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Status: Ended
First Aired: October 7, 1965
Seasons: 8
Episodes: 285
Networks: BBC Two
Genres: Drama

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Thirty-Minute Theatre(1965)

TMDB Rating: 3.4 (7 votes)

Overview

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.

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Season 1

38 episodes • 1965

#	Episode	Air Date
1	Parson's Pleasure	Oct 7, 1965
2	Give the Clown His Supper	Oct 14, 1965
3	Portrait of a Madonna	Oct 21, 1965
4	Pay as You Go	Oct 28, 1965
5	Monica	Nov 4, 1965
6	Love in Triplicate	Nov 11, 1965
7	Application Form	Nov 18, 1965
8	The Late Arrival of the Incoming Aircraft	Nov 25, 1965
9	Mrs. Bixby and the Colonel's Coat	Dec 2, 1965
10	Mr. Ponge	Dec 9, 1965
11	That's Not My Name	Dec 16, 1965
12	Family Christmas	Dec 23, 1965
13	The Passenger	Dec 30, 1965
14	The Flipside	Jan 3, 1966
15	The Enchanted Night	Jan 10, 1966
16	Four-Way Incident	Jan 17, 1966
17	Brothers	Jan 24, 1966
18	Janni! Oh Janni!	Jan 31, 1966
19	The Sugar Cubes	Feb 7, 1966
20	Case Suspended	Feb 14, 1966
21	Ships of the Line	Feb 21, 1966
22	Keep on Running	Feb 28, 1966
23	Not for Just an Hour	Mar 7, 1966
24	'Twas on a Sunday	Mar 14, 1966
25	Magnolia Summer	Mar 28, 1966
26	A Girl's Best Friend	Apr 4, 1966
27	Emergency Ward 9	Apr 11, 1966
28	A Letter from the Country	Apr 18, 1966
29	The Caramel Crisis	Apr 25, 1966
30	Don't Go Down to the Bingo Mother, Father's Coming to Tea	May 2, 1966
31	The House Mouse	May 9, 1966
32	The Hard Word	May 16, 1966
33	Ella	May 23, 1966
34	The Window	May 30, 1966
35	Friday Night's the Best Night	Jun 6, 1966
36	A Good Reason for Getting Married	Jun 13, 1966
37	The Queen Street Girls	Jun 20, 1966
38	They Put You Where You Are	Jun 27, 1966

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Season 2

37 episodes • 1966

#	Episode	Air Date
1	The Other Fella	Oct 3, 1966
2	The Devil and All His Mischief	Oct 10, 1966
3	The Spoken Word	Oct 17, 1966
4	The Sounds of War	Oct 24, 1966
5	The Excavation	Oct 31, 1966
6	Play to Win	Nov 7, 1966
7	Confession	Nov 14, 1966
8	Wife in a Blonde Wig	Nov 21, 1966
9	O-Gosh!	Nov 28, 1966
10	First Catch Your Hare...	Dec 5, 1966
11	Brainscrew	Dec 12, 1966
12	The Towers of Manhattan	Dec 19, 1966
13	Taste	Jan 4, 1967
14	R.S.V.P.	Jan 11, 1967
15	The Suede Jacket	Jan 18, 1967
16	Oldenberg	Jan 26, 1967
17	Later a Man Was Questioned	Feb 1, 1967
18	Teeth	Feb 8, 1967
19	Turn Off If You Know the Ending	Feb 15, 1967
20	An Absolute Treasure	Feb 22, 1967
21	Go Tell It on Table Mountain	Mar 1, 1967
22	Taffy Came to My House	Mar 8, 1967
23	Who Were You With Last Night?	Mar 15, 1967
24	Two and Two Make Twenty Two	Mar 22, 1967
25	Wanted	Mar 29, 1967
26	The Gun	Apr 12, 1967
27	Failpass	Apr 19, 1967
28	Boa Constrictor	Apr 26, 1967
29	The Isle is Full of Noises	May 3, 1967
30	Silver Wedding	May 10, 1967
31	The Sufferings of Peter Obiznov	May 17, 1967
32	Haven't You People Got Homes?	May 24, 1967
33	That Woman	May 31, 1967
34	The Other Side	Jun 7, 1967
35	The Wake	Jun 14, 1967
36	Child Marlene	Jun 21, 1967
37	Another Moon Called Earth	Jun 28, 1967

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Season 3

35 episodes • 1967

#	Episode	Air Date
1	Leave Me Alone	Oct 2, 1967
2	The Timekeepers	Oct 9, 1967
3	You Meet All Sorts	Oct 16, 1967
4	The Tape Recorder	Oct 23, 1967
5	The Top Bunk	Oct 30, 1967
6	Have It On The House	Nov 6, 1967
7	Notice! Meeting In Progress	Nov 27, 1967
8	A Time of Wolves and Tigers	Dec 6, 1967
9	The Keys on the Streets	Dec 13, 1967
10	Come Death	Dec 20, 1967
11	The Metal Martyr	Dec 27, 1967
12	A Private Place	Jan 3, 1968
13	The News-Benders	Jan 10, 1968
14	Diary of an Encounter	Jan 17, 1968
15	Lovely In Black	Jan 24, 1968
16	Happiness Is E Shaped	Jan 31, 1968
17	Child's Play	Feb 7, 1968
18	Snakes and Reptiles	Feb 14, 1968
19	The Unquiet Man	Feb 21, 1968
20	The Interview	Feb 28, 1968
21	Eveline	Mar 6, 1968
22	A Personal Affair	Mar 13, 1968
23	No Trams To Ethiopia	Mar 20, 1968
24	Father's Day	Mar 27, 1968
25	Pleasant Dreams, Fernando	Apr 3, 1968
26	The Sinner	Apr 10, 1968
27	It's On You, John	Apr 24, 1968
28	Standing By For Santa Claus	May 1, 1968
29	Empty Bottles	May 8, 1968
30	Thank God for U.D.I.!	May 15, 1968
31	Still Death	May 22, 1968
32	Walk In The Dark	May 29, 1968
33	The Boy's Room	Jun 5, 1968
34	Number 30, Approximately	Jun 19, 1968
35	A Question of Honour	Jun 26, 1968

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Season 4

36 episodes • 1968

#	Episode	Air Date
1	Baby	Sep 9, 1968
2	A Matter of Principle	Sep 16, 1968
3	The Flag	Sep 23, 1968
4	The Chequers Manoeuvre	Sep 30, 1968
5	Something To Hide: The First Floor	Oct 7, 1968
6	Something To Hide: The Studio	Oct 14, 1968
7	Something To Hide: The Caretaker's Flat	Oct 21, 1968
8	Of Public Concern	Nov 4, 1968
9	Cause of Death	Nov 11, 1968
10	The Last Victim	Nov 18, 1968
11	Loving Israel	Nov 25, 1968
12	The Bishop and the Actress	Dec 2, 1968
13	Before Breakfast	Dec 9, 1968
14	Cross Examine	Dec 16, 1968
15	Swallowing the Anchor	Dec 23, 1968
16	Game, Set and Match	Dec 30, 1968
17	Where Have They Gone, All The Little Children	Jan 6, 1969
18	Absolute Aggers and Torters	Jan 13, 1969
19	These Men Are Dangerous: Mussolini	Jan 20, 1969
20	These Men Are Dangerous: Hitler	Jan 27, 1969
21	These Men Are Dangerous: Stalin	Feb 3, 1969
22	Stake Money	Feb 13, 1969
23	First Confession	Feb 20, 1969
24	The Boat To Addis Ababa	Feb 27, 1969
25	A Hot Day	Mar 6, 1969
26	Roses, Roses, All The Way	Mar 20, 1969
27	The Victims: A Degree of Stress	Mar 20, 1969
28	The Victims: Frontier	Mar 27, 1969
29	The Victims: Progressive Blues	Apr 3, 1969
30	Invasion	Apr 10, 1969
31	A Nice Cool Pad in the Sky	Apr 24, 1969
32	Anything You Say	May 1, 1969
33	Conversation at Night	May 8, 1969
34	Roly Poly	May 15, 1969
35	...And Was Invited to Form a Government	May 22, 1969
36	A Borderline Case	May 29, 1969

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Season 5

36 episodes • 1969

#	Episode	Air Date
1	Remote Control	Sep 14, 1969
2	Gangster	Sep 28, 1969
3	Trial	Oct 5, 1969
4	A Formula for Treason	Oct 12, 1969
5	Someone's Knocking at Me Door	Oct 19, 1969
6	Trespassers	Oct 26, 1969
7	Aggers and Torters: Back to Nature	Nov 9, 1969
8	Aggers and Torters: Psy-Fi	Nov 16, 1969
9	Aggers and Torters: Hickory Dickory	Nov 23, 1969
10	Lecture to an Academy	Dec 7, 1969
11	The Switch	Dec 14, 1969
12	The Discharge of Trooper Lusby	Dec 28, 1969
13	Laffin' Gas	Jan 10, 1970
14	The Chief Whip Sends His Compliments	Jan 17, 1970
15	Reparation	Jan 24, 1970
16	The Scarecrows	Jan 31, 1970
17	Laying It Off For Spangle	Feb 7, 1970
18	Home Is Where You Hang Your Hat	Feb 14, 1970
19	What a Pity You Can't Stay Longer	Feb 21, 1970
20	Out of Sight, Out of Mind	Feb 28, 1970
21	Meanwhile Back at the Office	Mar 14, 1970
22	All My Own Army	Mar 28, 1970
23	Whispers	Apr 4, 1970
24	Revolutions: Cromwell	Apr 11, 1970
25	Revolutions: Lenin	Apr 18, 1970
26	Revolutions: Fidel Castro	Apr 25, 1970
27	Is That Your Body, Boy?	May 9, 1970
28	The Tidewatchers	May 16, 1970
29	Twenty-Six Efforts at Pornography	May 23, 1970
30	Lilly: Part 1	Jun 6, 1970
31	Lilly: Part 2	Jun 13, 1970
32	Ben	Jun 20, 1970
33	An Uncertain Sound	Jun 27, 1970
34	Hope	Jul 4, 1970
35	Good Times	Jul 25, 1970
36	Tropical Wednesdays	Aug 1, 1970

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Season 6

37 episodes • 1970

#	Episode	Air Date
1	The Raid	Sep 18, 1970
2	The Year of the Crow	Oct 2, 1970
3	Did Your Nanny Come from Bergen?	Oct 9, 1970
4	Tribunal	Oct 16, 1970
5	Helen	Oct 30, 1970
6	The Warmonger	Nov 13, 1970
7	The Editor Regrets	Nov 27, 1970
8	Waugh on Crime: In Which Inspector Waugh Settles an Account	Dec 4, 1970
9	Waugh on Crime: In Which Inspector Waugh Meets a Man Going to St. Ives	Dec 11, 1970
10	Waugh on Crime: In Which Inspector Waugh Encounters the English Class System	Dec 18, 1970
11	Waugh on Crime: In Which Inspector Waugh Observes the Truth of an Old Music Hall Song	Dec 25, 1970
12	Waugh on Crime: In Which Inspector Waugh Plays Cops and Robbers	Jan 1, 1971
13	Waugh on Crime: In Which Inspector Waugh Knows the Criminal but not the Crime	Jan 8, 1971
14	But Now They Are Fled	Jan 11, 1971
15	Faith	Jan 18, 1971
16	Terrible Jim Fitch	Jan 25, 1971
17	The Bequest	Feb 1, 1971
18	Me MacKenna	Feb 8, 1971
19	The Proposal	Feb 15, 1971
20	Asquith in Orbit	Feb 22, 1971
21	Happy Days Are Here Again	Mar 1, 1971
22	The Railway Man's New Clothes	Mar 8, 1971
23	No Charge for the Extra Service	Mar 15, 1971
24	A Distinct Chill	Mar 22, 1971
25	The Waiting Room	Mar 29, 1971
26	Listen to the Drums	Apr 5, 1971
27	Death's Head	May 24, 1971
28	Jilly	May 31, 1971
29	Something for the Children	Jun 7, 1971
30	The Room They Left	Jun 14, 1971
31	Seven Days in the Life of Andrew Pelham: Crisis	Jul 5, 1971
32	Seven Days in the Life of Andrew Pelham: Suspect	Jul 12, 1971
33	Seven Days in the Life of Andrew Pelham: Inquiry	Jul 19, 1971
34	Seven Days in the Life of Andrew Pelham: Retreat	Jul 26, 1971
35	Seven Days in the Life of Andrew Pelham: Deadlock	Aug 2, 1971
36	Seven Days in the Life of Andrew Pelham: Breakthrough	Aug 9, 1971
37	Seven Days in the Life of Andrew Pelham: Decision	Aug 16, 1971

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Season 7

33 episodes • 1971

#	Episode	Air Date
1	Walt, King of the Dumper	Sep 20, 1971
2	Soldier Ants	Sep 27, 1971
3	Gun Play	Oct 4, 1971
4	Combing Down His Yellow Hair	Oct 11, 1971
5	The Moonlighters	Oct 18, 1971
6	Getting In	Oct 25, 1971
7	Psychological Warfare	Nov 1, 1971
8	A Settled Sort of Life	Nov 8, 1971
9	The Gardeners of My Youth	Nov 15, 1971
10	Blues in the Morning	Nov 22, 1971
11	Jenkins	Nov 29, 1971
12	Allotment	Dec 6, 1971
13	Farewell Performance	Dec 13, 1971
14	Footprints	Dec 20, 1971
15	A Wen	Dec 27, 1971
16	Not Counting the Savages	Jan 3, 1972
17	Uncle Rollo	Jan 10, 1972
18	They Don't All Open Men's Boutiques	Jan 17, 1972
19	The Penthouse Apartment	Jan 24, 1972
20	An Affair of Honour	Jan 31, 1972
21	An Arrow for Little Audrey	Feb 21, 1972
22	That Quiet Earth	Feb 28, 1972
23	Said the Preacher	Mar 6, 1972
24	That Time of Life	Mar 13, 1972
25	Under the Age	Mar 20, 1972
26	Bypass	Mar 27, 1972
27	And For My Next Trick	Apr 3, 1972
28	The Sit In	Apr 10, 1972
29	Mill Hill	May 22, 1972
30	King's Cross Lunch Hour	May 29, 1972
31	Swiss Cottage	Jun 5, 1972
32	Knightsbridge	Jun 12, 1972
33	Bermondsey	Jun 19, 1972

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Season 8

33 episodes • 1972

#	Episode	Air Date
1	Hands	Aug 14, 1972
2	Lushly	Aug 21, 1972
3	Too Far	Aug 28, 1972
4	Thrills Galore	Sep 4, 1972
5	The Argument	Sep 11, 1972
6	The Seventh Juror	Sep 18, 1972
7	I Spy a Stranger	Sep 25, 1972
8	The Judge's Wife	Oct 2, 1972
9	Scarborough	Oct 12, 1972
10	Tonight We Meet Arthur Pendlebury	Oct 19, 1972
11	Ronnie's So Long at the Fair	Oct 26, 1972
12	Ten Torrey Canyons	Nov 2, 1972
13	I Wouldn't Tell on You, Miss	Nov 9, 1972
14	You're Free	Nov 16, 1972
15	Dialogue	Nov 22, 1972
16	Krapp's Last Tape	Nov 29, 1972
17	The Chauffeur and the Lady	Dec 6, 1972
18	You've Been a Long Time, Alfred	Dec 13, 1972
19	The Japanese Student	Jan 3, 1973
20	The Punchy and the Fairy	Jan 10, 1973
21	Playthings	Jan 17, 1973
22	Is Nellie Dead?	Jan 24, 1973
23	A Chance Encounter	Jan 31, 1973
24	You and Me and Him	Feb 22, 1973
25	The Great Acrobile	Mar 1, 1973
26	Atrocity	Mar 15, 1973
27	Beginning To End	Mar 29, 1973
28	Swamp Music	Apr 12, 1973
29	Croust	Apr 19, 1973
30	The Baby's Name Being Kitchener	Apr 26, 1973
31	Kamikaze in a Coffee Bath	May 3, 1973
32	About a Bout	May 10, 1973
33	Shakespeare Country	May 17, 1973

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