Series 2

Theatre NightSeries 2

1958
21 Episodes

Episodes

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S02E01

Brouhaha

An extract from a current West End theatre production, a farcical comedy set in a far-off country.

18 Sept 1958
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S02E02

The Heart's a Wonder

A Man comes into a pub and boasts that he has just killed his father. Instead of condemning him for the crime, the locals revel in his story and praise him for his deed, with the daughter of the landlord falling for this "dashing hero". Things take an even more surprising turn, when the father enters the pub. Based on John Millington Synge's play The Playboy of the Western World.

30 Sept 1958
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S02E03

Living for Pleasure

18 Nov 1958
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S02E04

Expresso Bongo

An unscrupulous small-time promoter discovers a young singer and determines to make him a star.

11 Dec 1958
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S02E05

Not in the Book

16 Dec 1958
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S02E06

Eighty in the Shade

29 Jan 1959
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S02E07

Hook, Line and Sinker

12 Feb 1959
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S02E08

A Day in the Life of...

05 Mar 1959
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S02E09

The Long and the Short and the Tall

Psychological drama about a British patrol in the Burmese jungle who fall out among themselves.

09 Apr 1959
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S02E10

Fool's Paradise

25 May 1959
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S02E11

How Say You?

28 May 1959
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S02E12

Let Them Eat Cake

02 Jun 1959
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S02E13

Gilt and Gingerbread

07 Jun 1959
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S02E14

Caught Napping

11 Aug 1959
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S02E15

The Ring of Truth

15 Sept 1959
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S02E16

The Grass Is Greener

A handsome stranger disturbs the marriage of the Earl and Countess of Rhyall.

29 Sept 1959
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S02E17

Rollo

10 Nov 1959
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S02E18

And Suddenly It's Spring

01 Dec 1959
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S02E19

The Amourous Prawn

A general's wife turns his official home into a hotel for wealthy Americans.

20 Jan 1960
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S02E20

The More the Merrier

17 Feb 1960
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S02E21

A Clean Kill

16 Mar 1960