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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. 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).

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StatusReturning Series
Original NameSaturday Playhouse
First Air DateJanuary 4, 1958
Last Air DateMarch 4, 1961
Seasons1
Episodes68
Episode Runtime 0min
Language
Original LanguageEnglish
Production CountriesUnited Kingdom
Production CompaniesBBC
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S01E68

S1.E68 ∙ Seagulls Over Sorrento

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

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