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Theatre Night

Series 1 · 24 episodes · Jan 21, 1957

  1. Episode 1

    The Bride and the Bachelor

    Jan 21, 1957

    Internalised father issues cause a bride to experience cold feet on her wedding day.

  2. Episode 2

    Romanoff and Juliet

    Jan 28, 1957

    In the smallest country in the world, the daughter of the American ambassador falls in love with the son of the Russian ambassador. Oops.

  3. Episode 3

    The Member of the Wedding

    Feb 18, 1957

    A young tomboy named Frankie is forced to face her own immaturity as a result her older brother's wedding.

  4. Episode 4

    Subway in the Sky

    Mar 4, 1957

    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.

  5. Episode 5

    Olive Ogilvie

    Mar 18, 1957

  6. Episode 6

    Sailor Beware

    Mar 31, 1957

    An imminent wedding is endangered by a domineering matriarch.

  7. Episode 7

    Summer of the Seventeenth Doll

    May 27, 1957

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

  8. Episode 8

    The Lovebirds

    Jun 4, 1957

    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.

  9. Episode 9

    Zuleika

    Jun 12, 1957

    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.

  10. Episode 10

    Dear Delinqient

    Jul 1, 1957

    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.

  11. Episode 11

    Six Months' Grace

    Jul 8, 1957

  12. Episode 12

    Silver Wedding

    Aug 12, 1957

    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.

  13. Episode 13

    Blood Upon the Rose

    Aug 27, 1957

  14. Episode 14

    Meet Me by Moonlight

    Sep 2, 1957

    A satirical look at Victorian life, set entirely in the drawing room of Henry Mansfield's house in an English provincial town in 1884.

  15. Episode 15

    Nekrassov

    Sep 16, 1957

    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.

  16. Episode 16

    The Happiest Millionaire

    Nov 28, 1957

    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?

  17. Episode 17

    Winter Wonderland

    Jan 12, 1958

  18. Episode 18

    The Happy Man

    Jan 21, 1958

  19. Episode 19

    A Touch of the Sun

    Feb 11, 1958

  20. Episode 20

    Simple Spymen

    Apr 10, 1958

  21. Episode 21

    Breath of Spring

    Apr 29, 1958

  22. Episode 22

    Any Other Business

    May 15, 1958

    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.

  23. Episode 23

    Flowering Cherry

    Jun 5, 1958

    Jim Cherry has the opportunity to change his life - will he take the risk?

  24. Episode 24

    What Shall We Tell Caroline?

    Jun 26, 1958