Saturday Playhouse(1958)
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First Air Date: 1958-01-04
Average Runtime: N/A
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Seasons: 1
Episodes: 68
Saturday Playhouse was a 60-minute UK anthology television series produced by and airing on the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) from 4 January 1958 until 1 April 1961. There were sixty-eight episodes, among them adaptations of the plays The Man Who Came to Dinner and The Cat and the Canary. One of the episodes, Alex Atkinson’s classic thriller Design for Murder, was featured twice on the BBC: first on Saturday Playhouse (Saturday, 15 March 1958; S1/Ep.6) and again from the BBC's own theatre in Bristol (Thursday, 6 July 1961).
Seasons & Episodes
Season 1
Episodes: 68E01
S1.E1 ∙ The Man Upstairs
Air Date: 1958-01-04
An anthology series of dramatisations of plays.
E02
S1.E2 ∙ The Distaff Side
Air Date: 1958-01-11
An upper middle-class family is ruled by the ancient and churlish matriarch. Her daughters' marriages are all in jeop...
E03
S1.E3 ∙ Heroes Don't Care
Air Date: 1958-01-18
No episode overview available.
E04
S1.E4 ∙ Britannia of Billingsgate
Air Date: 1958-01-25
No episode overview available.
E05
S1.E5 ∙ The Corn Is Green
Air Date: 1958-02-01
A spinster schoolteacher arrives in a Welsh mining valley and discovers a boy genius in her class.
E06
S1.E6 ∙ Design for Murder
Air Date: 1958-02-08
No episode overview available.
E07
S1.E7 ∙ My Flesh, My Blood
Air Date: 1958-02-15
No episode overview available.
E08
S1.E8 ∙ Ladies in Retirement
Air Date: 1958-02-22
Ellen Creed struggles to hold down her job as housekeeper-companion to the retired actress Leonora Fiske whilst tryin...
E09
S1.E9 ∙ A Likely Tale
Air Date: 1958-03-01
A dying old man changes his will to leave everything to the new housemaid who has caught his eye, much to the alarm o...
E10
S1.E10 ∙ And No Birds Sing
Air Date: 1958-03-08
No episode overview available.
E11
S1.E11 ∙ Carry On, Admiral
Air Date: 1958-03-15
The action takes place in a bedroom in a Portsmouth hotel, the wardroom of H.M.S. Sherwood, and the living-room at Ad...
E12
S1.E12 ∙ French Without Tears
Air Date: 1958-03-22
The love affairs of three young Englishmen at a language cramming school in the south of France. Diana, the sister of...
E13
S1.E13 ∙ High Heaven
Air Date: 1958-03-29
No episode overview available.
E14
S1.E14 ∙ The Ware Case
Air Date: 1958-04-05
A financier is accused of murder when his brother-in-law is found dead in his garden pond. After winning the court ca...
E15
S1.E15 ∙ The Fourth Wall
Air Date: 1958-04-12
The host of a dinner party is murdered.
E16
S1.E16 ∙ Dr. Angelus
Air Date: 1958-04-19
No episode overview available.
E17
S1.E17 ∙ A Young Affair
Air Date: 1958-04-26
No episode overview available.
E18
S1.E18 ∙ The Dover Road
Air Date: 1958-09-13
A wealthy man lives on the Dover Road, a traditional path of elopers. His practice of forcing such couples to see one...
E19
S1.E19 ∙ Day of Retirement
Air Date: 1958-09-20
No episode overview available.
E20
S1.E20 ∙ A Private Eye for Pennsylvania
Air Date: 1958-09-27
No episode overview available.
E21
S1.E21 ∙ Four for Solitaire
Air Date: 1958-10-25
No episode overview available.
E22
S1.E22 ∙ Trespass
Air Date: 1958-11-22
No episode overview available.
E23
S1.E23 ∙ The Duke in Darkness
Air Date: 1958-12-06
A duke imprisoned for 15 years in a castle in France feigns blindness for five years to lull the suspicions of his ca...
E24
S1.E24 ∙ The Magistrate
Air Date: 1958-12-20
A widow weds a magistrate and makes her 19-year-old son act as a boy.
E25
S1.E25 ∙ So Many Children
Air Date: 1958-12-27
No episode overview available.
E26
S1.E26 ∙ Trilby
Air Date: 1959-01-17
in 19th-century Paris, a sinister hypnotist tries to turn a simple Irish girl into an opera star.
E27
S1.E27 ∙ Murder on the Agenda
Air Date: 1959-02-14
Eynon Evans plays the part of Inspector Probert George, who was tortured in a prisoner-of-war camp when his plans for...
E28
S1.E28 ∙ Golden Rain
Air Date: 1959-02-28
No episode overview available.
E29
S1.E29 ∙ While the Sun Shines
Air Date: 1959-03-28
No episode overview available.
E30
S1.E30 ∙ The Cat and the Canary
Air Date: 1959-05-09
At an old, dark house, on a dark and stormy night, an ill-assorted group of people meet for the reading of a milliona...
E31
S1.E31 ∙ The Larford Lad
Air Date: 1959-06-20
The story of a young boxer's rise to fame.
E32
S1.E32 ∙ Black Chiffon
Air Date: 1959-07-04
A woman who has an absolutely untarnished reputation unaccountably steals a black-chiffon nightgown days before her s...
E33
S1.E33 ∙ My Young Brother
Air Date: 1959-07-18
No episode overview available.
E34
S1.E34 ∙ Love and Miss Figgis
Air Date: 1959-08-01
No episode overview available.
E35
S1.E35 ∙ Unfinished Journey
Air Date: 1959-08-08
No episode overview available.
E36
S1.E36 ∙ The Cathedral
Air Date: 1959-08-15
No episode overview available.
E37
S1.E37 ∙ Last Day in Dreamland
Air Date: 1959-08-29
No episode overview available.
E38
S1.E38 ∙ It Isn't Enough
Air Date: 1959-09-26
No episode overview available.
E39
S1.E39 ∙ Haul for the Shore
Air Date: 1959-10-24
No episode overview available.
E40
S1.E40 ∙ Bed and Breakfast
Air Date: 1959-11-21
No episode overview available.
E41
S1.E41 ∙ The Farmer's Wife
Air Date: 1959-12-05
After his daughter weds, a middle-aged widower with a profitable farm decides to remarry but finds choosing a suitabl...
E42
S1.E42 ∙ Through a Glass Darkly
Air Date: 1959-12-19
No episode overview available.
E43
S1.E43 ∙ Conflict at Kalanadi
Air Date: 1960-01-16
No episode overview available.
E44
S1.E44 ∙ The Difficult Age
Air Date: 1960-01-30
No episode overview available.
E45
S1.E45 ∙ Going Like a Fox
Air Date: 1960-02-13
No episode overview available.
E46
S1.E46 ∙ The Return of Peggy Atherton
Air Date: 1960-02-27
No episode overview available.
E47
S1.E47 ∙ Home and the Heart
Air Date: 1960-03-12
No episode overview available.
E48
S1.E48 ∙ A Matter of Age
Air Date: 1960-03-26
No episode overview available.
E49
S1.E49 ∙ Devonshire Cream
Air Date: 1960-04-09
No episode overview available.
E50
S1.E50 ∙ The Country Boy
Air Date: 1960-04-23
No episode overview available.
E51
S1.E51 ∙ The Man Who Came to Dinner
Air Date: 1960-05-07
Sheridan Whiteside, famous as an author, broadcaster and expert on just about everything, is invited to dinner by a p...
E52
S1.E52 ∙ Marriage Settlement
Air Date: 1960-05-21
No episode overview available.
E53
S1.E53 ∙ The Guinea Pig
Air Date: 1960-06-04
A working-class boy gets a scholarship to a public school.
E54
S1.E54 ∙ The Breadwinner
Air Date: 1960-06-18
No episode overview available.
E55
S1.E55 ∙ On the Edge
Air Date: 1960-07-16
No episode overview available.
E56
S1.E56 ∙ Dream Girl
Air Date: 1960-08-13
A young lady is filled with daydreams until she meets her reality man.
E57
S1.E57 ∙ The Shop at Sly Corner
Air Date: 1960-08-27
Descius Heiss is a French expatriate, and former Devil's Island prisoner, with two passions; driving shrewd bargains ...
E58
S1.E58 ∙ Family Occasion
Air Date: 1960-10-08
What is Margaret hiding from the rest of the family when they arrive for their father's funeral?
E59
S1.E59 ∙ The Bachelor Brothers
Air Date: 1960-10-22
No episode overview available.
E60
S1.E60 ∙ Your Obedient Servant
Air Date: 1960-11-19
No episode overview available.
E61
S1.E61 ∙ The Druid Circle
Air Date: 1960-12-03
An embittered professor comes near to wrecking the lives of a young man and young woman whose love for each other has...
E62
S1.E62 ∙ The Colonel
Air Date: 1960-12-17
No episode overview available.
E63
S1.E63 ∙ A Run for the Money
Air Date: 1960-12-31
No episode overview available.
E64
S1.E64 ∙ A Sense of Guilt
Air Date: 1961-01-14
No episode overview available.
E65
S1.E65 ∙ The Four Poster
Air Date: 1961-01-28
The up-and-down lives of a married couple over decades, depicted as a series of bedroom scenes.
E66
S1.E66 ∙ The House with the Green Shutters
Air Date: 1961-02-11
No episode overview available.
E67
S1.E67 ∙ A Perfect Stranger
Air Date: 1961-02-25
No episode overview available.
E68
S1.E68 ∙ Seagulls Over Sorrento
Air Date: 1961-03-04
A Navy lieutenant is borrowed by the British to supervise torpedo experiments after one of their scientists is killed.
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