Saturday Playhouse

E1 Episode 1: S1.E1 ∙ The Man Upstairs

• Now playing
• Jan 4, 1958

An anthology series of dramatisations of plays.

E2 Episode 2: S1.E2 ∙ The Distaff Side

• Jan 11, 1958

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.

E3 Episode 3: S1.E3 ∙ Heroes Don't Care

• Jan 18, 1958

E4 Episode 4: S1.E4 ∙ Britannia of Billingsgate

• Jan 25, 1958

E5 Episode 5: S1.E5 ∙ The Corn Is Green

• Feb 1, 1958

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

E6 Episode 6: S1.E6 ∙ Design for Murder

• Feb 8, 1958

E7 Episode 7: S1.E7 ∙ My Flesh, My Blood

• Feb 15, 1958

E8 Episode 8: S1.E8 ∙ Ladies in Retirement

• Feb 22, 1958

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.

E9 Episode 9: S1.E9 ∙ A Likely Tale

• Mar 1, 1958

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.

E10 Episode 10: S1.E10 ∙ And No Birds Sing

• Mar 8, 1958

E11 Episode 11: S1.E11 ∙ Carry On, Admiral

• Mar 15, 1958

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.

E12 Episode 12: S1.E12 ∙ French Without Tears

• Mar 22, 1958

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.

E13 Episode 13: S1.E13 ∙ High Heaven

• Mar 29, 1958

E14 Episode 14: S1.E14 ∙ The Ware Case

• Apr 5, 1958

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.

E15 Episode 15: S1.E15 ∙ The Fourth Wall

• Apr 12, 1958

The host of a dinner party is murdered.

E16 Episode 16: S1.E16 ∙ Dr. Angelus

• Apr 19, 1958

E17 Episode 17: S1.E17 ∙ A Young Affair

• Apr 26, 1958

E18 Episode 18: S1.E18 ∙ The Dover Road

• Sep 13, 1958

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.

E19 Episode 19: S1.E19 ∙ Day of Retirement

• Sep 20, 1958

E20 Episode 20: S1.E20 ∙ A Private Eye for Pennsylvania

• Sep 27, 1958

E21 Episode 21: S1.E21 ∙ Four for Solitaire

• Oct 25, 1958

E22 Episode 22: S1.E22 ∙ Trespass

• Nov 22, 1958

E23 Episode 23: S1.E23 ∙ The Duke in Darkness

• Dec 6, 1958

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.

E24 Episode 24: S1.E24 ∙ The Magistrate

• Dec 20, 1958

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

E25 Episode 25: S1.E25 ∙ So Many Children

• Dec 27, 1958

E26 Episode 26: S1.E26 ∙ Trilby

• Jan 17, 1959

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

E27 Episode 27: S1.E27 ∙ Murder on the Agenda

• Feb 14, 1959

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?

E28 Episode 28: S1.E28 ∙ Golden Rain

• Feb 28, 1959

E29 Episode 29: S1.E29 ∙ While the Sun Shines

• Mar 28, 1959

E30 Episode 30: S1.E30 ∙ The Cat and the Canary

• May 9, 1959

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.

E31 Episode 31: S1.E31 ∙ The Larford Lad

• Jun 20, 1959

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

E32 Episode 32: S1.E32 ∙ Black Chiffon

• Jul 4, 1959

A woman who has an absolutely untarnished reputation unaccountably steals a black-chiffon nightgown days before her son's wedding.

E33 Episode 33: S1.E33 ∙ My Young Brother

• Jul 18, 1959

E34 Episode 34: S1.E34 ∙ Love and Miss Figgis

• Aug 1, 1959

E35 Episode 35: S1.E35 ∙ Unfinished Journey

• Aug 8, 1959

E36 Episode 36: S1.E36 ∙ The Cathedral

• Aug 15, 1959

E37 Episode 37: S1.E37 ∙ Last Day in Dreamland

• Aug 29, 1959

E38 Episode 38: S1.E38 ∙ It Isn't Enough

• Sep 26, 1959

E39 Episode 39: S1.E39 ∙ Haul for the Shore

• Oct 24, 1959

E40 Episode 40: S1.E40 ∙ Bed and Breakfast

• Nov 21, 1959

E41 Episode 41: S1.E41 ∙ The Farmer's Wife

• Dec 5, 1959

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

E42 Episode 42: S1.E42 ∙ Through a Glass Darkly

• Dec 19, 1959

E43 Episode 43: S1.E43 ∙ Conflict at Kalanadi

• Jan 16, 1960

E44 Episode 44: S1.E44 ∙ The Difficult Age

• Jan 30, 1960

E45 Episode 45: S1.E45 ∙ Going Like a Fox

• Feb 13, 1960

E46 Episode 46: S1.E46 ∙ The Return of Peggy Atherton

• Feb 27, 1960

E47 Episode 47: S1.E47 ∙ Home and the Heart

• Mar 12, 1960

E48 Episode 48: S1.E48 ∙ A Matter of Age

• Mar 26, 1960

E49 Episode 49: S1.E49 ∙ Devonshire Cream

• Apr 9, 1960

E50 Episode 50: S1.E50 ∙ The Country Boy

• Apr 23, 1960

E51 Episode 51: S1.E51 ∙ The Man Who Came to Dinner

• May 7, 1960

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.

E52 Episode 52: S1.E52 ∙ Marriage Settlement

• May 21, 1960

E53 Episode 53: S1.E53 ∙ The Guinea Pig

• Jun 4, 1960

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

E54 Episode 54: S1.E54 ∙ The Breadwinner

• Jun 18, 1960

E55 Episode 55: S1.E55 ∙ On the Edge

• Jul 16, 1960

E56 Episode 56: S1.E56 ∙ Dream Girl

• Aug 13, 1960

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

E57 Episode 57: S1.E57 ∙ The Shop at Sly Corner

• Aug 27, 1960

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.

E58 Episode 58: S1.E58 ∙ Family Occasion

• Oct 8, 1960

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

E59 Episode 59: S1.E59 ∙ The Bachelor Brothers

• Oct 22, 1960

E60 Episode 60: S1.E60 ∙ Your Obedient Servant

• Nov 19, 1960

E61 Episode 61: S1.E61 ∙ The Druid Circle

• Dec 3, 1960

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.

E62 Episode 62: S1.E62 ∙ The Colonel

• Dec 17, 1960

E63 Episode 63: S1.E63 ∙ A Run for the Money

• Dec 31, 1960

E64 Episode 64: S1.E64 ∙ A Sense of Guilt

• Jan 14, 1961

E65 Episode 65: S1.E65 ∙ The Four Poster

• Jan 28, 1961

The up-and-down lives of a married couple over decades, depicted as a series of bedroom scenes.

E66 Episode 66: S1.E66 ∙ The House with the Green Shutters

• Feb 11, 1961

E67 Episode 67: S1.E67 ∙ A Perfect Stranger

• Feb 25, 1961

E68 Episode 68: S1.E68 ∙ Seagulls Over Sorrento

• Mar 4, 1961

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