About this season
A BBC television series of forty-five-minute excerpts from stage plays running in London.
Episodes (24)
1. The Bride and the Bachelor
Aired 21 January 1957 • 45 min
Internalised father issues cause a bride to experience cold feet on her wedding day.
2. Romanoff and Juliet
Aired 28 January 1957
In the smallest country in the world, the daughter of the American ambassador falls in love with the son of the Russian ambassador. Oops.
3. The Member of the Wedding
Aired 18 February 1957 • 45 min
A young tomboy named Frankie is forced to face her own immaturity as a result her older brother's wedding.
4. Subway in the Sky
Aired 4 March 1957 • 45 min
An American soldier in West Berlin deserts and goes on the run when faced with false trafficking and murder charges. He takes shelter with a cabaret singer, whom he manages to persuade to help prove his innocence.
5. Olive Ogilvie
Aired 18 March 1957 • 45 min
6. Sailor Beware
Aired 31 March 1957 • 45 min
An imminent wedding is endangered by a domineering matriarch.
7. Summer of the Seventeenth Doll
Aired 27 May 1957 • 45 min
A couple of Australian cane-cutters plan their usual annual holiday of boozing and womanizing; but this year it's different.
8. The Lovebirds
Aired 4 June 1957 • 45 min
A newly married couple are given a Budgie as a wedding present. Little do they know that the Budgie is possessed by the spirit of the bride's late first husband.
9. Zuleika
Aired 12 June 1957 • 45 min
In this musical adaptation of Max Beerbohm's 1911 novel, a beautiful young woman visits Oxford, causing all the male students to fall madly in love with her.
10. Dear Delinqient
Aired 1 July 1957 • 45 min
An engaged man begins to fall for another woman. Fortunately, his fiancée is loathsome, making his decision easier, though the audience is left wondering why it takes the entire runtime to decide it, and why he was ever engaged to the undesirable woman in the first place.
11. Six Months' Grace
Aired 8 July 1957 • 45 min
12. Silver Wedding
Aired 12 August 1957 • 45 min
Sir Robert and Lady Lydia Marlowe have spent many years abroad in the diplomatic service. On their 25th wedding anniversary, she announces they should go their own separate ways. Her gift is a series of love letters Robert had written to different women throughout his career, each of whom Lydia has befriended.
13. Blood Upon the Rose
Aired 27 August 1957 • 45 min
14. Meet Me by Moonlight
Aired 2 September 1957 • 45 min
A satirical look at Victorian life, set entirely in the drawing room of Henry Mansfield's house in an English provincial town in 1884.
15. Nekrassov
Aired 16 September 1957 • 45 min
In 1950s Paris, journalist Sibilot works at right-wing publication Soir á Paris, where he pens anti-communist propaganda. His life hits a major turnpoint when he's unable to come up with a great idea, and his boss informa him that he will be fired if no great story comes soon.
16. The Happiest Millionaire
Aired 28 November 1957 • 45 min
Happy and unbelievably lucky young Irish immigrant John Lawless lands a job as the butler of unconventional millionaire Anthony J. Drexel Biddle. His daughter Cordelia tires of his unusual antics--especially since the nice young men around town all fear him. Wouldn't you fear a father-in-law that keeps alligators for pets and teaches boxing at his daily Bible courses?
17. Winter Wonderland
Aired 12 January 1958 • 45 min
18. The Happy Man
Aired 21 January 1958 • 45 min
19. A Touch of the Sun
Aired 11 February 1958 • 45 min
20. Simple Spymen
Aired 10 April 1958 • 45 min
21. Breath of Spring
Aired 29 April 1958 • 45 min
22. Any Other Business
Aired 15 May 1958 • 45 min
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.
23. Flowering Cherry
Aired 5 June 1958 • 45 min
Jim Cherry has the opportunity to change his life - will he take the risk?
24. What Shall We Tell Caroline?
Aired 26 June 1958 • 45 min