Theatre Night - Season 2

1. Brouhaha

Aired: 9/18/1958

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: 9/30/1958

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: 11/18/1958

4. Expresso Bongo

Aired: 12/11/1958

An unscrupulous small-time promoter discovers a young singer and determines to make him a star.

5. Not in the Book

Aired: 12/16/1958

6. Eighty in the Shade

Aired: 1/29/1959

7. Hook, Line and Sinker

Aired: 2/12/1959

8. A Day in the Life of...

Aired: 3/5/1959

9. The Long and the Short and the Tall

Aired: 4/9/1959

Psychological drama about a British patrol in the Burmese jungle who fall out among themselves.

10. Fool's Paradise

Aired: 5/25/1959

11. How Say You?

Aired: 5/28/1959

12. Let Them Eat Cake

Aired: 6/2/1959

13. Gilt and Gingerbread

Aired: 6/7/1959

14. Caught Napping

Aired: 8/11/1959

15. The Ring of Truth

Aired: 9/15/1959

16. The Grass Is Greener

Aired: 9/29/1959

A handsome stranger disturbs the marriage of the Earl and Countess of Rhyall.

17. Rollo

Aired: 11/10/1959

18. And Suddenly It's Spring

Aired: 12/1/1959

19. The Amourous Prawn

Aired: 1/20/1960

A general's wife turns his official home into a hotel for wealthy Americans.

20. The More the Merrier

Aired: 2/17/1960

21. A Clean Kill

Aired: 3/16/1960