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Thursday Theatre

1964 - 1965

S1.E1 ∙ Captain Carvallo

8th October 1964
Episode 1
Captain Carvallo's determined pursuit of the beautiful Smilja might cause his death.

S1.E2 ∙ The Cure for Love

15th October 1964
Episode 2
No overview available.

S1.E3 ∙ Any Other Business

22nd October 1964
Episode 3
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.

S1.E4 ∙ Summer of the Seventeenth Doll

29th October 1964
Episode 4
For sixteen years, Barney and Roo, a couple of cane-cutters in Australia, have spent their summer holiday boozing and chasing girls. This year, it's different.

S1.E5 ∙ Write Me a Murder

5th November 1964
Episode 5
When two brothers inherit a fortune, the less successful one plans a murder.

S1.E6 ∙ The Same Sky

12th November 1964
Episode 6
The theme of Romeo and Juliet reworked in an orthodox Jewish household where Jeff who is a Christian falls in love with Juliet. Both families bitterly oppose the relationship. The story is set in wartime, in the East End of London.

S1.E7 ∙ Simon and Laura

19th November 1964
Episode 7
Simon and Laura are married actors - who better for the roles of a happily-married couple in a new TV soap opera? But they're actually on the verge of divorce.

S1.E8 ∙ The Cocktail Party

26th November 1964
Episode 8
Lavinia has left her husband before a cocktail party. They have both had relationships. A foreign guest, Sir Henry, analyzes their marriage and relationship. Will they find their way back to each other again?

S1.E9 ∙ Murder Mistaken

3rd December 1964
Episode 9
Edward Bare has murdered his much older wife and inherited her fortune. Now, he meets the tough, vulgar (and very rich) Freda, who seems attracted to him. Will there be a second murder?

S1.E10 ∙ A Day by the Sea

10th December 1964
Episode 10
No overview available.

S1.E11 ∙ Point of Departure

17th December 1964
Episode 11
No overview available.

S1.E12 ∙ The Young Elizabeth

24th December 1964
Episode 12
No overview available.

S1.E13 ∙ When We Are Married

31st December 1964
Episode 13
No overview available.

S1.E14 ∙ The Flowering Cherry

7th January 1965
Episode 14
Jim Cherry's an ordinary sort of man leading an ordinary sort of life. But it's about to come crashing down around him.

S1.E15 ∙ The Wings of the Dove

14th January 1965
Episode 15
An impoverished woman who has been forced to choose between a privileged life with her wealthy aunt and her journalist lover, befriends an American heiress. When she discovers the heiress is attracted to her own lover and is dying, she sees a chance to have both the privileged life she cannot give up and the lover she cannot live without.

Photo Finish

21st January 1965
Episode 16
Eighty years old, Sam, a famous writer, looks back on his life and tempestuous marriage, and meets himself at the ages of sixty, forty and twenty.

S1.E17 ∙ Johnson Over Jordan

28th January 1965
Episode 17
No overview available.

S1.E18 ∙ Naked Island

11th February 1965
Episode 18
A prisoner-of-war drama set in Japanese-held Singapore, five Australian POWs listen to radio reports of the Allies' advance toward the island.

The Living Room

18th February 1965
Episode 19
Rose Pembleton introduces her new lover, Michael Dennis, to her eccentric family. But they soon learn that Michael is married -- when his suicidal wife arrives at the house.

S1.E20 ∙ Traveller Without Luggage

25th February 1965
Episode 20
No overview available.

S1.E21 ∙ Celebration

4th March 1965
Episode 21
No overview available.

S1.E22 ∙ The Kidders

11th March 1965
Episode 22
No overview available.

S1.E23 ∙ Anatol

18th March 1965
Episode 23
Socialite Anatol Spencer seeks a better relation than he has with his wife. He sets up the friend of his youth Emilie in an apartment only to have her two-time him. He comforts the near suicidal Annie only to have her rob him.
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Thursday Theatre is a UK television anthology series produced by and airing on the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) from 1964–1965. There were twenty-three episodes which included adaptations of the play, The Cocktail Party, by T. S. Eliot, and the novel, The Wings of the Dove, by Henry James. The productions ranged in duration from 75 to 95 minutes. Out of the twenty-three episodes, thirteen are believed to be lost, and one episode is incomplete.

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