Saturday Playhouse

S1.E1 ∙ The Man Upstairs

An anthology series of dramatisations of plays.

S1.E2 ∙ The Distaff Side

An upper middle-class family is ruled by the ancient and churlish matriarch. Her daughters' marriag...

S1.E3 ∙ Heroes Don't Care

S1.E4 ∙ Britannia of Billingsgate

S1.E5 ∙ The Corn Is Green

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

S1.E6 ∙ Design for Murder

S1.E7 ∙ My Flesh, My Blood

S1.E8 ∙ Ladies in Retirement

Ellen Creed struggles to hold down her job as housekeeper-companion to the retired actress Leonora...

S1.E9 ∙ A Likely Tale

A dying old man changes his will to leave everything to the new housemaid who has caught his eye, m...

S1.E10 ∙ And No Birds Sing

S1.E11 ∙ Carry On, Admiral

The action takes place in a bedroom in a Portsmouth hotel, the wardroom of H.M.S. Sherwood, and the...

S1.E12 ∙ French Without Tears

The love affairs of three young Englishmen at a language cramming school in the south of France. Di...

S1.E13 ∙ High Heaven

S1.E14 ∙ The Ware Case

A financier is accused of murder when his brother-in-law is found dead in his garden pond. After wi...

S1.E15 ∙ The Fourth Wall

The host of a dinner party is murdered.

S1.E16 ∙ Dr. Angelus

S1.E17 ∙ A Young Affair

S1.E18 ∙ The Dover Road

A wealthy man lives on the Dover Road, a traditional path of elopers. His practice of forcing such...

S1.E19 ∙ Day of Retirement

S1.E20 ∙ A Private Eye for Pennsylvania

S1.E21 ∙ Four for Solitaire

S1.E22 ∙ Trespass

S1.E23 ∙ The Duke in Darkness

A duke imprisoned for 15 years in a castle in France feigns blindness for five years to lull the su...

S1.E24 ∙ The Magistrate

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

S1.E25 ∙ So Many Children

S1.E26 ∙ Trilby

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

S1.E27 ∙ Murder on the Agenda

Eynon Evans plays the part of Inspector Probert George, who was tortured in a prisoner-of-war camp...

S1.E28 ∙ Golden Rain

S1.E29 ∙ While the Sun Shines

S1.E30 ∙ The Cat and the Canary

At an old, dark house, on a dark and stormy night, an ill-assorted group of people meet for the rea...

S1.E31 ∙ The Larford Lad

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

S1.E32 ∙ Black Chiffon

A woman who has an absolutely untarnished reputation unaccountably steals a black-chiffon nightgown...

S1.E33 ∙ My Young Brother

S1.E34 ∙ Love and Miss Figgis

S1.E35 ∙ Unfinished Journey

S1.E36 ∙ The Cathedral

S1.E37 ∙ Last Day in Dreamland

S1.E38 ∙ It Isn't Enough

S1.E39 ∙ Haul for the Shore

S1.E40 ∙ Bed and Breakfast

S1.E41 ∙ The Farmer's Wife

After his daughter weds, a middle-aged widower with a profitable farm decides to remarry but finds...

S1.E42 ∙ Through a Glass Darkly

S1.E43 ∙ Conflict at Kalanadi

S1.E44 ∙ The Difficult Age

S1.E45 ∙ Going Like a Fox

S1.E46 ∙ The Return of Peggy Atherton

S1.E47 ∙ Home and the Heart

S1.E48 ∙ A Matter of Age

S1.E49 ∙ Devonshire Cream

S1.E50 ∙ The Country Boy

S1.E51 ∙ The Man Who Came to Dinner

Sheridan Whiteside, famous as an author, broadcaster and expert on just about everything, is invite...

S1.E52 ∙ Marriage Settlement

S1.E53 ∙ The Guinea Pig

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

S1.E54 ∙ The Breadwinner

S1.E55 ∙ On the Edge

S1.E56 ∙ Dream Girl

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

S1.E57 ∙ The Shop at Sly Corner

Descius Heiss is a French expatriate, and former Devil's Island prisoner, with two passions; drivin...

S1.E58 ∙ Family Occasion

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

S1.E59 ∙ The Bachelor Brothers

S1.E60 ∙ Your Obedient Servant

S1.E61 ∙ The Druid Circle

An embittered professor comes near to wrecking the lives of a young man and young woman whose love...

S1.E62 ∙ The Colonel

S1.E63 ∙ A Run for the Money

S1.E64 ∙ A Sense of Guilt

S1.E65 ∙ The Four Poster

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

S1.E66 ∙ The House with the Green Shutters

S1.E67 ∙ A Perfect Stranger

S1.E68 ∙ Seagulls Over Sorrento

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