Saturday Playhouse
Season 1
195868 episodes
Episodes
- E1
S1.E1 ∙ The Man Upstairs
1958-01-04
An anthology series of dramatisations of plays.
- E2
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.
- E3
S1.E3 ∙ Heroes Don't Care
1958-01-18
No episode synopsis available yet.
- E4
S1.E4 ∙ Britannia of Billingsgate
1958-01-25
No episode synopsis available yet.
- E5
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.
- E6
S1.E6 ∙ Design for Murder
1958-02-08
No episode synopsis available yet.
- E7
S1.E7 ∙ My Flesh, My Blood
1958-02-15
No episode synopsis available yet.
- E8
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.
- E9
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.
- E10
S1.E10 ∙ And No Birds Sing
1958-03-08
No episode synopsis available yet.
- E11
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.
- E12
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.
- E13
S1.E13 ∙ High Heaven
1958-03-29
No episode synopsis available yet.
- E14
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.
- E15
S1.E15 ∙ The Fourth Wall
1958-04-12
The host of a dinner party is murdered.
- E16
S1.E16 ∙ Dr. Angelus
1958-04-19
No episode synopsis available yet.
- E17
S1.E17 ∙ A Young Affair
1958-04-26
No episode synopsis available yet.
- E18
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.
- E19
S1.E19 ∙ Day of Retirement
1958-09-20
No episode synopsis available yet.
- E20
S1.E20 ∙ A Private Eye for Pennsylvania
1958-09-27
No episode synopsis available yet.
- E21
S1.E21 ∙ Four for Solitaire
1958-10-25
No episode synopsis available yet.
- E22
S1.E22 ∙ Trespass
1958-11-22
No episode synopsis available yet.
- E23
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.
- E24
S1.E24 ∙ The Magistrate
1958-12-20
A widow weds a magistrate and makes her 19-year-old son act as a boy.
- E25
S1.E25 ∙ So Many Children
1958-12-27
No episode synopsis available yet.
- E26
S1.E26 ∙ Trilby
1959-01-17
in 19th-century Paris, a sinister hypnotist tries to turn a simple Irish girl into an opera star.
- E27
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?
- E28
S1.E28 ∙ Golden Rain
1959-02-28
No episode synopsis available yet.
- E29
S1.E29 ∙ While the Sun Shines
1959-03-28
No episode synopsis available yet.
- E30
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.
- E31
S1.E31 ∙ The Larford Lad
1959-06-20
The story of a young boxer's rise to fame.
- E32
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.
- E33
S1.E33 ∙ My Young Brother
1959-07-18
No episode synopsis available yet.
- E34
S1.E34 ∙ Love and Miss Figgis
1959-08-01
No episode synopsis available yet.
- E35
S1.E35 ∙ Unfinished Journey
1959-08-08
No episode synopsis available yet.
- E36
S1.E36 ∙ The Cathedral
1959-08-15
No episode synopsis available yet.
- E37
S1.E37 ∙ Last Day in Dreamland
1959-08-29
No episode synopsis available yet.
- E38
S1.E38 ∙ It Isn't Enough
1959-09-26
No episode synopsis available yet.
- E39
S1.E39 ∙ Haul for the Shore
1959-10-24
No episode synopsis available yet.
- E40
S1.E40 ∙ Bed and Breakfast
1959-11-21
No episode synopsis available yet.
- E41
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.
- E42
S1.E42 ∙ Through a Glass Darkly
1959-12-19
No episode synopsis available yet.
- E43
S1.E43 ∙ Conflict at Kalanadi
1960-01-16
No episode synopsis available yet.
- E44
S1.E44 ∙ The Difficult Age
1960-01-30
No episode synopsis available yet.
- E45
S1.E45 ∙ Going Like a Fox
1960-02-13
No episode synopsis available yet.
- E46
S1.E46 ∙ The Return of Peggy Atherton
1960-02-27
No episode synopsis available yet.
- E47
S1.E47 ∙ Home and the Heart
1960-03-12
No episode synopsis available yet.
- E48
S1.E48 ∙ A Matter of Age
1960-03-26
No episode synopsis available yet.
- E49
S1.E49 ∙ Devonshire Cream
1960-04-09
No episode synopsis available yet.
- E50
S1.E50 ∙ The Country Boy
1960-04-23
No episode synopsis available yet.
- E51
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.
- E52
S1.E52 ∙ Marriage Settlement
1960-05-21
No episode synopsis available yet.
- E53
S1.E53 ∙ The Guinea Pig
1960-06-04
A working-class boy gets a scholarship to a public school.
- E54
S1.E54 ∙ The Breadwinner
1960-06-18
No episode synopsis available yet.
- E55
S1.E55 ∙ On the Edge
1960-07-16
No episode synopsis available yet.
- E56
S1.E56 ∙ Dream Girl
1960-08-13
A young lady is filled with daydreams until she meets her reality man.
- E57
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.
- E58
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?
- E59
S1.E59 ∙ The Bachelor Brothers
1960-10-22
No episode synopsis available yet.
- E60
S1.E60 ∙ Your Obedient Servant
1960-11-19
No episode synopsis available yet.
- E61
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.
- E62
S1.E62 ∙ The Colonel
1960-12-17
No episode synopsis available yet.
- E63
S1.E63 ∙ A Run for the Money
1960-12-31
No episode synopsis available yet.
- E64
S1.E64 ∙ A Sense of Guilt
1961-01-14
No episode synopsis available yet.
- E65
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.
- E66
S1.E66 ∙ The House with the Green Shutters
1961-02-11
No episode synopsis available yet.
- E67
S1.E67 ∙ A Perfect Stranger
1961-02-25
No episode synopsis available yet.
- E68
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.
