Saturday Playhouse - Season 1

1. S1.E1 ∙ The Man Upstairs

Aired: 1/4/1958

An anthology series of dramatisations of plays.

2. S1.E2 ∙ The Distaff Side

Aired: 1/11/1958

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

Aired: 1/18/1958

4. S1.E4 ∙ Britannia of Billingsgate

Aired: 1/25/1958

5. S1.E5 ∙ The Corn Is Green

Aired: 2/1/1958

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

6. S1.E6 ∙ Design for Murder

Aired: 2/8/1958

7. S1.E7 ∙ My Flesh, My Blood

Aired: 2/15/1958

8. S1.E8 ∙ Ladies in Retirement

Aired: 2/22/1958

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

Aired: 3/1/1958

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

Aired: 3/8/1958

11. S1.E11 ∙ Carry On, Admiral

Aired: 3/15/1958

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

Aired: 3/22/1958

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

Aired: 3/29/1958

14. S1.E14 ∙ The Ware Case

Aired: 4/5/1958

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

Aired: 4/12/1958

The host of a dinner party is murdered.

16. S1.E16 ∙ Dr. Angelus

Aired: 4/19/1958

17. S1.E17 ∙ A Young Affair

Aired: 4/26/1958

18. S1.E18 ∙ The Dover Road

Aired: 9/13/1958

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

Aired: 9/20/1958

20. S1.E20 ∙ A Private Eye for Pennsylvania

Aired: 9/27/1958

21. S1.E21 ∙ Four for Solitaire

Aired: 10/25/1958

22. S1.E22 ∙ Trespass

Aired: 11/22/1958

23. S1.E23 ∙ The Duke in Darkness

Aired: 12/6/1958

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

Aired: 12/20/1958

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

25. S1.E25 ∙ So Many Children

Aired: 12/27/1958

26. S1.E26 ∙ Trilby

Aired: 1/17/1959

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

Aired: 2/14/1959

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

Aired: 2/28/1959

29. S1.E29 ∙ While the Sun Shines

Aired: 3/28/1959

30. S1.E30 ∙ The Cat and the Canary

Aired: 5/9/1959

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

Aired: 6/20/1959

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

32. S1.E32 ∙ Black Chiffon

Aired: 7/4/1959

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

Aired: 7/18/1959

34. S1.E34 ∙ Love and Miss Figgis

Aired: 8/1/1959

35. S1.E35 ∙ Unfinished Journey

Aired: 8/8/1959

36. S1.E36 ∙ The Cathedral

Aired: 8/15/1959

37. S1.E37 ∙ Last Day in Dreamland

Aired: 8/29/1959

38. S1.E38 ∙ It Isn't Enough

Aired: 9/26/1959

39. S1.E39 ∙ Haul for the Shore

Aired: 10/24/1959

40. S1.E40 ∙ Bed and Breakfast

Aired: 11/21/1959

41. S1.E41 ∙ The Farmer's Wife

Aired: 12/5/1959

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

Aired: 12/19/1959

43. S1.E43 ∙ Conflict at Kalanadi

Aired: 1/16/1960

44. S1.E44 ∙ The Difficult Age

Aired: 1/30/1960

45. S1.E45 ∙ Going Like a Fox

Aired: 2/13/1960

46. S1.E46 ∙ The Return of Peggy Atherton

Aired: 2/27/1960

47. S1.E47 ∙ Home and the Heart

Aired: 3/12/1960

48. S1.E48 ∙ A Matter of Age

Aired: 3/26/1960

49. S1.E49 ∙ Devonshire Cream

Aired: 4/9/1960

50. S1.E50 ∙ The Country Boy

Aired: 4/23/1960

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

Aired: 5/7/1960

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

Aired: 5/21/1960

53. S1.E53 ∙ The Guinea Pig

Aired: 6/4/1960

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

54. S1.E54 ∙ The Breadwinner

Aired: 6/18/1960

55. S1.E55 ∙ On the Edge

Aired: 7/16/1960

56. S1.E56 ∙ Dream Girl

Aired: 8/13/1960

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

57. S1.E57 ∙ The Shop at Sly Corner

Aired: 8/27/1960

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

Aired: 10/8/1960

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

59. S1.E59 ∙ The Bachelor Brothers

Aired: 10/22/1960

60. S1.E60 ∙ Your Obedient Servant

Aired: 11/19/1960

61. S1.E61 ∙ The Druid Circle

Aired: 12/3/1960

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

Aired: 12/17/1960

63. S1.E63 ∙ A Run for the Money

Aired: 12/31/1960

64. S1.E64 ∙ A Sense of Guilt

Aired: 1/14/1961

65. S1.E65 ∙ The Four Poster

Aired: 1/28/1961

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

Aired: 2/11/1961

67. S1.E67 ∙ A Perfect Stranger

Aired: 2/25/1961

68. S1.E68 ∙ Seagulls Over Sorrento

Aired: 3/4/1961

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