Thursday Theatre — Season 1, Episode 15: S1.E15 ∙ The Wings of the Dove

Episode synopsis

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.

About Thursday Theatre

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.

More episodes from Season 1

• E1S1.E1 ∙ Captain Carvallo
• E2S1.E2 ∙ The Cure for Love
• E3S1.E3 ∙ Any Other Business
• E4S1.E4 ∙ Summer of the Seventeenth Doll
• E5S1.E5 ∙ Write Me a Murder
• E6S1.E6 ∙ The Same Sky
• E7S1.E7 ∙ Simon and Laura
• E8S1.E8 ∙ The Cocktail Party
• E9S1.E9 ∙ Murder Mistaken
• E10S1.E10 ∙ A Day by the Sea
• E11S1.E11 ∙ Point of Departure
• E12S1.E12 ∙ The Young Elizabeth