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Theatre Night

Series 2

1958 · 21 episodes

  1. 1. Brouhaha

    1958-09-18

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

  2. 2. The Heart's a Wonder

    1958-09-30

    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.

  3. 3. Living for Pleasure

    1958-11-18

  4. 4. Expresso Bongo

    1958-12-11

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

  5. 5. Not in the Book

    1958-12-16

  6. 6. Eighty in the Shade

    1959-01-29

  7. 7. Hook, Line and Sinker

    1959-02-12

  8. 8. A Day in the Life of...

    1959-03-05

  9. 9. The Long and the Short and the Tall

    1959-04-09

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

  10. 10. Fool's Paradise

    1959-05-25

  11. 11. How Say You?

    1959-05-28

  12. 12. Let Them Eat Cake

    1959-06-02

  13. 13. Gilt and Gingerbread

    1959-06-07

  14. 14. Caught Napping

    1959-08-11

  15. 15. The Ring of Truth

    1959-09-15

  16. 16. The Grass Is Greener

    1959-09-29

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

  17. 17. Rollo

    1959-11-10

  18. 18. And Suddenly It's Spring

    1959-12-01

  19. 19. The Amourous Prawn

    1960-01-20

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

  20. 20. The More the Merrier

    1960-02-17

  21. 21. A Clean Kill

    1960-03-16

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