Thirty-Minute Theatre (1965)

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.

Thirty-Minute Theatre

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Seasons

Season 1

Season 1

Season 2

Season 2

Season 3

Season 3

Season 4

Season 4

Season 5

Season 5

Season 6

Season 6

Season 7

Season 7

Season 8

Season 8

Episodes season 1

  • 1x1

    Parson's pleasure

  • 1x2

    Give the clown his supper

  • 1x3

    Portrait of a madonna

  • 1x4

    Pay as you go

  • 1x5

    Monica

  • 1x6

    Love in triplicate

  • 1x7

    Application form

  • 1x8

    The late arrival of the incoming aircraft

  • 1x9

    Mrs. bixby and the colonel's coat

  • 1x10

    Mr. ponge

  • 1x11

    That's not my name

  • 1x12

    Family christmas

  • 1x13

    The passenger

  • 1x14

    The flipside

  • 1x15

    The enchanted night

  • 1x16

    Four-way incident

  • 1x17

    Brothers

  • 1x18

    Janni! oh janni!

  • 1x19

    The sugar cubes

  • 1x20

    Case suspended

  • 1x21

    Ships of the line

  • 1x22

    Keep on running

  • 1x23

    Not for just an hour

  • 1x24

    'twas on a sunday

  • 1x25

    Magnolia summer

  • 1x26

    A girl's best friend

  • 1x27

    Emergency ward 9

  • 1x28

    A letter from the country

  • 1x29

    The caramel crisis

  • 1x30

    Don't go down to the bingo mother, father's coming to tea

  • 1x31

    The house mouse

  • 1x32

    The hard word

  • 1x33

    Ella

  • 1x34

    The window

  • 1x35

    Friday night's the best night

  • 1x36

    A good reason for getting married

  • 1x37

    The queen street girls

  • 1x38

    They put you where you are

Episodes season 2

  • 2x1

    The other fella

  • 2x2

    The devil and all his mischief

  • 2x3

    The spoken word

  • 2x4

    The sounds of war

  • 2x5

    The excavation

  • 2x6

    Play to win

  • 2x7

    Confession

  • 2x8

    Wife in a blonde wig

  • 2x9

    O-gosh!

  • 2x10

    First catch your hare...

  • 2x11

    Brainscrew

  • 2x12

    The towers of manhattan

  • 2x13

    Taste

  • 2x14

    R.s.v.p.

  • 2x15

    The suede jacket

  • 2x16

    Oldenberg

  • 2x17

    Later a man was questioned

  • 2x18

    Teeth

  • 2x19

    Turn off if you know the ending

  • 2x20

    An absolute treasure

  • 2x21

    Go tell it on table mountain

  • 2x22

    Taffy came to my house

  • 2x23

    Who were you with last night?

  • 2x24

    Two and two make twenty two

  • 2x25

    Wanted

  • 2x26

    The gun

  • 2x27

    Failpass

  • 2x28

    Boa constrictor

  • 2x29

    The isle is full of noises

  • 2x30

    Silver wedding

  • 2x31

    The sufferings of peter obiznov

  • 2x32

    Haven't you people got homes?

  • 2x33

    That woman

  • 2x34

    The other side

  • 2x35

    The wake

  • 2x36

    Child marlene

  • 2x37

    Another moon called earth

Episodes season 3

  • 3x1

    Leave me alone

  • 3x2

    The timekeepers

  • 3x3

    You meet all sorts

  • 3x4

    The tape recorder

  • 3x5

    The top bunk

  • 3x6

    Have it on the house

  • 3x7

    Notice! meeting in progress

  • 3x8

    A time of wolves and tigers

  • 3x9

    The keys on the streets

  • 3x10

    Come death

  • 3x11

    The metal martyr

  • 3x12

    A private place

  • 3x13

    The news-benders

  • 3x14

    Diary of an encounter

  • 3x15

    Lovely in black

  • 3x16

    Happiness is e shaped

  • 3x17

    Child's play

  • 3x18

    Snakes and reptiles

  • 3x19

    The unquiet man

  • 3x20

    The interview

  • 3x21

    Eveline

  • 3x22

    A personal affair

  • 3x23

    No trams to ethiopia

  • 3x24

    Father's day

  • 3x25

    Pleasant dreams, fernando

  • 3x26

    The sinner

  • 3x27

    It's on you, john

  • 3x28

    Standing by for santa claus

  • 3x29

    Empty bottles

  • 3x30

    Thank god for u.d.i.!

  • 3x31

    Still death

  • 3x32

    Walk in the dark

  • 3x33

    The boy's room

  • 3x34

    Number 30, approximately

  • 3x35

    A question of honour

Episodes season 4

  • 4x1

    Baby

  • 4x2

    A matter of principle

  • 4x3

    The flag

  • 4x4

    The chequers manoeuvre

  • 4x5

    Something to hide: the first floor

  • 4x6

    Something to hide: the studio

  • 4x7

    Something to hide: the caretaker's flat

  • 4x8

    Of public concern

  • 4x9

    Cause of death

  • 4x10

    The last victim

  • 4x11

    Loving israel

  • 4x12

    The bishop and the actress

  • 4x13

    Before breakfast

  • 4x14

    Cross examine

  • 4x15

    Swallowing the anchor

  • 4x16

    Game, set and match

  • 4x17

    Where have they gone, all the little children

  • 4x18

    Absolute aggers and torters

  • 4x19

    These men are dangerous: mussolini

  • 4x20

    These men are dangerous: hitler

  • 4x21

    These men are dangerous: stalin

  • 4x22

    Stake money

  • 4x23

    First confession

  • 4x24

    The boat to addis ababa

  • 4x25

    A hot day

  • 4x26

    Roses, roses, all the way

  • 4x27

    The victims: a degree of stress

  • 4x28

    The victims: frontier

  • 4x29

    The victims: progressive blues

  • 4x30

    Invasion

  • 4x31

    A nice cool pad in the sky

  • 4x32

    Anything you say

  • 4x33

    Conversation at night

  • 4x34

    Roly poly

  • 4x35

    ...and was invited to form a government

  • 4x36

    A borderline case

Episodes season 5

  • 5x1

    Remote control

  • 5x2

    Gangster

  • 5x3

    Trial

  • 5x4

    A formula for treason

  • 5x5

    Someone's knocking at me door

  • 5x6

    Trespassers

  • 5x7

    Aggers and torters: back to nature

  • 5x8

    Aggers and torters: psy-fi

  • 5x9

    Aggers and torters: hickory dickory

  • 5x10

    Lecture to an academy

  • 5x11

    The switch

  • 5x12

    The discharge of trooper lusby

  • 5x13

    Laffin' gas

  • 5x14

    The chief whip sends his compliments

  • 5x15

    Reparation

  • 5x16

    The scarecrows

  • 5x17

    Laying it off for spangle

  • 5x18

    Home is where you hang your hat

  • 5x19

    What a pity you can't stay longer

  • 5x20

    Out of sight, out of mind

  • 5x21

    Meanwhile back at the office

  • 5x22

    All my own army

  • 5x23

    Whispers

  • 5x24

    Revolutions: cromwell

  • 5x25

    Revolutions: lenin

  • 5x26

    Revolutions: fidel castro

  • 5x27

    Is that your body, boy?

  • 5x28

    The tidewatchers

  • 5x29

    Twenty-six efforts at pornography

  • 5x30

    Lilly: part 1

  • 5x31

    Lilly: part 2

  • 5x32

    Ben

  • 5x33

    An uncertain sound

  • 5x34

    Hope

  • 5x35

    Good times

  • 5x36

    Tropical wednesdays

Episodes season 6

  • 6x1

    The raid

  • 6x2

    The year of the crow

  • 6x3

    Did your nanny come from bergen?

  • 6x4

    Tribunal

  • 6x5

    Helen

  • 6x6

    The warmonger

  • 6x7

    The editor regrets

  • 6x8

    Waugh on crime: in which inspector waugh settles an account

  • 6x9

    Waugh on crime: in which inspector waugh meets a man going to st. ives

  • 6x10

    Waugh on crime: in which inspector waugh encounters the english class system

  • 6x11

    Waugh on crime: in which inspector waugh observes the truth of an old music hall song

  • 6x12

    Waugh on crime: in which inspector waugh plays cops and robbers

  • 6x13

    Waugh on crime: in which inspector waugh knows the criminal but not the crime

  • 6x14

    But now they are fled

  • 6x15

    Faith

  • 6x16

    Terrible jim fitch

  • 6x17

    The bequest

  • 6x18

    Me mackenna

  • 6x19

    The proposal

  • 6x20

    Asquith in orbit

  • 6x21

    Happy days are here again

  • 6x22

    The railway man's new clothes

  • 6x23

    No charge for the extra service

  • 6x24

    A distinct chill

  • 6x25

    The waiting room

  • 6x26

    Listen to the drums

  • 6x27

    Death's head

  • 6x28

    Jilly

  • 6x29

    Something for the children

  • 6x30

    The room they left

  • 6x31

    Seven days in the life of andrew pelham: crisis

  • 6x32

    Seven days in the life of andrew pelham: suspect

  • 6x33

    Seven days in the life of andrew pelham: inquiry

  • 6x34

    Seven days in the life of andrew pelham: retreat

  • 6x35

    Seven days in the life of andrew pelham: deadlock

  • 6x36

    Seven days in the life of andrew pelham: breakthrough

  • 6x37

    Seven days in the life of andrew pelham: decision

Episodes season 7

  • 7x1

    Walt, king of the dumper

  • 7x2

    Soldier ants

  • 7x3

    Gun play

  • 7x4

    Combing down his yellow hair

  • 7x5

    The moonlighters

  • 7x6

    Getting in

  • 7x7

    Psychological warfare

  • 7x8

    A settled sort of life

  • 7x9

    The gardeners of my youth

  • 7x10

    Blues in the morning

  • 7x11

    Jenkins

  • 7x12

    Allotment

  • 7x13

    Farewell performance

  • 7x14

    Footprints

  • 7x15

    A wen

  • 7x16

    Not counting the savages

  • 7x17

    Uncle rollo

  • 7x18

    They don't all open men's boutiques

  • 7x19

    The penthouse apartment

  • 7x20

    An affair of honour

  • 7x21

    An arrow for little audrey

  • 7x22

    That quiet earth

  • 7x23

    Said the preacher

  • 7x24

    That time of life

  • 7x25

    Under the age

  • 7x26

    Bypass

  • 7x27

    And for my next trick

  • 7x28

    The sit in

  • 7x29

    Mill hill

  • 7x30

    King's cross lunch hour

  • 7x31

    Swiss cottage

  • 7x32

    Knightsbridge

  • 7x33

    Bermondsey

Episodes season 8

  • 8x1

    Hands

  • 8x2

    Lushly

  • 8x3

    Too far

  • 8x4

    Thrills galore

  • 8x5

    The argument

  • 8x6

    The seventh juror

  • 8x7

    I spy a stranger

  • 8x8

    The judge's wife

  • 8x9

    Scarborough

  • 8x10

    Tonight we meet arthur pendlebury

  • 8x11

    Ronnie's so long at the fair

  • 8x12

    Ten torrey canyons

  • 8x13

    I wouldn't tell on you, miss

  • 8x14

    You're free

  • 8x15

    Dialogue

  • 8x16

    Krapp's last tape

  • 8x17

    The chauffeur and the lady

  • 8x18

    You've been a long time, alfred

  • 8x19

    The japanese student

  • 8x20

    The punchy and the fairy

  • 8x21

    Playthings

  • 8x22

    Is nellie dead?

  • 8x23

    A chance encounter

  • 8x24

    You and me and him

  • 8x25

    The great acrobile

  • 8x26

    Atrocity

  • 8x27

    Beginning to end

  • 8x28

    Swamp music

  • 8x29

    Croust

  • 8x30

    The baby's name being kitchener

  • 8x31

    Kamikaze in a coffee bath

  • 8x32

    About a bout

  • 8x33

    Shakespeare country

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