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).

Elvi Hale
Susan Cunningham
Madoline Thomas
Mrs. Morgan

George A. Cooper
Bob Sanders

Emrys Jones
Courier 326

Cyril Raymond
Leonard

Ralph Michael
Robert Christie

Clive Morton
Sir Edward Blackenham
Maureen Pryor
Mrs. Wentross
Hedley Goodall
Samuel Sweetland
Rillington Place73%
Matt Houston63%
Death Valley65%
Dalziel and Pascoe64%
The Doctor Blake Mysteries78%
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour78%
Agatha Christie's Poirot81%
DCI Banks71%
The Witness61%
Doc Martin82%
Missing You61%
Barnaby Jones70%
Bad Blood71%
Bad Girls75%
Happy Days76%
Towards Zero62%
Peter Gunn65%
The Phil Silvers Show70%
Agatha Christie's Marple78%
Dempsey and Makepeace66%