Thirty-Minute Theatre

4.230m19658 seasons

Drama

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.

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Parson's Pleasure

1965-10-07 · 30m

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.

Give the Clown His Supper

1965-10-14 · 30m

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

Portrait of a Madonna

1965-10-21 · 30m

Pay as You Go

1965-10-28 · 30m

Monica

1965-11-04 · 30m

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.

Love in Triplicate

1965-11-11 · 30m

Application Form

1965-11-18 · 30m

The Late Arrival of the Incoming Aircraft

1965-11-25 · 30m

Mrs. Bixby and the Colonel's Coat

1965-12-02 · 30m

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.

Mr. Ponge

1965-12-09 · 30m

That's Not My Name

1965-12-16 · 30m

Family Christmas

1965-12-23 · 30m

The Passenger

1965-12-30 · 30m

The Flipside

1966-01-03 · 30m

The Enchanted Night

1966-01-10 · 30m

Four-Way Incident

1966-01-17 · 30m

Brothers

1966-01-24 · 30m

Janni! Oh Janni!

1966-01-31 · 30m

The Sugar Cubes

1966-02-07 · 30m

Case Suspended

1966-02-14 · 30m

Ships of the Line

1966-02-21 · 30m

Keep on Running

1966-02-28 · 30m

Not for Just an Hour

1966-03-07 · 30m

'Twas on a Sunday

1966-03-14 · 30m

Magnolia Summer

1966-03-28 · 30m

A Girl's Best Friend

1966-04-04 · 30m

Emergency Ward 9

1966-04-11 · 30m

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.

A Letter from the Country

1966-04-18 · 30m

The Caramel Crisis

1966-04-25 · 30m

Don't Go Down to the Bingo Mother, Father's Coming to Tea

1966-05-02 · 30m

The House Mouse

1966-05-09 · 30m

The Hard Word

1966-05-16 · 30m

Ella

1966-05-23 · 30m