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Saturday Playhouse

1958 - 1961

S1.E1 ∙ The Man Upstairs

4th January 1958
Episode 1
An anthology series of dramatisations of plays.

S1.E2 ∙ The Distaff Side

11th January 1958
Episode 2
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.

S1.E3 ∙ Heroes Don't Care

18th January 1958
Episode 3
No overview available.

S1.E4 ∙ Britannia of Billingsgate

25th January 1958
Episode 4
No overview available.

S1.E5 ∙ The Corn Is Green

1st February 1958
Episode 5
A spinster schoolteacher arrives in a Welsh mining valley and discovers a boy genius in her class.

S1.E6 ∙ Design for Murder

8th February 1958
Episode 6
No overview available.

S1.E7 ∙ My Flesh, My Blood

15th February 1958
Episode 7
No overview available.

S1.E8 ∙ Ladies in Retirement

22nd February 1958
Episode 8
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.

S1.E9 ∙ A Likely Tale

1st March 1958
Episode 9
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.

S1.E10 ∙ And No Birds Sing

8th March 1958
Episode 10
No overview available.

S1.E11 ∙ Carry On, Admiral

15th March 1958
Episode 11
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.

S1.E12 ∙ French Without Tears

22nd March 1958
Episode 12
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.

S1.E13 ∙ High Heaven

29th March 1958
Episode 13
No overview available.

S1.E14 ∙ The Ware Case

5th April 1958
Episode 14
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.

S1.E15 ∙ The Fourth Wall

12th April 1958
Episode 15
The host of a dinner party is murdered.

S1.E16 ∙ Dr. Angelus

19th April 1958
Episode 16
No overview available.

S1.E17 ∙ A Young Affair

26th April 1958
Episode 17
No overview available.

S1.E18 ∙ The Dover Road

13th September 1958
Episode 18
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.

S1.E19 ∙ Day of Retirement

20th September 1958
Episode 19
No overview available.

S1.E20 ∙ A Private Eye for Pennsylvania

27th September 1958
Episode 20
No overview available.

S1.E21 ∙ Four for Solitaire

25th October 1958
Episode 21
No overview available.

S1.E22 ∙ Trespass

22nd November 1958
Episode 22
No overview available.

S1.E23 ∙ The Duke in Darkness

6th December 1958
Episode 23
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.

S1.E24 ∙ The Magistrate

20th December 1958
Episode 24
A widow weds a magistrate and makes her 19-year-old son act as a boy.

S1.E25 ∙ So Many Children

27th December 1958
Episode 25
No overview available.

S1.E26 ∙ Trilby

17th January 1959
Episode 26
in 19th-century Paris, a sinister hypnotist tries to turn a simple Irish girl into an opera star.

S1.E27 ∙ Murder on the Agenda

14th February 1959
Episode 27
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?

S1.E28 ∙ Golden Rain

28th February 1959
Episode 28
No overview available.

S1.E29 ∙ While the Sun Shines

28th March 1959
Episode 29
No overview available.

S1.E30 ∙ The Cat and the Canary

9th May 1959
Episode 30
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.

S1.E31 ∙ The Larford Lad

20th June 1959
Episode 31
The story of a young boxer's rise to fame.

S1.E32 ∙ Black Chiffon

4th July 1959
Episode 32
A woman who has an absolutely untarnished reputation unaccountably steals a black-chiffon nightgown days before her son's wedding.

S1.E33 ∙ My Young Brother

18th July 1959
Episode 33
No overview available.

S1.E34 ∙ Love and Miss Figgis

1st August 1959
Episode 34
No overview available.

S1.E35 ∙ Unfinished Journey

8th August 1959
Episode 35
No overview available.

S1.E36 ∙ The Cathedral

15th August 1959
Episode 36
No overview available.

S1.E37 ∙ Last Day in Dreamland

29th August 1959
Episode 37
No overview available.

S1.E38 ∙ It Isn't Enough

26th September 1959
Episode 38
No overview available.

S1.E39 ∙ Haul for the Shore

24th October 1959
Episode 39
No overview available.

S1.E40 ∙ Bed and Breakfast

21st November 1959
Episode 40
No overview available.

S1.E41 ∙ The Farmer's Wife

5th December 1959
Episode 41
After his daughter weds, a middle-aged widower with a profitable farm decides to remarry but finds choosing a suitable mate a problematic process.

S1.E42 ∙ Through a Glass Darkly

19th December 1959
Episode 42
No overview available.

S1.E43 ∙ Conflict at Kalanadi

16th January 1960
Episode 43
No overview available.

S1.E44 ∙ The Difficult Age

30th January 1960
Episode 44
No overview available.

S1.E45 ∙ Going Like a Fox

13th February 1960
Episode 45
No overview available.

S1.E46 ∙ The Return of Peggy Atherton

27th February 1960
Episode 46
No overview available.

S1.E47 ∙ Home and the Heart

12th March 1960
Episode 47
No overview available.

S1.E48 ∙ A Matter of Age

26th March 1960
Episode 48
No overview available.

S1.E49 ∙ Devonshire Cream

9th April 1960
Episode 49
No overview available.

S1.E50 ∙ The Country Boy

23rd April 1960
Episode 50
No overview available.

S1.E51 ∙ The Man Who Came to Dinner

7th May 1960
Episode 51
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.

S1.E52 ∙ Marriage Settlement

21st May 1960
Episode 52
No overview available.

S1.E53 ∙ The Guinea Pig

4th June 1960
Episode 53
A working-class boy gets a scholarship to a public school.

S1.E54 ∙ The Breadwinner

18th June 1960
Episode 54
No overview available.

S1.E55 ∙ On the Edge

16th July 1960
Episode 55
No overview available.

S1.E56 ∙ Dream Girl

13th August 1960
Episode 56
A young lady is filled with daydreams until she meets her reality man.

S1.E57 ∙ The Shop at Sly Corner

27th August 1960
Episode 57
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.

S1.E58 ∙ Family Occasion

8th October 1960
Episode 58
What is Margaret hiding from the rest of the family when they arrive for their father's funeral?

S1.E59 ∙ The Bachelor Brothers

22nd October 1960
Episode 59
No overview available.

S1.E60 ∙ Your Obedient Servant

19th November 1960
Episode 60
No overview available.

S1.E61 ∙ The Druid Circle

3rd December 1960
Episode 61
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.

S1.E62 ∙ The Colonel

17th December 1960
Episode 62
No overview available.

S1.E63 ∙ A Run for the Money

31st December 1960
Episode 63
No overview available.

S1.E64 ∙ A Sense of Guilt

14th January 1961
Episode 64
No overview available.

S1.E65 ∙ The Four Poster

28th January 1961
Episode 65
The up-and-down lives of a married couple over decades, depicted as a series of bedroom scenes.

S1.E66 ∙ The House with the Green Shutters

11th February 1961
Episode 66
No overview available.

S1.E67 ∙ A Perfect Stranger

25th February 1961
Episode 67
No overview available.

S1.E68 ∙ Seagulls Over Sorrento

4th March 1961
Episode 68
A Navy lieutenant is borrowed by the British to supervise torpedo experiments after one of their scientists is killed.
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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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