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.
Parson's pleasure
Give the clown his supper
Portrait of a madonna
Pay as you go
Monica
Love in triplicate
Application form
The late arrival of the incoming aircraft
Mrs. bixby and the colonel's coat
Mr. ponge
That's not my name
Family christmas
The passenger
The flipside
The enchanted night
Four-way incident
Brothers
Janni! oh janni!
The sugar cubes
Case suspended
Ships of the line
Keep on running
Not for just an hour
'twas on a sunday
Magnolia summer
A girl's best friend
Emergency ward 9
A letter from the country
The caramel crisis
Don't go down to the bingo mother, father's coming to tea
The house mouse
The hard word
Ella
The window
Friday night's the best night
A good reason for getting married
The queen street girls
They put you where you are
The other fella
The devil and all his mischief
The spoken word
The sounds of war
The excavation
Play to win
Confession
Wife in a blonde wig
O-gosh!
First catch your hare...
Brainscrew
The towers of manhattan
Taste
R.s.v.p.
The suede jacket
Oldenberg
Later a man was questioned
Teeth
Turn off if you know the ending
An absolute treasure
Go tell it on table mountain
Taffy came to my house
Who were you with last night?
Two and two make twenty two
Wanted
The gun
Failpass
Boa constrictor
The isle is full of noises
Silver wedding
The sufferings of peter obiznov
Haven't you people got homes?
That woman
The other side
The wake
Child marlene
Another moon called earth
Leave me alone
The timekeepers
You meet all sorts
The tape recorder
The top bunk
Have it on the house
Notice! meeting in progress
A time of wolves and tigers
The keys on the streets
Come death
The metal martyr
A private place
The news-benders
Diary of an encounter
Lovely in black
Happiness is e shaped
Child's play
Snakes and reptiles
The unquiet man
The interview
Eveline
A personal affair
No trams to ethiopia
Father's day
Pleasant dreams, fernando
The sinner
It's on you, john
Standing by for santa claus
Empty bottles
Thank god for u.d.i.!
Still death
Walk in the dark
The boy's room
Number 30, approximately
A question of honour
Baby
A matter of principle
The flag
The chequers manoeuvre
Something to hide: the first floor
Something to hide: the studio
Something to hide: the caretaker's flat
Of public concern
Cause of death
The last victim
Loving israel
The bishop and the actress
Before breakfast
Cross examine
Swallowing the anchor
Game, set and match
Where have they gone, all the little children
Absolute aggers and torters
These men are dangerous: mussolini
These men are dangerous: hitler
These men are dangerous: stalin
Stake money
First confession
The boat to addis ababa
A hot day
Roses, roses, all the way
The victims: a degree of stress
The victims: frontier
The victims: progressive blues
Invasion
A nice cool pad in the sky
Anything you say
Conversation at night
Roly poly
...and was invited to form a government
A borderline case
Remote control
Gangster
Trial
A formula for treason
Someone's knocking at me door
Trespassers
Aggers and torters: back to nature
Aggers and torters: psy-fi
Aggers and torters: hickory dickory
Lecture to an academy
The switch
The discharge of trooper lusby
Laffin' gas
The chief whip sends his compliments
Reparation
The scarecrows
Laying it off for spangle
Home is where you hang your hat
What a pity you can't stay longer
Out of sight, out of mind
Meanwhile back at the office
All my own army
Whispers
Revolutions: cromwell
Revolutions: lenin
Revolutions: fidel castro
Is that your body, boy?
The tidewatchers
Twenty-six efforts at pornography
Lilly: part 1
Lilly: part 2
Ben
An uncertain sound
Hope
Good times
Tropical wednesdays
The raid
The year of the crow
Did your nanny come from bergen?
Tribunal
Helen
The warmonger
The editor regrets
Waugh on crime: in which inspector waugh settles an account
Waugh on crime: in which inspector waugh meets a man going to st. ives
Waugh on crime: in which inspector waugh encounters the english class system
Waugh on crime: in which inspector waugh observes the truth of an old music hall song
Waugh on crime: in which inspector waugh plays cops and robbers
Waugh on crime: in which inspector waugh knows the criminal but not the crime
But now they are fled
Faith
Terrible jim fitch
The bequest
Me mackenna
The proposal
Asquith in orbit
Happy days are here again
The railway man's new clothes
No charge for the extra service
A distinct chill
The waiting room
Listen to the drums
Death's head
Jilly
Something for the children
The room they left
Seven days in the life of andrew pelham: crisis
Seven days in the life of andrew pelham: suspect
Seven days in the life of andrew pelham: inquiry
Seven days in the life of andrew pelham: retreat
Seven days in the life of andrew pelham: deadlock
Seven days in the life of andrew pelham: breakthrough
Seven days in the life of andrew pelham: decision
Walt, king of the dumper
Soldier ants
Gun play
Combing down his yellow hair
The moonlighters
Getting in
Psychological warfare
A settled sort of life
The gardeners of my youth
Blues in the morning
Jenkins
Allotment
Farewell performance
Footprints
A wen
Not counting the savages
Uncle rollo
They don't all open men's boutiques
The penthouse apartment
An affair of honour
An arrow for little audrey
That quiet earth
Said the preacher
That time of life
Under the age
Bypass
And for my next trick
The sit in
Mill hill
King's cross lunch hour
Swiss cottage
Knightsbridge
Bermondsey
Hands
Lushly
Too far
Thrills galore
The argument
The seventh juror
I spy a stranger
The judge's wife
Scarborough
Tonight we meet arthur pendlebury
Ronnie's so long at the fair
Ten torrey canyons
I wouldn't tell on you, miss
You're free
Dialogue
Krapp's last tape
The chauffeur and the lady
You've been a long time, alfred
The japanese student
The punchy and the fairy
Playthings
Is nellie dead?
A chance encounter
You and me and him
The great acrobile
Atrocity
Beginning to end
Swamp music
Croust
The baby's name being kitchener
Kamikaze in a coffee bath
About a bout
Shakespeare country
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