NET Playhouse(1966)
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First Air Date: 1966-10-07
Average Runtime: 1h 30m
Rating: 7.3
Votes: 3
Seasons: 6
Episodes: 51
NET Playhouse is an American dramatic television anthology series produced by National Educational Television. NET subsequently merged with WNDT Newark, New Jersey to form WNET and was superseded by the Public Broadcasting Service. American television anthology series of wide range of genres, from history and drama, to fantasy, and science fiction. Fiction novels, stories, stage plays, fairytales, and historic events are dramatized in each episode.
Keywords
performing artstheater
Seasons & Episodes
Season 1
Episodes: 42E01
Ten Blocks on the Camino Real
Air Date: 1966-10-07
A production of Tennessee Williams's "Ten Blocks on the Camino Real," a one-act play upon which his full-length play,...
E02
The Journey of the Fifth Horse
Air Date: 1966-10-14
Dustin Hoffman stars in Ronald Ribman's critically acclaimed off-Broadway drama and 1965 Obie Award for best play of ...
E03
The Star Wagon
Air Date: 1966-10-21
A comedy-fantasy by Maxwell Anderson, follows the adventures of an inventor who creates a time-machine enabling him t...
E04
L'Avventura
Air Date: 1966-10-28
No episode overview available.
E05
Victoria Regina, Part 1: Spring
Air Date: 1966-11-04
The first hour of this four-part adaptation of Laurence Housman's drama focuses on Queen Victoria's accession to the ...
E06
Victoria Regina, Part 2: Summer
Air Date: 1966-11-11
"Victoria Regina: Summer," second of four-part adaptation of Lawrence Hous mans' Broadway hit about the life of Engla...
E07
Victoria Regina, Part 3: Autumn
Air Date: 1966-11-18
"Victoria Regina: Autumn," third of a four-part adaption of Lawrence Housman's Broadway hit about the life of England...
E08
Victoria Regina, Part 4: Winter
Air Date: 1966-11-25
No episode overview available.
E09
An Enemy of the People
Air Date: 1966-12-02
A Norwegian doctor discovers that the source of the town's medicinal waters has become poisonous.
E10
A Sleep of Prisoners
Air Date: 1966-12-09
Christopher Fry's verse drama of four prisoners in an imaginary war.
E11
Ofoeti
Air Date: 1966-12-16
A modern folklore tale about a highly imaginative, fantasy-bound youth and his search for a troll.
E12
The Play of Daniel
Air Date: 1966-12-23
"The Play of Daniel." Filmed at the Cloisters, NYC's Museum of Medieval Art, this 12th-century play dramatizes episod...
E13
La Marmite
Air Date: 1966-12-30
Presented in French with English subtitles, The Theatre de la Mandragore Troupe wore masks and performed the Plautus ...
E14
The Amorous Flea
Air Date: 1967-01-06
"The Amorous Flea," is a musical-comedy based on Molière's "School for Wives." The play follows the misadventures of ...
E15
A Comedy of Errors
Air Date: 1967-01-13
William Shakespeare's comic-story of mistaken identity follows the misadventures of two sets of long-lost twins is pr...
E16
La Mama Playwrights
Air Date: 1967-01-20
The off-Broadway La Mama Experimental Theater Club, founded by Ellen Stewart presents three avant-garde works. The pl...
E17
The World of Carl Sandburg
Air Date: 1967-01-27
Actors Fritz Weaver and Uta Hagen join the folk-singing Tarriers and Carolyn Hester for this adaptation of "The World...
E18
Knife in the Water
Air Date: 1967-02-03
Roman Polanski directed this study of a clash between generations. On a weekend outing, two men find themselves pitte...
E19
Uncle Vanya
Air Date: 1967-02-10
A retired professor has returned to his estate to live with his beautiful young wife, Yelena. The estate originally b...
E20
The Importance of Being Earnest
Air Date: 1967-02-17
In 1890s London, two friends use the same pseudonym ("Ernest") for their on-the-sly activities. Hilarity ensues.
E21
The World of Kurt Weill
Air Date: 1967-02-24
Singer-actress Lotte Lenya offers a tribute to her late composer husband.
E22
Master of Santiago
Air Date: 1967-03-03
In 16th-century Spain, pressure is brought on Don Alvaro Dabo to take part in the conquest of the West Indies-but Don...
E23
The Battle of Culloden
Air Date: 1967-03-10
This BBC documentary-drama re-creates the Battle of Culloden (1746)-- the last battle fought on British soil. The fin...
E24
Satire
Air Date: 1967-03-17
Playwright-actor-director Peter Ustinov presents a satiric "improvisation on musical themes" with pianist Anthony Hop...
E25
The Old Glory: Benito Cereno
Air Date: 1967-03-24
A poetic drama that explores the paradoxes of the master-slave relationship.
E26
Past Intruding
Air Date: 1967-03-30
A Japanese film that follows the experiences of a psychiatrist who accidentally revives his buried memory of a horrib...
E27
Misalliance
Air Date: 1967-04-07
A presentation of George Bernard Shaw's "Misalliance," a farce about love and the misunderstandings between family me...
E28
Sponono
Air Date: 1967-04-14
"Sponono," by South African author Alan Paton, incorporates native songs and dances into its narrative-drama form. Th...
E29
Orpheus in the Underworld
Air Date: 1967-04-28
Britain's Sadler's Wells Opera Company performs Offenbach's popular, light opera. According to Greek myth, the poet O...
E30
A Mother for Janek
Air Date: 1967-05-05
An orphaned refugee causes unforeseen problems when he comes to live with his bachelor uncle in America. Produced by ...
E31
Acquit or Hang!
Air Date: 1967-05-12
A courtroom drama based on the court-martial of 10 HMS Bounty mutineers. The 10 seamen on trial all claim to have tak...
E32
Crime and Punishment
Air Date: 1967-05-19
This dramatization of Fyodor Dostoyevsky's master novel explores the conflicting feelings of guilt and superiority in...
E33
Ballet Gala
Air Date: 1967-05-26
"Ballet Gala" features principal dancers from Moscow's Bolshoi Ballet, London's Royal Ballet, the Royal Danish Ballet...
E34
A Concert of Sacred Music
Air Date: 1967-06-16
A Concert on Sacred Music by Duke Ellington, from the Grace Cathedral, seat of the Episcopal Archdiocese of San Franc...
E35
The Victorians, Part 1: The Rent Day
Air Date: 1967-06-23
The first of an eight-part series focusing on life in England during the 1800's. Part 1: A young farmer and his wife ...
E36
The Victorians, Part 2: London Assurance
Air Date: 1967-06-30
An 80-year-old nobleman competes with his son for the hand of a young heiress. This comedy by Dion Boucicault was fir...
E37
The Victorians, Part 3: Society
Air Date: 1967-07-07
A wealthy businessman persuades a penniless young aristocrat to introduce his son into society.
E38
The Victorians, Part 4: The Ticket-of-Leave Man
Air Date: 1967-07-14
"The Victorians: The Ticket-of-Leave Man," a 19th-century detective story. Released from prison, a young man sets out...
E39
The Victorians, Part 5: Two Roses
Air Date: 1967-07-21
No episode overview available.
E40
The Victorians, Part 6: Still Waters Run Deep
Air Date: 1967-07-28
No episode overview available.
E41
The Victorians, Part 7: The Silver King
Air Date: 1967-08-04
A gambler who fled to America to escape a murder charge returns to England in search of the real killer.
E42
The Victorians, Part 8: Sweet Lavender
Air Date: 1967-08-11
No episode overview available.
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