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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Seasons & Episodes
1. S1.E1 ∙ The Man Upstairs
An anthology series of dramatisations of plays.
2. S1.E2 ∙ The Distaff Side
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. S1.E3 ∙ Heroes Don't Care
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4. S1.E4 ∙ Britannia of Billingsgate
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5. S1.E5 ∙ The Corn Is Green
A spinster schoolteacher arrives in a Welsh mining valley and discovers a boy genius in her class.
6. S1.E6 ∙ Design for Murder
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7. S1.E7 ∙ My Flesh, My Blood
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8. S1.E8 ∙ Ladies in Retirement
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.
9. S1.E9 ∙ A Likely Tale
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.
10. S1.E10 ∙ And No Birds Sing
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11. S1.E11 ∙ Carry On, Admiral
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.
12. S1.E12 ∙ French Without Tears
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.
13. S1.E13 ∙ High Heaven
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14. S1.E14 ∙ The Ware Case
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.
15. S1.E15 ∙ The Fourth Wall
The host of a dinner party is murdered.
16. S1.E16 ∙ Dr. Angelus
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17. S1.E17 ∙ A Young Affair
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18. S1.E18 ∙ The Dover Road
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.
19. S1.E19 ∙ Day of Retirement
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20. S1.E20 ∙ A Private Eye for Pennsylvania
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21. S1.E21 ∙ Four for Solitaire
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22. S1.E22 ∙ Trespass
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23. S1.E23 ∙ The Duke in Darkness
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.
24. S1.E24 ∙ The Magistrate
A widow weds a magistrate and makes her 19-year-old son act as a boy.
25. S1.E25 ∙ So Many Children
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26. S1.E26 ∙ Trilby
in 19th-century Paris, a sinister hypnotist tries to turn a simple Irish girl into an opera star.
27. S1.E27 ∙ Murder on the Agenda
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?
28. S1.E28 ∙ Golden Rain
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29. S1.E29 ∙ While the Sun Shines
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30. S1.E30 ∙ The Cat and the Canary
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.
31. S1.E31 ∙ The Larford Lad
The story of a young boxer's rise to fame.
32. S1.E32 ∙ Black Chiffon
A woman who has an absolutely untarnished reputation unaccountably steals a black-chiffon nightgown days before her son's wedding.
33. S1.E33 ∙ My Young Brother
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34. S1.E34 ∙ Love and Miss Figgis
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35. S1.E35 ∙ Unfinished Journey
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36. S1.E36 ∙ The Cathedral
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37. S1.E37 ∙ Last Day in Dreamland
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38. S1.E38 ∙ It Isn't Enough
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39. S1.E39 ∙ Haul for the Shore
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40. S1.E40 ∙ Bed and Breakfast
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41. S1.E41 ∙ The Farmer's Wife
After his daughter weds, a middle-aged widower with a profitable farm decides to remarry but finds choosing a suitable mate a problematic process.
42. S1.E42 ∙ Through a Glass Darkly
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43. S1.E43 ∙ Conflict at Kalanadi
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44. S1.E44 ∙ The Difficult Age
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45. S1.E45 ∙ Going Like a Fox
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46. S1.E46 ∙ The Return of Peggy Atherton
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47. S1.E47 ∙ Home and the Heart
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48. S1.E48 ∙ A Matter of Age
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49. S1.E49 ∙ Devonshire Cream
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50. S1.E50 ∙ The Country Boy
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51. S1.E51 ∙ The Man Who Came to Dinner
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.
52. S1.E52 ∙ Marriage Settlement
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53. S1.E53 ∙ The Guinea Pig
A working-class boy gets a scholarship to a public school.
54. S1.E54 ∙ The Breadwinner
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55. S1.E55 ∙ On the Edge
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56. S1.E56 ∙ Dream Girl
A young lady is filled with daydreams until she meets her reality man.
57. S1.E57 ∙ The Shop at Sly Corner
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.
58. S1.E58 ∙ Family Occasion
What is Margaret hiding from the rest of the family when they arrive for their father's funeral?
59. S1.E59 ∙ The Bachelor Brothers
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60. S1.E60 ∙ Your Obedient Servant
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61. S1.E61 ∙ The Druid Circle
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.
62. S1.E62 ∙ The Colonel
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63. S1.E63 ∙ A Run for the Money
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64. S1.E64 ∙ A Sense of Guilt
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65. S1.E65 ∙ The Four Poster
The up-and-down lives of a married couple over decades, depicted as a series of bedroom scenes.
66. S1.E66 ∙ The House with the Green Shutters
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67. S1.E67 ∙ A Perfect Stranger
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68. S1.E68 ∙ Seagulls Over Sorrento
A Navy lieutenant is borrowed by the British to supervise torpedo experiments after one of their scientists is killed.