Thursday Theatre

Thursday Theatre  - TV series (1964)

Original title

Thursday Theatre

Released

10/8/1964

Origin country

GB

Production companies

BBC

Status

Returning series

Number of seasons

1

Number of episodes

23

Description

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.

Сезони

Season 1

Season 1

23 серій

08/10/1964

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S1.E1 ∙ Captain Carvallo

08/10/1964

Captain Carvallo's determined pursuit of the beautiful Smilja might cause his death.

S1.E2 ∙ The Cure for Love

15/10/1964

S1.E3 ∙ Any Other Business

22/10/1964

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

05/11/1964

When two brothers inherit a fortune, the less successful one plans a murder.

S1.E6 ∙ The Same Sky

12/11/1964

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

19/11/1964

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

26/11/1964

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

03/12/1964

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

10/12/1964

S1.E11 ∙ Point of Departure

17/12/1964

S1.E12 ∙ The Young Elizabeth

24/12/1964

S1.E13 ∙ When We Are Married

31/12/1964

S1.E14 ∙ The Flowering Cherry

07/01/1965

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

14/01/1965

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

16. Photo Finish

21/01/1965

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

28/01/1965

S1.E18 ∙ Naked Island

11/02/1965

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

19. The Living Room

18/02/1965

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.E21 ∙ Celebration

04/03/1965

S1.E22 ∙ The Kidders

11/03/1965

S1.E23 ∙ Anatol

23. S1.E23 ∙ Anatol

18/03/1965

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.

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Thursday Theatre - TV series (1964)