Saturday Playhouse Season 1, Episode 8: S1.E8 ∙ Ladies in Retirement

S1.E1 ∙ The Man Upstairs

An anthology series of dramatisations of plays.

S1.E2 ∙ The Distaff Side

An upper middle-class family is ruled by the ancient and churlish matriarch. Her daughters' marriages are all in jeopardy, with affairs and communions with the dead. It's difficult to find any solitude or sanity in the family.

S1.E3 ∙ Heroes Don't Care

S1.E4 ∙ Britannia of Billingsgate

S1.E5 ∙ The Corn Is Green

A spinster schoolteacher arrives in a Welsh mining valley and discovers a boy genius in her class.

S1.E6 ∙ Design for Murder

S1.E7 ∙ My Flesh, My Blood

S1.E9 ∙ A Likely Tale

A dying old man changes his will to leave everything to the new housemaid who has caught his eye, much to the alarm of his three grown up children and grandson.

S1.E10 ∙ And No Birds Sing

S1.E11 ∙ Carry On, Admiral

The action takes place in a bedroom in a Portsmouth hotel, the wardroom of H.M.S. Sherwood, and the living-room at Admiralty House.

S1.E12 ∙ French Without Tears

The love affairs of three young Englishmen at a language cramming school in the south of France. Diana, the sister of one of the boys, arrives in town to flirt with all of her brothers' schoolmates.

S1.E13 ∙ High Heaven

S1.E14 ∙ The Ware Case

A financier is accused of murder when his brother-in-law is found dead in his garden pond. After winning the court case he returns home to find that his lawyer has romantic inclinations towards his wife.

S1.E15 ∙ The Fourth Wall

The host of a dinner party is murdered.

S1.E16 ∙ Dr. Angelus

S1.E17 ∙ A Young Affair

S1.E18 ∙ The Dover Road

A wealthy man lives on the Dover Road, a traditional path of elopers. His practice of forcing such couples to see one another in the sober light of home life in his house leads to a personal involvement for him.

S1.E19 ∙ Day of Retirement

S1.E20 ∙ A Private Eye for Pennsylvania

S1.E21 ∙ Four for Solitaire

S1.E22 ∙ Trespass

S1.E23 ∙ The Duke in Darkness

A duke imprisoned for 15 years in a castle in France feigns blindness for five years to lull the suspicions of his captors in order to plan his escape.

S1.E24 ∙ The Magistrate

A widow weds a magistrate and makes her 19-year-old son act as a boy.

S1.E25 ∙ So Many Children

S1.E26 ∙ Trilby

in 19th-century Paris, a sinister hypnotist tries to turn a simple Irish girl into an opera star.

S1.E27 ∙ Murder on the Agenda

Eynon Evans plays the part of Inspector Probert George, who was tortured in a prisoner-of-war camp when his plans for escape were discovered, is dead after five years in a mental home. His five fellow prisoners had sworn that if George died they would kill the man who had betrayed him to the Germans. But which of them was to do the killing? And how?

S1.E28 ∙ Golden Rain

S1.E29 ∙ While the Sun Shines

S1.E30 ∙ The Cat and the Canary

At an old, dark house, on a dark and stormy night, an ill-assorted group of people meet for the reading of a millionaire's will. But there's a madman on the loose.

S1.E31 ∙ The Larford Lad

The story of a young boxer's rise to fame.

S1.E32 ∙ Black Chiffon

A woman who has an absolutely untarnished reputation unaccountably steals a black-chiffon nightgown days before her son's wedding.

S1.E33 ∙ My Young Brother

S1.E34 ∙ Love and Miss Figgis

S1.E35 ∙ Unfinished Journey

S1.E36 ∙ The Cathedral

S1.E37 ∙ Last Day in Dreamland

S1.E38 ∙ It Isn't Enough

S1.E39 ∙ Haul for the Shore

S1.E40 ∙ Bed and Breakfast

S1.E41 ∙ The Farmer's Wife

After his daughter weds, a middle-aged widower with a profitable farm decides to remarry but finds choosing a suitable mate a problematic process.

S1.E42 ∙ Through a Glass Darkly

S1.E43 ∙ Conflict at Kalanadi

S1.E44 ∙ The Difficult Age

S1.E45 ∙ Going Like a Fox

S1.E46 ∙ The Return of Peggy Atherton

S1.E47 ∙ Home and the Heart

S1.E48 ∙ A Matter of Age

S1.E49 ∙ Devonshire Cream

S1.E50 ∙ The Country Boy

S1.E51 ∙ The Man Who Came to Dinner

Sheridan Whiteside, famous as an author, broadcaster and expert on just about everything, is invited to dinner by a pompous small-town businessman - and stays rather longer than anyone anticipated.

S1.E52 ∙ Marriage Settlement

S1.E53 ∙ The Guinea Pig

A working-class boy gets a scholarship to a public school.

S1.E54 ∙ The Breadwinner

S1.E55 ∙ On the Edge

S1.E56 ∙ Dream Girl

A young lady is filled with daydreams until she meets her reality man.

S1.E57 ∙ The Shop at Sly Corner

Descius Heiss is a French expatriate, and former Devil's Island prisoner, with two passions; driving shrewd bargains in antiques at his Sly Corner Shop, and the care of his motherless, violin-playing daughter, Margaret. But, his comfortable wealth comes more from being a fence for stolen goods than it does buying-and-selling antiques. His secret is discovered by his shop assistant Archie Fellowes, a nasty, sniveling young rat, and he begins blackmailing Heiss. Heiss employs the usual solution to blackmailers, and the film ends in a London concert-hall where Margaret is playing the Mendelssohm Violin Concerto.

S1.E58 ∙ Family Occasion

What is Margaret hiding from the rest of the family when they arrive for their father's funeral?

S1.E59 ∙ The Bachelor Brothers

S1.E60 ∙ Your Obedient Servant

S1.E61 ∙ The Druid Circle

An embittered professor comes near to wrecking the lives of a young man and young woman whose love for each other has been accidentally revealed to him through a letter written by the boy to the girl.

S1.E62 ∙ The Colonel

S1.E63 ∙ A Run for the Money

S1.E64 ∙ A Sense of Guilt

S1.E65 ∙ The Four Poster

The up-and-down lives of a married couple over decades, depicted as a series of bedroom scenes.

S1.E66 ∙ The House with the Green Shutters

S1.E67 ∙ A Perfect Stranger

S1.E68 ∙ Seagulls Over Sorrento

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