Tonight at 8.30
Dame Joan Collins takes on all of Gertrude Lawrence's lead roles in rare and entertaining television productions of eight out of the nine thirty-minute playlets by Noël Coward which he and Lawrence performed on-stage in sets of three from 1935 as "Tonight at 8.30".
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- Ep 1
1.Hands Across the Sea
14-04-1991A wealthy couple invites people over for drinks, and a couple arrives whom they don't recognize at all. They believe the two are someone else and spend their time trying to remembe...
- Ep 2
2.Plot
21-04-1991Lily and George Pepper are a music hall act called "The Red Peppers," and one day onstage, late in their current engagement, they criticize the conductor and blame one another for...
- Ep 3
3.The Astonished Heart
28-04-1991School friends meet again after many years, and while a wife holds the candle for her Doctor husband, the friend has an affair with him, creating torment among the three until trag...
- Ep 4
4.Family Album
05-05-1991Following their father's death, his family of survivors make plans for the future. When they open a trunk, they find costumes they'd played with as children and the tense funereal...
- Ep 5
5.Fumed Oak
12-05-1991After being browbeaten by his overbearing wife and mother-in-law, and his spoiled daughter, a man makes the choice to leave his family. When he informs them of his best-laid plans,...
- Ep 6
6.Ways and Means
19-05-1991After a night in the casino in Cannes, the Cartwrights realize they're broke. Furthermore, their hostess needs to turn them out, because their suite is needed for incoming guests....
- Ep 7
7.Still Life
26-05-1991A doctor and a housewife meet by happenstance at a train station, and through five beautifully played scenes, they fall in love, but the relationship is doomed to fail, because bot...
- Ep 8
8.Shadow Play
02-06-1991
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