ITV Television Playhouse (1955)

Original title

Television Playhouse

Country

United Kingdom

Length

10 seasons, 352 episodes

Rating

7.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This is a British anthology series from the 1950s and 1960s. It presents a different teleplay each week with standalone stories. The show aired on ITV for nine seasons.

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What happens

ITV Television Playhouse, often simplified to Television Playhouse, is a British anthology television series produced by and airing on the ITV television network from 1955 through 1963. The series premiered with the teleplay Midlevel on 24 September 1955. Its final episode was the teleplay They Don't Make Summers Like They Used To which aired on 27 December 1963. Originally airing one hour long episodes weekly on Friday nights during its first season in 1955–1956, the programme was subsequently moved to Thursday night weekly broadcasts for its second (1956–1957) and third (1957–1958) seasons. The programme moved back to weekly Friday night broadcasts for its fourth (1958–1959) and fifth (1959–1960) seasons. It returned to Thursday night weekly broadcasts for seasons 6 (1960–1961) and 7 (1961–1962). The series moved back to Friday night broadcasts for season 8 (1962–1963). Its final season, season 9 (Autumn 1963), was only half as long as the other seasons and aired on Thursday nights. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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