Theatre Night (Staffel 1)

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

  • Poster for The Bride and the Bachelor

    The Bride and the Bachelor (Folge 1)

    Autor: Ronald Millar

    Sendedatum: 1957-01-21

    Laufzeit: 45 min

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

  • Poster for Romanoff and Juliet

    Romanoff and Juliet (Folge 2)

    Autor: Peter Ustinov

    Sendedatum: 1957-01-28

    Übersicht: In the smallest country in the world, the daughter of the American ambassador falls in love with the son of the Russian ambassador. Oops.

  • Poster for The Member of the Wedding

    The Member of the Wedding (Folge 3)

    Autor: Carson McCullers

    Sendedatum: 1957-02-18

    Laufzeit: 45 min

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

  • Poster for Subway in the Sky

    Subway in the Sky (Folge 4)

    Autor: Ian Main

    Sendedatum: 1957-03-04

    Laufzeit: 45 min

    Übersicht: 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.

  • Poster for Olive Ogilvie

    Olive Ogilvie (Folge 5)

    Autor: Henry Denker

    Sendedatum: 1957-03-18

    Laufzeit: 45 min

  • Poster for Sailor Beware

    Sailor Beware (Folge 6)

    Autor: Falkland L. Cary

    Sendedatum: 1957-03-31

    Laufzeit: 45 min

    Übersicht: An imminent wedding is endangered by a domineering matriarch.

  • Poster for Summer of the Seventeenth Doll

    Summer of the Seventeenth Doll (Folge 7)

    Autor: Ray Lawler

    Sendedatum: 1957-05-27

    Laufzeit: 45 min

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

  • Poster for The Lovebirds

    The Lovebirds (Folge 8)

    Autor: Basil Thomas

    Sendedatum: 1957-06-04

    Laufzeit: 45 min

    Übersicht: 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.

  • Poster for Zuleika

    Zuleika (Folge 9)

    Autor: James Ferman

    Sendedatum: 1957-06-12

    Laufzeit: 45 min

    Übersicht: 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.

  • Poster for Dear Delinqient

    Dear Delinqient (Folge 10)

    Autor: Jack Popplewell

    Sendedatum: 1957-07-01

    Laufzeit: 45 min

    Übersicht: 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.

  • Poster for Six Months' Grace

    Six Months' Grace (Folge 11)

    Autor: Dundas Hamilton

    Sendedatum: 1957-07-08

    Laufzeit: 45 min

  • Poster for Silver Wedding

    Silver Wedding (Folge 12)

    Autor: Michael Clayton Hutton

    Sendedatum: 1957-08-12

    Laufzeit: 45 min

    Übersicht: 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.

  • Poster for Blood Upon the Rose

    Blood Upon the Rose (Folge 13)

    Autor: George Scott-Moncrieff

    Sendedatum: 1957-08-27

    Laufzeit: 45 min

  • Poster for Meet Me by Moonlight

    Meet Me by Moonlight (Folge 14)

    Autor: Anthony Lesser

    Sendedatum: 1957-09-02

    Laufzeit: 45 min

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

  • Poster for Nekrassov

    Nekrassov (Folge 15)

    Autor: Jean-Paul Sartre

    Sendedatum: 1957-09-16

    Laufzeit: 45 min

    Übersicht: 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.

  • Poster for The Happiest Millionaire

    The Happiest Millionaire (Folge 16)

    Autor: Kyle Crichton

    Sendedatum: 1957-11-28

    Laufzeit: 45 min

    Übersicht: 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?

  • Poster for Winter Wonderland

    Winter Wonderland (Folge 17)

    Sendedatum: 1958-01-12

    Laufzeit: 45 min

  • Poster for The Happy Man

    The Happy Man (Folge 18)

    Autor: Margaret Vyner

    Sendedatum: 1958-01-21

    Laufzeit: 45 min

  • Poster for A Touch of the Sun

    A Touch of the Sun (Folge 19)

    Autor: N.C. Hunter

    Sendedatum: 1958-02-11

    Laufzeit: 45 min

  • Poster for Simple Spymen

    Simple Spymen (Folge 20)

    Autor: John T. Chapman

    Sendedatum: 1958-04-10

    Laufzeit: 45 min

  • Poster for Breath of Spring

    Breath of Spring (Folge 21)

    Autor: Peter Coke

    Sendedatum: 1958-04-29

    Laufzeit: 45 min

  • Poster for Any Other Business

    Any Other Business (Folge 22)

    Autor: Campbell Singer

    Sendedatum: 1958-05-15

    Laufzeit: 45 min

    Übersicht: 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.

  • Poster for Flowering Cherry

    Flowering Cherry (Folge 23)

    Autor: Robert Bolt

    Sendedatum: 1958-06-05

    Laufzeit: 45 min

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

  • Poster for What Shall We Tell Caroline?

    What Shall We Tell Caroline? (Folge 24)

    Autor: John Mortimer

    Sendedatum: 1958-06-26

    Laufzeit: 45 min

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