Thirty-Minute Theatre
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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Seasons & Episodes
1. Parson's Pleasure
An unscrupulous antiques dealer with a method for acquiring invaluable antiques in the countryside, stumbles upon a priceless chair owned by a less than cooperative family.
2. Give the Clown His Supper
Failure to win in a television quiz proves too much for Stuart and Patricia Pendleton.
3. Portrait of a Madonna
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4. Pay as You Go
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5. Monica
Simon is trying to convince his mistress, Monica, to leave her husband by staging a suicide. But instead of Monica showing up, a stranger appears, who helps him to carry out the suicide he was staging at the beginning of the play.
6. Love in Triplicate
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7. Application Form
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8. The Late Arrival of the Incoming Aircraft
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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 lover, the Colonel. But when he gives her an expensive coat, she has to devise a way of explaining it to her husband.
10. Mr. Ponge
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11. That's Not My Name
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12. Family Christmas
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13. The Passenger
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14. The Flipside
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15. The Enchanted Night
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16. Four-Way Incident
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17. Brothers
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18. Janni! Oh Janni!
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19. The Sugar Cubes
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20. Case Suspended
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21. Ships of the Line
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22. Keep on Running
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23. Not for Just an Hour
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24. 'Twas on a Sunday
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25. Magnolia Summer
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26. A Girl's Best Friend
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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 the same ward, three other patients of different backgrounds attempt to deal with the old man's death.
28. A Letter from the Country
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29. The Caramel Crisis
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30. Don't Go Down to the Bingo Mother, Father's Coming to Tea
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31. The House Mouse
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32. The Hard Word
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33. Ella
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34. The Window
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35. Friday Night's the Best Night
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36. A Good Reason for Getting Married
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37. The Queen Street Girls
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38. They Put You Where You Are
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