
Thirty-Minute Theatre
Synopsis
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.
Episodes

Parson's Pleasure
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.
1965-10-07 · 30 min
Give the Clown His Supper
Failure to win in a television quiz proves too much for Stuart and Patricia Pendleton.
1965-10-14 · 30 min
Portrait of a Madonna
1965-10-21 · 30 min
Pay as You Go
1965-10-28 · 30 min
Monica
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.
1965-11-04 · 30 min
Love in Triplicate
1965-11-11 · 30 min
Application Form
1965-11-18 · 30 min
The Late Arrival of the Incoming Aircraft
1965-11-25 · 30 min
Mrs. Bixby and the Colonel's Coat
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.
1965-12-02 · 30 min
Mr. Ponge
1965-12-09 · 30 min
That's Not My Name
1965-12-16 · 30 min
Family Christmas
1965-12-23 · 30 min
The Passenger
1965-12-30 · 30 min
The Flipside
1966-01-03 · 30 min
The Enchanted Night
1966-01-10 · 30 min
Four-Way Incident
1966-01-17 · 30 min
Brothers
1966-01-24 · 30 min
Janni! Oh Janni!
1966-01-31 · 30 min
The Sugar Cubes
1966-02-07 · 30 min
Case Suspended
1966-02-14 · 30 min
Ships of the Line
1966-02-21 · 30 min
Keep on Running
1966-02-28 · 30 min
Not for Just an Hour
1966-03-07 · 30 min
'Twas on a Sunday
1966-03-14 · 30 min
Magnolia Summer
1966-03-28 · 30 min
A Girl's Best Friend
1966-04-04 · 30 min
Emergency Ward 9
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.
1966-04-11 · 30 min
A Letter from the Country
1966-04-18 · 30 min
The Caramel Crisis
1966-04-25 · 30 min
Don't Go Down to the Bingo Mother, Father's Coming to Tea
1966-05-02 · 30 min
The House Mouse
1966-05-09 · 30 min
The Hard Word
1966-05-16 · 30 min
Ella
1966-05-23 · 30 min
The Window
1966-05-30 · 30 min
Friday Night's the Best Night
1966-06-06 · 30 min
A Good Reason for Getting Married
1966-06-13 · 30 min
The Queen Street Girls
1966-06-20 · 30 min
They Put You Where You Are
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