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 NET subsequently merged with WNDT Newark, New Jersey to form WNET and was superseded by the Public Broadcasting Service.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

Oct 7, 19666 seasons54 episodesEndedEN

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Seasons

Season 1

42 episodes

Premiered Oct 7, 1966

Season 2

5 episodes

Premiered Sep 8, 1967

Season 3

1 episodes

Premiered Oct 4, 1968

Season 4

2 episodes

Premiered Sep 18, 1969

Season 5

4 episodes

Premiered Oct 11, 1970

Season 6

2 episodes

Premiered Oct 11, 1971

Episodes

1–6 of 42

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Ep 1

Ten Blocks on the Camino Real

Oct 7, 1966

90m

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.

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Ep 2

The Journey of the Fifth Horse

Oct 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.

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Ep 3

The Star Wagon

Oct 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.

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Ep 4

L'Avventura

Oct 28, 1966

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Ep 5

Victoria Regina, Part 1: Spring

Nov 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

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Ep 6

Victoria Regina, Part 2: Summer

Nov 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.

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