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Theatre Night

1957 - 1961

The Bride and the Bachelor

21st January 1957
Episode 1
Internalised father issues cause a bride to experience cold feet on her wedding day.

Romanoff and Juliet

28th January 1957
Episode 2
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

18th February 1957
Episode 3
A young tomboy named Frankie is forced to face her own immaturity as a result her older brother's wedding.

Subway in the Sky

4th March 1957
Episode 4
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

18th March 1957
Episode 5
No overview available.

Sailor Beware

31st March 1957
Episode 6
An imminent wedding is endangered by a domineering matriarch.

Summer of the Seventeenth Doll

27th May 1957
Episode 7
A couple of Australian cane-cutters plan their usual annual holiday of boozing and womanizing; but this year it's different.

The Lovebirds

4th June 1957
Episode 8
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

12th June 1957
Episode 9
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

1st July 1957
Episode 10
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.

Six Months' Grace

8th July 1957
Episode 11
No overview available.

Silver Wedding

12th August 1957
Episode 12
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

27th August 1957
Episode 13
No overview available.

Meet Me by Moonlight

2nd September 1957
Episode 14
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

16th September 1957
Episode 15
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

28th November 1957
Episode 16
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?

Winter Wonderland

12th January 1958
Episode 17
No overview available.

The Happy Man

21st January 1958
Episode 18
No overview available.

A Touch of the Sun

11th February 1958
Episode 19
No overview available.

Simple Spymen

10th April 1958
Episode 20
No overview available.

Breath of Spring

29th April 1958
Episode 21
No overview available.

Any Other Business

15th May 1958
Episode 22
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

5th June 1958
Episode 23
Jim Cherry has the opportunity to change his life - will he take the risk?

What Shall We Tell Caroline?

26th June 1958
Episode 24
No overview available.
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A BBC television series of forty-five-minute excerpts from stage plays running in London.

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