Theatre Night
A BBC television series of forty-five-minute excerpts from stage plays running in London.
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Season 1
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E1
The Bride and the Bachelor
Internalised father issues cause a bride to experience cold feet on her wedding day.
Jan 21, 1957 -
2
E2
Romanoff and Juliet
In the smallest country in the world, the daughter of the American ambassador falls in love with the son of the Russian ambassador. Oops.
Jan 28, 1957 -
3
E3
The Member of the Wedding
A young tomboy named Frankie is forced to face her own immaturity as a result her older brother's wedding.
Feb 18, 1957 -
4
E4
Subway in the Sky
An 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 persuade to help prove his innocence.
Mar 4, 1957 -
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E5
Olive Ogilvie
Mar 18, 1957 -
6
E6
Sailor Beware
An imminent wedding is endangered by a domineering matriarch.
Mar 31, 1957 -
7
E7
Summer of the Seventeenth Doll
A couple of Australian cane-cutters plan their usual annual holiday of boozing and womanizing; but this year it's different.
May 27, 1957 -
8
E8
The Lovebirds
A 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.
Jun 4, 1957 -
9
E9
Zuleika
In 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.
Jun 12, 1957 -
10
E10
Dear Delinqient
An 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 runtime to decide it, and why he was ever engaged to the undesirable woman in the first place.
Jul 1, 1957 -
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E11
Six Months' Grace
Jul 8, 1957 -
12
E12
Silver Wedding
Sir 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. Her gift is a series of love letters Robert had written to different women throughout his career, each of whom Lydia has befriended.
Aug 12, 1957 -
13
E13
Blood Upon the Rose
Aug 27, 1957 -
14
E14
Meet Me by Moonlight
A satirical look at Victorian life, set entirely in the drawing room of Henry Mansfield's house in an English provincial town in 1884.
Sep 2, 1957 -
15
E15
Nekrassov
In 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 up with a great idea, and his boss informa him that he will be fired if no great story comes soon.
Sep 16, 1957 -
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E16
The Happiest Millionaire
Happy 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 unusual antics--especially since the nice young men around town all fear him. Wouldn't you fear a father-in-law that keeps alligators for pets and teaches boxing at his daily Bible courses?
Nov 28, 1957 -
17
E17
Winter Wonderland
Jan 12, 1958 -
18
E18
The Happy Man
Jan 21, 1958 -
19
E19
A Touch of the Sun
Feb 11, 1958 -
20
E20
Simple Spymen
Apr 10, 1958 -
21
E21
Breath of Spring
Apr 29, 1958 -
22
E22
Any Other Business
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.
May 15, 1958 -
23
E23
Flowering Cherry
Jim Cherry has the opportunity to change his life - will he take the risk?
Jun 5, 1958 -
24
E24
What Shall We Tell Caroline?
Jun 26, 1958