Saturday Playhouse — Season 1, Episode 51: S1.E51 ∙ The Man Who Came to Dinner

Episode synopsis

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.

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