Highlights
Theatre Night

Theatre Night - Series 2 (1958)

Series 2 Episodes

1. Brouhaha

September 18th, 1958

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

2. The Heart's a Wonder

September 30th, 1958

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. Living for Pleasure

November 18th, 1958

4. Expresso Bongo

December 11th, 1958

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

5. Not in the Book

December 16th, 1958

6. Eighty in the Shade

January 29th, 1959

7. Hook, Line and Sinker

February 12th, 1959

8. A Day in the Life of...

March 5th, 1959

9. The Long and the Short and the Tall

April 9th, 1959

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

10. Fool's Paradise

May 25th, 1959

11. How Say You?

May 28th, 1959

12. Let Them Eat Cake

June 2nd, 1959

13. Gilt and Gingerbread

June 7th, 1959

14. Caught Napping

August 11th, 1959

15. The Ring of Truth

September 15th, 1959

16. The Grass Is Greener

September 29th, 1959

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

17. Rollo

November 10th, 1959

18. And Suddenly It's Spring

December 1st, 1959

19. The Amourous Prawn

January 20th, 1960

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

20. The More the Merrier

February 17th, 1960

21. A Clean Kill

March 16th, 1960

All Seasons

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