Synopsis
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).
Episodes
Season 11E1S1.E1 ∙ The Man UpstairsAn anthology series of dramatisations of plays.2E2S1.E2 ∙ The Distaff SideAn 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.3E3S1.E3 ∙ Heroes Don't Care4E4S1.E4 ∙ Britannia of Billingsgate5E5S1.E5 ∙ The Corn Is GreenA spinster schoolteacher arrives in a Welsh mining valley and discovers a boy genius in her class.6E6S1.E6 ∙ Design for Murder7E7S1.E7 ∙ My Flesh, My Blood8E8S1.E8 ∙ Ladies in RetirementEllen 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.9E9S1.E9 ∙ A Likely TaleA 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.10E10S1.E10 ∙ And No Birds Sing11E11S1.E11 ∙ Carry On, AdmiralThe action takes place in a bedroom in a Portsmouth hotel, the wardroom of H.M.S. Sherwood, and the living-room at Admiralty House.12E12S1.E12 ∙ French Without TearsThe 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.13E13S1.E13 ∙ High Heaven14E14S1.E14 ∙ The Ware CaseA 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.15E15S1.E15 ∙ The Fourth WallThe host of a dinner party is murdered.16E16S1.E16 ∙ Dr. Angelus17E17S1.E17 ∙ A Young Affair18E18S1.E18 ∙ The Dover RoadA 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.19E19S1.E19 ∙ Day of Retirement20E20S1.E20 ∙ A Private Eye for Pennsylvania21E21S1.E21 ∙ Four for Solitaire22E22S1.E22 ∙ Trespass23E23S1.E23 ∙ The Duke in DarknessA 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.24E24S1.E24 ∙ The MagistrateA widow weds a magistrate and makes her 19-year-old son act as a boy.25E25S1.E25 ∙ So Many Children26E26S1.E26 ∙ Trilbyin 19th-century Paris, a sinister hypnotist tries to turn a simple Irish girl into an opera star.27E27S1.E27 ∙ Murder on the AgendaEynon 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?28E28S1.E28 ∙ Golden Rain29E29S1.E29 ∙ While the Sun Shines30E30S1.E30 ∙ The Cat and the CanaryAt 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.31E31S1.E31 ∙ The Larford LadThe story of a young boxer's rise to fame.32E32S1.E32 ∙ Black ChiffonA woman who has an absolutely untarnished reputation unaccountably steals a black-chiffon nightgown days before her son's wedding.33E33S1.E33 ∙ My Young Brother34E34S1.E34 ∙ Love and Miss Figgis35E35S1.E35 ∙ Unfinished Journey36E36S1.E36 ∙ The Cathedral37E37S1.E37 ∙ Last Day in Dreamland38E38S1.E38 ∙ It Isn't Enough39E39S1.E39 ∙ Haul for the Shore40E40S1.E40 ∙ Bed and Breakfast41E41S1.E41 ∙ The Farmer's WifeAfter his daughter weds, a middle-aged widower with a profitable farm decides to remarry but finds choosing a suitable mate a problematic process.42E42S1.E42 ∙ Through a Glass Darkly43E43S1.E43 ∙ Conflict at Kalanadi44E44S1.E44 ∙ The Difficult Age45E45S1.E45 ∙ Going Like a Fox46E46S1.E46 ∙ The Return of Peggy Atherton47E47S1.E47 ∙ Home and the Heart48E48S1.E48 ∙ A Matter of Age49E49S1.E49 ∙ Devonshire Cream50E50S1.E50 ∙ The Country Boy51E51S1.E51 ∙ The Man Who Came to DinnerSheridan 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.52E52S1.E52 ∙ Marriage Settlement53E53S1.E53 ∙ The Guinea PigA working-class boy gets a scholarship to a public school.54E54S1.E54 ∙ The Breadwinner55E55S1.E55 ∙ On the Edge56E56S1.E56 ∙ Dream GirlA young lady is filled with daydreams until she meets her reality man.57E57S1.E57 ∙ The Shop at Sly CornerDescius 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.58E58S1.E58 ∙ Family OccasionWhat is Margaret hiding from the rest of the family when they arrive for their father's funeral?59E59S1.E59 ∙ The Bachelor Brothers60E60S1.E60 ∙ Your Obedient Servant61E61S1.E61 ∙ The Druid CircleAn 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.62E62S1.E62 ∙ The Colonel63E63S1.E63 ∙ A Run for the Money64E64S1.E64 ∙ A Sense of Guilt65E65S1.E65 ∙ The Four PosterThe up-and-down lives of a married couple over decades, depicted as a series of bedroom scenes.66E66S1.E66 ∙ The House with the Green Shutters67E67S1.E67 ∙ A Perfect Stranger68E68S1.E68 ∙ Seagulls Over SorrentoA Navy lieutenant is borrowed by the British to supervise torpedo experiments after one of their scientists is killed.
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