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Saturday Playhouse (1958) | Slate

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. 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).

Status: Returning
First aired: 1958
Seasons: 1
Episodes: 68 aired
Country: United Kingdom

Direction and writing

Peter DuguidDirector

Where to watch

Unavailable

Seasons

Season 168 episodes

Cast

Elvi HaleDiana Lake, Annabelle West, Susan Cunningham, Lady Elizabeth Randall

Madoline Thomas

Mrs. Morgan, Mrs. Teck, Annie Morris, Annie

George A. CooperBob Sanders, George Day, Inspector Fitchitt, Mr. Jackson

Emrys JonesGeorge Longford, Richard Dukes, Courier 326
Cyril RaymondEdward Ritchie, Colonel Morrigan, Leonard
Stephen MurrayThe Duke of Laterraine
Stephen MurrayAlec Strannack, Svengali
Ralph MichaelGlynn Harris, Tom Howard, Robert Christie

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