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Overview

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).

Top billed cast

  1. Elvi Hale

    Susan Cunningham

  2. Madoline Thomas

    Mrs. Morgan

  3. George A. Cooper

    Bob Sanders

  4. Emrys Jones

    Courier 326

  5. Cyril Raymond

    Leonard

  6. Ralph Michael

    Robert Christie

  7. Clive Morton

    Sir Edward Blackenham

  8. Maureen Pryor

    Mrs. Wentross

  9. Hedley Goodall

    Samuel Sweetland

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Full Cast & Crew

Current Season

Season 1

1958 | 68 Episodes

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Status
Returning Series

Original Language
English

Original Name
Saturday Playhouse

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