Nothing plays in the Program window.

Hello,
I'm a new user to Premiere Pro and I recently downloaded it and started working on it. I'm using Mac OSX 10.8.5
I was working on a project that someone had given to me, I opened it and everything was working fine and then inexplicably nothing would play in the program window. When I scrub the playhead I can hear the audio and the sequence progresses in the Program window, but when I press play it does absolutely nothing, it doesn't even play a single frame. All clips still play just fine in the source window.
While I am admittedly a novice on Premiere Pro this strikes me as a very peculiar problem as it seemed to happen out of nowhere, one moment it was working, the next it wasn't.
I've tried restarting, saving the project in a different location, logging in with a different user and always with the same result, the sequence just won't play.
Can anyone suggest a solution?
Thanks.

Hi Arjun,
When I right click on a clip and and create a new sequence it works fine.
So I tried creating a new sequence, and then copied and pasted everything from the sequence that wasn't playing into the new one and it plays now though playback is not very smooth, other than that it's working fine.
Jude - it was the entire sequence that wouldn't play, not just one video track.
Thanks for your help.

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