Thirty-Minute Theatre

📊 Series Specifications

Network BBC Two
Episode Runtime ~30 min
Total Seasons 8
Total Episodes 285
Original Language EN

Thirty-Minute Theatre (1965)

⭐ 2.1 / 5 (8 votes) 🎬 8 Seasons 📼 285 Episodes 🏷️ Drama 📡 Ended
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Synopsis

An anthology of short plays shown on BBC Television between 1965 and 1973, used in part at least as a training ground for new writers, on account of its short length, and which therefore attracted many writers who later became well known.

Seasons & Episodes

E1 Parson's Pleasure

An unscrupulous antiques dealer with a method for acquiring invaluable antiques in the countryside, stumbles upon a priceless chair owned by a less than cooperative family.

E2 Give the Clown His Supper

Failure to win in a television quiz proves too much for Stuart and Patricia Pendleton.

E3 Portrait of a Madonna
E5 Monica

Simon is trying to convince his mistress, Monica, to leave her husband by staging a suicide. But instead of Monica showing up, a stranger appears, who helps him to carry out the suicide he was staging at the beginning of the play.

E8 The Late Arrival of the Incoming Aircraft
E9 Mrs. Bixby and the Colonel's Coat

Mrs. Bixby, a dentist's wife, goes alone once a month to the country "to see her aunt"; she's secretly visiting her lover, the Colonel. But when he gives her an expensive coat, she has to devise a way of explaining it to her husband.

E11 That's Not My Name
E15 The Enchanted Night
E23 Not for Just an Hour
E26 A Girl's Best Friend
E27 Emergency Ward 9

In this medical drama for the BBC's THIRTY MINUTE THEATER series, a doctor is helpless as an old man dies in pain. In the same ward, three other patients of different backgrounds attempt to deal with the old man's death.

E28 A Letter from the Country
E29 The Caramel Crisis
E30 Don't Go Down to the Bingo Mother, Father's Coming to Tea
E35 Friday Night's the Best Night
E36 A Good Reason for Getting Married
E37 The Queen Street Girls
E38 They Put You Where You Are
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