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London Playhouse (1955)

London Playhouse poster
Country
United Kingdom
Length
1 season, 33 episodes
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

This 1950s UK anthology series presented different plays in each episode. It featured notable writers and guest actors. Only a handful of the episodes survive today.

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What happens

London Playhouse is a UK television anthology series that aired from 1955–1956. There were a total of twenty-five episodes. Among its writing credits include Tad Mosel, N. Richard Nash, Henry James, Robert Lowell, and Robert Alan Aurthur. Guest stars included Edward Mulhare, Sylvia Syms, Stephen Boyd, and Lionel Jeffries. Only seven of the episodes are known to still exist, nevertheless this is a higher survival rate than many other UK series of the mid-1950s. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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