Original title
Somerset Maugham Hour
Released
2/3/1960
Origin country
GB
Genre
Drama
Production companies
Associated-Rediffusion Television
Status
Ended
Number of seasons
3
Number of episodes
38
A half-hour (later 60 minute) drama anthology series based on the works of renowned English author William Somerset Maugham, who appears in the opening and closing of each episode.
A man believing himself near death from tuberculosis attends a sanatorium - where he falls in love.
In Nazi occupied France, a Frenchwoman is raped by a German soldier. Adapted from a W. Somerset Maugham short story.
Is it better to be lucky than clever? A not-very-bright young man with too much money falls prey to an adventuress on the Riviera - but he's lucky.
Max Kelada is a very knowledgeable fellow - perhaps he knows rather more about a young married woman than he ought to.
Young Herbert's only passion seems to be flying his kite - but then he meets a girl.
The Ramsay brothers couldn't be more different - one is hard-working, quiet, and fearfully proper, the other an indolent spendthrift playboy. But appearances can be deceptive.
The inability to read seems a setback for the verger - but it's not such a disadvantage as people suppose.
The wife of a rubber plantation administrator shoots a man to death and claims it was self-defense; a letter in her own hand may prove her undoing.
The Colonel doesn't have much time for poetry, and when his wife publishes a volume of distinctly rather erotic verses, he is greatly embarrassed - who can she be writing about?
Wilson's a bit of a dull stick, people think - but he's determined to live the good life, and he's come to Capri to do so.
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