
Theatre Night
A BBC television series of forty-five-minute excerpts from stage plays running in London.
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Seasons
- Ep 1
1.The Bride and the Bachelor
21-01-195745mInternalised father issues cause a bride to experience cold feet on her wedding day.
- Ep 2
2.Romanoff and Juliet
28-01-1957In the smallest country in the world, the daughter of the American ambassador falls in love with the son of the Russian ambassador. Oops.
- Ep 3
3.The Member of the Wedding
18-02-195745mA young tomboy named Frankie is forced to face her own immaturity as a result her older brother's wedding.
- Ep 4
4.Subway in the Sky
04-03-195745mAn American soldier in West Berlin deserts and goes on the run when faced with false trafficking and murder charges. He takes shelter with a cabaret singer, whom he manages to pers...
- Ep 5
5.Olive Ogilvie
18-03-195745m - Ep 6
6.Sailor Beware
31-03-195745mAn imminent wedding is endangered by a domineering matriarch.
- Ep 7
7.Summer of the Seventeenth Doll
27-05-195745mA couple of Australian cane-cutters plan their usual annual holiday of boozing and womanizing; but this year it's different.
- Ep 8
8.The Lovebirds
04-06-195745mA newly married couple are given a Budgie as a wedding present. Little do they know that the Budgie is possessed by the spirit of the bride's late first husband.
- Ep 9
9.Zuleika
12-06-195745mIn this musical adaptation of Max Beerbohm's 1911 novel, a beautiful young woman visits Oxford, causing all the male students to fall madly in love with her.
- Ep 10
10.Dear Delinqient
01-07-195745mAn engaged man begins to fall for another woman. Fortunately, his fiancée is loathsome, making his decision easier, though the audience is left wondering why it takes the entire ru...
- Ep 11
11.Six Months' Grace
08-07-195745m - Ep 12
12.Silver Wedding
12-08-195745mSir Robert and Lady Lydia Marlowe have spent many years abroad in the diplomatic service. On their 25th wedding anniversary, she announces they should go their own separate ways. H...
- Ep 13
13.Blood Upon the Rose
27-08-195745m - Ep 14
14.Meet Me by Moonlight
02-09-195745mA satirical look at Victorian life, set entirely in the drawing room of Henry Mansfield's house in an English provincial town in 1884.
- Ep 15
15.Nekrassov
16-09-195745mIn 1950s Paris, journalist Sibilot works at right-wing publication Soir á Paris, where he pens anti-communist propaganda. His life hits a major turnpoint when he's unable to come u...
- Ep 16
16.The Happiest Millionaire
28-11-195745mHappy and unbelievably lucky young Irish immigrant John Lawless lands a job as the butler of unconventional millionaire Anthony J. Drexel Biddle. His daughter Cordelia tires of his...
- Ep 17
17.Winter Wonderland
12-01-195845m - Ep 18
18.The Happy Man
21-01-195845m - Ep 19
19.A Touch of the Sun
11-02-195845m - Ep 20
20.Simple Spymen
10-04-195845m - Ep 21
21.Breath of Spring
29-04-195845m - Ep 22
22.Any Other Business
15-05-195845mA routine board meeting of a successful company reveals some facts that a traitor has left the company in a perilous position on the verge of ruin.
- Ep 23
23.Flowering Cherry
05-06-195845mJim Cherry has the opportunity to change his life - will he take the risk?
- Ep 24
24.What Shall We Tell Caroline?
26-06-195845m
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