Theatre Night (1957)
Synopsis
A BBC television series of forty-five-minute excerpts from stage plays running in London.
First Air Date: 1957-01-21
Last Air Date: 1961-08-24
Number of Seasons: 3
Number of Episodes: 55
Created By: John Vernon
Networks: BBC Television
Top Cast
- Peter Sellers as The Sultan
- Timothy Bateson as Uruq Ubaita
- John Wood as The Wall
- Milo O’Shea as Shawn Keogh
- Cicely Courtneidge as Isabel Kilpatrick
- Jill Raymond as Serena Kilpatrick
- Robertson Hare as Jason Kilpatrick
- Maggie McCourt as Barbara Kilpatrick
- Viola Lyel as Blodwen
- Warren Stanhope as Joe Tilney
Seasons
Series 1 (1957)
No overview available for this season.
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Ep. 5: Olive Ogilvie
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Ep. 6: Sailor Beware
An imminent wedding is endangered by a domineering matriarch.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Ep. 10: Dear Delinqient
An engaged man begins to fall for another woman. Fortunately, his fiancee is loathsome, making his decision easier, though the audience is left wondering why it takes the entire play to decide it, and why he was ever engaged to the less than pleasant woman in the first place.
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Ep. 11: Six Months' Grace
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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.
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Ep. 13: Blood Upon the Rose
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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.
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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.
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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 an unconventional millionaire, Biddle. His daughter Cordelia tires of the unusual antics of her father--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?
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Ep. 17: Winter Wonderland
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Ep. 18: The Happy Man
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Ep. 19: A Touch of the Sun
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Ep. 20: Simple Spymen
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Ep. 21: Breath of Spring
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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.
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Ep. 23: Flowering Cherry
Jim Cherry has the opportunity to change his life - will he take the risk?
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Ep. 24: What Shall We Tell Caroline?
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