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Saturday Playhouse

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.[1] There were sixty-eight episodes, among them adaptations of the plays The Man Who Came to Dinner and The Cat and the Canary.[1] 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).[2]

Many actors performed for Saturday Playhouse, including:Maxine Audley, John Barrie, Michael Bates, Brian Blessed, Jeremy Brett, Michael Crawford,Anton Diffring,Paul Eddington, Denholm Elliott, Thora Hird,Desmond Llewelyn,Margaret Lockwood,Leo McKern, Bob Monkhouse, Leslie Phillips,Prunella Scales andElizabeth Shepherd, among others.[3]

Only a single episode is believed to have survived.[4]

References

  1. ^ a b "Saturday Playhouse (1958-1961) Episode list". imdb.com. IMDb (Internet Movie Database). Retrieved 20 August 2016.
  2. ^ Wrigley, Amanda (7 April 2014). "Design for Murder adapted to a theatre setting (BBC, 1958 and 1961)". screenplaystv.wordpress.com. Screen Plays [Theatre plays on British television]. Retrieved 20 August 2016.
  3. ^ "Saturday Playhouse (1958-1961) Full cast and crew". imdb.com. IMDb (Internet Movie Database). Retrieved 20 August 2016.
  4. ^ "Saturday Playhouse". lostshows.com. Kaleidoscope Publishing. Retrieved 20 August 2016.

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