4.2An anthology of short plays shown on BBC Television between 1965 and 1973, used in part at least as a training ground for new writers, on account of its short length, and which therefore attracted many writers who later became well known.
BBC Two
1. Parson's Pleasure
An unscrupulous antiques dealer with a method for acquiring invaluable antiques in the countryside, stumbles upon a priceless chair owned by a less than cooperative family.
2. Give the Clown His Supper
Failure to win in a television quiz proves too much for Stuart and Patricia Pendleton.
3. Portrait of a Madonna
4. Pay as You Go
5. Monica
Simon is trying to convince his mistress, Monica, to leave her husband by staging a suicide. But instead of Monica showing up, a stranger appears, who helps him to carry out the suicide he was staging at the beginning of the play.
6. Love in Triplicate
7. Application Form
8. The Late Arrival of the Incoming Aircraft
9. Mrs. Bixby and the Colonel's Coat
Mrs. Bixby, a dentist's wife, goes alone once a month to the country "to see her aunt"; she's secretly visiting her lover, the Colonel. But when he gives her an expensive coat, she has to devise a way of explaining it to her husband.
10. Mr. Ponge
11. That's Not My Name
12. Family Christmas
13. The Passenger
14. The Flipside
15. The Enchanted Night
16. Four-Way Incident
17. Brothers
18. Janni! Oh Janni!
19. The Sugar Cubes
20. Case Suspended
21. Ships of the Line
22. Keep on Running
23. Not for Just an Hour
24. 'Twas on a Sunday
25. Magnolia Summer
26. A Girl's Best Friend
27. Emergency Ward 9
In this medical drama for the BBC's THIRTY MINUTE THEATER series, a doctor is helpless as an old man dies in pain. In the same ward, three other patients of different backgrounds attempt to deal with the old man's death.
28. A Letter from the Country
29. The Caramel Crisis
30. Don't Go Down to the Bingo Mother, Father's Coming to Tea
31. The House Mouse
32. The Hard Word
33. Ella
34. The Window
35. Friday Night's the Best Night
36. A Good Reason for Getting Married
37. The Queen Street Girls
38. They Put You Where You Are
