Saturday Playhouse

Saturday Playhouse

1958
1 Season
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Saturday Playhouse was a 60-minute UK anthology television series produced by and airing on the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) from 4 January 1958 until 1 April 1961. There were sixty-eight episodes, among them adaptations of the plays The Man Who Came to Dinner and The Cat and the Canary. One of the episodes, Alex Atkinson’s classic thriller Design for Murder, was featured twice on the BBC: first on Saturday Playhouse (Saturday, 15 March 1958; S1/Ep.6) and again from the BBC's own theatre in Bristol (Thursday, 6 July 1961).

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1x68 - 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.

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