Theatre Night
Season 2
Episodes
1. Brouhaha
An extract from a current West End theatre production, a farcical comedy set in a far-off country.
2. The Heart's a Wonder
A Man comes into a pub and boasts that he has just killed his father. Instead of condemning him for the crime, the locals revel in his story and praise him for his deed, with the daughter of the landlord falling for this "dashing hero". Things take an even more surprising turn, when the father enters the pub. Based on John Millington Synge's play The Playboy of the Western World.
3. Living for Pleasure
4. Expresso Bongo
An unscrupulous small-time promoter discovers a young singer and determines to make him a star.
5. Not in the Book
6. Eighty in the Shade
7. Hook, Line and Sinker
8. A Day in the Life of...
9. The Long and the Short and the Tall
Psychological drama about a British patrol in the Burmese jungle who fall out among themselves.
10. Fool's Paradise
11. How Say You?
12. Let Them Eat Cake
13. Gilt and Gingerbread
14. Caught Napping
15. The Ring of Truth
16. The Grass Is Greener
A handsome stranger disturbs the marriage of the Earl and Countess of Rhyall.
17. Rollo
18. And Suddenly It's Spring
19. The Amourous Prawn
A general's wife turns his official home into a hotel for wealthy Americans.