Antonia, de verwende vrouw van Martin Lynch-Gibbon, een wijnhandelaar uit de hogere klasse, vertelt haar echtgenoot dat zij verliefd is op hun beste vriend, de psychiater Palmer Anderson. Palmer en Antonia willen de situatie op een beschaafde manier oplossen, door vrienden te blijven met Martin. Intussen probeert Martin zijn maîtresse Georgie Hands een geheim te houden, maar Palmer's zuster, Honor Klein, die dacht dat Georgie op Oxford zat, vertelt Palmer en Antonia over haar.
Nee, helaas is A Severed Head nog niet beschikbaar op Netflix in Nederland.
| Directing | Dick Clement | Director |
| Sound | Stanley Myers | Conductor |
| Camera | John Harris | Camera Operator |
| Crew | Elliott Kastner | Presenter |
| Crew | Jerry Gershwin | Presenter |
| Production | Crawford Mackie | Publicist |
| Sound | Nolan Roberts | Sound Mixer |
| Costume & Make-Up | Lotte Slattery | Wardrobe Master |
| Costume & Make-Up | Frank Vinall | Wardrobe Master |
| Production | Marion Rosenberg | Producer's Assistant |
| Crew | Ian La Frenais | Other |
| Directing | Peter Bolton | Assistant Director |
| Art | Peter Mullins | Location Scout |
| Camera | Austin Dempster | Director of Photography |
| Writing | Iris Murdoch | Theatre Play |
| Sound | Stanley Myers | Original Music Composer |
| Writing | Iris Murdoch | Novel |
| Writing | Frederic Raphael | Screenplay |
| Costume & Make-Up | Sue Yelland | Costume Design |
| Writing | J. B. Priestley | Theatre Play |
| Art | Richard Macdonald | Production Design |
| Art | John Clark | Art Direction |
| Editing | Peter Weatherley | Editor |
| Sound | Mike Le Mare | Sound Editor |
| Costume & Make-Up | Freddie Williamson | Makeup Artist |
| Production | Denis Holt | Associate Producer |
| Art | Hugh Scaife | Set Dresser |
| Production | Timothy Burrill | Production Manager |
| Costume & Make-Up | Carol Beckett | Hairdresser |
| Production | Alan Ladd Jr. | Producer |
| Sound | Norman Bolland | Sound Recordist |
| Directing | Ene Watts | Continuity |
