Thursday Theatre — Season 1, Episode 18: S1.E18 ∙ Naked Island

Episode synopsis

A prisoner-of-war drama set in Japanese-held Singapore, five Australian POWs listen to radio reports of the Allies' advance toward the island.

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