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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 NET subsequently merged with WNDT Newark, New Jersey to form WNET and was superseded by the Public Broadcasting Service.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
Season 1
N/A/100 votesTen Blocks on the Camino Real
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 10/7/1966
A 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 plaza of a Latin American town, a sinister purgatory where laughing street cleaners cart away the dead. Kilroy, a young American ex-boxer with a failing heart, arrives in this nightmarish place.
Director: Jack Landau
Writer: Tennessee Williams
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The Journey of the Fifth Horse
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 10/14/1966
Dustin 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 landowner in 19th century Russia who, desperate for love and acceptance, sets out to find both, only to discover that if he had never lived at all it would have made no difference to anyone.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Ronald Ribman
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The Star Wagon
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 10/21/1966
A comedy-fantasy by Maxwell Anderson, follows the adventures of an inventor who creates a time-machine enabling him to live his life over again.
Director: Karl Genus
Writer: Maxwell Anderson
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Victoria Regina, Part 1: Spring
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 11/4/1966
The 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 and close friend. Melbourne brings up the question of marriage-but the Queen rejects his list of suitable bridegroom
Director: Stuart Latham
Writer: Unknown
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Victoria Regina, Part 2: Summer
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 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 of being married to a reigning monarch.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
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Victoria Regina, Part 3: Autumn
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 11/18/1966
"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 clashes with the Queen.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
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An Enemy of the People
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 12/2/1966
A Norwegian doctor discovers that the source of the town's medicinal waters has become poisonous.
Director: Paul Bogart
Writer: Arthur Miller, Henrik Ibsen
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A Sleep of Prisoners
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 12/9/1966
Christopher Fry's verse drama of four prisoners in an imaginary war.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Christopher Fry
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Ofoeti
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 12/16/1966
A modern folklore tale about a highly imaginative, fantasy-bound youth and his search for a troll.
Director: Unknown
Writer: John Wheatcroft
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The Play of Daniel
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 12/23/1966
"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 narrative by poet W. H. Auden supplements the original Latin and Old French text performed by the New York Pro Musica and the boys choir of New York City's Church of the Transfiguration.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
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The Amorous Flea
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 1/6/1967
"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 the ways of the world, so that she will make him a perfect wife. Adapted from the 1964 off-Broadway hit.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Molière
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A Comedy of Errors
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 1/13/1967
William 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 BBC.
Director: Unknown
Writer: William Shakespeare
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La Mama Playwrights
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 1/20/1967
The 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 of modern society. 2. "Fourteen Hundred Thousand," by Sam Shepard, involves a young couple and their in-laws. 3. "The Recluse," by Paul Foster, focuses on a demented old lady in an abandoned hospital.
Director: Tom O'Horgan
Writer: Unknown
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The World of Carl Sandburg
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 1/27/1967
Actors 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, a Pulitzer Prize-winner, is a poet, historian, novelist and folklorist. Carolyn Hester and the Tarriers perform numbers from Sandburg's "The American Songbag,
Director: Kirk Browning
Writer: Carl Sandburg
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Knife in the Water
Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 2/3/1967
Roman 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 affections of the older man's wife.
Director: Roman Polanski
Writer: Jerzy Skolimowski, Roman Polanski, Jakub Goldberg
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Uncle Vanya
Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 2/10/1967
A 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 still live there and manage the farm
Director: Stuart Burge
Writer: Constance Garnett, Anton Chekhov
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The Importance of Being Earnest
Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 2/17/1967
In 1890s London, two friends use the same pseudonym ("Ernest") for their on-the-sly activities. Hilarity ensues.
Director: Bill Bain
Writer: Oscar Wilde
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The World of Kurt Weill
Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 2/24/1967
Singer-actress Lotte Lenya offers a tribute to her late composer husband.
Director: David M Davis
Writer: George Tabori
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Master of Santiago
Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 3/3/1967
In 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 arguments. Adapted from the play by contemporary French novelist-playwright Henri de Montherlant.
Director: Christopher Morahan
Writer: Jonathan Griffin, Henry de Montherlant
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The Battle of Culloden
Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired 3/10/1967
This 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 Scotland, England and Ireland culminated in the meeting (at Culloden) of an English army and the Highlander force, led by Bonnie Prince Charlie.
Director: Peter Watkins
Writer: Peter Watkins
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Satire
Season 1 Episode 24 - Aired 3/17/1967
Playwright-actor-director Peter Ustinov presents a satiric "improvisation on musical themes" with pianist Anthony Hopkins, and British satirists Dudley Moore and Bernard Keefe. Ustinov caricatures typical Russian, American, German and English composers with pen and piano, singing along with the wild musical themes he invents for each composer
Director: Francis Coleman
Writer: Unknown
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The Old Glory: Benito Cereno
Season 1 Episode 25 - Aired 3/24/1967
A poetic drama that explores the paradoxes of the master-slave relationship.
Director: Kirk Browning
Writer: Herman Melville, Robert Lowell
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Past Intruding
Season 1 Episode 26 - Aired 3/30/1967
A Japanese film that follows the experiences of a psychiatrist who accidentally revives his buried memory of a horrible wartime experience.
Director: Tsutomu Konno
Writer: Kôichi Ôtsu
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Misalliance
Season 1 Episode 27 - Aired 4/7/1967
A 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 their lives changed by the sudden appearance of an outspoken Polish aviatrix.
Director: Unknown
Writer: George Bernard Shaw
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Sponono
Season 1 Episode 28 - Aired 4/14/1967
"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 reformatory principal.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Alan Paton
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Orpheus in the Underworld
Season 1 Episode 29 - Aired 4/28/1967
Britain'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 much that. when she died, he went into the infernal regions to reclaim her life. In Offenbach's satiric treatment of the legend, Orpheus is such a bore and his music is so wretched that Eurydice is glad to go to hell. Orpheus, on the other hand, is equally happy to be rid of her.
Director: Wendy Toye
Writer: Ludovic Halévy, Hector Crémieux
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Acquit or Hang!
Season 1 Episode 31 - Aired 5/12/1967
A 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 naval regulations of 1792 state that sailors who do not try to prevent a mutiny share equal guilt with active mutineers. Only one of two verdicts can be handed down: acquit or hang.
Director: Cyril Coke
Writer: Stanley Miller
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Crime and Punishment
Season 1 Episode 32 - Aired 5/19/1967
This 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 his crime.
Director: Cyril Coke
Writer: Stanley Miller, Fyodor Dostoevsky
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The Victorians, Part 1: The Rent Day
Season 1 Episode 35 - Aired 6/23/1967
The 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.
Director: Herbert Wise
Writer: Gerald Savory
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The Victorians, Part 2: London Assurance
Season 1 Episode 36 - Aired 6/30/1967
An 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.
Director: Stuart Latham
Writer: Gerald Savory, Dion Boucicault
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The Victorians, Part 3: Society
Season 1 Episode 37 - Aired 7/7/1967
A wealthy businessman persuades a penniless young aristocrat to introduce his son into society.
Director: Graeme MacDonald
Writer: Unknown
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The Victorians, Part 4: The Ticket-of-Leave Man
Season 1 Episode 38 - Aired 7/14/1967
"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.
Director: Stuart Latham
Writer: Gerald Savory, Tom Taylor
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The Victorians, Part 5: Two Roses
Season 1 Episode 39 - Aired 7/21/1967
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Director: Richard Everitt
Writer: Gerald Savory
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The Victorians, Part 6: Still Waters Run Deep
Season 1 Episode 40 - Aired 7/28/1967
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Director: Cliff Owen
Writer: Gerald Savory
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The Victorians, Part 7: The Silver King
Season 1 Episode 41 - Aired 8/4/1967
A gambler who fled to America to escape a murder charge returns to England in search of the real killer.
Director: Herbert Wise
Writer: Gerald Savory
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The Victorians, Part 8: Sweet Lavender
Season 1 Episode 42 - Aired 8/11/1967
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Director: Graeme MacDonald
Writer: Gerald Savory