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NET Playhouse

1966–1972 · 6 seasons

A serious, stagey anthology that asks you to sit with literary adaptations and historical dramas, rewarding patience with emotional and intellectual weight.

Genres
Drama, Family
Overview
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 NET subsequently merged with WNDT Newark, New Jersey to form WNET and was superseded by the Public Broadcasting Service.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 anthology series of wide range of genres, from history and drama, to fantasy, and science fiction. Fiction novels, stories, stage plays, fairytales, and historic events are dramatized in each episode.
How it feels
Earnest, melancholic and tense. Measured and demanding.
About
Family, identity, morality, power
Content
Mild violence, sexual content and language. No gore.
Note
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How it feels

Written by AI. It can be wrong.

Full breakdown
Tone
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Places
None
Era
timeless
Audience
adult
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action3
Horror2
Humour3
Realism6
Romance3
Tension4
Darkness5
Complexity7
Emotional weight6

Cast

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Details

Genres
drama, family
Created by
Cyril Coke, Graeme MacDonald, Kirk Browning, Stuart Latham
Written by
Gerald Savory, Henry de Montherlant, Kurt Vonnegut, Stanley Miller
Starring
Frank Finlay, Edward Woodward, Robert Stephens, Maurice Denham, Tom Aldredge, Martin Sheen, Hurd Hatfield, Janet Margolin
Length
6 seasons, 56 episodes, 90 min each
Network
PBS, National Educational Television
Country
United States of America
Languages
English

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