Theatre Night(1957)

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3 Seasons
Drama

Overview

A BBC television series of forty-five-minute excerpts from stage plays running in London.

Created By: John Vernon

Episodes

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Ep 1

The Bride and the Bachelor

Internalised father issues cause a bride to experience cold feet on her wedding day.

21/01/195745 min
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Ep 2

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.

28/01/1957
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Ep 3

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.

18/02/195745 min
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Ep 4

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.

04/03/195745 min
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Ep 5

Olive Ogilvie

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18/03/195745 min
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Ep 6

Sailor Beware

An imminent wedding is endangered by a domineering matriarch.

31/03/195745 min
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Ep 7

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.

27/05/195745 min
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Ep 8

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.

04/06/195745 min
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Ep 9

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.

12/06/195745 min
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Ep 10

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.

01/07/195745 min
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Ep 11

Six Months' Grace

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08/07/195745 min
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Ep 12

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.

12/08/195745 min
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Ep 13

Blood Upon the Rose

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27/08/195745 min
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Ep 14

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.

02/09/195745 min
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Ep 15

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.

16/09/195745 min
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Ep 16

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?

28/11/195745 min
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Ep 17

Winter Wonderland

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12/01/195845 min
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Ep 18

The Happy Man

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21/01/195845 min
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Ep 19

A Touch of the Sun

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11/02/195845 min
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Ep 20

Simple Spymen

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10/04/195845 min
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Ep 21

Breath of Spring

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29/04/195845 min
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Ep 22

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.

15/05/195845 min
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Ep 23

Flowering Cherry

Jim Cherry has the opportunity to change his life - will he take the risk?

05/06/195845 min
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Ep 24

What Shall We Tell Caroline?

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26/06/195845 min

Show Info

StatusEnded
NetworkBBC Television
TypeScripted