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The Worst Episodes of NET Playhouse

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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 NET subsequently merged with WNDT Newark, New Jersey to form WNET and was superseded by the Public Broadcasting Service.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

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  1. #1 Worst Episode
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    NET Playhouse Season 1 Episode 1 - Ten Blocks on the Camino Real
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    #1 - Ten Blocks on the Camino Real

    S1:E1

    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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  2. NET Playhouse Season 1 Episode 2 - The Journey of the Fifth Horse
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    #2 - The Journey of the Fifth Horse

    S1:E2

    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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  3. NET Playhouse Season 1 Episode 3 - The Star Wagon
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    #3 - The Star Wagon

    S1:E3

    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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  4. NET Playhouse Season 1 Episode 4 - L'Avventura
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    #4 - L'Avventura

    S1:E4

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. NET Playhouse Season 1 Episode 5 - Victoria Regina, Part 1: Spring
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    #5 - Victoria Regina, Part 1: Spring

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    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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  6. NET Playhouse Season 1 Episode 6 - Victoria Regina, Part 2: Summer
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    #6 - Victoria Regina, Part 2: Summer

    S1:E6

    "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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  7. NET Playhouse Season 1 Episode 7 - Victoria Regina, Part 3: Autumn
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    #7 - Victoria Regina, Part 3: Autumn

    S1:E7

    "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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  8. NET Playhouse Season 1 Episode 8 - Victoria Regina, Part 4: Winter
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    #8 - Victoria Regina, Part 4: Winter

    S1:E8

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. NET Playhouse Season 1 Episode 9 - An Enemy of the People
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    #9 - An Enemy of the People

    S1:E9

    A Norwegian doctor discovers that the source of the town's medicinal waters has become poisonous.

    Director:Paul Bogart
    Writers:Arthur Miller, Henrik Ibsen

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  10. NET Playhouse Season 1 Episode 10 - A Sleep of Prisoners
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    #10 - A Sleep of Prisoners

    S1:E10

    Christopher Fry's verse drama of four prisoners in an imaginary war.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Christopher Fry

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  11. NET Playhouse Season 1 Episode 11 - Ofoeti
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    #11 - Ofoeti

    S1:E11

    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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  12. NET Playhouse Season 1 Episode 12 - The Play of Daniel
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    #12 - The Play of Daniel

    S1:E12

    "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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  13. NET Playhouse Season 1 Episode 13 - La Marmite
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    #13 - La Marmite

    S1:E13

    Presented 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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. NET Playhouse Season 1 Episode 14 - The Amorous Flea
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    #14 - The Amorous Flea

    S1:E14

    "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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  15. NET Playhouse Season 1 Episode 15 - A Comedy of Errors
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    #15 - A Comedy of Errors

    S1:E15

    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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  16. NET Playhouse Season 1 Episode 16 - La Mama Playwrights
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    #16 - La Mama Playwrights

    S1:E16

    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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  17. NET Playhouse Season 1 Episode 17 - The World of Carl Sandburg
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    #17 - The World of Carl Sandburg

    S1:E17

    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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  18. NET Playhouse Season 1 Episode 18 - Knife in the Water
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    #18 - Knife in the Water

    S1:E18

    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
    Writers:Jerzy Skolimowski, Roman Polanski, Jakub Goldberg

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  19. NET Playhouse Season 1 Episode 19 - Uncle Vanya
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    #19 - Uncle Vanya

    S1:E19

    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
    Writers:Constance Garnett, Anton Chekhov

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  20. NET Playhouse Season 1 Episode 20 - The Importance of Being Earnest
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    #20 - The Importance of Being Earnest

    S1:E20

    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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  21. NET Playhouse Season 1 Episode 21 - The World of Kurt Weill
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    #21 - The World of Kurt Weill

    S1:E21

    Singer-actress Lotte Lenya offers a tribute to her late composer husband.

    Director:David M Davis
    Writer:George Tabori

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  22. NET Playhouse Season 1 Episode 22 - Master of Santiago
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    #22 - Master of Santiago

    S1:E22

    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
    Writers:Jonathan Griffin, Henry de Montherlant

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  23. NET Playhouse Season 1 Episode 23 - The Battle of Culloden
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    #23 - The Battle of Culloden

    S1:E23

    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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  24. NET Playhouse Season 1 Episode 24 - Satire
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    #24 - Satire

    S1:E24

    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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  25. NET Playhouse Season 1 Episode 25 - The Old Glory: Benito Cereno
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    #25 - The Old Glory: Benito Cereno

    S1:E25

    A poetic drama that explores the paradoxes of the master-slave relationship.

    Director:Kirk Browning
    Writers:Herman Melville, Robert Lowell

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Worst Episodes Summary

"Ten Blocks on the Camino Real" is the worst rated episode of "NET Playhouse". It scored /10 based on 0 votes. Directed by Jack Landau and written by Tennessee Williams, it aired on 10/7/1966. This episode scored 0.0 points lower than the second lowest rated, "The Journey of the Fifth Horse".