Saturday Playhouse — Season 1, Episode 27: S1.E27 ∙ Murder on the Agenda

Episode synopsis

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?

About 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).

More episodes from Season 1

• E1S1.E1 ∙ The Man Upstairs
• E2S1.E2 ∙ The Distaff Side
• E3S1.E3 ∙ Heroes Don't Care
• E4S1.E4 ∙ Britannia of Billingsgate
• E5S1.E5 ∙ The Corn Is Green
• E6S1.E6 ∙ Design for Murder
• E7S1.E7 ∙ My Flesh, My Blood
• E8S1.E8 ∙ Ladies in Retirement
• E9S1.E9 ∙ A Likely Tale
• E10S1.E10 ∙ And No Birds Sing
• E11S1.E11 ∙ Carry On, Admiral
• E12S1.E12 ∙ French Without Tears