
Theatre Night
1957 · 3 seasons · 55 episodes · Ended · BBC Television
Drama
A BBC television series of forty-five-minute excerpts from stage plays running in London.
Episodes
- S01E01The Bride and the Bachelor1957-01-2145m
Internalised father issues cause a bride to experience cold feet on her wedding day.
- S01E02Romanoff and Juliet1957-01-28
In the smallest country in the world, the daughter of the American ambassador falls in love with the son of the Russian ambassador. Oops.
- S01E03The Member of the Wedding1957-02-1845m
A young tomboy named Frankie is forced to face her own immaturity as a result her older brother's wedding.
- S01E04Subway in the Sky1957-03-0445m
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.
- S01E05Olive Ogilvie1957-03-1845m
- S01E06Sailor Beware1957-03-3145m
An imminent wedding is endangered by a domineering matriarch.
- S01E07Summer of the Seventeenth Doll1957-05-2745m
A couple of Australian cane-cutters plan their usual annual holiday of boozing and womanizing; but this year it's different.
- S01E08The Lovebirds1957-06-0445m
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.
- S01E09Zuleika1957-06-1245m
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.
- S01E10Dear Delinqient1957-07-0145m
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.
- S01E11Six Months' Grace1957-07-0845m
- S01E12Silver Wedding1957-08-1245m
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.
- S01E13Blood Upon the Rose1957-08-2745m
- S01E14Meet Me by Moonlight1957-09-0245m
A satirical look at Victorian life, set entirely in the drawing room of Henry Mansfield's house in an English provincial town in 1884.
- S01E15Nekrassov1957-09-1645m
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.
- S01E16The Happiest Millionaire1957-11-2845m
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?
- S01E17Winter Wonderland1958-01-1245m
- S01E18The Happy Man1958-01-2145m
- S01E19A Touch of the Sun1958-02-1145m
- S01E20Simple Spymen1958-04-1045m
- S01E21Breath of Spring1958-04-2945m
- S01E22Any Other Business1958-05-1545m
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.
- S01E23Flowering Cherry1958-06-0545m
Jim Cherry has the opportunity to change his life - will he take the risk?
- S01E24What Shall We Tell Caroline?1958-06-2645m
Cast
Raymond HuntleyDr. Rodd, Sir Norman Tullis
Peter SellersThe Sultan
Timothy BatesonUruq Ubaita
John WoodThe Wall
Milo O'SheaShawn Keogh
Cicely CourtneidgeIsabel Kilpatrick- Jill RaymondSerena Kilpatrick
Robertson HareJason Kilpatrick- Maggie McCourtBarbara Kilpatrick
Viola LyelBlodwen
Warren StanhopeJoe Tilney
Naunton WayneSir William Benedick-Barlow