Playhouse Season 8: Episode Guide & Ratings

An Englishwoman seeking to escape her marriage arrives at French hotel.

A boy feels restless during a hot summer in prewar Cornwall.

A woman with an apparently happy and privileged life begins shoplifting.

A play about the brilliant, shocking Victorian artist Aubrey Beardsley, who died in his twenties.

A keen ballroom dancer begins to drink heavily when she discovers she's infertile.

A once-famous writer, now long out of fashion, is interviewed by a disconcerting young woman.

Wealthy Alexander Moore and working-class Jerry Crowe are childhood friends and in 1914 find themselves in the same Army unit - Alex as an officer and Jerry as a private. They still remain close, however, until Jerry is court-martialed for desertion, and Alex is put in charge of the firing squad.

Shorty, an academic scavenger, believes he has tracked down some letters revealing an unexpected side to Miss Jane Austen's nature.

Two women meet for lunch every two weeks to swap news. But this week is different.

At a concert, Marcia picked Terry out of the crowd. So he no longer feels alone. Until he learns about her secret life and dare not tell his friends.

A henpecked American visiting Europe is able to throw off his ghastly wife and find love.

A famous writer finds that a long-suppressed secret is about to be revealed by his former mistress.