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Saturday Playhouse (1958)

January. 04,1958

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Saturday Playhouse

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).

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Saturday Playhouse

1958

Seasons & Episode

Seasons 1 : 1958

68 Episode

Episode 1 - S1.E1 ∙ The Man Upstairs

January. 04,1958

An anthology series of dramatisations of plays.

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Episode 2 - S1.E2 ∙ The Distaff Side

January. 11,1958

An upper middle-class family is ruled by the ancient and churlish matriarch. Her daughters' marriages are all in jeopardy, with affairs and communions with the dead. It's difficult to find any solitude or sanity in the family.

Episode 3 - S1.E3 ∙ Heroes Don't Care

January. 18,1958

Episode 4 - S1.E4 ∙ Britannia of Billingsgate

January. 25,1958

Episode 5 - S1.E5 ∙ The Corn Is Green

February. 01,1958

A spinster schoolteacher arrives in a Welsh mining valley and discovers a boy genius in her class.

Episode 6 - S1.E6 ∙ Design for Murder

February. 08,1958

Episode 7 - S1.E7 ∙ My Flesh, My Blood

February. 15,1958

Episode 8 - S1.E8 ∙ Ladies in Retirement

February. 22,1958

Ellen Creed struggles to hold down her job as housekeeper-companion to the retired actress Leonora Fiske whilst trying to protect her two disturbed sisters from the threat of incarceration.

Episode 9 - S1.E9 ∙ A Likely Tale

March. 01,1958

A dying old man changes his will to leave everything to the new housemaid who has caught his eye, much to the alarm of his three grown up children and grandson.

Episode 10 - S1.E10 ∙ And No Birds Sing

March. 08,1958

Episode 11 - S1.E11 ∙ Carry On, Admiral

March. 15,1958

The action takes place in a bedroom in a Portsmouth hotel, the wardroom of H.M.S. Sherwood, and the living-room at Admiralty House.

Episode 12 - S1.E12 ∙ French Without Tears

March. 22,1958

The love affairs of three young Englishmen at a language cramming school in the south of France. Diana, the sister of one of the boys, arrives in town to flirt with all of her brothers' schoolmates.

Episode 13 - S1.E13 ∙ High Heaven

March. 29,1958

Episode 14 - S1.E14 ∙ The Ware Case

April. 05,1958

A financier is accused of murder when his brother-in-law is found dead in his garden pond. After winning the court case he returns home to find that his lawyer has romantic inclinations towards his wife.

Episode 15 - S1.E15 ∙ The Fourth Wall

April. 12,1958

The host of a dinner party is murdered.

Episode 16 - S1.E16 ∙ Dr. Angelus

April. 19,1958

Episode 17 - S1.E17 ∙ A Young Affair

April. 26,1958

Episode 18 - S1.E18 ∙ The Dover Road

September. 13,1958

A wealthy man lives on the Dover Road, a traditional path of elopers. His practice of forcing such couples to see one another in the sober light of home life in his house leads to a personal involvement for him.

Episode 19 - S1.E19 ∙ Day of Retirement

September. 20,1958

Episode 20 - S1.E20 ∙ A Private Eye for Pennsylvania

September. 27,1958

Episode 21 - S1.E21 ∙ Four for Solitaire

October. 25,1958

Episode 22 - S1.E22 ∙ Trespass

November. 22,1958

Episode 23 - S1.E23 ∙ The Duke in Darkness

December. 06,1958

A duke imprisoned for 15 years in a castle in France feigns blindness for five years to lull the suspicions of his captors in order to plan his escape.

Episode 24 - S1.E24 ∙ The Magistrate

December. 20,1958

A widow weds a magistrate and makes her 19-year-old son act as a boy.

Episode 25 - S1.E25 ∙ So Many Children

December. 27,1958

Episode 26 - S1.E26 ∙ Trilby

January. 17,1959

in 19th-century Paris, a sinister hypnotist tries to turn a simple Irish girl into an opera star.

Episode 27 - S1.E27 ∙ Murder on the Agenda

February. 14,1959

Eynon Evans plays the part of Inspector Probert George, who was tortured in a prisoner-of-war camp when his plans for escape were discovered, is dead after five years in a mental home. His five fellow prisoners had sworn that if George died they would kill the man who had betrayed him to the Germans. But which of them was to do the killing? And how?

Episode 28 - S1.E28 ∙ Golden Rain

February. 28,1959

Episode 29 - S1.E29 ∙ While the Sun Shines

March. 28,1959

Episode 30 - S1.E30 ∙ The Cat and the Canary

May. 09,1959

At an old, dark house, on a dark and stormy night, an ill-assorted group of people meet for the reading of a millionaire's will. But there's a madman on the loose.

Episode 31 - S1.E31 ∙ The Larford Lad

June. 20,1959

The story of a young boxer's rise to fame.

Episode 32 - S1.E32 ∙ Black Chiffon

July. 04,1959

A woman who has an absolutely untarnished reputation unaccountably steals a black-chiffon nightgown days before her son's wedding.

Episode 33 - S1.E33 ∙ My Young Brother

July. 18,1959

Episode 34 - S1.E34 ∙ Love and Miss Figgis

August. 01,1959

Episode 35 - S1.E35 ∙ Unfinished Journey

August. 08,1959

Episode 36 - S1.E36 ∙ The Cathedral

August. 15,1959

Episode 37 - S1.E37 ∙ Last Day in Dreamland

August. 29,1959

Episode 38 - S1.E38 ∙ It Isn't Enough

September. 26,1959

Episode 39 - S1.E39 ∙ Haul for the Shore

October. 24,1959

Episode 40 - S1.E40 ∙ Bed and Breakfast

November. 21,1959

Episode 41 - S1.E41 ∙ The Farmer's Wife

December. 05,1959

After his daughter weds, a middle-aged widower with a profitable farm decides to remarry but finds choosing a suitable mate a problematic process.

Episode 42 - S1.E42 ∙ Through a Glass Darkly

December. 19,1959

Episode 43 - S1.E43 ∙ Conflict at Kalanadi

January. 16,1960

Episode 44 - S1.E44 ∙ The Difficult Age

January. 30,1960

Episode 45 - S1.E45 ∙ Going Like a Fox

February. 13,1960

Episode 46 - S1.E46 ∙ The Return of Peggy Atherton

February. 27,1960

Episode 47 - S1.E47 ∙ Home and the Heart

March. 12,1960

Episode 48 - S1.E48 ∙ A Matter of Age

March. 26,1960

Episode 49 - S1.E49 ∙ Devonshire Cream

April. 09,1960

Episode 50 - S1.E50 ∙ The Country Boy

April. 23,1960

Episode 51 - S1.E51 ∙ The Man Who Came to Dinner

May. 07,1960

Sheridan Whiteside, famous as an author, broadcaster and expert on just about everything, is invited to dinner by a pompous small-town businessman - and stays rather longer than anyone anticipated.

Episode 52 - S1.E52 ∙ Marriage Settlement

May. 21,1960

Episode 53 - S1.E53 ∙ The Guinea Pig

June. 04,1960

A working-class boy gets a scholarship to a public school.

Episode 54 - S1.E54 ∙ The Breadwinner

June. 18,1960

Episode 55 - S1.E55 ∙ On the Edge

July. 16,1960

Episode 56 - S1.E56 ∙ Dream Girl

August. 13,1960

A young lady is filled with daydreams until she meets her reality man.

Episode 57 - S1.E57 ∙ The Shop at Sly Corner

August. 27,1960

Descius Heiss is a French expatriate, and former Devil's Island prisoner, with two passions; driving shrewd bargains in antiques at his Sly Corner Shop, and the care of his motherless, violin-playing daughter, Margaret. But, his comfortable wealth comes more from being a fence for stolen goods than it does buying-and-selling antiques. His secret is discovered by his shop assistant Archie Fellowes, a nasty, sniveling young rat, and he begins blackmailing Heiss. Heiss employs the usual solution to blackmailers, and the film ends in a London concert-hall where Margaret is playing the Mendelssohm Violin Concerto.

Episode 58 - S1.E58 ∙ Family Occasion

October. 08,1960

What is Margaret hiding from the rest of the family when they arrive for their father's funeral?

Episode 59 - S1.E59 ∙ The Bachelor Brothers

October. 22,1960

Episode 60 - S1.E60 ∙ Your Obedient Servant

November. 19,1960

Episode 61 - S1.E61 ∙ The Druid Circle

December. 03,1960

An embittered professor comes near to wrecking the lives of a young man and young woman whose love for each other has been accidentally revealed to him through a letter written by the boy to the girl.

Episode 62 - S1.E62 ∙ The Colonel

December. 17,1960

Episode 63 - S1.E63 ∙ A Run for the Money

December. 31,1960

Episode 64 - S1.E64 ∙ A Sense of Guilt

January. 14,1961

Episode 65 - S1.E65 ∙ The Four Poster

January. 28,1961

The up-and-down lives of a married couple over decades, depicted as a series of bedroom scenes.

Episode 66 - S1.E66 ∙ The House with the Green Shutters

February. 11,1961

Episode 67 - S1.E67 ∙ A Perfect Stranger