About this season
A BBC television series of forty-five-minute excerpts from stage plays running in London.
Episodes (21)
1. Brouhaha
Aired 18 September 1958
An extract from a current West End theatre production, a farcical comedy set in a far-off country.
2. The Heart's a Wonder
Aired 30 September 1958
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
Aired 18 November 1958
4. Expresso Bongo
Aired 11 December 1958
An unscrupulous small-time promoter discovers a young singer and determines to make him a star.
5. Not in the Book
Aired 16 December 1958
6. Eighty in the Shade
Aired 29 January 1959
7. Hook, Line and Sinker
Aired 12 February 1959
8. A Day in the Life of...
Aired 5 March 1959
9. The Long and the Short and the Tall
Aired 9 April 1959
Psychological drama about a British patrol in the Burmese jungle who fall out among themselves.
10. Fool's Paradise
Aired 25 May 1959
11. How Say You?
Aired 28 May 1959
12. Let Them Eat Cake
Aired 2 June 1959
13. Gilt and Gingerbread
Aired 7 June 1959
14. Caught Napping
Aired 11 August 1959
15. The Ring of Truth
Aired 15 September 1959
16. The Grass Is Greener
Aired 29 September 1959
A handsome stranger disturbs the marriage of the Earl and Countess of Rhyall.
17. Rollo
Aired 10 November 1959
18. And Suddenly It's Spring
Aired 1 December 1959
19. The Amourous Prawn
Aired 20 January 1960
A general's wife turns his official home into a hotel for wealthy Americans.
20. The More the Merrier
Aired 17 February 1960
21. A Clean Kill
Aired 16 March 1960