TV ShowReturning Series

Tonight at 8.30

7.0 / 10
1991
1 season
8 episodes

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

    14-04-1991

    A 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

    21-04-1991

    Lily 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

    28-04-1991

    School 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

    05-05-1991

    Following 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

    12-05-1991

    After 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

    19-05-1991

    After 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

    26-05-1991

    A 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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