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Thirty-Minute Theatre

Drama

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.

Oct 7, 19658 seasons285 episodesEndedEN

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Seasons

Series 1

38 episodes

Premiered Oct 6, 1965

Series 2

37 episodes

Premiered Oct 2, 1966

Series 3

35 episodes

Premiered Oct 1, 1967

Series 4

36 episodes

Premiered Sep 8, 1968

Series 5

36 episodes

Premiered Sep 13, 1969

Series 6

37 episodes

Premiered Sep 17, 1970

Series 7

33 episodes

Premiered Sep 19, 1971

Series 8

33 episodes

Premiered Aug 13, 1972

Episodes

1–6 of 38

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Ep 1

Parson's Pleasure

Oct 7, 1965

30m

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.

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Ep 2

Give the Clown His Supper

Oct 14, 1965

30m

Failure to win in a television quiz proves too much for Stuart and Patricia Pendleton.

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Ep 3

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.

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Ep 6