Saturday Playhouse - Season 1
1 - S1.E1 ∙ The Man Upstairs
Air Date: January 4, 1958
An anthology series of dramatisations of plays.
2 - S1.E2 ∙ The Distaff Side
Air Date: January 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.
3 - S1.E3 ∙ Heroes Don't Care
Air Date: January 18, 1958
4 - S1.E4 ∙ Britannia of Billingsgate
Air Date: January 25, 1958
5 - S1.E5 ∙ The Corn Is Green
Air Date: February 1, 1958
A spinster schoolteacher arrives in a Welsh mining valley and discovers a boy genius in her class.
6 - S1.E6 ∙ Design for Murder
Air Date: February 8, 1958
7 - S1.E7 ∙ My Flesh, My Blood
Air Date: February 15, 1958
8 - S1.E8 ∙ Ladies in Retirement
Air Date: February 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.
9 - S1.E9 ∙ A Likely Tale
Air Date: March 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.
10 - S1.E10 ∙ And No Birds Sing
Air Date: March 8, 1958
11 - S1.E11 ∙ Carry On, Admiral
Air Date: March 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.
12 - S1.E12 ∙ French Without Tears
Air Date: March 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.
13 - S1.E13 ∙ High Heaven
Air Date: March 29, 1958
14 - S1.E14 ∙ The Ware Case
Air Date: April 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.
15 - S1.E15 ∙ The Fourth Wall
Air Date: April 12, 1958
The host of a dinner party is murdered.
16 - S1.E16 ∙ Dr. Angelus
Air Date: April 19, 1958
17 - S1.E17 ∙ A Young Affair
Air Date: April 26, 1958
18 - S1.E18 ∙ The Dover Road
Air Date: September 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.
19 - S1.E19 ∙ Day of Retirement
Air Date: September 20, 1958
20 - S1.E20 ∙ A Private Eye for Pennsylvania
Air Date: September 27, 1958
21 - S1.E21 ∙ Four for Solitaire
Air Date: October 25, 1958
22 - S1.E22 ∙ Trespass
Air Date: November 22, 1958
23 - S1.E23 ∙ The Duke in Darkness
Air Date: December 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.
24 - S1.E24 ∙ The Magistrate
Air Date: December 20, 1958
A widow weds a magistrate and makes her 19-year-old son act as a boy.
25 - S1.E25 ∙ So Many Children
Air Date: December 27, 1958
26 - S1.E26 ∙ Trilby
Air Date: January 17, 1959
in 19th-century Paris, a sinister hypnotist tries to turn a simple Irish girl into an opera star.
27 - S1.E27 ∙ Murder on the Agenda
Air Date: February 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?
28 - S1.E28 ∙ Golden Rain
Air Date: February 28, 1959
29 - S1.E29 ∙ While the Sun Shines
Air Date: March 28, 1959
30 - S1.E30 ∙ The Cat and the Canary
Air Date: 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.
31 - S1.E31 ∙ The Larford Lad
Air Date: June 20, 1959
The story of a young boxer's rise to fame.
32 - S1.E32 ∙ Black Chiffon
Air Date: July 4, 1959
A woman who has an absolutely untarnished reputation unaccountably steals a black-chiffon nightgown days before her son's wedding.
33 - S1.E33 ∙ My Young Brother
Air Date: July 18, 1959
34 - S1.E34 ∙ Love and Miss Figgis
Air Date: August 1, 1959
35 - S1.E35 ∙ Unfinished Journey
Air Date: August 8, 1959
36 - S1.E36 ∙ The Cathedral
Air Date: August 15, 1959
37 - S1.E37 ∙ Last Day in Dreamland
Air Date: August 29, 1959
38 - S1.E38 ∙ It Isn't Enough
Air Date: September 26, 1959
39 - S1.E39 ∙ Haul for the Shore
Air Date: October 24, 1959
40 - S1.E40 ∙ Bed and Breakfast
Air Date: November 21, 1959
41 - S1.E41 ∙ The Farmer's Wife
Air Date: December 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.
42 - S1.E42 ∙ Through a Glass Darkly
Air Date: December 19, 1959
43 - S1.E43 ∙ Conflict at Kalanadi
Air Date: January 16, 1960
44 - S1.E44 ∙ The Difficult Age
Air Date: January 30, 1960
45 - S1.E45 ∙ Going Like a Fox
Air Date: February 13, 1960
46 - S1.E46 ∙ The Return of Peggy Atherton
Air Date: February 27, 1960
47 - S1.E47 ∙ Home and the Heart
Air Date: March 12, 1960
48 - S1.E48 ∙ A Matter of Age
Air Date: March 26, 1960
49 - S1.E49 ∙ Devonshire Cream
Air Date: April 9, 1960
50 - S1.E50 ∙ The Country Boy
Air Date: April 23, 1960
51 - S1.E51 ∙ The Man Who Came to Dinner
Air Date: 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.
52 - S1.E52 ∙ Marriage Settlement
Air Date: May 21, 1960
53 - S1.E53 ∙ The Guinea Pig
Air Date: June 4, 1960
A working-class boy gets a scholarship to a public school.
54 - S1.E54 ∙ The Breadwinner
Air Date: June 18, 1960
55 - S1.E55 ∙ On the Edge
Air Date: July 16, 1960
56 - S1.E56 ∙ Dream Girl
Air Date: August 13, 1960
A young lady is filled with daydreams until she meets her reality man.
57 - S1.E57 ∙ The Shop at Sly Corner
Air Date: August 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.
58 - S1.E58 ∙ Family Occasion
Air Date: October 8, 1960
What is Margaret hiding from the rest of the family when they arrive for their father's funeral?
59 - S1.E59 ∙ The Bachelor Brothers
Air Date: October 22, 1960
60 - S1.E60 ∙ Your Obedient Servant
Air Date: November 19, 1960
61 - S1.E61 ∙ The Druid Circle
Air Date: December 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.
62 - S1.E62 ∙ The Colonel
Air Date: December 17, 1960
63 - S1.E63 ∙ A Run for the Money
Air Date: December 31, 1960
64 - S1.E64 ∙ A Sense of Guilt
Air Date: January 14, 1961
65 - S1.E65 ∙ The Four Poster
Air Date: January 28, 1961
The up-and-down lives of a married couple over decades, depicted as a series of bedroom scenes.
66 - S1.E66 ∙ The House with the Green Shutters
Air Date: February 11, 1961
67 - S1.E67 ∙ A Perfect Stranger
Air Date: February 25, 1961
68 - S1.E68 ∙ Seagulls Over Sorrento
Air Date: March 4, 1961
A Navy lieutenant is borrowed by the British to supervise torpedo experiments after one of their scientists is killed.