BBC2 Playhouse is a one hour UK anthology television series of one-off contemporary and classic dramas created by Sara Pia Anderson and produced by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). Among its many notable guest stars were Helen Mirren, Daniel Day-Lewis, Judi Dench, Liam Neeson, Paul Scofield, Deborah Kerr, Ben Kingsley, Donald Pleasence, Brenda Blethyn, and Peggy Ashcroft. It premiered in the UK on March 13, 1974 and ran through May 20, 1983.
| Title | Air Date | Duration | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Season 1 | Episode 1 | The Shady Hill Kidnapping | 1982-01-12 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 2 | King of America | 1982-01-19 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 3 | Seguin | 1982-01-26 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 4 | Who Am I This Time? | 1982-02-02 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 5 | Any Friend of Nicholas Nickleby is a Friend of Mine | 1982-02-09 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 6 | Come Along with Me | 1982-02-16 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 7 | For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf | 1982-02-23 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 8 | Echoes and Silences | 1982-03-02 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 9 | The Fifth of July | 1982-03-09 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 10 | The Great American Fourth of July and Other Disasters | 1982-03-16 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 11 | Pilgrim Farewell | 1982-03-23 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 12 | Northern Lights | 1982-03-30 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 13 | Medal of Honor Rag | 1982-04-06 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 14 | Working | 1982-04-13 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 15 | Weekend | 1982-04-20 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 16 | Private Contentment | 1982-04-27 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 17 | My Palikari | 1982-05-04 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 18 | Oppenheimer: Part 1 | 1982-05-11 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 19 | Oppenheimer: Part 2 | 1982-05-18 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 20 | Oppenheimer: Part 3 | 1982-05-25 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 21 | Oppenheimer: Part 4 | 1982-06-01 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 22 | Oppenheimer: Part 5 | 1982-06-08 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 23 | Oppenheimer: Part 6 | 1982-06-15 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 24 | Oppenheimer: Part 7 | 1982-06-22 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 25 | The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez | 1982-06-29 | 60 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 1 | The Skin of Our Teeth | 1983-01-18 | 60 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 2 | Miss Lonelyhearts | 1983-01-25 | 60 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 3 | Family Business | 1983-02-01 | 60 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 4 | Keeping On | 1983-02-08 | 60 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 5 | The File on Jill Hatch: Part 1 | 1983-02-15 | 60 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 6 | The File on Jill Hatch: Part 2 | 1983-02-22 | 60 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 7 | The File on Jill Hatch: Part 3 | 1983-03-01 | 60 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 8 | For Us, the Living | 1983-03-22 | 60 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 9 | Verse Person Singular | 1983-03-29 | 60 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 10 | Until She Talks | 1983-04-05 | 60 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 11 | Wings | 1983-04-26 | 60 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 12 | The Rothko Conspiracy | 1983-05-03 | 60 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 1 | The Ghost Writer | 1984-01-17 | 60 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 2 | Pudd'nhead Wilson | 1984-01-24 | 60 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 3 | True West | 1984-01-31 | 60 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 4 | Nothing But a Man | 1984-02-07 | 60 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 5 | Popular Neurotics | 1984-02-14 | 60 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 6 | The Cafeteria | 1984-02-21 | 60 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 7 | Refuge | 1984-02-28 | 60 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 8 | The Gin Game | 1984-03-06 | 60 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 9 | Haunted | 1984-03-20 | 60 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 10 | The Killing Floor | 1984-04-10 | 60 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 11 | Heartland | 1984-04-17 | 60 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 12 | City News | 1984-04-24 | 60 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 13 | Hughie | 1984-05-01 | 60 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 14 | Concealed Enemies: Part 1 | 1984-05-07 | 60 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 15 | Concealed Enemies: Part 2 | 1984-05-07 | 60 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 16 | Concealed Enemies: Part 3 | 1984-05-08 | 60 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 17 | Concealed Enemies: Part 4 | 1984-05-09 | 60 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 1 | Testament | 1984-11-26 | 60 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 2 | A Matter of Principle | 1984-12-03 | 60 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 3 | Solomon Northup's Odyssey | 1984-12-10 | 60 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 4 | Tomorrow | 1984-12-17 | 60 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 5 | Go Tell It on the Mountain | 1985-01-14 | 60 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 6 | Noon Wine | 1985-01-21 | 60 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 7 | The Joy That Kills | 1985-01-28 | 60 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 8 | Overdrawn at the Memory Bank | 1985-02-04 | 60 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 9 | The Star-Crossed Romance of Josephine Cosnowski | 1985-02-11 | 60 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 10 | Some Men Need Help | 1985-02-18 | 60 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 11 | Charlotte Forten's Mission: Experiment in Freedom | 1985-02-25 | 60 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 12 | Breakfast with Les and Bess | 1985-03-11 | 60 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 13 | Nightsongs | 1985-04-15 | 60 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 14 | Under the Biltmore Clock | 1985-04-22 | 60 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 15 | Displaced Person | 1985-05-06 | 60 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 16 | The Europeans | 1985-05-16 | 60 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 17 | El Norte | 1985-05-20 | 60 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 18 | Three Sovereigns for Sarah: Part 1 | 1985-05-27 | 60 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 19 | Three Sovereigns for Sarah: Part 2 | 1985-06-03 | 60 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 20 | Three Sovereigns for Sarah: Part 3 | 1985-06-10 | 60 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 21 | Paper Angels | 1985-06-17 | 60 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 22 | Cat on a Hot Tin Roof | 1985-06-24 | 60 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 1 | The Rise and Rise of Daniel Rocket | 1986-01-20 | 60 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 2 | The Roommate | 1986-01-27 | 60 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 3 | Valentine's Revenge | 1986-02-03 | 60 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 4 | Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Part 1 | 1986-02-10 | 60 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 5 | Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Part 2 | 1986-02-17 | 60 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 6 | Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Part 3 | 1986-02-24 | 60 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 7 | Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Part 4 | 1986-03-03 | 60 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 8 | Tell Me a Riddle | 1986-03-17 | 60 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 9 | The Little Sister | 1986-04-07 | 60 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 10 | The House of Ramon Iglesia | 1986-04-14 | 60 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 11 | A Flash of Green | 1986-04-21 | 60 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 12 | Damien | 1986-04-28 | 60 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 13 | Rocket to the Moon | 1986-05-05 | 60 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 14 | A Case of Libel | 1986-05-12 | 60 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 15 | Painting Churches | 1986-05-19 | 60 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 16 | Roanoak: Part 1 | 1986-05-26 | 60 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 17 | Roanoak: Part 2 | 1986-06-02 | 60 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 18 | Roanoak: Part 3 | 1986-06-09 | 60 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 19 | Sunday in the Park with George | 1986-06-16 | 60 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 1 | All My Sons | 1987-01-19 | 60 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 2 | The Prodigious Hickey | 1987-01-26 | 60 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 3 | The Wide Net | 1987-02-02 | 60 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 4 | Smooth Talk | 1987-02-09 | 60 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 5 | A Mistaken Charity | 1987-02-16 | 60 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 6 | Eleanor: In Her Own Words | 1987-03-09 | 60 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 7 | The Innocents Abroad | 1987-03-23 | 60 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 8 | Story of a Marriage: Part 1 | 1987-04-06 | 60 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 9 | Story of a Marriage: Part 2 | 1987-04-13 | 60 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 10 | Story of a Marriage: Part 3 | 1987-04-13 | 60 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 11 | A Case of Libel | 1987-05-04 | 60 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 12 | Charley's Aunt | 1987-05-11 | 60 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 13 | Gal Young 'Un | 1987-05-18 | 60 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 14 | The House of Blue Leaves | 1987-05-25 | 60 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 15 | Blue Window | 1987-06-01 | 60 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 16 | Dottie | 1987-06-08 | 60 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 17 | Waiting for the Moon | 1987-06-15 | 60 min |
| Season 7 | Episode 1 | Strange Interlude: Part 1 | 1988-01-18 | 60 min |
| Season 7 | Episode 2 | Strange Interlude: Part 2 | 1988-01-19 | 60 min |
| Season 7 | Episode 3 | Strange Interlude: Part 3 | 1988-01-20 | 60 min |
| Season 7 | Episode 4 | The Return of Hickey | 1988-02-03 | 60 min |
| Season 7 | Episode 5 | Lemon Sky | 1988-02-10 | 60 min |
| Season 7 | Episode 6 | The Revolt of Mother | 1988-02-17 | 60 min |
| Season 7 | Episode 7 | Pigeon Feathers | 1988-02-24 | 60 min |
| Season 7 | Episode 8 | Billy Galvin | 1988-02-24 | 60 min |
| Season 7 | Episode 9 | A Flash of Green | 1988-03-23 | 60 min |
| Season 7 | Episode 10 | Journey Into Genius | 1988-04-06 | 60 min |
| Season 7 | Episode 11 | Suspicion | 1988-04-20 | 60 min |
| Season 7 | Episode 12 | The Trial of Bernard Goetz | 1988-05-11 | 60 min |
| Season 7 | Episode 13 | I Never Sang for My Father | 1988-06-15 | 60 min |
| Season 7 | Episode 14 | Native Son | 1988-06-29 | 60 min |
| Season 7 | Episode 15 | The Big Knife | 1988-07-27 | 60 min |
| Season 8 | Episode 1 | A Raisin in the Sun | 1989-02-01 | 60 min |
| Season 8 | Episode 2 | Ask Me Again | 1989-02-08 | 60 min |
| Season 8 | Episode 3 | Stacking | 1989-02-15 | 60 min |
| Season 8 | Episode 4 | My American Cousin | 1989-02-22 | 60 min |
| Season 8 | Episode 5 | Love and Other Sorrows | 1989-03-01 | 60 min |
| Season 8 | Episode 6 | Stand and Deliver | 1989-03-15 | 60 min |
| Season 8 | Episode 7 | The Silence at Bethany | 1989-03-22 | 60 min |
| Season 8 | Episode 8 | Life Under Water | 1989-04-12 | 60 min |
| Season 8 | Episode 9 | The Diaries of Adam and Eve | 1989-04-26 | 60 min |
| Season 8 | Episode 10 | The Meeting | 1989-05-03 | 60 min |
| Season 8 | Episode 11 | Big Time | 1989-05-17 | 60 min |
| Season 8 | Episode 12 | Land of Little Rain | 1989-05-31 | 60 min |
| Season 8 | Episode 13 | The Thin Blue Line | 1989-05-24 | 60 min |
| Season 8 | Episode 14 | Imagining America | 1989-06-07 | 60 min |
| Season 9 | Episode 1 | Sensibility and Sense | 1990-01-24 | 60 min |
| Season 9 | Episode 2 | Women and Wallace | 1990-01-31 | 60 min |
| Season 9 | Episode 3 | Zora is My Name! | 1990-02-14 | 60 min |
| Season 9 | Episode 4 | Andre's Mother | 1990-03-07 | 60 min |
| Season 9 | Episode 5 | Bloodhounds of Broadway | 1990-05-23 | 60 min |
| Season 9 | Episode 6 | Hyde in Hollywood | 1990-07-06 | 60 min |
| Season 10 | Episode 1 | Into the Woods | 1991-03-20 | 60 min |
| Season 10 | Episode 2 | The Grapes of Wrath | 1991-03-29 | 60 min |
| Season 10 | Episode 3 | Three Hotels | 1991-03-29 | 60 min |
| Season 10 | Episode 4 | The Sunset Gang | 1991-04-05 | 60 min |
| Season 10 | Episode 5 | Hot Summer Winds | 1991-05-22 | 60 min |
| Season 10 | Episode 6 | The Hollow Boy | 1991-06-12 | 60 min |
| Season 11 | Episode 1 | Fool's Fire | 1992-03-25 | 60 min |
| Season 11 | Episode 2 | Tales from Hollywood | 1992-10-19 | 60 min |
| Season 11 | Episode 3 | Tru | 1992-11-23 | 60 min |
| Season 11 | Episode 4 | Fires in the Mirror | 1993-04-28 | 60 min |
| Season 11 | Episode 5 | In the Wings: Angels in America on Broadway | 1993-06-11 | 60 min |
| Season 11 | Episode 6 | La Carpa | 1993-06-16 | 60 min |
| Season 11 | Episode 7 | Porgy and Bess | 1993-10-06 | 60 min |
| Season 11 | Episode 8 | Tales of the City | 1993-11-15 | 60 min |
| Season 11 | Episode 9 | Hallelujah | 1993-12-22 | 60 min |
