Elvi Hale
Saturday Playhouse (1958)
Season 1
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).
Released Jan. 4, 1958
Episode 42 min
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Genres: Drama
Keywords: imdb.partially-lost-tv-series, imdb.anthology
Production Companies: BBC
Country: United States
Languages:
English
S1E1 - S1.E1 ∙ The Man Upstairs
An anthology series of dramatisations of plays.
Jan. 4, 1958, midnight
S1E2 - 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.
Jan. 11, 1958, midnight
S1E3 - S1.E3 ∙ Heroes Don't Care
Jan. 18, 1958, midnight
S1E4 - S1.E4 ∙ Britannia of Billingsgate
Jan. 25, 1958, midnight
S1E5 - S1.E5 ∙ The Corn Is Green
A spinster schoolteacher arrives in a Welsh mining valley and discovers a boy genius in her class.
Feb. 1, 1958, midnight
S1E6 - S1.E6 ∙ Design for Murder
Feb. 8, 1958, midnight
S1E7 - S1.E7 ∙ My Flesh, My Blood
Feb. 15, 1958, midnight
S1E8 - 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.
Feb. 22, 1958, midnight
S1E9 - 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.
March 1, 1958, midnight
S1E10 - S1.E10 ∙ And No Birds Sing
March 8, 1958, midnight
S1E11 - 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.
March 15, 1958, midnight
S1E12 - 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.
March 22, 1958, midnight
S1E13 - S1.E13 ∙ High Heaven
March 29, 1958, midnight
S1E14 - 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.
April 5, 1958, midnight
S1E15 - S1.E15 ∙ The Fourth Wall
The host of a dinner party is murdered.
April 12, 1958, midnight
S1E16 - S1.E16 ∙ Dr. Angelus
April 19, 1958, midnight
S1E17 - S1.E17 ∙ A Young Affair
April 26, 1958, midnight
S1E18 - 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.
Sept. 13, 1958, midnight
S1E19 - S1.E19 ∙ Day of Retirement
Sept. 20, 1958, midnight
S1E20 - S1.E20 ∙ A Private Eye for Pennsylvania
Sept. 27, 1958, midnight
S1E21 - S1.E21 ∙ Four for Solitaire
Oct. 25, 1958, midnight
S1E22 - S1.E22 ∙ Trespass
Nov. 22, 1958, midnight
S1E23 - 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.
Dec. 6, 1958, midnight
S1E24 - S1.E24 ∙ The Magistrate
A widow weds a magistrate and makes her 19-year-old son act as a boy.
Dec. 20, 1958, midnight
S1E25 - S1.E25 ∙ So Many Children
Dec. 27, 1958, midnight
S1E26 - S1.E26 ∙ Trilby
in 19th-century Paris, a sinister hypnotist tries to turn a simple Irish girl into an opera star.
Jan. 17, 1959, midnight
S1E27 - 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?
Feb. 14, 1959, midnight
S1E28 - S1.E28 ∙ Golden Rain
Feb. 28, 1959, midnight
S1E29 - S1.E29 ∙ While the Sun Shines
March 28, 1959, midnight
S1E30 - 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.
May 9, 1959, midnight
S1E31 - S1.E31 ∙ The Larford Lad
The story of a young boxer's rise to fame.
June 20, 1959, midnight
S1E32 - S1.E32 ∙ Black Chiffon
A woman who has an absolutely untarnished reputation unaccountably steals a black-chiffon nightgown days before her son's wedding.
July 4, 1959, midnight
S1E33 - S1.E33 ∙ My Young Brother
July 18, 1959, midnight
S1E34 - S1.E34 ∙ Love and Miss Figgis
Aug. 1, 1959, midnight
S1E35 - S1.E35 ∙ Unfinished Journey
Aug. 8, 1959, midnight
S1E36 - S1.E36 ∙ The Cathedral
Aug. 15, 1959, midnight
S1E37 - S1.E37 ∙ Last Day in Dreamland
Aug. 29, 1959, midnight
S1E38 - S1.E38 ∙ It Isn't Enough
Sept. 26, 1959, midnight
S1E39 - S1.E39 ∙ Haul for the Shore
Oct. 24, 1959, midnight
S1E40 - S1.E40 ∙ Bed and Breakfast
Nov. 21, 1959, midnight
S1E41 - 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.
Dec. 5, 1959, midnight
S1E42 - S1.E42 ∙ Through a Glass Darkly
Dec. 19, 1959, midnight
S1E43 - S1.E43 ∙ Conflict at Kalanadi
Jan. 16, 1960, midnight
S1E44 - S1.E44 ∙ The Difficult Age
Jan. 30, 1960, midnight
S1E45 - S1.E45 ∙ Going Like a Fox
Feb. 13, 1960, midnight
S1E46 - S1.E46 ∙ The Return of Peggy Atherton
Feb. 27, 1960, midnight
S1E47 - S1.E47 ∙ Home and the Heart
March 12, 1960, midnight
S1E48 - S1.E48 ∙ A Matter of Age
March 26, 1960, midnight
S1E49 - S1.E49 ∙ Devonshire Cream
April 9, 1960, midnight
S1E50 - S1.E50 ∙ The Country Boy
April 23, 1960, midnight
S1E51 - 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.
May 7, 1960, midnight
S1E52 - S1.E52 ∙ Marriage Settlement
May 21, 1960, midnight
S1E53 - S1.E53 ∙ The Guinea Pig
A working-class boy gets a scholarship to a public school.
June 4, 1960, midnight
S1E54 - S1.E54 ∙ The Breadwinner
June 18, 1960, midnight
S1E55 - S1.E55 ∙ On the Edge
July 16, 1960, midnight
S1E56 - S1.E56 ∙ Dream Girl
A young lady is filled with daydreams until she meets her reality man.
Aug. 13, 1960, midnight
S1E57 - 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.
Aug. 27, 1960, midnight
S1E58 - S1.E58 ∙ Family Occasion
What is Margaret hiding from the rest of the family when they arrive for their father's funeral?
Oct. 8, 1960, midnight
S1E59 - S1.E59 ∙ The Bachelor Brothers
Oct. 22, 1960, midnight
S1E60 - S1.E60 ∙ Your Obedient Servant
Nov. 19, 1960, midnight
S1E61 - 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.
Dec. 3, 1960, midnight
S1E62 - S1.E62 ∙ The Colonel
Dec. 17, 1960, midnight
S1E63 - S1.E63 ∙ A Run for the Money
Dec. 31, 1960, midnight
S1E64 - S1.E64 ∙ A Sense of Guilt
Jan. 14, 1961, midnight
S1E65 - S1.E65 ∙ The Four Poster
The up-and-down lives of a married couple over decades, depicted as a series of bedroom scenes.
Jan. 28, 1961, midnight
S1E66 - S1.E66 ∙ The House with the Green Shutters
Feb. 11, 1961, midnight
S1E67 - S1.E67 ∙ A Perfect Stranger
Feb. 25, 1961, midnight
S1E68 - S1.E68 ∙ Seagulls Over Sorrento
A Navy lieutenant is borrowed by the British to supervise torpedo experiments after one of their scientists is killed.
March 4, 1961, midnight
Episode Runtime: 42 min.
Season Runtime: 60 min.
Released: Jan. 4, 1958
Last Air Date: March 4, 1961, midnight
Status: Returning Series
Certification: NR
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