Theatre Night
Back to TV Shows
Theatre Night

Theatre Night

0.0(0 votes)
3 Seasons
55 Episodes
January 21, 1957
Drama

Overview

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

Status

Ended

Created By

John Vernon

Network

BBC Television

Advertisement

Seasons & Episodes

Series 1

January 21, 1957
Episodes

Episodes

Episode 1
The Bride and the Bachelor
January 21, 195745m

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

Episode 2
Romanoff and Juliet
January 28, 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.

Episode 3
The Member of the Wedding
February 18, 195745m

A young tomboy named Frankie is forced to face her own immaturity as a result her older brother's wedding.

Episode 4
Subway in the Sky
March 4, 195745m

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.

Episode 5
Olive Ogilvie
March 18, 195745m

No description available.

Episode 6
Sailor Beware
March 31, 195745m

An imminent wedding is endangered by a domineering matriarch.

Episode 7
Summer of the Seventeenth Doll
May 27, 195745m

A couple of Australian cane-cutters plan their usual annual holiday of boozing and womanizing; but this year it's different.

Episode 8
The Lovebirds
June 4, 195745m

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.

Episode 9
Zuleika
June 12, 195745m

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.

Episode 10
Dear Delinqient
July 1, 195745m

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.

Episode 11
Six Months' Grace
July 8, 195745m

No description available.

Episode 12
Silver Wedding
August 12, 195745m

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.

Episode 13
Blood Upon the Rose
August 27, 195745m

No description available.

Episode 14
Meet Me by Moonlight
September 2, 195745m

A satirical look at Victorian life, set entirely in the drawing room of Henry Mansfield's house in an English provincial town in 1884.

Episode 15
Nekrassov
September 16, 195745m

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.

Episode 16
The Happiest Millionaire
November 28, 195745m

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?

Episode 17
Winter Wonderland
January 12, 195845m

No description available.

Episode 18
The Happy Man
January 21, 195845m

No description available.

Episode 19
A Touch of the Sun
February 11, 195845m

No description available.

Episode 20
Simple Spymen
April 10, 195845m

No description available.

Episode 21
Breath of Spring
April 29, 195845m

No description available.

Episode 22
Any Other Business
May 15, 195845m

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.

Episode 23
Flowering Cherry
June 5, 195845m

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

Episode 24
What Shall We Tell Caroline?
June 26, 195845m

No description available.

Advertisement
Advertisement

Similar TV Shows

Advertisement