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Saturday Playhouse

  • 1958 – 1961
  • Returning Series
  • 1 season

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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  1. E1. S1.E1 ∙ The Man Upstairs

    Jan 4, 1958

    An anthology series of dramatisations of plays.

  2. E2. S1.E2 ∙ The Distaff Side

    Jan 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.

  3. E3. S1.E3 ∙ Heroes Don't Care

    Jan 18, 1958

  4. E4. S1.E4 ∙ Britannia of Billingsgate

    Jan 25, 1958

  5. E5. S1.E5 ∙ The Corn Is Green

    Feb 1, 1958

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

  6. E6. S1.E6 ∙ Design for Murder

    Feb 8, 1958

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