Thirty-Minute Theatre

1. Parson's Pleasure

Air Date: 1965-10-07

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.

2. Give the Clown His Supper

Air Date: 1965-10-14

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

3. Portrait of a Madonna

Air Date: 1965-10-21

4. Pay as You Go

Air Date: 1965-10-28

5. Monica

Air Date: 1965-11-04

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.

6. Love in Triplicate

Air Date: 1965-11-11

7. Application Form

Air Date: 1965-11-18

8. The Late Arrival of the Incoming Aircraft

Air Date: 1965-11-25

9. Mrs. Bixby and the Colonel's Coat

Air Date: 1965-12-02

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.

10. Mr. Ponge

Air Date: 1965-12-09

11. That's Not My Name

Air Date: 1965-12-16

12. Family Christmas

Air Date: 1965-12-23

13. The Passenger

Air Date: 1965-12-30

14. The Flipside

Air Date: 1966-01-03

15. The Enchanted Night

Air Date: 1966-01-10

16. Four-Way Incident

Air Date: 1966-01-17

17. Brothers

Air Date: 1966-01-24

18. Janni! Oh Janni!

Air Date: 1966-01-31

19. The Sugar Cubes

Air Date: 1966-02-07

20. Case Suspended

Air Date: 1966-02-14

21. Ships of the Line

Air Date: 1966-02-21

22. Keep on Running

Air Date: 1966-02-28

23. Not for Just an Hour

Air Date: 1966-03-07

24. 'Twas on a Sunday

Air Date: 1966-03-14

25. Magnolia Summer

Air Date: 1966-03-28

26. A Girl's Best Friend

Air Date: 1966-04-04

27. Emergency Ward 9

Air Date: 1966-04-11

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.

28. A Letter from the Country

Air Date: 1966-04-18

29. The Caramel Crisis

Air Date: 1966-04-25

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

Air Date: 1966-05-02

31. The House Mouse

Air Date: 1966-05-09

32. The Hard Word

Air Date: 1966-05-16

33. Ella

Air Date: 1966-05-23

34. The Window

Air Date: 1966-05-30

35. Friday Night's the Best Night

Air Date: 1966-06-06

36. A Good Reason for Getting Married

Air Date: 1966-06-13

37. The Queen Street Girls

Air Date: 1966-06-20

38. They Put You Where You Are

Air Date: 1966-06-27

1. The Other Fella

Air Date: 1966-10-03

2. The Devil and All His Mischief

Air Date: 1966-10-10

3. The Spoken Word

Air Date: 1966-10-17

4. The Sounds of War

Air Date: 1966-10-24

5. The Excavation

Air Date: 1966-10-31

The jury gave a verdict, mister. But you came here. Why? Because I was off a chain gang and Jackie used to hustle.' An American lawyer challenges the evidence given by a young couple, which has led to the conviction of two boys for rape and murder

6. Play to Win

Air Date: 1966-11-07

7. Confession

Air Date: 1966-11-14

8. Wife in a Blonde Wig

Air Date: 1966-11-21

9. O-Gosh!

Air Date: 1966-11-28

10. First Catch Your Hare...

Air Date: 1966-12-05

11. Brainscrew

Air Date: 1966-12-12

12. The Towers of Manhattan

Air Date: 1966-12-19

13. Taste

Air Date: 1967-01-04

At a dinner party, the host hints that one of his guests, an appalling wine snob, will not be able to identify a particular rare vintage. The snob agrees to make a bet on it, but suggests an unusual stake.

14. R.S.V.P.

Air Date: 1967-01-11

15. The Suede Jacket

Air Date: 1967-01-18

16. Oldenberg

Air Date: 1967-01-26

17. Later a Man Was Questioned

Air Date: 1967-02-01

18. Teeth

Air Date: 1967-02-08

Does Harry, a rather sinister dentist, know that the young man in his chair is having an affair with his wife? And is he does, is he planning some sort of revenge?

19. Turn Off If You Know the Ending

Air Date: 1967-02-15

Carol deserts her husband and son for her lover.

20. An Absolute Treasure

Air Date: 1967-02-22

21. Go Tell It on Table Mountain

Air Date: 1967-03-01

22. Taffy Came to My House

Air Date: 1967-03-08

23. Who Were You With Last Night?

Air Date: 1967-03-15

24. Two and Two Make Twenty Two

Air Date: 1967-03-22

25. Wanted

Air Date: 1967-03-29

26. The Gun

Air Date: 1967-04-12

27. Failpass

Air Date: 1967-04-19

28. Boa Constrictor

Air Date: 1967-04-26

29. The Isle is Full of Noises

Air Date: 1967-05-03

30. Silver Wedding

Air Date: 1967-05-10

31. The Sufferings of Peter Obiznov

Air Date: 1967-05-17

32. Haven't You People Got Homes?

Air Date: 1967-05-24

33. That Woman

Air Date: 1967-05-31

34. The Other Side

Air Date: 1967-06-07

35. The Wake

Air Date: 1967-06-14

36. Child Marlene

Air Date: 1967-06-21

37. Another Moon Called Earth

Air Date: 1967-06-28

1. Leave Me Alone

Air Date: 1967-10-02

2. The Timekeepers

Air Date: 1967-10-09

3. You Meet All Sorts

Air Date: 1967-10-16

4. The Tape Recorder

Air Date: 1967-10-23

5. The Top Bunk

Air Date: 1967-10-30

6. Have It On The House

Air Date: 1967-11-06

7. Notice! Meeting In Progress

Air Date: 1967-11-27

8. A Time of Wolves and Tigers

Air Date: 1967-12-06

An alcoholic civil servant is abandoned by his wife and comes home to an empty house.

9. The Keys on the Streets

Air Date: 1967-12-13

10. Come Death

Air Date: 1967-12-20

Rome, in the latter part of the 19th century. A plague is raging through all that part of Italy, and death is beginning to visit households in the city itself. A rich and famous hostess is determined to crown her social career by giving a splendid ball for the most awesome guest of honour of all--the lordly Death himself.

11. The Metal Martyr

Air Date: 1967-12-27

12. A Private Place

Air Date: 1968-01-03

13. The News-Benders

Air Date: 1968-01-10

14. Diary of an Encounter

Air Date: 1968-01-17

Keith Michell portrays a sad man who books a room in an English seaside hotel with a revolver in his luggage and an intention to shoot himself. Once in his room alone, we watch him silently and sadly unpack the gun, place it in front of him on the table in his room and prepare to do away with himself. He slowly places a bullet in the chamber and positions the gun to his head. At that moment there comes a knock on the door. He hides the gun and answers the door to find a pretty young woman standing there played by Geraldine McEwan.

15. Lovely In Black

Air Date: 1968-01-24

16. Happiness Is E Shaped

Air Date: 1968-01-31

17. Child's Play

Air Date: 1968-02-07

18. Snakes and Reptiles

Air Date: 1968-02-14

19. The Unquiet Man

Air Date: 1968-02-21

A ventriloquist , shares a few secrets with his dummy.

20. The Interview

Air Date: 1968-02-28

21. Eveline

Air Date: 1968-03-06

22. A Personal Affair

Air Date: 1968-03-13

23. No Trams To Ethiopia

Air Date: 1968-03-20

24. Father's Day

Air Date: 1968-03-27

25. Pleasant Dreams, Fernando

Air Date: 1968-04-03

26. The Sinner

Air Date: 1968-04-10

27. It's On You, John

Air Date: 1968-04-24

28. Standing By For Santa Claus

Air Date: 1968-05-01

29. Empty Bottles

Air Date: 1968-05-08

30. Thank God for U.D.I.!

Air Date: 1968-05-15

A black Rhodesian and a white Rhodesian meet in London.

31. Still Death

Air Date: 1968-05-22

32. Walk In The Dark

Air Date: 1968-05-29

33. The Boy's Room

Air Date: 1968-06-05

A couple wait for their son to return from Vietnam.

34. Number 30, Approximately

Air Date: 1968-06-19

A woman's romantic tryst with a married man is interrupted by the arrival of his wife.

35. A Question of Honour

Air Date: 1968-06-26

1. Baby

Air Date: 1968-09-09

2. A Matter of Principle

Air Date: 1968-09-16

3. The Flag

Air Date: 1968-09-23

4. The Chequers Manoeuvre

Air Date: 1968-09-30

5. Something To Hide: The First Floor

Air Date: 1968-10-07

6. Something To Hide: The Studio

Air Date: 1968-10-14

7. Something To Hide: The Caretaker's Flat

Air Date: 1968-10-21

8. Of Public Concern

Air Date: 1968-11-04

9. Cause of Death

Air Date: 1968-11-11

10. The Last Victim

Air Date: 1968-11-18

11. Loving Israel

Air Date: 1968-11-25

12. The Bishop and the Actress

Air Date: 1968-12-02

13. Before Breakfast

Air Date: 1968-12-09

14. Cross Examine

Air Date: 1968-12-16

15. Swallowing the Anchor

Air Date: 1968-12-23

Commander Dusting is used to commanding men and having his slightest wish obeyed. So it comes as a great shock when he suddenly finds himself redundant.

16. Game, Set and Match

Air Date: 1968-12-30

17. Where Have They Gone, All The Little Children

Air Date: 1969-01-06

18. Absolute Aggers and Torters

Air Date: 1969-01-13

A young couple like to change their clothes and personalities to suit the people they've invited to dinner. But one night they forget who their guests are going to be.

19. These Men Are Dangerous: Mussolini

Air Date: 1969-01-20

20. These Men Are Dangerous: Hitler

Air Date: 1969-01-27

21. These Men Are Dangerous: Stalin

Air Date: 1969-02-03

Josef Djugashvili is not a suitable candidate for the priesthood. Revolutionary politics lead him to take the name Stalin.

22. Stake Money

Air Date: 1969-02-13

23. First Confession

Air Date: 1969-02-20

24. The Boat To Addis Ababa

Air Date: 1969-02-27

25. A Hot Day

Air Date: 1969-03-06

26. Roses, Roses, All The Way

Air Date: 1969-03-20

27. The Victims: A Degree of Stress

Air Date: 1969-03-20

28. The Victims: Frontier

Air Date: 1969-03-27

29. The Victims: Progressive Blues

Air Date: 1969-04-03

30. Invasion

Air Date: 1969-04-10

A small group of middle class people are sitting around a table in a windowless room enjoying a dinner party as the TV in the corner reports on events in the Vietnam War. Their trivial chatter, one by one, bores people at the dinner party, who turn their attention to the TV and become encapsulated by the horror of the war and the dinner party continues despite, one by one, each diner being overwhelmed by war scenes and is next seen dead in their seat in the same way as a Vietnamese war victim; meanwhile the babble continues and the guest's demise passes unnoticed, until there is only one left.

31. A Nice Cool Pad in the Sky

Air Date: 1969-04-24

32. Anything You Say

Air Date: 1969-05-01

33. Conversation at Night

Air Date: 1969-05-08

34. Roly Poly

Air Date: 1969-05-15

35. ...And Was Invited to Form a Government

Air Date: 1969-05-22

36. A Borderline Case

Air Date: 1969-05-29

1. Remote Control

Air Date: 1969-09-14

2. Gangster

Air Date: 1969-09-28

3. Trial

Air Date: 1969-10-05

4. A Formula for Treason

Air Date: 1969-10-12

5. Someone's Knocking at Me Door

Air Date: 1969-10-19

6. Trespassers

Air Date: 1969-10-26

7. Aggers and Torters: Back to Nature

Air Date: 1969-11-09

8. Aggers and Torters: Psy-Fi

Air Date: 1969-11-16

9. Aggers and Torters: Hickory Dickory

Air Date: 1969-11-23

10. Lecture to an Academy

Air Date: 1969-12-07

11. The Switch

Air Date: 1969-12-14

12. The Discharge of Trooper Lusby

Air Date: 1969-12-28

13. Laffin' Gas

Air Date: 1970-01-10

14. The Chief Whip Sends His Compliments

Air Date: 1970-01-17

15. Reparation

Air Date: 1970-01-24

16. The Scarecrows

Air Date: 1970-01-31

17. Laying It Off For Spangle

Air Date: 1970-02-07

18. Home Is Where You Hang Your Hat

Air Date: 1970-02-14

19. What a Pity You Can't Stay Longer

Air Date: 1970-02-21

20. Out of Sight, Out of Mind

Air Date: 1970-02-28

21. Meanwhile Back at the Office

Air Date: 1970-03-14

22. All My Own Army

Air Date: 1970-03-28

23. Whispers

Air Date: 1970-04-04

24. Revolutions: Cromwell

Air Date: 1970-04-11

25. Revolutions: Lenin

Air Date: 1970-04-18

26. Revolutions: Fidel Castro

Air Date: 1970-04-25

27. Is That Your Body, Boy?

Air Date: 1970-05-09

28. The Tidewatchers

Air Date: 1970-05-16

29. Twenty-Six Efforts at Pornography

Air Date: 1970-05-23

30. Lilly: Part 1

Air Date: 1970-06-06

31. Lilly: Part 2

Air Date: 1970-06-13

32. Ben

Air Date: 1970-06-20

33. An Uncertain Sound

Air Date: 1970-06-27

34. Hope

Air Date: 1970-07-04

35. Good Times

Air Date: 1970-07-25

A woman advertises her services as a portrait model, but a misunderstanding arises.

36. Tropical Wednesdays

Air Date: 1970-08-01

1. The Raid

Air Date: 1970-09-18

2. The Year of the Crow

Air Date: 1970-10-02

3. Did Your Nanny Come from Bergen?

Air Date: 1970-10-09

4. Tribunal

Air Date: 1970-10-16

During the Czech uprising, a tribunal assembles for the trial of Alexander Dubcek.

5. Helen

Air Date: 1970-10-30

6. The Warmonger

Air Date: 1970-11-13

7. The Editor Regrets

Air Date: 1970-11-27

8. Waugh on Crime: In Which Inspector Waugh Settles an Account

Air Date: 1970-12-04

Inspector Waugh is asked to visit his bank manager, who needs some discreet help. Commander Browne formed the British Freedom Party and sailed for Albania. Since his return, his bank account has been emptied by a man posing as him.

9. Waugh on Crime: In Which Inspector Waugh Meets a Man Going to St. Ives

Air Date: 1970-12-11

Inspector Waugh investigates an hit and run after a car driving on the wrong side of the road puts Mr Watkins in hospital. Watkins claims to be astronomer but his story doesn't hold water. Waugh finds a bag and Watkins criminal record.

10. Waugh on Crime: In Which Inspector Waugh Encounters the English Class System

Air Date: 1970-12-18

P.C. White was chasing a missing dog which leads him to a dead body buried at the Maxwell Reece's garden. She claims it's a tramp but Waugh discovers that her lover died of a heart attack and she doesn't want neighbours to know

11. Waugh on Crime: In Which Inspector Waugh Observes the Truth of an Old Music Hall Song

Air Date: 1970-12-25

The Mallows return from a three month holiday to discover their house has been broke in to. Inspector Waugh learns nothing has been stolen. Burglar Albert Lawless who found £5,000 hidden in locked draw, at the Mallows, and arrested.

12. Waugh on Crime: In Which Inspector Waugh Plays Cops and Robbers

Air Date: 1971-01-01

Inspector Waugh is called to the house of Cynthia Holmes to look into the disappearance of her10-year-old son Peter. Waugh quickly spots that Mrs Holmes is lying about her wealth and the boy has escaped to have fun somewhere else.

13. Waugh on Crime: In Which Inspector Waugh Knows the Criminal but not the Crime

Air Date: 1971-01-08

Inspector Waugh is looking for a robber from Liverpool, who he believes is in disguise and attempting to leave by boat. Arriving is Ephraim, a well. a known villain with no convictions. Waugh knows he's smuggling something, but what?

14. But Now They Are Fled

Air Date: 1971-01-11

15. Faith

Air Date: 1971-01-18

16. Terrible Jim Fitch

Air Date: 1971-01-25

17. The Bequest

Air Date: 1971-02-01

18. Me MacKenna

Air Date: 1971-02-08

19. The Proposal

Air Date: 1971-02-15

20. Asquith in Orbit

Air Date: 1971-02-22

21. Happy Days Are Here Again

Air Date: 1971-03-01

22. The Railway Man's New Clothes

Air Date: 1971-03-08

Mr Lumley's dazzling sales-talk sometimes gets out of control.

23. No Charge for the Extra Service

Air Date: 1971-03-15

24. A Distinct Chill

Air Date: 1971-03-22

25. The Waiting Room

Air Date: 1971-03-29

26. Listen to the Drums

Air Date: 1971-04-05

27. Death's Head

Air Date: 1971-05-24

28. Jilly

Air Date: 1971-05-31

29. Something for the Children

Air Date: 1971-06-07

30. The Room They Left

Air Date: 1971-06-14

31. Seven Days in the Life of Andrew Pelham: Crisis

Air Date: 1971-07-05

32. Seven Days in the Life of Andrew Pelham: Suspect

Air Date: 1971-07-12

33. Seven Days in the Life of Andrew Pelham: Inquiry

Air Date: 1971-07-19

34. Seven Days in the Life of Andrew Pelham: Retreat

Air Date: 1971-07-26

35. Seven Days in the Life of Andrew Pelham: Deadlock

Air Date: 1971-08-02

36. Seven Days in the Life of Andrew Pelham: Breakthrough

Air Date: 1971-08-09

37. Seven Days in the Life of Andrew Pelham: Decision

Air Date: 1971-08-16

1. Walt, King of the Dumper

Air Date: 1971-09-20

2. Soldier Ants

Air Date: 1971-09-27

3. Gun Play

Air Date: 1971-10-04

4. Combing Down His Yellow Hair

Air Date: 1971-10-11

5. The Moonlighters

Air Date: 1971-10-18

6. Getting In

Air Date: 1971-10-25

7. Psychological Warfare

Air Date: 1971-11-01

8. A Settled Sort of Life

Air Date: 1971-11-08

9. The Gardeners of My Youth

Air Date: 1971-11-15

10. Blues in the Morning

Air Date: 1971-11-22

11. Jenkins

Air Date: 1971-11-29

12. Allotment

Air Date: 1971-12-06

13. Farewell Performance

Air Date: 1971-12-13

14. Footprints

Air Date: 1971-12-20

15. A Wen

Air Date: 1971-12-27

16. Not Counting the Savages

Air Date: 1972-01-03

An incident in a graveyard has upset a middle-aged housewife, but her husband couldn't care less.

17. Uncle Rollo

Air Date: 1972-01-10

Uncle Rollo has a bad habit of remembering all the things his nephew Ivor would like to forget.

18. They Don't All Open Men's Boutiques

Air Date: 1972-01-17

19. The Penthouse Apartment

Air Date: 1972-01-24

Morgan the caretaker really doesn't like Mr. and Mrs. Runca, two of the tenants he's supposed to look after - and he picks the worst possible time to let them know it.

20. An Affair of Honour

Air Date: 1972-01-31

If Major Bartholomew isn't insane, why is he playing Russian roulette with a lovelorn subaltern?

21. An Arrow for Little Audrey

Air Date: 1972-02-21

22. That Quiet Earth

Air Date: 1972-02-28

23. Said the Preacher

Air Date: 1972-03-06

24. That Time of Life

Air Date: 1972-03-13

25. Under the Age

Air Date: 1972-03-20

Gay bartender Susie applies make-up and holds sway over a quiet bar, responding with suspicion and bitterness to two men and then two women who enter, all communicating with meanness, innuendo and sniggering.

26. Bypass

Air Date: 1972-03-27

27. And For My Next Trick

Air Date: 1972-04-03

28. The Sit In

Air Date: 1972-04-10

29. Mill Hill

Air Date: 1972-05-22

A dentist discovers his wife on the verge of having an affair with another man - a rival dentist.

30. King's Cross Lunch Hour

Air Date: 1972-05-29

A romantic rendezvous doesn't quite go as planned.

31. Swiss Cottage

Air Date: 1972-06-05

32. Knightsbridge

Air Date: 1972-06-12

Francesca has some concerns about her mother's business.

33. Bermondsey

Air Date: 1972-06-19

Pip and Bob, both married, are a couple of ordinary working-class blokes in an ordinary London suburb. It's just that they have also been gay lovers for years.

1. Hands

Air Date: 1972-08-14

2. Lushly

Air Date: 1972-08-21

3. Too Far

Air Date: 1972-08-28

4. Thrills Galore

Air Date: 1972-09-04

5. The Argument

Air Date: 1972-09-11

6. The Seventh Juror

Air Date: 1972-09-18

7. I Spy a Stranger

Air Date: 1972-09-25

8. The Judge's Wife

Air Date: 1972-10-02

9. Scarborough

Air Date: 1972-10-12

Holiday work in the countryside brings three young friends peace and tenderness. The richness and innocence of their experience carries with it the seeds of painful disintegration.

10. Tonight We Meet Arthur Pendlebury

Air Date: 1972-10-19

11. Ronnie's So Long at the Fair

Air Date: 1972-10-26

12. Ten Torrey Canyons

Air Date: 1972-11-02

13. I Wouldn't Tell on You, Miss

Air Date: 1972-11-09

14. You're Free

Air Date: 1972-11-16

15. Dialogue

Air Date: 1972-11-22

16. Krapp's Last Tape

Air Date: 1972-11-29

On Krapp's 69th birthday, he reviews a tape recording he made the year he was 39 and makes a new recording commenting on the last 12 months.

17. The Chauffeur and the Lady

Air Date: 1972-12-06

18. You've Been a Long Time, Alfred

Air Date: 1972-12-13

19. The Japanese Student

Air Date: 1973-01-03

20. The Punchy and the Fairy

Air Date: 1973-01-10

21. Playthings

Air Date: 1973-01-17

22. Is Nellie Dead?

Air Date: 1973-01-24

23. A Chance Encounter

Air Date: 1973-01-31

24. You and Me and Him

Air Date: 1973-02-22

25. The Great Acrobile

Air Date: 1973-03-01

26. Atrocity

Air Date: 1973-03-15

27. Beginning To End

Air Date: 1973-03-29

28. Swamp Music

Air Date: 1973-04-12

When Pulsford, an ulcerated impresario, stages a competition to find a new pop-group, the only entrant is The Poetic Works. Their act is truly spectacular, too spectacular for Pulsford's own.

29. Croust

Air Date: 1973-04-19

30. The Baby's Name Being Kitchener

Air Date: 1973-04-26

31. Kamikaze in a Coffee Bath

Air Date: 1973-05-03

32. About a Bout

Air Date: 1973-05-10

33. Shakespeare Country

Air Date: 1973-05-17