About this season
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.
Episodes (23)
1. S1.E1 ∙ Captain Carvallo
Aired 8 October 1964 • 50 min
Captain Carvallo's determined pursuit of the beautiful Smilja might cause his death.
2. S1.E2 ∙ The Cure for Love
Aired 15 October 1964 • 50 min
3. S1.E3 ∙ Any Other Business
Aired 22 October 1964 • 50 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.
4. S1.E4 ∙ Summer of the Seventeenth Doll
Aired 29 October 1964 • 50 min
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.
5. S1.E5 ∙ Write Me a Murder
Aired 5 November 1964 • 50 min
When two brothers inherit a fortune, the less successful one plans a murder.
6. S1.E6 ∙ The Same Sky
Aired 12 November 1964 • 50 min
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.
7. S1.E7 ∙ Simon and Laura
Aired 19 November 1964 • 50 min
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.
8. S1.E8 ∙ The Cocktail Party
Aired 26 November 1964 • 50 min
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?
9. S1.E9 ∙ Murder Mistaken
Aired 3 December 1964 • 50 min
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?
10. S1.E10 ∙ A Day by the Sea
Aired 10 December 1964 • 50 min
11. S1.E11 ∙ Point of Departure
Aired 17 December 1964 • 50 min
12. S1.E12 ∙ The Young Elizabeth
Aired 24 December 1964 • 50 min
13. S1.E13 ∙ When We Are Married
Aired 31 December 1964 • 50 min
14. S1.E14 ∙ The Flowering Cherry
Aired 7 January 1965 • 50 min
Jim Cherry's an ordinary sort of man leading an ordinary sort of life. But it's about to come crashing down around him.
15. S1.E15 ∙ The Wings of the Dove
Aired 14 January 1965 • 50 min
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.
16. Photo Finish
Aired 21 January 1965 • 50 min
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.
17. S1.E17 ∙ Johnson Over Jordan
Aired 28 January 1965 • 50 min
18. S1.E18 ∙ Naked Island
Aired 11 February 1965 • 50 min
A prisoner-of-war drama set in Japanese-held Singapore, five Australian POWs listen to radio reports of the Allies' advance toward the island.
19. The Living Room
Aired 18 February 1965 • 50 min
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.
20. S1.E20 ∙ Traveller Without Luggage
Aired 25 February 1965 • 50 min
21. S1.E21 ∙ Celebration
Aired 4 March 1965 • 50 min
22. S1.E22 ∙ The Kidders
Aired 11 March 1965 • 50 min
23. S1.E23 ∙ Anatol
Aired 18 March 1965 • 50 min
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.