Saturday Playhouse

S1.E1 ∙ The Man Upstairs

1958-01-04

An anthology series of dramatisations of plays.

S1.E2 ∙ The Distaff Side

1958-01-11

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

1958-01-18

S1.E4 ∙ Britannia of Billingsgate

1958-01-25

S1.E5 ∙ The Corn Is Green

1958-02-01

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

S1.E6 ∙ Design for Murder

1958-02-08

S1.E7 ∙ My Flesh, My Blood

1958-02-15

S1.E8 ∙ Ladies in Retirement

1958-02-22

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

1958-03-01

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

1958-03-08

S1.E11 ∙ Carry On, Admiral

1958-03-15

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

1958-03-22

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

1958-03-29

S1.E14 ∙ The Ware Case

1958-04-05

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

1958-04-12

The host of a dinner party is murdered.

S1.E16 ∙ Dr. Angelus

1958-04-19

S1.E17 ∙ A Young Affair

1958-04-26

S1.E18 ∙ The Dover Road

1958-09-13

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

1958-09-20

S1.E20 ∙ A Private Eye for Pennsylvania

1958-09-27

S1.E21 ∙ Four for Solitaire

1958-10-25

S1.E22 ∙ Trespass

1958-11-22

S1.E23 ∙ The Duke in Darkness

1958-12-06

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

1958-12-20

A widow weds a magistrate and makes her 19-year-old son act as a boy.

S1.E25 ∙ So Many Children

1958-12-27

S1.E26 ∙ Trilby

1959-01-17

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

S1.E27 ∙ Murder on the Agenda

1959-02-14

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

1959-02-28

S1.E29 ∙ While the Sun Shines

1959-03-28

S1.E30 ∙ The Cat and the Canary

1959-05-09

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

1959-06-20

The story of a young boxer's rise to fame.

S1.E32 ∙ Black Chiffon

1959-07-04

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

1959-07-18

S1.E34 ∙ Love and Miss Figgis

1959-08-01

S1.E35 ∙ Unfinished Journey

1959-08-08

S1.E36 ∙ The Cathedral

1959-08-15

S1.E37 ∙ Last Day in Dreamland

1959-08-29

S1.E38 ∙ It Isn't Enough

1959-09-26

S1.E39 ∙ Haul for the Shore

1959-10-24

S1.E40 ∙ Bed and Breakfast

1959-11-21

S1.E41 ∙ The Farmer's Wife

1959-12-05

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

1959-12-19

S1.E43 ∙ Conflict at Kalanadi

1960-01-16

S1.E44 ∙ The Difficult Age

1960-01-30

S1.E45 ∙ Going Like a Fox

1960-02-13

S1.E46 ∙ The Return of Peggy Atherton

1960-02-27

S1.E47 ∙ Home and the Heart

1960-03-12

S1.E48 ∙ A Matter of Age

1960-03-26

S1.E49 ∙ Devonshire Cream

1960-04-09

S1.E50 ∙ The Country Boy

1960-04-23

S1.E51 ∙ The Man Who Came to Dinner

1960-05-07

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

1960-05-21

S1.E53 ∙ The Guinea Pig

1960-06-04

A working-class boy gets a scholarship to a public school.

S1.E54 ∙ The Breadwinner

1960-06-18

S1.E55 ∙ On the Edge

1960-07-16

S1.E56 ∙ Dream Girl

1960-08-13

A young lady is filled with daydreams until she meets her reality man.

S1.E57 ∙ The Shop at Sly Corner

1960-08-27

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

1960-10-08

What is Margaret hiding from the rest of the family when they arrive for their father's funeral?

S1.E59 ∙ The Bachelor Brothers

1960-10-22

S1.E60 ∙ Your Obedient Servant

1960-11-19

S1.E61 ∙ The Druid Circle

1960-12-03

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

1960-12-17

S1.E63 ∙ A Run for the Money

1960-12-31

S1.E64 ∙ A Sense of Guilt

1961-01-14

S1.E65 ∙ The Four Poster

1961-01-28

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

1961-02-11

S1.E67 ∙ A Perfect Stranger

1961-02-25

S1.E68 ∙ Seagulls Over Sorrento

1961-03-04

A Navy lieutenant is borrowed by the British to supervise torpedo experiments after one of their scientists is killed.