Theatre Night
TV ShowEnded

Theatre Night

1957
~45 min / ep
3 seasons
55 episodes
Drama

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

    21-01-195745 min

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

  • Ep 2

    2.Romanoff and Juliet

    28-01-1957

    In 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

    18-02-195745 min

    A 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

    04-03-195745 min

    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 pers...

  • Ep 5

    5.Olive Ogilvie

    18-03-195745 min
  • Ep 6

    6.Sailor Beware

    31-03-195745 min

    An imminent wedding is endangered by a domineering matriarch.

  • Ep 7

    7.Summer of the Seventeenth Doll

    27-05-195745 min

    A 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

    04-06-195745 min

    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.

  • Ep 9

    9.Zuleika

    12-06-195745 min

    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.

  • Ep 10

    10.Dear Delinqient

    01-07-195745 min

    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 ru...

  • Ep 11

    11.Six Months' Grace

    08-07-195745 min
  • Ep 12

    12.Silver Wedding

    12-08-195745 min

    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. H...

  • Ep 13

    13.Blood Upon the Rose

    27-08-195745 min
  • Ep 14

    14.Meet Me by Moonlight

    02-09-195745 min

    A 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

    16-09-195745 min

    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 u...

  • Ep 16

    16.The Happiest Millionaire

    28-11-195745 min

    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...

  • Ep 17

    17.Winter Wonderland

    12-01-195845 min
  • Ep 18

    18.The Happy Man

    21-01-195845 min
  • Ep 19

    19.A Touch of the Sun

    11-02-195845 min
  • Ep 20

    20.Simple Spymen

    10-04-195845 min
  • Ep 21

    21.Breath of Spring

    29-04-195845 min
  • Ep 22

    22.Any Other Business

    15-05-195845 min

    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 23

    23.Flowering Cherry

    05-06-195845 min

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

  • Ep 24

    24.What Shall We Tell Caroline?

    26-06-195845 min

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