Episode 1
Brouhaha
Sep 18, 1958
An extract from a current West End theatre production, a farcical comedy set in a far-off country.
Episode 2
The Heart's a Wonder
Sep 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.
Episode 3
Living for Pleasure
Nov 18, 1958
Episode 4
Expresso Bongo
Dec 11, 1958
An unscrupulous small-time promoter discovers a young singer and determines to make him a star.
Episode 5
Not in the Book
Dec 16, 1958
Episode 6
Eighty in the Shade
Jan 29, 1959
Episode 7
Hook, Line and Sinker
Feb 12, 1959
Episode 8
A Day in the Life of...
Mar 5, 1959
Episode 9
The Long and the Short and the Tall
Apr 9, 1959
Psychological drama about a British patrol in the Burmese jungle who fall out among themselves.
Episode 10
Fool's Paradise
May 25, 1959
Episode 11
How Say You?
May 28, 1959
Episode 12
Let Them Eat Cake
Jun 2, 1959
Episode 13
Gilt and Gingerbread
Jun 7, 1959
Episode 14
Caught Napping
Aug 11, 1959
Episode 15
The Ring of Truth
Sep 15, 1959
Episode 16
The Grass Is Greener
Sep 29, 1959
A handsome stranger disturbs the marriage of the Earl and Countess of Rhyall.
Episode 17
Rollo
Nov 10, 1959
Episode 18
And Suddenly It's Spring
Dec 1, 1959
Episode 19
The Amourous Prawn
Jan 20, 1960
A general's wife turns his official home into a hotel for wealthy Americans.
Episode 20
The More the Merrier
Feb 17, 1960
Episode 21
A Clean Kill
Mar 16, 1960
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