
NET Playhouse
NET Playhouse is an American dramatic television anthology series produced by National Educational Television. NET subsequently merged with WNDT Newark, New Jersey to form WNET and was superseded by the Public Broadcasting Service. American television anthology series of wide range of genres, from history and drama, to fantasy, and science fiction. Fiction novels, stories, stage plays, fairytales, and historic events are dramatized in each episode.
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- Ep 1
1.Ten Blocks on the Camino Real
07-10-196690mA production of Tennessee Williams's "Ten Blocks on the Camino Real," a one-act play upon which his full-length play, "Camino Real" was based. This allegorical drama is set in the...
- Ep 2
2.The Journey of the Fifth Horse
14-10-1966Dustin Hoffman stars in Ronald Ribman's critically acclaimed off-Broadway drama and 1965 Obie Award for best play of the season. The story of a kind and good-hearted young landowne...
- Ep 3
3.The Star Wagon
21-10-1966A comedy-fantasy by Maxwell Anderson, follows the adventures of an inventor who creates a time-machine enabling him to live his life over again.
- Ep 4
4.L'Avventura
28-10-1966 - Ep 5
5.Victoria Regina, Part 1: Spring
04-11-1966The first hour of this four-part adaptation of Laurence Housman's drama focuses on Queen Victoria's accession to the throne and her conflict with Lord Melbourne, her Prime Minister...
- Ep 6
6.Victoria Regina, Part 2: Summer
11-11-1966"Victoria Regina: Summer," second of four-part adaptation of Lawrence Hous mans' Broadway hit about the life of England's Queen Victoria. Tonight: Prince Albert faces the problem o...
- Ep 7
7.Victoria Regina, Part 3: Autumn
18-11-1966"Victoria Regina: Autumn," third of a four-part adaption of Lawrence Housman's Broadway hit about the life of England's Queen Victoria. In this episode: Prime Minister Disraeli cla...
- Ep 8
8.Victoria Regina, Part 4: Winter
25-11-1966 - Ep 9
9.An Enemy of the People
02-12-1966A Norwegian doctor discovers that the source of the town's medicinal waters has become poisonous.
- Ep 10
10.A Sleep of Prisoners
09-12-1966Christopher Fry's verse drama of four prisoners in an imaginary war.
- Ep 11
11.Ofoeti
16-12-1966A modern folklore tale about a highly imaginative, fantasy-bound youth and his search for a troll.
- Ep 12
12.The Play of Daniel
23-12-1966"The Play of Daniel." Filmed at the Cloisters, NYC's Museum of Medieval Art, this 12th-century play dramatizes episodes in the life of the Old Testament hero Daniel. An English nar...
- Ep 13
13.La Marmite
30-12-1966Presented in French with English subtitles, The Theatre de la Mandragore Troupe wore masks and performed the Plautus play about a miser obsessed with his gold.
- Ep 14
14.The Amorous Flea
06-01-1967"The Amorous Flea," is a musical-comedy based on Molière's "School for Wives." The play follows the misadventures of an old man who has raised a young girl, in total ignorance of t...
- Ep 15
15.A Comedy of Errors
13-01-1967William Shakespeare's comic-story of mistaken identity follows the misadventures of two sets of long-lost twins is presented by Britain's Royal Shakespeare Company. Produced by the...
- Ep 16
16.La Mama Playwrights
20-01-1967The off-Broadway La Mama Experimental Theater Club, founded by Ellen Stewart presents three avant-garde works. The plays: 1. "Pavane," by Jean-Claude van Itallie, examines rituals...
- Ep 17
17.The World of Carl Sandburg
27-01-1967Actors Fritz Weaver and Uta Hagen join the folk-singing Tarriers and Carolyn Hester for this adaptation of "The World of Carl Sandburg," which opened on Broadway in 1960. Sandburg,...
- Ep 18
18.Knife in the Water
03-02-1967Roman Polanski directed this study of a clash between generations. On a weekend outing, two men find themselves pitted against each other in a tense psychological rivalry for the a...
- Ep 19
19.Uncle Vanya
10-02-1967A retired professor has returned to his estate to live with his beautiful young wife, Yelena. The estate originally belonged to his first wife, now deceased; her mother and brother...
- Ep 20
20.The Importance of Being Earnest
17-02-1967In 1890s London, two friends use the same pseudonym ("Ernest") for their on-the-sly activities. Hilarity ensues.
- Ep 21
21.The World of Kurt Weill
24-02-1967Singer-actress Lotte Lenya offers a tribute to her late composer husband.
- Ep 22
22.Master of Santiago
03-03-1967In 16th-century Spain, pressure is brought on Don Alvaro Dabo to take part in the conquest of the West Indies-but Don Alvaro, an anti-colonialist and religious mystic, resists all...
- Ep 23
23.The Battle of Culloden
10-03-1967This BBC documentary-drama re-creates the Battle of Culloden (1746)-- the last battle fought on British soil. The final attempt to restore the house of Stuart to the throne of Scot...
- Ep 24
24.Satire
17-03-1967Playwright-actor-director Peter Ustinov presents a satiric "improvisation on musical themes" with pianist Anthony Hopkins, and British satirists Dudley Moore and Bernard Keefe. Ust...
- Ep 25
25.The Old Glory: Benito Cereno
24-03-1967A poetic drama that explores the paradoxes of the master-slave relationship.
- Ep 26
26.Past Intruding
30-03-1967A Japanese film that follows the experiences of a psychiatrist who accidentally revives his buried memory of a horrible wartime experience.
- Ep 27
27.Misalliance
07-04-1967A presentation of George Bernard Shaw's "Misalliance," a farce about love and the misunderstandings between family members. The visitors at the country home of a manufacturer find...
- Ep 28
28.Sponono
14-04-1967"Sponono," by South African author Alan Paton, incorporates native songs and dances into its narrative-drama form. The story is about a black delinquent's clash with his white refo...
- Ep 29
29.Orpheus in the Underworld
28-04-1967Britain's Sadler's Wells Opera Company performs Offenbach's popular, light opera. According to Greek myth, the poet Orpheus played beautiful music and loved his wife Eurydice so mu...
- Ep 30
30.A Mother for Janek
05-05-1967An orphaned refugee causes unforeseen problems when he comes to live with his bachelor uncle in America. Produced by WQED, Pittsburgh.
- Ep 31
31.Acquit or Hang!
12-05-1967A courtroom drama based on the court-martial of 10 HMS Bounty mutineers. The 10 seamen on trial all claim to have taken no part in the mutiny, but they may still be punished: The n...
- Ep 32
32.Crime and Punishment
19-05-1967This dramatization of Fyodor Dostoyevsky's master novel explores the conflicting feelings of guilt and superiority in a student who murders two old women and then tries to justify...
- Ep 33
33.Ballet Gala
26-05-1967"Ballet Gala" features principal dancers from Moscow's Bolshoi Ballet, London's Royal Ballet, the Royal Danish Ballet and the Paris Opera Ballet performing excerpts from Swan Lake,...
- Ep 34
34.A Concert of Sacred Music
16-06-1967A Concert on Sacred Music by Duke Ellington, from the Grace Cathedral, seat of the Episcopal Archdiocese of San Francisco.
- Ep 35
35.The Victorians, Part 1: The Rent Day
23-06-1967The first of an eight-part series focusing on life in England during the 1800's. Part 1: A young farmer and his wife face eviction unless they find a way to pay their rent.
- Ep 36
36.The Victorians, Part 2: London Assurance
30-06-1967An 80-year-old nobleman competes with his son for the hand of a young heiress. This comedy by Dion Boucicault was first produced in 1841.
- Ep 37
37.The Victorians, Part 3: Society
07-07-1967A wealthy businessman persuades a penniless young aristocrat to introduce his son into society.
- Ep 38
38.The Victorians, Part 4: The Ticket-of-Leave Man
14-07-1967"The Victorians: The Ticket-of-Leave Man," a 19th-century detective story. Released from prison, a young man sets out to find the crook who framed him.
- Ep 39
39.The Victorians, Part 5: Two Roses
21-07-1967 - Ep 40
40.The Victorians, Part 6: Still Waters Run Deep
28-07-1967 - Ep 41
41.The Victorians, Part 7: The Silver King
04-08-1967A gambler who fled to America to escape a murder charge returns to England in search of the real killer.
- Ep 42
42.The Victorians, Part 8: Sweet Lavender
11-08-1967
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