Grown-Ups
Playhouse - S7 - E5
Dick and Mandy, a young working class couple, move into a council house in Canterbury, and find Mr. Butcher, one of their former teachers, living next door. Mandy's unmarried sister, Gloria, is constantly dropping in, and will not take any hints that the couple would prefer to be left alone, until her presence finally goads them to action.
Playhouse: Season 7 - 29 Episode s
7x1 - Caught on a Train
October 31, 1980
Peter boards a train to attend an important business meeting across Europe. His train trip is made more complicated by two women also assigned to his train compartment. One is an independent American whom Peter finds attractive. The other is Frau Messner - an extremely particular and demanding older European woman. Between the two of them, they try different aspects of Peter's patience...
7x2 - Fatal Spring
November 7, 1980
7x3 - The Black Madonna
November 14, 1980
7x4 - The Happy Autumn Fields
November 21, 1980
7x5 - Grown-Ups
November 28, 1980
Dick and Mandy, a young working class couple, move into a council house in Canterbury, and find Mr. Butcher, one of their former teachers, living next door. Mandy's unmarried sister, Gloria, is constantly dropping in, and will not take any hints that the couple would prefer to be left alone, until her presence finally goads them to action.
7x6 - My Dear Palestrina
December 5, 1980
7x7 - Shaping Up
December 12, 1980
7x8 - Standing in for Henry
December 19, 1980
At an advertising agency in Nottingham, young graphic designer Graham is recruited as a temporary replacement for the iconic Henry. The agency are desperate to be part of the Swinging Sixties but not without Henry. Can Graham replace him?
7x9 - Fothergill
January 9, 1981
John Fothergill, aesthete and scholar, becomes the proprietor of the Spread Eagle, in Thame, Oxfordshire, with the intent of turning it into the most celebrated Inn in England, catering to the brightest lights in London's literati.
7x10 - One Hundred and Eighty!!!
January 16, 1981
A darts tournament is put in peril when the players' wives stage a sit-in in the pub.
7x11 - The Kindness of Mrs. Radcliffe
January 23, 1981
7x12 - A Last Visitor for Mr. Hugh Peter
January 30, 1981
In prison the night before his execution, republican preacher Hugh Peter prepares to be hanged, drawn and quartered for treason.
7x13 - Journal of Bridget Hitler
February 6, 1981
An Irishwoman married to a German in pre-WW1 Liverpool prepares to meet her brother-in-law, a young man named Adolf Hitler.
7x14 - Episode 14
February 13, 1981
Days at the Beach
7x15 - Bobby Wants to Meet Me
February 20, 1981
It's 1978, journalist Neville Morris, from Changes magazine, writes an essay about Bob Dylan called "A Jewish Massiah". Dylan's publicist Elle Smith reaches out that Bobby wants to meet him at Earl's Court. Neville goes into panic mode.
7x16 - Days
February 27, 1981
7x17 - Clapperclaw
March 6, 1981
7x18 - The Potsdam Quartet
March 13, 1981
7x19 - Unity
March 20, 1981
Period Drama. The true story of Unity Mitford who in the 1930's went to live in Germany and was friends with Adolf Hitler.
7x20 - Skylark
March 27, 1981
7x21 - Elizabeth Alone: Part 1
April 3, 1981
7x22 - Elizabeth Alone: Part 2
April 10, 1981
7x23 - Elizabeth Alone: Part 3
April 17, 1981
7x24 - The Man Who Almost Knew Eamonn Andrews
April 24, 1981
7x25 - Episode 25
May 1, 1981
7x26 - The Day War Broke Out
May 15, 1981
Albie Warren and girlfriend Carla are second on the bill of variety artists and musicians performing to half empty venues. Albie impersonates wartime comic Rob Wilton to people who don't know him. Will he take the chance to top the bill?
7x27 - Random Moments in a May Garden
May 22, 1981
7x28 - Going Gently
June 5, 1981
Play about two elderly cancer patients suffering in hospital.
7x29 - Marriage
July 10, 1981