John Sharp
Alderman Joseph Helliwell
Thursday Theatre (1964)
Season 1
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.
Released Oct. 8, 1964
Episode 42 min
None+
Genres: Drama
Keywords: imdb.partially-lost-tv-series
Production Companies: BBC
Country: United Kingdom
Languages:
English
S1E1 - S1.E1 ∙ Captain Carvallo
Captain Carvallo's determined pursuit of the beautiful Smilja might cause his death.
Oct. 8, 1964, midnight
S1E2 - S1.E2 ∙ The Cure for Love
Oct. 15, 1964, midnight
S1E3 - 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.
Oct. 22, 1964, midnight
S1E4 - 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.
Oct. 29, 1964, midnight
S1E5 - S1.E5 ∙ Write Me a Murder
When two brothers inherit a fortune, the less successful one plans a murder.
Nov. 5, 1964, midnight
S1E6 - 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.
Nov. 12, 1964, midnight
S1E7 - 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.
Nov. 19, 1964, midnight
S1E8 - 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?
Nov. 26, 1964, midnight
S1E9 - 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?
Dec. 3, 1964, midnight
S1E10 - S1.E10 ∙ A Day by the Sea
Dec. 10, 1964, midnight
S1E11 - S1.E11 ∙ Point of Departure
Dec. 17, 1964, midnight
S1E12 - S1.E12 ∙ The Young Elizabeth
Dec. 24, 1964, midnight
S1E13 - S1.E13 ∙ When We Are Married
Dec. 31, 1964, midnight
S1E14 - 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.
Jan. 7, 1965, midnight
S1E15 - 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.
Jan. 14, 1965, midnight
S1E16 - S1.E16 ∙ 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.
Jan. 21, 1965, midnight
S1E17 - S1.E17 ∙ Johnson Over Jordan
Jan. 28, 1965, midnight
S1E18 - 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.
Feb. 11, 1965, midnight
S1E19 - S1.E19 ∙ 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.
Feb. 18, 1965, midnight
S1E20 - S1.E20 ∙ Traveller Without Luggage
Feb. 25, 1965, midnight
S1E21 - S1.E21 ∙ Celebration
March 4, 1965, midnight
S1E22 - S1.E22 ∙ The Kidders
March 11, 1965, midnight
S1E23 - 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.
March 18, 1965, midnight
42 min/ep
50 min
Oct. 8, 1964
March 18, 1965, midnight
Returning Series
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