Theatre Night
A BBC television series of forty-five-minute excerpts from stage plays running in London.
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Season 2
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E1
Brouhaha
An extract from a current West End theatre production, a farcical comedy set in a far-off country.
Sep 18, 1958 -
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E2
The Heart's a Wonder
A Man comes into a pub and boasts that he has just killed his father. Instead of condemning him for the crime, the locals revel in his story and praise him for his deed, with the daughter of the landlord falling for this "dashing hero". Things take an even more surprising turn, when the father enters the pub. Based on John Millington Synge's play The Playboy of the Western World.
Sep 30, 1958 -
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E3
Living for Pleasure
Nov 18, 1958 -
4
E4
Expresso Bongo
An unscrupulous small-time promoter discovers a young singer and determines to make him a star.
Dec 11, 1958 -
5
E5
Not in the Book
Dec 16, 1958 -
6
E6
Eighty in the Shade
Jan 29, 1959 -
7
E7
Hook, Line and Sinker
Feb 12, 1959 -
8
E8
A Day in the Life of...
Mar 5, 1959 -
9
E9
The Long and the Short and the Tall
Psychological drama about a British patrol in the Burmese jungle who fall out among themselves.
Apr 9, 1959 -
10
E10
Fool's Paradise
May 25, 1959 -
11
E11
How Say You?
May 28, 1959 -
12
E12
Let Them Eat Cake
Jun 2, 1959 -
13
E13
Gilt and Gingerbread
Jun 7, 1959 -
14
E14
Caught Napping
Aug 11, 1959 -
15
E15
The Ring of Truth
Sep 15, 1959 -
16
E16
The Grass Is Greener
A handsome stranger disturbs the marriage of the Earl and Countess of Rhyall.
Sep 29, 1959 -
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E17
Rollo
Nov 10, 1959 -
18
E18
And Suddenly It's Spring
Dec 1, 1959 -
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E19
The Amourous Prawn
A general's wife turns his official home into a hotel for wealthy Americans.
Jan 20, 1960 -
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E20
The More the Merrier
Feb 17, 1960 -
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E21
A Clean Kill
Mar 16, 1960