Theatre Night (Season 1)

The Bride and the Bachelor (Episode 1)

Writer: Ronald Millar

Air date: 1957-01-21

Runtime: 45 min

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

Romanoff and Juliet (Episode 2)

Writer: Peter Ustinov

Air date: 1957-01-28

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

The Member of the Wedding (Episode 3)

Writer: Carson McCullers

Air date: 1957-02-18

Runtime: 45 min

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

Subway in the Sky (Episode 4)

Writer: Ian Main

Air date: 1957-03-04

Runtime: 45 min

Overview: 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.

Olive Ogilvie (Episode 5)

Writer: Henry Denker

Air date: 1957-03-18

Runtime: 45 min

Sailor Beware (Episode 6)

Writer: Falkland L. Cary

Air date: 1957-03-31

Runtime: 45 min

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

Summer of the Seventeenth Doll (Episode 7)

Writer: Ray Lawler

Air date: 1957-05-27

Runtime: 45 min

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

The Lovebirds (Episode 8)

Writer: Basil Thomas

Air date: 1957-06-04

Runtime: 45 min

Overview: 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.

Zuleika (Episode 9)

Writer: James Ferman

Air date: 1957-06-12

Runtime: 45 min

Overview: 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.

Dear Delinqient (Episode 10)

Writer: Jack Popplewell

Air date: 1957-07-01

Runtime: 45 min

Overview: 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.

Six Months' Grace (Episode 11)

Air date: 1957-07-08

Runtime: 45 min

Silver Wedding (Episode 12)

Writer: Michael Clayton Hutton

Air date: 1957-08-12

Runtime: 45 min

Overview: 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.

Blood Upon the Rose (Episode 13)

Writer: George Scott-Moncrieff

Air date: 1957-08-27

Runtime: 45 min

Meet Me by Moonlight (Episode 14)

Writer: Anthony Lesser

Air date: 1957-09-02

Runtime: 45 min

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

Nekrassov (Episode 15)

Writer: Jean-Paul Sartre

Air date: 1957-09-16

Runtime: 45 min

Overview: 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.

The Happiest Millionaire (Episode 16)

Writer: Kyle Crichton

Air date: 1957-11-28

Runtime: 45 min

Overview: 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?

Winter Wonderland (Episode 17)

Air date: 1958-01-12

Runtime: 45 min

The Happy Man (Episode 18)

Writer: Margaret Vyner

Air date: 1958-01-21

Runtime: 45 min

A Touch of the Sun (Episode 19)

Writer: N.C. Hunter

Air date: 1958-02-11

Runtime: 45 min

Simple Spymen (Episode 20)

Writer: John T. Chapman

Air date: 1958-04-10

Runtime: 45 min

Breath of Spring (Episode 21)

Writer: Peter Coke

Air date: 1958-04-29

Runtime: 45 min

Any Other Business (Episode 22)

Writer: Campbell Singer

Air date: 1958-05-15

Runtime: 45 min

Overview: 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.

Flowering Cherry (Episode 23)

Writer: Robert Bolt

Air date: 1958-06-05

Runtime: 45 min

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

What Shall We Tell Caroline? (Episode 24)

Writer: John Mortimer

Air date: 1958-06-26

Runtime: 45 min