Thursday Theatre
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.
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Season 1
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E1
S1.E1 ∙ Captain Carvallo
Captain Carvallo's determined pursuit of the beautiful Smilja might cause his death.
Oct 8, 1964 -
2
E2
S1.E2 ∙ The Cure for Love
Oct 15, 1964 -
3
E3
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 -
4
E4
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 -
5
E5
S1.E5 ∙ Write Me a Murder
When two brothers inherit a fortune, the less successful one plans a murder.
Nov 5, 1964 -
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E6
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 -
7
E7
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 -
8
E8
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 -
9
E9
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 -
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E10
S1.E10 ∙ A Day by the Sea
Dec 10, 1964 -
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E11
S1.E11 ∙ Point of Departure
Dec 17, 1964 -
12
E12
S1.E12 ∙ The Young Elizabeth
Dec 24, 1964 -
13
E13
S1.E13 ∙ When We Are Married
Dec 31, 1964 -
14
E14
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 -
15
E15
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 -
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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 -
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E17
S1.E17 ∙ Johnson Over Jordan
Jan 28, 1965 -
18
E18
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 -
19
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 -
20
E20
S1.E20 ∙ Traveller Without Luggage
Feb 25, 1965 -
21
E21
S1.E21 ∙ Celebration
Mar 4, 1965 -
22
E22
S1.E22 ∙ The Kidders
Mar 11, 1965 -
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E23
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.
Mar 18, 1965