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Thursday Theatre

1964
1 season
23 episodes

Thursday Theatre is a UK television anthology series produced by and airing on the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) from 1964–1965. There were twenty-three episodes which included adaptations of the play, The Cocktail Party, by T. S. Eliot, and the novel, The Wings of the Dove, by Henry James. The productions ranged in duration from 75 to 95 minutes. Out of the twenty-three episodes, thirteen are believed to be lost, and one episode is incomplete.

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  • Ep 1

    1.S1.E1 ∙ Captain Carvallo

    08-10-196450m

    Captain Carvallo's determined pursuit of the beautiful Smilja might cause his death.

  • Ep 2

    2.S1.E2 ∙ The Cure for Love

    15-10-196450m
  • Ep 3

    3.S1.E3 ∙ Any Other Business

    22-10-196450m

    A 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 4

    4.S1.E4 ∙ Summer of the Seventeenth Doll

    29-10-196450m

    For sixteen years, Barney and Roo, a couple of cane-cutters in Australia, have spent their summer holiday boozing and chasing girls. This year, it's different.

  • Ep 5

    5.S1.E5 ∙ Write Me a Murder

    05-11-196450m

    When two brothers inherit a fortune, the less successful one plans a murder.

  • Ep 6

    6.S1.E6 ∙ The Same Sky

    12-11-196450m

    The theme of Romeo and Juliet reworked in an orthodox Jewish household where Jeff who is a Christian falls in love with Juliet. Both families bitterly oppose the relationship. The...

  • Ep 7

    7.S1.E7 ∙ Simon and Laura

    19-11-196450m

    Simon and Laura are married actors - who better for the roles of a happily-married couple in a new TV soap opera? But they're actually on the verge of divorce.

  • Ep 8

    8.S1.E8 ∙ The Cocktail Party

    26-11-196450m

    Lavinia has left her husband before a cocktail party. They have both had relationships. A foreign guest, Sir Henry, analyzes their marriage and relationship. Will they find their w...

  • Ep 9

    9.S1.E9 ∙ Murder Mistaken

    03-12-196450m

    Edward Bare has murdered his much older wife and inherited her fortune. Now, he meets the tough, vulgar (and very rich) Freda, who seems attracted to him. Will there be a second mu...

  • Ep 10

    10.S1.E10 ∙ A Day by the Sea

    10-12-196450m
  • Ep 11

    11.S1.E11 ∙ Point of Departure

    17-12-196450m
  • Ep 12

    12.S1.E12 ∙ The Young Elizabeth

    24-12-196450m
  • Ep 13

    13.S1.E13 ∙ When We Are Married

    31-12-196450m
  • Ep 14

    14.S1.E14 ∙ The Flowering Cherry

    07-01-196550m

    Jim Cherry's an ordinary sort of man leading an ordinary sort of life. But it's about to come crashing down around him.

  • Ep 15

    15.S1.E15 ∙ The Wings of the Dove

    14-01-196550m

    An impoverished woman who has been forced to choose between a privileged life with her wealthy aunt and her journalist lover, befriends an American heiress. When she discovers the...

  • Ep 16

    16.Photo Finish

    21-01-196550m

    Eighty years old, Sam, a famous writer, looks back on his life and tempestuous marriage, and meets himself at the ages of sixty, forty and twenty.

  • Ep 17

    17.S1.E17 ∙ Johnson Over Jordan

    28-01-196550m
  • Ep 18

    18.S1.E18 ∙ Naked Island

    11-02-196550m

    A prisoner-of-war drama set in Japanese-held Singapore, five Australian POWs listen to radio reports of the Allies' advance toward the island.

  • Ep 19

    19.The Living Room

    18-02-196550m

    Rose Pembleton introduces her new lover, Michael Dennis, to her eccentric family. But they soon learn that Michael is married -- when his suicidal wife arrives at the house.

  • Ep 20

    20.S1.E20 ∙ Traveller Without Luggage

    25-02-196550m
  • Ep 21

    21.S1.E21 ∙ Celebration

    04-03-196550m
  • Ep 22

    22.S1.E22 ∙ The Kidders

    11-03-196550m
  • Ep 23

    23.S1.E23 ∙ Anatol

    18-03-196550m

    Socialite Anatol Spencer seeks a better relation than he has with his wife. He sets up the friend of his youth Emilie in an apartment only to have her two-time him. He comforts the...

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