Theatre Night

1. The Bride and the Bachelor

Air Date: 1957-01-21

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

2. Romanoff and Juliet

Air Date: 1957-01-28

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

Air Date: 1957-02-18

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

Air Date: 1957-03-04

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

Air Date: 1957-03-18

6. Sailor Beware

Air Date: 1957-03-31

An imminent wedding is endangered by a domineering matriarch.

7. Summer of the Seventeenth Doll

Air Date: 1957-05-27

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

8. The Lovebirds

Air Date: 1957-06-04

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

Air Date: 1957-06-12

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

Air Date: 1957-07-01

An engaged man begins to fall for another woman. Fortunately, his fiancee is loathsome, making his decision easier, though the audience is left wondering why it takes the entire play to decide it, and why he was ever engaged to the less than pleasant woman in the first place.

11. Six Months' Grace

Air Date: 1957-07-08

12. Silver Wedding

Air Date: 1957-08-12

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

Air Date: 1957-08-27

14. Meet Me by Moonlight

Air Date: 1957-09-02

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

Air Date: 1957-09-16

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

Air Date: 1957-11-28

Happy and unbelievably lucky young Irish immigrant John Lawless lands a job as the butler of an unconventional millionaire, Biddle. His daughter Cordelia tires of the unusual antics of her father--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

Air Date: 1958-01-12

18. The Happy Man

Air Date: 1958-01-21

19. A Touch of the Sun

Air Date: 1958-02-11

20. Simple Spymen

Air Date: 1958-04-10

21. Breath of Spring

Air Date: 1958-04-29

22. Any Other Business

Air Date: 1958-05-15

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

Air Date: 1958-06-05

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

24. What Shall We Tell Caroline?

Air Date: 1958-06-26

1. Brouhaha

Air Date: 1958-09-18

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

2. The Heart's a Wonder

Air Date: 1958-09-30

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

Air Date: 1958-11-18

4. Expresso Bongo

Air Date: 1958-12-11

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

5. Not in the Book

Air Date: 1958-12-16

6. Eighty in the Shade

Air Date: 1959-01-29

7. Hook, Line and Sinker

Air Date: 1959-02-12

8. A Day in the Life of...

Air Date: 1959-03-05

9. The Long and the Short and the Tall

Air Date: 1959-04-09

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

10. Fool's Paradise

Air Date: 1959-05-25

11. How Say You?

Air Date: 1959-05-28

12. Let Them Eat Cake

Air Date: 1959-06-02

13. Gilt and Gingerbread

Air Date: 1959-06-07

14. Caught Napping

Air Date: 1959-08-11

15. The Ring of Truth

Air Date: 1959-09-15

16. The Grass Is Greener

Air Date: 1959-09-29

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

17. Rollo

Air Date: 1959-11-10

18. And Suddenly It's Spring

Air Date: 1959-12-01

19. The Amourous Prawn

Air Date: 1960-01-20

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

20. The More the Merrier

Air Date: 1960-02-17

21. A Clean Kill

Air Date: 1960-03-16

1. Watch It, Sailor!

Air Date: 1960-07-26

2. The Brides of March

Air Date: 1960-08-23

3. The Gazebo

Air Date: 1960-09-20

4. Billy Liar

Air Date: 1960-11-01

5. The Bride Comes Back

Air Date: 1960-11-29

6. The Tiger and the Horse

Air Date: 1961-01-26

7. Ondine

Air Date: 1961-04-11

8. What a Racket

Air Date: 1961-07-07

9. Celebration

Air Date: 1961-08-03

10. Goodnight Mrs Puffin

Air Date: 1961-08-24