Series 1

Theatre NightSeries 1

1957
24 Episodes

Episodes

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S01E01

The Bride and the Bachelor

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

21 Jan 195745m
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S01E02

Romanoff and Juliet

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

28 Jan 1957
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S01E03

The Member of the Wedding

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

18 Feb 195745m
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S01E04

Subway in the Sky

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.

04 Mar 195745m
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S01E05

Olive Ogilvie

18 Mar 195745m
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S01E06

Sailor Beware

An imminent wedding is endangered by a domineering matriarch.

31 Mar 195745m
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S01E07

Summer of the Seventeenth Doll

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

27 May 195745m
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S01E08

The Lovebirds

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.

04 Jun 195745m
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S01E09

Zuleika

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.

12 Jun 195745m
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S01E10

Dear Delinqient

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.

01 Jul 195745m
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S01E11

Six Months' Grace

08 Jul 195745m
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S01E12

Silver Wedding

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.

12 Aug 195745m
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S01E13

Blood Upon the Rose

27 Aug 195745m
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S01E14

Meet Me by Moonlight

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

02 Sept 195745m
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S01E15

Nekrassov

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 Sept 195745m
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S01E16

The Happiest Millionaire

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?

28 Nov 195745m
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S01E17

Winter Wonderland

12 Jan 195845m
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S01E18

The Happy Man

21 Jan 195845m
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S01E19

A Touch of the Sun

11 Feb 195845m
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S01E20

Simple Spymen

10 Apr 195845m
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S01E21

Breath of Spring

29 Apr 195845m
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S01E22

Any Other Business

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.

15 May 195845m
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S01E23

Flowering Cherry

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

05 Jun 195845m
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S01E24

What Shall We Tell Caroline?

26 Jun 195845m