Thirty-Minute Theatre (1965)
Synopsis
An anthology of short plays shown on BBC Television between 1965 and 1973, used in part at least as a training ground for new writers, on account of its short length, and which therefore attracted many writers who later became well known.
First Air Date: 1965-10-07
Last Air Date: 1973-05-17
Number of Seasons: 8
Number of Episodes: 285
Networks: BBC Two
Top Cast
- Donald Sinden as Andrew Pelham
- Clive Swift as Inspector Waugh
- Lee Montague as Rolt
- Leslie Sands as Andrew Bell, the Home Secretary
- Charles Gray as Inspector Waugh
- Keith Barron as Victor
- Tenniel Evans as Mr. Proctor
- John Castle as Benito Mussolini
- Kenneth Colley as Paddy
- Amanda Barrie as Janet
Seasons
Series 1 (1965)
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Ep. 1: Parson's Pleasure
An unscrupulous antiques dealer with a method for acquiring invaluable antiques in the countryside, stumbles upon a priceless chair owned by a less than cooperative family.
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Ep. 2: Give the Clown His Supper
Failure to win in a television quiz proves too much for Stuart and Patricia Pendleton.
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Ep. 3: Portrait of a Madonna
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Ep. 4: Pay as You Go
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Ep. 5: Monica
Simon is trying to convince his mistress, Monica, to leave her husband by staging a suicide. But instead of Monica showing up, a stranger appears, who helps him to carry out the suicide he was staging at the beginning of the play.
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Ep. 6: Love in Triplicate
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Ep. 7: Application Form
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Ep. 8: The Late Arrival of the Incoming Aircraft
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Ep. 9: Mrs. Bixby and the Colonel's Coat
Mrs. Bixby, a dentist's wife, goes alone once a month to the country "to see her aunt"; she's secretly visiting her lover, the Colonel. But when he gives her an expensive coat, she has to devise a way of explaining it to her husband.
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Ep. 10: Mr. Ponge
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Ep. 11: That's Not My Name
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Ep. 12: Family Christmas
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Ep. 13: The Passenger
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Ep. 14: The Flipside
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Ep. 15: The Enchanted Night
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Ep. 16: Four-Way Incident
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Ep. 17: Brothers
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Ep. 18: Janni! Oh Janni!
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Ep. 19: The Sugar Cubes
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Ep. 20: Case Suspended
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Ep. 21: Ships of the Line
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Ep. 22: Keep on Running
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Ep. 23: Not for Just an Hour
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Ep. 24: 'Twas on a Sunday
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Ep. 25: Magnolia Summer
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Ep. 26: A Girl's Best Friend
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Ep. 27: Emergency Ward 9
In this medical drama for the BBC's THIRTY MINUTE THEATER series, a doctor is helpless as an old man dies in pain. In the same ward, three other patients of different backgrounds attempt to deal with the old man's death.
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Ep. 28: A Letter from the Country
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Ep. 29: The Caramel Crisis
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Ep. 30: Don't Go Down to the Bingo Mother, Father's Coming to Tea
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Ep. 31: The House Mouse
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Ep. 32: The Hard Word
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Ep. 33: Ella
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Ep. 34: The Window
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Ep. 35: Friday Night's the Best Night
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Ep. 36: A Good Reason for Getting Married
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Ep. 37: The Queen Street Girls
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Ep. 38: They Put You Where You Are
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