About this season
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 NET subsequently merged with WNDT Newark, New Jersey to form WNET and was superseded by the Public Broadcasting Service.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.
Episodes (3)
1. The Tale of Genji, Part 1
Aired 8 September 1967
A dramatization of Lady Murasaki's 11th-century saga. The novel etches the life of Prince Genji against the background of a sophisticated but decaying Imperial Court. Part 1 follows Genji through a love affair with his father's concubine.
17. Auto Stop
Aired 5 January 1968 • 75 min
Henry, a callow English youth, is rejected by Federika, the older and more sophisticated woman he has fallen in love with. She says, in effect, come back when you've grown up. Wounded but still hopeful, Henry decides to grow up by experiencing Europe, and he embarks on a hitchhiker's journey across the Continent in a determined quest for manhood
30. 1984
Aired 19 April 1968 • 120 min
In a totalitarian future society, Winston Smith, whose daily work is re-writing history, tries to rebel by falling in love.