Highlights
Theatre Night

Theatre Night - Series 1 (1957)

Series 1 Episodes

1. The Bride and the Bachelor

January 21st, 195745 min

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

2. Romanoff and Juliet

January 28th, 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. The Member of the Wedding

February 18th, 195745 min

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

4. Subway in the Sky

March 4th, 195745 min

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. Olive Ogilvie

March 18th, 195745 min

6. Sailor Beware

March 31st, 195745 min

An imminent wedding is endangered by a domineering matriarch.

7. Summer of the Seventeenth Doll

May 27th, 195745 min

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

8. The Lovebirds

June 4th, 195745 min

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. Zuleika

June 12th, 195745 min

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. Dear Delinqient

July 1st, 195745 min

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. Six Months' Grace

July 8th, 195745 min

12. Silver Wedding

August 12th, 195745 min

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. Blood Upon the Rose

August 27th, 195745 min

14. Meet Me by Moonlight

September 2nd, 195745 min

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. Nekrassov

September 16th, 195745 min

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. The Happiest Millionaire

November 28th, 195745 min

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. Winter Wonderland

January 12th, 195845 min

18. The Happy Man

January 21st, 195845 min

19. A Touch of the Sun

February 11th, 195845 min

20. Simple Spymen

April 10th, 195845 min

21. Breath of Spring

April 29th, 195845 min

22. Any Other Business

May 15th, 195845 min

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. Flowering Cherry

June 5th, 195845 min

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

24. What Shall We Tell Caroline?

June 26th, 195845 min

All Seasons

Series 3
Jul 26, 1960
Series 2
Sep 18, 1958
Series 1
Jan 21, 1957