Thursday Theatre (1964)
Synopsis
Thursday Theatre is a UK television anthology series produced by and airing on the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) from 1964–1965. There were twenty-three episodes which included adaptations of the play, The Cocktail Party, by T. S. Eliot, and the novel, The Wings of the Dove, by Henry James. The productions ranged in duration from 75 to 95 minutes. Out of the twenty-three episodes, thirteen are believed to be lost, and one episode is incomplete.
Episodes
S1.E1 ∙ Captain Carvallo
Captain Carvallo's determined pursuit of the beautiful Smilja might cause his death.
S1.E2 ∙ The Cure for Love
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S1.E3 ∙ Any Other Business
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.
S1.E4 ∙ Summer of the Seventeenth Doll
For sixteen years, Barney and Roo, a couple of cane-cutters in Australia, have spent their summer holiday boozing and chasing girls. This year, it's different.
S1.E5 ∙ Write Me a Murder
When two brothers inherit a fortune, the less successful one plans a murder.
S1.E6 ∙ The Same Sky
The theme of Romeo and Juliet reworked in an orthodox Jewish household where Jeff who is a Christian falls in love with Juliet. Both families bitterly oppose the relationship. The story is set in wartime, in the East End of London.
S1.E7 ∙ Simon and Laura
Simon and Laura are married actors - who better for the roles of a happily-married couple in a new TV soap opera? But they're actually on the verge of divorce.
S1.E8 ∙ The Cocktail Party
Lavinia has left her husband before a cocktail party. They have both had relationships. A foreign guest, Sir Henry, analyzes their marriage and relationship. Will they find their way back to each other again?
S1.E9 ∙ Murder Mistaken
Edward Bare has murdered his much older wife and inherited her fortune. Now, he meets the tough, vulgar (and very rich) Freda, who seems attracted to him. Will there be a second murder?
S1.E10 ∙ A Day by the Sea
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S1.E11 ∙ Point of Departure
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S1.E12 ∙ The Young Elizabeth
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S1.E13 ∙ When We Are Married
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S1.E14 ∙ The Flowering Cherry
Jim Cherry's an ordinary sort of man leading an ordinary sort of life. But it's about to come crashing down around him.
S1.E15 ∙ The Wings of the Dove
An impoverished woman who has been forced to choose between a privileged life with her wealthy aunt and her journalist lover, befriends an American heiress. When she discovers the heiress is attracted to her own lover and is dying, she sees a chance to have both the privileged life she cannot give up and the lover she cannot live without.
Photo Finish
Eighty years old, Sam, a famous writer, looks back on his life and tempestuous marriage, and meets himself at the ages of sixty, forty and twenty.
S1.E17 ∙ Johnson Over Jordan
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S1.E18 ∙ Naked Island
A prisoner-of-war drama set in Japanese-held Singapore, five Australian POWs listen to radio reports of the Allies' advance toward the island.
The Living Room
Rose Pembleton introduces her new lover, Michael Dennis, to her eccentric family. But they soon learn that Michael is married -- when his suicidal wife arrives at the house.
S1.E20 ∙ Traveller Without Luggage
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S1.E21 ∙ Celebration
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S1.E22 ∙ The Kidders
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S1.E23 ∙ Anatol
Socialite Anatol Spencer seeks a better relation than he has with his wife. He sets up the friend of his youth Emilie in an apartment only to have her two-time him. He comforts the near suicidal Annie only to have her rob him.
Cast
Details
Original Title
Thursday Theatre
Status
Returning Series
Seasons
1
Episodes
23
Production
BBC