Theatre Night (Season 2)

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

  • Poster for Brouhaha

    Brouhaha (Episode 1)

    Air date: 1958-09-18

    Overview: An extract from a current West End theatre production, a farcical comedy set in a far-off country.

  • Poster for The Heart's a Wonder

    The Heart's a Wonder (Episode 2)

    Air date: 1958-09-30

    Overview: A Man comes into a pub and boasts that he has just killed his father. Instead of condemning him for the crime, the locals revel in his story and praise him for his deed, with the daughter of the landlord falling for this "dashing hero". Things take an even more surprising turn, when the father enters the pub. Based on John Millington Synge's play The Playboy of the Western World.

  • Poster for Living for Pleasure

    Living for Pleasure (Episode 3)

    Air date: 1958-11-18

  • Poster for Expresso Bongo

    Expresso Bongo (Episode 4)

    Air date: 1958-12-11

    Overview: An unscrupulous small-time promoter discovers a young singer and determines to make him a star.

  • Poster for Not in the Book

    Not in the Book (Episode 5)

    Air date: 1958-12-16

  • Poster for Eighty in the Shade

    Eighty in the Shade (Episode 6)

    Air date: 1959-01-29

  • Poster for Hook, Line and Sinker

    Hook, Line and Sinker (Episode 7)

    Air date: 1959-02-12

  • Poster for A Day in the Life of...

    A Day in the Life of... (Episode 8)

    Air date: 1959-03-05

  • Poster for The Long and the Short and the Tall

    The Long and the Short and the Tall (Episode 9)

    Air date: 1959-04-09

    Overview: Psychological drama about a British patrol in the Burmese jungle who fall out among themselves.

  • Poster for Fool's Paradise

    Fool's Paradise (Episode 10)

    Air date: 1959-05-25

  • Poster for How Say You?

    How Say You? (Episode 11)

    Air date: 1959-05-28

  • Poster for Let Them Eat Cake

    Let Them Eat Cake (Episode 12)

    Air date: 1959-06-02

  • Poster for Gilt and Gingerbread

    Gilt and Gingerbread (Episode 13)

    Air date: 1959-06-07

  • Poster for Caught Napping

    Caught Napping (Episode 14)

    Air date: 1959-08-11

  • Poster for The Ring of Truth

    The Ring of Truth (Episode 15)

    Air date: 1959-09-15

  • Poster for The Grass Is Greener

    The Grass Is Greener (Episode 16)

    Air date: 1959-09-29

    Overview: A handsome stranger disturbs the marriage of the Earl and Countess of Rhyall.

  • Poster for Rollo

    Rollo (Episode 17)

    Air date: 1959-11-10

  • Poster for And Suddenly It's Spring

    And Suddenly It's Spring (Episode 18)

    Air date: 1959-12-01

  • Poster for The Amourous Prawn

    The Amourous Prawn (Episode 19)

    Air date: 1960-01-20

    Overview: A general's wife turns his official home into a hotel for wealthy Americans.

  • Poster for The More the Merrier

    The More the Merrier (Episode 20)

    Air date: 1960-02-17

  • Poster for A Clean Kill

    A Clean Kill (Episode 21)

    Air date: 1960-03-16

Theatre Night

Seasons