TV series

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.
- Created by
- Cyril Coke, Graeme MacDonald
- Genres
- Drama, Family
- Starring
- Frank Finlay, Edward Woodward, Robert Stephens
- 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 NET subsequently merged with WNDT Newark, New Jersey to form WNET and was superseded by the Public Broadcasting Service.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
- Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown
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- Created by
- Cyril Coke, Graeme MacDonald
- Genres
- Drama, Family
- Starring
- Frank Finlay, Edward Woodward, Robert Stephens














