Kenneth Ives
    Writer:Ewart Alexander

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  8. Playhouse Season 3 Episode 5 - Practical Experience
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    #8 - Practical Experience

    S3:E5

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    Director:Bill Hays
    Writer:Alan Plater

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  9. Playhouse Season 3 Episode 6 - Dad
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    #9 - Dad

    S3:E6

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    Director:Don Taylor
    Writer:Don Taylor

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  10. Playhouse Season 3 Episode 7 - The Chauffeur
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    #10 - The Chauffeur

    S3:E7

    Joe, chauffeur to a South American embassy, enjoys the small perks of privilege his job provides. When a coup results in the ambassador's recall, his halcyon life is upended.

    Director:Brian Gibson
    Writers:Denis Plimmer, Charlotte Plimmer

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  11. Playhouse Season 3 Episode 8 - Play Things
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    #11 - Play Things

    S3:E8

    A young man volunteers to work with a children's play group in a desolate London area.

    Director:Stephen Frears
    Writer:Peter Prince

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  12. Playhouse Season 3 Episode 9 - Jumbo
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    #12 - Jumbo

    S3:E9

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    Director:Bill Hays
    Writer:Don Shaw

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  13. Playhouse Season 5 Episode 1 - The Achurch Letters
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    #13 - The Achurch Letters

    S5:E1

    A play about the (celibate) relationship between writer George Bernard Shaw and a famous drug addict actress.

    Director:Don Taylor
    Writer:Don Taylor

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  14. Playhouse Season 6 Episode 4 - An Affinity with Dr. Still
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    #14 - An Affinity with Dr. Still

    S6:E4

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    Director:Derek Lister
    Writer:David Snodin

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  15. Playhouse Season 6 Episode 5 - Home Movies
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    #15 - 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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  16. Playhouse Season 6 Episode 6 - Sweet Wine of Youth
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    #16 - Sweet Wine of Youth

    S6:E6

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    Director:Darrol Blake
    Writer:Darrol Blake

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  17. Playhouse Season 6 Episode 8 - Pews
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    #17 - 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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  18. Playhouse Season 6 Episode 9 - Gentle Folk
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    #18 - 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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  19. Playhouse Season 6 Episode 10 - Trouble with Gregory
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    #19 - 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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  20. Playhouse Season 6 Episode 11 - Lifelike
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    #20 - 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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  21. Playhouse Season 6 Episode 12 - The Enigma
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    #21 - 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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  22. Playhouse Season 6 Episode 13 - Hesther for Example
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    #22 - 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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  23. Playhouse Season 6 Episode 14 - The Best of Friends
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    #23 - 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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  24. Playhouse Season 6 Episode 15 - In Hiding
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    #24 - 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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  25. Playhouse Season 6 Episode 16 - Rottingdean
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    #25 - 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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Worst Episodes Summary

"Sizwe Bansi Is Dead" is the worst rated episode of "Playhouse". It scored /10 based on 0 votes. Directed by John Davies and written by Athol Fugard, John Kani, Winston Ntshona, it aired on 3/13/1974. This episode scored 0.0 points lower than the second lowest rated, "The Joke".