Thirty-Minute Theatre

Thirty-Minute Theatre

1965 8 Seasons 285 Episodes ⭐ 4.2 Drama

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.

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.

Seasons & Episodes

EP 1

Parson's Pleasure

An unscrupulous antiques dealer with a method for acquiring invaluable antiques in the countryside, stumbles upon a pric

EP 2

Give the Clown His Supper

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

EP 3

Portrait of a Madonna

EP 4

Pay as You Go

EP 5

Monica

Simon is trying to convince his mistress, Monica, to leave her husband by staging a suicide. But instead of Monica showi

EP 6

Love in Triplicate

EP 7

Application Form

EP 8

The Late Arrival of the Incoming Aircraft

EP 9

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 love

EP 10

Mr. Ponge

EP 11

That's Not My Name

EP 12

Family Christmas

EP 13

The Passenger

EP 14

The Flipside

EP 15

The Enchanted Night

EP 16

Four-Way Incident

EP 17

Brothers

EP 18

Janni! Oh Janni!

EP 19

The Sugar Cubes

EP 20

Case Suspended

EP 21

Ships of the Line

EP 22

Keep on Running

EP 23

Not for Just an Hour

EP 24

'Twas on a Sunday

EP 25

Magnolia Summer

EP 26

A Girl's Best Friend

EP 27

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 th

EP 28

A Letter from the Country

EP 29

The Caramel Crisis

EP 30

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

EP 31

The House Mouse

EP 32

The Hard Word

EP 33

Ella

EP 34

The Window

EP 35

Friday Night's the Best Night

EP 36

A Good Reason for Getting Married

EP 37

The Queen Street Girls

EP 38

They Put You Where You Are

EP 1

The Other Fella

EP 2

The Devil and All His Mischief

EP 3

The Spoken Word

EP 4

The Sounds of War

EP 5

The Excavation

The jury gave a verdict, mister. But you came here. Why? Because I was off a chain gang and Jackie used to hustle.' An A

EP 6

Play to Win

EP 7

Confession

EP 8

Wife in a Blonde Wig

EP 9

O-Gosh!

EP 10

First Catch Your Hare...

EP 11

Brainscrew

EP 12

The Towers of Manhattan

EP 13

Taste

At a dinner party, the host hints that one of his guests, an appalling wine snob, will not be able to identify a particu

EP 14

R.S.V.P.

EP 15

The Suede Jacket

EP 16

Oldenberg

EP 17

Later a Man Was Questioned

EP 18

Teeth

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

EP 19

Turn Off If You Know the Ending

Carol deserts her husband and son for her lover.

EP 20

An Absolute Treasure

EP 21

Go Tell It on Table Mountain

EP 22

Taffy Came to My House

EP 23

Who Were You With Last Night?

EP 24

Two and Two Make Twenty Two

EP 25

Wanted

EP 26

The Gun

EP 27

Failpass

EP 28

Boa Constrictor

EP 29

The Isle is Full of Noises

EP 30

Silver Wedding

EP 31

The Sufferings of Peter Obiznov

EP 32

Haven't You People Got Homes?

EP 33

That Woman

EP 34

The Other Side

EP 35

The Wake

EP 36

Child Marlene

EP 37

Another Moon Called Earth

EP 1

Leave Me Alone

EP 2

The Timekeepers

EP 3

You Meet All Sorts

EP 4

The Tape Recorder

EP 5

The Top Bunk

EP 6

Have It On The House

EP 7

Notice! Meeting In Progress

EP 8

A Time of Wolves and Tigers

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

EP 9

The Keys on the Streets

EP 10

Come Death

Rome, in the latter part of the 19th century. A plague is raging through all that part of Italy, and death is beginning

EP 11

The Metal Martyr

EP 12

A Private Place

EP 13

The News-Benders

EP 14

Diary of an Encounter

Keith Michell portrays a sad man who books a room in an English seaside hotel with a revolver in his luggage and an inte

EP 15

Lovely In Black

EP 16

Happiness Is E Shaped

EP 17

Child's Play

EP 18

Snakes and Reptiles

EP 19

The Unquiet Man

A ventriloquist , shares a few secrets with his dummy.

EP 20

The Interview

EP 21

Eveline

EP 22

A Personal Affair

EP 23

No Trams To Ethiopia

EP 24

Father's Day

EP 25

Pleasant Dreams, Fernando

EP 26

The Sinner

EP 27

It's On You, John

EP 28

Standing By For Santa Claus

EP 29

Empty Bottles

EP 30

Thank God for U.D.I.!

A black Rhodesian and a white Rhodesian meet in London.

EP 31

Still Death

EP 32

Walk In The Dark

EP 33

The Boy's Room

A couple wait for their son to return from Vietnam.

EP 34

Number 30, Approximately

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

EP 35

A Question of Honour

EP 1

Baby

EP 2

A Matter of Principle

EP 3

The Flag

EP 4

The Chequers Manoeuvre

EP 5

Something To Hide: The First Floor

EP 6

Something To Hide: The Studio

EP 7

Something To Hide: The Caretaker's Flat

EP 8

Of Public Concern

EP 9

Cause of Death

EP 10

The Last Victim

EP 11

Loving Israel

EP 12

The Bishop and the Actress

EP 13

Before Breakfast

EP 14

Cross Examine

EP 15

Swallowing the Anchor

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

EP 16

Game, Set and Match

EP 17

Where Have They Gone, All The Little Children

EP 18

Absolute Aggers and Torters

A young couple like to change their clothes and personalities to suit the people they've invited to dinner. But one nigh

EP 19

These Men Are Dangerous: Mussolini

EP 20

These Men Are Dangerous: Hitler

EP 21

These Men Are Dangerous: Stalin

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

EP 22

Stake Money

EP 23

First Confession

EP 24

The Boat To Addis Ababa

EP 25

A Hot Day

EP 26

Roses, Roses, All The Way

EP 27

The Victims: A Degree of Stress

EP 28

The Victims: Frontier

EP 29

The Victims: Progressive Blues

EP 30

Invasion

A small group of middle class people are sitting around a table in a windowless room enjoying a dinner party as the TV i

EP 31

A Nice Cool Pad in the Sky

EP 32

Anything You Say

EP 33

Conversation at Night

EP 34

Roly Poly

EP 35

...And Was Invited to Form a Government

EP 36

A Borderline Case

EP 1

Remote Control

EP 2

Gangster

EP 3

Trial

EP 4

A Formula for Treason

EP 5

Someone's Knocking at Me Door

EP 6

Trespassers

EP 7

Aggers and Torters: Back to Nature

EP 8

Aggers and Torters: Psy-Fi

EP 9

Aggers and Torters: Hickory Dickory

EP 10

Lecture to an Academy

EP 11

The Switch

EP 12

The Discharge of Trooper Lusby

EP 13

Laffin' Gas

EP 14

The Chief Whip Sends His Compliments

EP 15

Reparation

EP 16

The Scarecrows

EP 17

Laying It Off For Spangle

EP 18

Home Is Where You Hang Your Hat

EP 19

What a Pity You Can't Stay Longer

EP 20

Out of Sight, Out of Mind

EP 21

Meanwhile Back at the Office

EP 22

All My Own Army

EP 23

Whispers

EP 24

Revolutions: Cromwell

EP 25

Revolutions: Lenin

EP 26

Revolutions: Fidel Castro

EP 27

Is That Your Body, Boy?

EP 28

The Tidewatchers

EP 29

Twenty-Six Efforts at Pornography

EP 30

Lilly: Part 1

EP 31

Lilly: Part 2

EP 32

Ben

EP 33

An Uncertain Sound

EP 34

Hope

EP 35

Good Times

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

EP 36

Tropical Wednesdays

EP 1

The Raid

EP 2

The Year of the Crow

EP 3

Did Your Nanny Come from Bergen?

EP 4

Tribunal

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

EP 5

Helen

EP 6

The Warmonger

EP 7

The Editor Regrets

EP 8

Waugh on Crime: In Which Inspector Waugh Settles an Account

Inspector Waugh is asked to visit his bank manager, who needs some discreet help. Commander Browne formed the British Fr

EP 9

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

Inspector Waugh investigates an hit and run after a car driving on the wrong side of the road puts Mr Watkins in hospita

EP 10

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

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'

EP 11

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

The Mallows return from a three month holiday to discover their house has been broke in to. Inspector Waugh learns nothi

EP 12

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

Inspector Waugh is called to the house of Cynthia Holmes to look into the disappearance of her10-year-old son Peter. Wau

EP 13

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

Inspector Waugh is looking for a robber from Liverpool, who he believes is in disguise and attempting to leave by boat.

EP 14

But Now They Are Fled

EP 15

Faith

EP 16

Terrible Jim Fitch

EP 17

The Bequest

EP 18

Me MacKenna

EP 19

The Proposal

EP 20

Asquith in Orbit

EP 21

Happy Days Are Here Again

EP 22

The Railway Man's New Clothes

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

EP 23

No Charge for the Extra Service

EP 24

A Distinct Chill

EP 25

The Waiting Room

EP 26

Listen to the Drums

EP 27

Death's Head

EP 28

Jilly

EP 29

Something for the Children

EP 30

The Room They Left

EP 31

Seven Days in the Life of Andrew Pelham: Crisis

EP 32

Seven Days in the Life of Andrew Pelham: Suspect

EP 33

Seven Days in the Life of Andrew Pelham: Inquiry

EP 34

Seven Days in the Life of Andrew Pelham: Retreat

EP 35

Seven Days in the Life of Andrew Pelham: Deadlock

EP 36

Seven Days in the Life of Andrew Pelham: Breakthrough

EP 37

Seven Days in the Life of Andrew Pelham: Decision

EP 1

Walt, King of the Dumper

EP 2

Soldier Ants

EP 3

Gun Play

EP 4

Combing Down His Yellow Hair

EP 5

The Moonlighters

EP 6

Getting In

EP 7

Psychological Warfare

EP 8

A Settled Sort of Life

EP 9

The Gardeners of My Youth

EP 10

Blues in the Morning

EP 11

Jenkins

EP 12

Allotment

EP 13

Farewell Performance

EP 14

Footprints

EP 15

A Wen

EP 16

Not Counting the Savages

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

EP 17

Uncle Rollo

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

EP 18

They Don't All Open Men's Boutiques

EP 19

The Penthouse Apartment

Morgan the caretaker really doesn't like Mr. and Mrs. Runca, two of the tenants he's supposed to look after - and he pic

EP 20

An Affair of Honour

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

EP 21

An Arrow for Little Audrey

EP 22

That Quiet Earth

EP 23

Said the Preacher

EP 24

That Time of Life

EP 25

Under the Age

Gay bartender Susie applies make-up and holds sway over a quiet bar, responding with suspicion and bitterness to two men

EP 26

Bypass

EP 27

And For My Next Trick

EP 28

The Sit In

EP 29

Mill Hill

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

EP 30

King's Cross Lunch Hour

A romantic rendezvous doesn't quite go as planned.

EP 31

Swiss Cottage

EP 32

Knightsbridge

Francesca has some concerns about her mother's business.

EP 33

Bermondsey

Pip and Bob, both married, are a couple of ordinary working-class blokes in an ordinary London suburb. It's just that th

EP 1

Hands

EP 2

Lushly

EP 3

Too Far

EP 4

Thrills Galore

EP 5

The Argument

EP 6

The Seventh Juror

EP 7

I Spy a Stranger

EP 8

The Judge's Wife

EP 9

Scarborough

Holiday work in the countryside brings three young friends peace and tenderness. The richness and innocence of their exp

EP 10

Tonight We Meet Arthur Pendlebury

EP 11

Ronnie's So Long at the Fair

EP 12

Ten Torrey Canyons

EP 13

I Wouldn't Tell on You, Miss

EP 14

You're Free

EP 15

Dialogue

EP 16

Krapp's Last Tape

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

EP 17

The Chauffeur and the Lady

EP 18

You've Been a Long Time, Alfred

EP 19

The Japanese Student

EP 20

The Punchy and the Fairy

EP 21

Playthings

EP 22

Is Nellie Dead?

EP 23

A Chance Encounter

EP 24

You and Me and Him

EP 25

The Great Acrobile

EP 26

Atrocity

EP 27

Beginning To End

EP 28

Swamp Music

When Pulsford, an ulcerated impresario, stages a competition to find a new pop-group, the only entrant is The Poetic Wor

EP 29

Croust

EP 30

The Baby's Name Being Kitchener

EP 31

Kamikaze in a Coffee Bath

EP 32

About a Bout

EP 33

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