Thirty-Minute Theatre

Thirty-Minute Theatre
Opening title [1]
Genre	Drama, Anthology, television plays
Written by	Various
Directed by	Various
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Original language	English
No. of series	8
No. of episodes	291 (241 missing)
Production
Producers	Harry Moore, Graeme MacDonald, George Spenton-Foster, Innes Lloyd & others
Running time	30 minutes
Production company	BBC
Original release
Network	BBC 2
Release	7 October 1965 (1965-10-07) – 9 August 1973 (1973-08-09)
Related
Second City Firsts

Thirty-Minute Theatre was a British anthology drama series of short plays shown on BBC Television between 1965 and 1973, which was used in part at least as a training ground for new writers, on account of its short running length, and which therefore attracted many writers who later became well known. ^[2] It was produced initially by Harry Moore, later by Graeme MacDonald, George Spenton-Foster, Innes Lloyd and others. ^[3] Thirty-Minute Theatre began on BBC2 in 1965 with an adaptation of the black comedy Parson's Pleasure (author, Roald Dahl). Dennis Potter contributed Emergency – Ward 9 (1966), which he partially recycled in the much later The Singing Detective (1986). In 1967 BBC2 launched the UK's first colour service, with the consequence that Thirty-Minute Theatre became the first drama series in the country to be shown in colour.

As well as single plays, the series showed several linked collections of plays, including a group of four plays by John Mortimer named after areas of London ^{[4] [5]} in 1972, two three-part Inspector Waugh series starring Clive Swift in the title role, and a trilogy of plays by Jean Benedetti, broadcast in 1969, focusing on infamous historical figures such as Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin. Other plays were broadcast by writers like Charlotte and Denis Plimmer (The Chequers Manoeuvre, 1968), David Rudkin (Bypass, 1972, and Atrocity, 1973) ^[6] and Jack Rosenthal (And for My Next Trick, 1972). ^[6]

Thirty-Minute Theatre was cancelled in August 1973. Second City Firsts , also of 30 minutes duration, fulfilled much the same role.

Archive holdings

Of the original 291 episodes, 241 are missing, one is incomplete and 3 exist on formats inferior to the original. ^{[7] [8]}

Productions

Sourced according to the BBC Genome archive of Radio Times magazines, with additional information from the BFI database and TV Brain. ^{[9] [10] [7]} All episodes were broadcast on BBC2. Identification of distinct series beyond the fifth is tentative.

Original UK transmission date	Title	Author(s)	Producer	Director	Performers (non-exhaustive)	Notes	Archive status
Series One
7 October 1965	Parson's Pleasure	Roald Dahl , written for television by Philip Levene	Harry Moore	Herbert Wise	Richard Pearson, Derek Francis, Melvyn Hayes, Anne Blake, Malcolm Taylor	Adapted from the short story.	Missing
14 October 1965	Give the Clown His Supper	Gerry Jones	Harry Moore	Tina Wakerell	Brenda Bruce, Patrick Troughton	Repeated 3 July 1967.	Survives
21 October 1965	Portrait of a Madonna	Tennessee Williams	Harry Moore	Geoffrey Nethercott	Irene Worth, Thomasine Heiner	Adapted from the play.	Missing
28 October 1965	Pay As You Go	James Saunders	Harry Moore	Roderick Graham	Sarah Lawson, Norman Rossington, Brian Wilde		Missing
4 November 1965	Monica	Pauline Macaulay	Harry Moore	Naomi Capon	Peter Cushing, Gary Bond, Anthony Sagar	Repeated on BBC1 21 March 1966.	Missing
11 November 1965	Love In Triplicate	Robert Storey	Harry Moore	George R. Foa	Bob Monkhouse, Joan Sims, Jacqueline Ellis		Missing
18 November 1965	Application Form	Hugh Whitemore	Harry Moore	Piers Haggard	Denholm Elliott, Donal Donnelly		Missing
25 November 1965	The Late Arrival of the Incoming Aircraft	Hugh Leonard	Harry Moore	Paddy Russell	Maureen Toal, Joe Lynch, Nigel Lambert, Kevin McHugh, Jacqueline Ryan	Repeated 17 July 1967.	Survives
2 December 1965	Mrs. Bixby and the Colonel's Coat	Roald Dahl, dramatised for television by Hugh Whitemore	Harry Moore	Naomi Capon	Shelley Winters, Neil McCallum, Bill Shine, Harry Towb, Mark Heath	Adapted from the short story.	Missing
9 December 1965	Mr. Ponge	James Hanley	Harry Moore	Geoffrey Nethercott	Marius Goring, Kenneth Griffith, Megs Jenkins, Mary Kerridge, Brian Wilde, Karol Hagar		Missing
16 December 1965	That's Not My Name	P.L. Brent	Harry Moore	Piers Haggard	André van Gyseghem, Alfred Burke, George Murcell		Missing
23 December 1965	Family Christmas	Jean Stubbs , dramatised by Jonquil Antony	Harry Moore	Mary Ridge	Madge Ryan, David Langton, John Gregson, Elizabeth Sellars, Calvin Lockhart	Literary	Missing
30 December 1965	The Passenger	Peter Van Greenaway	Harry Moore	Richard Martin	Bernard Lee, Margaret Tyzack, Anne Pichon, Phyllis Montefiore, Charles Cameron		Missing
3 January 1966	The Flip Side	M. Charles Cohen	Harry Moore	Gareth Davies	Bob Monkhouse, Shane Rimmer, Donald Douglas	Repeated 31 July 1967.	Survives
10 January 1966	The Enchanted Night	Sławomir Mrożek , translated by Nicholas Bethell, adapted for television by George R. Foa	Harry Moore	George R. Foa	Dudley Foster, Richard Pearson, Margaret Nolan, Bernard Finch	Theatrical	Missing
17 January 1966	Four-Way Incident	Peter J. Hammond	Harry Moore	Piers Haggard	Lee Montague, John Franklyn-Robbins, Bryan Pringle, Jack MacGowran, Dan Meaden	Repeated 7 August 1967.	Missing
24 January 1966	Brothers	John Finch	Harry Moore	Michael Hart	Mike Pratt, Sonia Dresdel, Ann Firbank, Terence Brady		Missing
31 January 1966	Janni… Oh, Janni	Alan Gosling	Harry Moore	John Gibson	William Lucas, Thomas Heathcote, Brian Smith		Missing
7 February 1966	The Sugar Cubes	Stewart Love	Harry Moore	George Spenton-Foster	Oliver Maguire, Elizabeth Begley, Chris Gammon, Kate Story		Survives
14 February 1966	Case Suspended	William T. Powers, dramatised by Owen Holder	Harry Moore	Tina Wakerell	Leo McKern, Max Adrian, Jane Hylton, Michael Rothwell, Edward Kelsey	From the story Allegory.	Missing
21 February 1966	Ships of the Line	Robin Smyth	Harry Moore	Ronald Wilson	Leslie Sands, Reg Lye	Repeated 14 August 1967.	Missing
28 February 1966	Keep On Running	Vickery Turner	Harry Moore	Michael Hart	Anneke Wills, Neville Smith, John Samson, Sally Goldie, Bridget McConnel, Annie Lee Taylor		Missing
7 March 1966	Not for Just an Hour	Janet Fisher	Harry Moore	Mary Ridge	Victor Spinetti, Sheila Hancock, John Moore, Petra Markham, Ewan Hooper		Missing
14 March 1966	'Twas on a Sunday	Derrick Sherwin	Harry Moore	George Spenton-Foster	Billie Whitelaw, Alec McCowen, Margaret Denyer, Ella Milne		Missing (closing titles survive) [1]
28 March 1966	Magnolia Summer	Clancy Sigal and Vickery Turner	Harry Moore	James Ferman	Calvin Lockhart, Jennifer Clulow, Rick Jones, Andrea Monet		Missing
4 April 1966	A Girl's Best Friend	Dawn Pavitt and Terry Wale	Harry Moore	Michael Hart	Faith Brook, Ray Brooks, Tessa Wyatt, James Chase, Kenneth McReddie		Missing
11 April 1966	Emergency – Ward 9	Dennis Potter	Harry Moore	Gareth Davies	Terence De Marney, Tenniel Evans, Arnold Ridley, Paul Carson	Repeated 10 July 1967.	Survives
18 April 1966	A Letter from the Country	Raymond Williams	Harry Moore	Toby Robertson	Emrys Jones, Ann Firbank, John Bailey, Clifton Jones, Phil Collins, Michael Goodliffe, Roy Evans, Malcolm Taylor		Missing
25 April 1966	The Caramel Crisis	Simon Gray	Harry Moore	Naomi Capon	George Cole, Richard Pearson, John Le Mesurier, Bryan Pringle, Kynaston Reeves, Barbara Miller, Rosamund Greenwood, Edna Petrie, Winifred Dennis		Missing
2 May 1966	Don't Go Down the Bingo Mother - Father's Come To Tea	Thomas Clarke	Harry Moore	Michael Hart	Patricia Burke, Timothy Bateson, Lois Daine, Chris Williams, Sally Thomsett		Missing
9 May 1966	The House Mouse	Peter Lewis	Harry Moore	June Wyndham Davies	Julia Foster, Keith Barron		Survives
16 May 1966	The Hard Word	Jim Allen	Harry Moore	Ridley Scott	Jack Woolgar, Tony Selby, Iain Anders, Jeremy Young		Missing
23 May 1966	Ella	Rhys Adrian	Harry Moore	Waris Hussein	Vivien Merchant, Richard Pearson, Edward Woodward		Survives
30 May 1966	The Window	Frank Marcus	Harry Moore	Michael Hart	Stephen Murray, Joseph Brady, Douglas Ditta		Survives
6 June 1966	Friday Night's the Best Night	Victor Carin	Harry Moore	Peter Duguid	Milo O'Shea, Maggie Jones, Tim Preece, Gordon Reid		Missing
13 June 1966	A Good Reason For Getting Married?	Marc Brandel	Harry Moore	John Glenister	Roy Castle, Nerys Hughes, Jessie Evans, John Scott Martin, Yvonne Antrobus		Survives
20 June 1966	The Queen Street Girls	Clive Barker	Harry Moore	John Mackenzie	Keith Bell, Mary Henry, Reg Lever, Harry Locke, George Tovey, Ken Jones, Jo Rowbottom		Missing
27 June 1966	They Put You Where You Are	Sheila MacLeod and Paul Jones	Harry Moore	Michael Hart	Lynnette Chappell, Stephanie Bidmead, Hubert Hill, Peter Cleall		Survives
Series Two
3 October 1966	The Other Fella	Alun Owen	Graeme McDonald	Michael Hart	Keith Barron, John Collin, Geraldine Moffatt, Malcolm Taylor, Brian Osborne		Missing
10 October 1966	The Devil and All His Mischief	Robin Smyth	Graeme McDonald	Bill Sellars	Sheila Hancock, Betty Marsden, Terry Scully, Victor Platt		Missing
17 October 1966	The Spoken Word	Julia Jones	Graeme McDonald	Mary Ridge	John Barrie, Diana Coupland, Polly James, George Layton, Lewis Wilson, Kenneth Edwards	Repeated 18 September 1967.	Missing
24 October 1966	The Sounds Of War	Gerry Jones	Graeme McDonald	Piers Haggard	Renée Asherson, John Franklyn-Robbins		Missing
31 October 1966	The Excavation	James Ferman, dramatised from The Gondola by Alfred Hayes.	Graeme McDonald	James Ferman	David Bauer, Natasha Pyne, Michael Gothard	Literary	Missing
7 November 1966	Play To Win	Dawn Pavitt and Terry Wale	Graeme McDonald	Douglas Camfield	Alethea Charlton, Mark Eden, Nancie Jackson, Kathleen Byron, Robert Mill, Gilly Fraser		Missing
14 November 1966	Confession	David Weir	Graeme McDonald	Anthea Browne-Wilkinson	Nigel Stock, John Cater, Ewan Hooper, Mary Chester		Missing
21 November 1966	Wife in a Blonde Wig	Fay Weldon	Graeme McDonald	Piers Haggard	Frances Cuka, Bridget Armstrong, Martin Jarvis, Terence Rigby		Missing
28 November 1966	O-Goshi	Jack Trevor Story	Graeme McDonald	David Saire	Lee Montague, Norman Rossington, Rosamund Greenwood, Trevor Bannister, Vernon Dobtcheff		Missing
5 December 1966	First Catch Your Hare…	Julia Jones	Graeme McDonald	Vivian Matalon	Eleanor Bron, Maureen Pryor, Peter Birrel		Missing
12 December 1966	Brainscrew	Henry Livings	Graeme McDonald	Rudolph Cartier	Jill Bennett, John Osborne, Robert Robinson		Missing
19 December 1966	The Towers Of Manhattan	Keith Dewhurst	Graeme McDonald	Herbert Wise	John Castle, Chela Matthison	Repeated 4 September 1967.	Missing
4 January 1967	Taste	Roald Dahl, dramatised by Derek Hall	Graeme McDonald	John Glenister	Donald Pleasence, Leonard Rossiter, Maureen O'Brien, Barbara Leake	Adapted from the short story.	Missing
11 January 1967	R.S.V.P.	Michael Ashe	Graeme McDonald	Peter Duguid	Patrick Allen, Bill Owen, Marie Kean, Ann Morrish, Gordon Reid, David Baxter		Missing
18 January 1967	The Suede Jacket	Tim Aspinall	Graeme McDonald	Peter Dews	Richard Pearson, Eleanor Summerfield, Harry Locke, Daphne Anderson, Brian Tully		Missing
25 January 1967	Oldenberg	Barry Bermange	Graeme McDonald	David Andrews	Frank Finlay, Mary Morris, Julian Glover		Missing
1 February 1967	Later a Man Was Questioned	Jack Trevor Story	Graeme McDonald	Geoffrey Nethercott	June Ritchie, Robert Urquhart, John Carlin, Patrick Carter		Missing
8 February 1967	Teeth	Tom Stoppard	Graeme McDonald	Alan Gibson	John Stride, John Wood, Andrée Melly, Yootha Joyce, Anna Wing	Repeated 28 August 1967.	Missing (extract survives)
15 February 1967	Turn Off If You Know the Ending	Anthony Bloomfield	Graeme McDonald	John Glenister	Janet Munro, Peter Barkworth, Sheila Grant	Repeated 21 August 1967.	Missing
22 February 1967	An Absolute Treasure	Peter Coke	Graeme McDonald	George Spenton-Foster	John Le Mesurier, Patricia Routledge, Barbara Lott, Tenniel Evans, Margaret Denyer, Seán Barrett, Mary Webster, Erik Chitty, Molly Hewett	Repeated 25 September 1967.	Missing
1 March 1967	Go Tell It On Table Mountain	Evan Jones	Graeme McDonald	Toby Robertson	Sylvia Coleridge, Judy Cornwell, Paul Daneman, Calvin Lockhart, John Quentin	Repeated 24 July 1967.	Missing
8 March 1967	Taffy Came To My House	Alun Richards	Graeme McDonald	Geoffrey Nethercott	Nerys Hughes, Clive Graham		Missing
15 March 1967	Who Were You With Last Night?	Brian Phelan	Graeme McDonald	Michael Hayes	Valerie Gearon, Frederick Jaeger, John Standing, Mary Chester	Repeated 20 November 1967.	Missing
22 March 1967	Two and Two Are Twenty-Two	William Woods	Graeme McDonald	John Tydeman	John Woodnutt, Rachel Herbert, Timothy West, David Spenser, Tom Watson, Geoffrey Matthews		Missing
29 March 1967	Wanted	John Finch	Graeme McDonald	Michael Hart	Edward Woodward, Hannah Gordon		Missing
12 April 1967	The Gun	Eric Coltart	Graeme McDonald	John MacKenzie	Dennis Waterman, Jess Conrad, Geoffrey Hughes, Neville Smith, Eric Mason, Colin Spaull, Stephen Whittaker		Missing
19 April 1967	Failpass	Brian Wright	Graeme McDonald	Alan Bridges	John Carson, Jennifer Daniel, Christopher Benjamin, Robert Lee, Brian Vaughan	Repeated 11 September 1967.	Missing
26 April 1967	Boa Constrictor	William Bast	Graeme McDonald	David Saire	Vivienne Martin, Frederick Bartman, Helen Downing, Bari Johnson, Ronald Lacey, Philip Locke, Gwen Nelson		Missing
3 May 1967	The Isle Is Full Of Noises	Dawn Pavitt and Terry Wale, based on an idea by Tony Holland	Graeme McDonald	Mary Ridge	Nancie Jackson, Philip Stone, Diana Coupland, William Lucas, Peter Hobbs		Missing
10 May 1967	Silver Wedding	John Bowen	Graeme McDonald	John Gorrie	Valerie White, Alan MacNaughtan		Missing
17 May 1967	The Sufferings Of Peter Obnizov	Frank Norman	Graeme McDonald	Mary Ridge	Bryan Pringle, James Bolam, John Barrard, Petra Markham, Anthony Gardner, Charles Pemberton		Missing
24 May 1967	Haven't You People Got Homes?	Tom Clarke	Graeme McDonald	Piers Haggard	Dilys Laye, Glynn Edwards, Kenneth Colley, Michael Brennan, Sydney Bromley		Missing
31 May 1967	That Woman	James Hanley	Graeme McDonald	Geoffrey Nethercott	Nora Nicholson, Derek Francis, Paula Byrne, Lennox Milne		Missing
7 June 1967	The Other Side	John Mortimer	Graeme McDonald	Tony Wickert	Beryl Reid, Nick Edmett, Kenneth Farrington		Missing
14 June 1967	The Wake	Alun Owen	Graeme McDonald	Gareth Davies	Keith Barron, Alan Lake, John Roden, Pearl Hackney, Ilona Rodgers	Repeated 13 November 1967.	Missing
21 June 1967	Child Marlene	John Hall	Graeme McDonald	Gilchrist Calder	Lally Bowers, John Phillips, Bryan Stanyon, Amber Kammer, Patrick Jordan		Missing
28 June 1967	Another Moon Called Earth	Tom Stoppard	Graeme McDonald	Alan Gibson	Diane Cilento, John Wood, John Bennett, Donald Eccles		Missing
Series Three
2 October 1967	Leave Me Alone	Robert Gould	George Spenton-Foster	David Andrews	Julian Glover, Michael Standing, Melissa Stribling		Missing
9 October 1967	The Timekeepers	Derrick Sherwin	George Spenton-Foster	Michael Hart	Moray Watson, Bernard Horsfall, Lyndon Brook, Eileen Colgan, Anna Perry, Derrick Sherwin, Roger Ostime, Geraldine Moffatt		Missing
16 October 1967	You Meet All Sorts	Gwen Cherrell	George Spenton-Foster	Philip Dudley	Jane Downs, Johnny Briggs		Missing
23 October 1967	The Tape Recorder	Pat Flower	George Spenton-Foster	Tony Wickert	Suzanne Neve, Guy Doleman	Repeated 4 September 1968.	Missing
30 October 1967	The Top Bunk	Ted Smith	George Spenton-Foster	Brian Miller	Brian Coburn, Patrick Westwood, John Moore, Douglas Blackwell, Anthony Hall	First Thirty-Minute Theatre listed in the Radio Times as broadcast in colour.	Missing
6 November 1967	Have It On the House	Paul Wheeler	George Spenton-Foster	Michael Hart	Donald Pickering, Jeremy Longhurst, Patrick Kavanagh, Patricia Fuller		Missing
27 November 1967	Notice! Meeting in Progress	P. C. Jersild , translated by Claude Stephenson	George Spenton-Foster	Philip Dudley	Claire Nielson, Hugh Dickson, Noel Johnson, John Garvin, John Dawson, Will Stampe	Literary. Repeated 10 July 1968.	Missing
6 December 1967	A Time of Wolves and Tigers	Hugh Leonard	George Spenton-Foster	Hugh David	Cyril Cusack	Repeated 17 July 1968, and on BBC1 12 June 1970.	Missing
13 December 1967	The Keys on the Street	Charles Castle	George Spenton-Foster	William Slater	Ann Todd, Ray Brooks	Repeated 24 July 1968.	Missing
20 December 1967	Come Death	Peter S. Beagle , dramatised by John Wiles	George Spenton-Foster	Geoffrey Nethercott	Pamela Brown, Barrie Ingham, Felicity Kendal, Alexander Davion, Mary Miller, James Bree	Repeated 21 August 1968.	Missing
27 December 1967	The Metal Martyr	Robert Moore Williams , dramatised by Derrick Sherwin	George Spenton-Foster	Brian Hulme	Alex Scott, Geoffrey Matthews, John Gabriel, Barry Jackson, Jon Rollason, Elizabeth Proud, Will Leighton	Literary. Repeated 28 August 1968.	Missing
3 January 1968	A Private Place	David Campton	George Spenton-Foster	Gerald Blake	Patrick Magee, Sean Caffrey	Repeated 3 July 1968.	Missing
10 January 1968	The News-Benders	Desmond Lowden	George Spenton-Foster	Rudolph Cartier	Donald Pleasence, Nigel Davenport, Sarah Brackett	Repeated 7 August 1968, and on BBC4 5 June 2004. [11]	Survives
17 January 1968	Diary of an Encounter	Leo Lehman	George Spenton-Foster	David Giles	Geraldine McEwan, Keith Michell	Repeated 14 August 1968.	Missing
24 January 1968	Lovely In Black	Maggie Ross	George Spenton-Foster	James Ferman	Elizabeth Shepherd, Ernest Clark, Eleanor Summerfield, Yolande Turner, Moray Watson, Tony Steedman		Missing
31 January 1968	Happiness Is £ Shaped	Donald Tosh	George Spenton-Foster	Bill Craske	George Baker, Barbara Lott		Missing
7 February 1968	Child's Play	Gerry Jones	George Spenton-Foster	John Matthews	Mary Webster, Tenniel Evans, Ian Ogilvy		Missing
14 February 1968	Snakes and Reptiles	Tom Murphy	Innes Lloyd	David Andrews	Robin Ford, Jim Norton, Kevin McHugh, Donal McCann, Marnie Cahill, Dudley Sutton		Missing
21 February 1968	The Unquiet Man	Michael Keir	George Spenton-Foster	Naomi Capon	Leonard Rossiter, Janet Webb, John Jefferson Hayes	Repeated on BBC1 24 July 1970.	Missing
28 February 1968	The Interview	Barry Bermange	Innes Lloyd	Donald McWhinnie	Brian Badcoe, John Bryning, Dennis Chinnery, Denys Graham, Richard Gregory, John Harvey, Noel Johnson, Sally Lewis, John Tucker	Repeated on BBC1 26 June 1970.	Survives
6 March 1968	Eveline	James Joyce , dramatised by Jeremy Paul	Innes Lloyd	Elsa Bolam	Sheelagh Cullen	Adapted from the short story. Repeated 31 July 1968.	Survives
13 March 1968	A Personal Affair	Maurice Edelman	Innes Lloyd	Alan Bridges	Leslie Sands, Ann Castle, Alan Rowe, Norman Mitchell, John Alderton		Missing
20 March 1968	No Trams to Ethiopia	Barry Letts	Innes Lloyd	Adrian Rendle	Jack Hedley, Jan Holden, Francis Matthews		Missing
27 March 1968	Father's Day	Jeremy Paul	Innes Lloyd	Elsa Bolam	David Carson, Mona Hammond, Anna Auland, Fulton Mackay, Daphne Anderson		Missing
3 April 1968	Pleasant Dreams, Fernando	Rod Beacham	Innes Lloyd	Michael Hart	James Culliford, Anna Palk		Missing
10 April 1968	The Sinner	David Hopkins	Innes Lloyd	James Cellan Jones	William Mervyn, Doris Hare, Geraldine Sherman, Chris Chittell		Missing
24 April 1968	It's On You, John	John Lucarotti	Innes Lloyd	James MacTaggart	John Junkin, Scott Forbes, Jeremy Wilkin	First outside broadcast colour drama.	Missing
1 May 1968	Standing by for Santa Claus	Xenia Field , adapted for television by Charlotte and Denis Plimmer	Innes Lloyd	Michael Hart	Dennis Alaba Peters, Harry Fowler, Michael Gough, Roddy McMillan, John Moore, Derek Murcott, Michael Standing, Tim Wylton, James Appleby	Literary. Repeated 3 August 1969.	Missing (first reel survives)
8 May 1968	Empty Bottles	Robin Smyth	Innes Lloyd	John Matthews	John Ronane, Reg Lye, Tenniel Evans		Missing
15 May 1968	Thank God For U.D.I.!	Frank Clements	Innes Lloyd	Oliver Horsbrugh	David Savile, Rudolph Walker, Louise Pajo		Missing
22 May 1968	Still Death	David Rolfe	Innes Lloyd	Mark Cullingham	John Castle, Katharine Barker, Richard Woo, Jim Kennedy		Missing (title sequence survives) [1]
29 May 1968	Walk in the Dark	John Wiles	Innes Lloyd	Christopher Barry	Beatrix Lehmann, Maxwell Shaw, Cavan Kendall, Dallia Penn		Missing
5 June 1968	The Boy's Room	Kon Fraser	Innes Lloyd	Geoffrey Nethercott	Robert Ayres, Brenda Peters, Wilfred Boyle		Missing
19 June 1968	Number 30 Approximately	Laurence Collinson	Innes Lloyd	Douglas Camfield	Stephanie Bidmead, Patrick Whyte, Ursula Howells		Missing
26 June 1968	A Question Of Honour	Don Shaw	Innes Lloyd	Geoffrey Nethercott	Nigel Green, Laurence Carter, Richard O'Sullivan, Anthony Gardner, Harry Littlewood, Alec Ross, John Carlin, David Morrell	Repeated 7 September 1969 and on BBC1 19 June 1970.	Missing (extract survives)
Series Four
9 September 1968	Baby	Ray Butler	Innes Lloyd	Elsa Bolam	Felicity Gibson, David Dundas, Irene Inescort, Peter Stenson		Missing
16 September 1968	A Matter Of Principle	Maurice Edelman	Innes Lloyd	Oliver Horsbrugh	Griffith Jones, David Langton, Harriette Johns, Peter Barkworth, Angela Browne, Peter Whitaker, Jacqueline Bertrand, Graham Leaman		Missing
23 September 1968	The Flag	P.L. Brent	Innes Lloyd	Malcolm Taylor	Edward Caddick, Peter Swanwick, George Pravda, André van Gyseghem, Leslie French, Joseph Furst, Brigit Forsyth		Survives
30 September 1968	The Chequers Manoeuvre	Charlotte and Denis Plimmer	Innes Lloyd	Christopher Barry	Ernest Clark, Derek Newark, Geoffrey Palmer, Anne Ridler, Michael Ripper	Repeated 30 September 1968.	16mm b&w film print
7 October 1968	Something to Hide: Part 1: The First Floor	Arden Winch	Innes Lloyd	Michael Hart	Charles Gray, Jennifer Wilson, Robin Chadwick, Edward Cast, Gordon Gostelow, William Franklyn	Repeated 6 July 1969 and on BBC1 15 May 1970.	Missing
14 October 1968	Something to Hide: Part 2: The Studio		Innes Lloyd		Charles Gray, Lyndon Brook, Robin Chadwick	Repeated 13 July 1969 and on BBC1 22 May 1970.	Missing
21 October 1968	Something to Hide: Part 3: The Caretaker's Flat		Innes Lloyd		Charles Gray, Gordon Gostelow, Robin Chadwick, Edward Cast	Repeated 20 July 1969 and on BBC1 29 May 1970.	Missing
4 November 1968	Of Public Concern	Don Shaw	Innes Lloyd	Geoffrey Nethercott	George Cole, Maurice Denham		Missing
11 November 1968	Cause Of Death	Charlotte and Denis Plimmer	Innes Lloyd	Claude Whatham	Richard Vernon, Peter Welch, Kenneth Colley	Repeated 31 August 1969.	Missing
18 November 1968	The Last Victim	Leo Knowles	Innes Lloyd	Tristan de Vere Cole	Peter Dyneley, Martin Jarvis, John Bryans	Repeated 27 July 1969.	Missing
25 November 1968	Loving Israel	Laurence Collinson	Innes Lloyd	Michael Hart	David Buck, David Nettheim, Malcolm Reynolds, Vivian Brooks, Margery Mason		Missing
2 December 1968	The Bishop and the Actress	William Douglas Home	Innes Lloyd	Geoffrey Nethercott	Anthony Nicholls, Celia Bannerman	Repeated 10 August 1969 and on BBC1 28 August 1970.	Missing
9 December 1968	Before Breakfast	Robert Rudelson	Innes Lloyd	Michael Bakewell	Dean Stockwell, Lelia Goldoni, Rudolph Walker, David Stockton		Missing
16 December 1968	Cross Examine	John Foster	Innes Lloyd	John Matthews	John Breslin, Jean Marsh, Robert MacLeod, Garfield Morgan, Tenniel Evans, Mary Webster		Missing
23 December 1968	Swallowing the Anchor	Frank Clements	Innes Lloyd	John Warrington	Leslie Sands, Stephanie Bidmead, George A. Cooper, Aubrey Richards	Repeated 24 August 1969.	Missing
30 December 1968	Game, Set and Match	Michael Page	Innes Lloyd	John Matthews	Colin Blakely, Ronald Lacey, Dennis Chinnery	Repeated 17 August 1969.	Survives
6 January 1969	Where Have They Gone, All the Little Children?	Charlotte and Denis Plimmer	Innes Lloyd	Philip Dudley	Michael Gwynn, Willie Jonah, Glyn Houston, Zakes Mokae, Elizabeth Bell, Hilary Minster		Missing
13 January 1969	Absolute Aggers and Torters	David Hodson	Innes Lloyd	Derrick Goodwin	Amanda Barrie, Jeremy Lloyd, Saeed Jaffrey	Repeated 21 September 1969.	Missing
20 January 1969	These Men Are Dangerous: 1: Mussolini	Jean Benedetti	Innes Lloyd	Mark Cullingham	John Castle, Christopher Timothy, Leon Lissek, Oscar Quitak, Norman Mitchell, Gordon Gostelow	Repeated 22 August 1970.	Missing
27 January 1969	These Men Are Dangerous: 2: Hitler		Innes Lloyd	Rudolph Cartier	Kenneth Colley, Ronald Lacey, Vernon Dobtcheff, Harold Goldblatt, Royston Tickner, Denis Cleary	Repeated 29 August 1970.	Missing
3 February 1969	These Men Are Dangerous: 3: Stalin		Innes Lloyd	Henri Safran	Brian Cox, George Murcell, Michael Standing	Repeated 5 September 1970.	Missing
13 February 1969	Stake Money	Mark Lushington	Innes Lloyd	Eric Hills	Keith Baxter, George Sewell, Alan Lake, Ann Mitchell		Missing
20 February 1969	First Confession	Nicholas Bethell, from a short story by Frank O'Connor	Innes Lloyd	Roderick Graham	Jack Wild, Eddie Byrne	Literary. Repeated 21 March 1970.	Survives
27 February 1969	The Boat to Addis Ababa	Gerald Wilson, from a story by Edward Etler	Innes Lloyd	Mira Coopman	Sandor Elès, Stanley Meadows, Murray Melvin, Miriam Margoyles	Literary	Missing
6 March 1969	A Hot Day	Janusz Wasylkowski, translated and adapted by Michael Hayes	Innes Lloyd	Michael Hayes	Lee Montague, Michael Williams	Literary. Repeated 7 March 1970 and on BBC1 4 September 1970.	Missing
13 March 1969	Roses, Roses, All the Way	Colin Morris	Innes Lloyd	Alan Bridges	John Collin, Robert Powell, Meg Ritchie		Missing
20 March 1969	The Victims: 1: A Degree of Stress	Don Shaw	Innes Lloyd	Mary Ridge	Andrew Ray, Bernard Hepton, Lewis Wilson, Trevor Bannister, Lindsay Campbell		Missing
27 March 1969	The Victims: 2: Frontier		Innes Lloyd	John Glenister	Paul Dawkins, Anthony Dutton, David Pinner, David Barry, Richard Owens, Larry Dann, Tom Baker	Repeated 18 July 1970.	Missing
3 April 1969	The Victims: 3: Progressive Blues		Innes Lloyd	Anne Head	Frances Cuka, Joe Melia, Clive Francis	Repeated 11 July 1970.	Missing
10 April 1969	Invasion	Barry Bermange	Innes Lloyd	Donald McWhinnie	Tony Bilbow, Michael Coles, Polly Elwes, Libby Morris, Denys Hawthorne	Repeated 5 June 1969.	Missing
24 April 1969	A Nice Cool Pad in the Sky	Graham Seal	Innes Lloyd	James Brabazon	Glynn Edwards, Donald Gee, Denise Buckley		Missing
1 May 1969	Anything You Say	John Foster	Innes Lloyd	Rodney Bennett	Earl Cameron, Paul Hardwick, Clifton Jones		Missing
8 May 1969	Conversation at Night	Friedrich Dürrenmatt , translated by Robert David MacDonald	Innes Lloyd	Rudolph Cartier	John Gielgud, Alec Guinness	Theatrical. Repeated 30 November 1969. [12]	Missing
15 May 1969	Roly Poly	Stanisław Lem , adapted for television by Derek Hoddinott	Innes Lloyd	Michael Hart	John Alderton, Thorley Walters, Dudley Foster, Terence Brady	Literary. Repeated on BBC1 21 August 1970.	Missing
22 May 1969	...And Was Invited To Form a Government	Charlotte and Denis Plimmer	Innes Lloyd	Mark Cullingham	Patrick Barr, David Langton, David Collings, Edward Evans		Missing
29 May 1969	A Borderline Case	Robert Furnival	Innes Lloyd	John Warrington	Francis Matthews, Janet Chappell		Missing
Series Five
14 September 1969	Remote Control	Hugo Charteris	Innes Lloyd	Alan Gibson	Malcolm Patton, Barrie Ingham, Jeremy Child, Chris Chittell, Grahame Mallard		Missing
28 September 1969	Gangster	Robin Smyth	Innes Lloyd	Michael Hart	Kenneth Cranham, Billy Hamon, Margaret Brady		Missing
5 October 1969	Trial	Graham Seal	Innes Lloyd	James Brabazon	David Graham, Michael Robbins	Repeated 25 September 1970.	Missing
12 October 1969	A Formula For Treason	Charlotte and Denis Plimmer	Innes Lloyd	Oliver Horsbrugh	Peter Cellier, Ruth Trouncer, Leonard Sachs, Lisa Daniely, Christopher Burgess, Tim Seely		Missing
19 October 1969	Someone's Knocking At Me Door	Robin Smyth	Innes Lloyd	Sue Amey	Harry Fowler, Rita Webb, Bryan Pringle		Missing
26 October 1969	Trespassers	Allan Prior	Innes Lloyd	Christopher Barry	Norman Eshley, Zienia Merton, Susan Brodrick, Jeremy Child, David Billa	Repeated 15 August 1970.	Missing
9 November 1969	Aggers and Torters: Part 1: Back to Nature	David Hodson	Innes Lloyd	Rodney Bennett	Amanda Barrie, Roddy Maude-Roxby, James Villiers, Rosalind Knight	Repeated 30 May 1970.	Missing
16 November 1969	Aggers and Torters: Part 2: Psy-Fi		Innes Lloyd	Anne Head	Amanda Barrie, Roddy Maude-Roxby		Missing
23 November 1969	Aggers and Torters: Part 3: Hickory Dickory		Innes Lloyd	Rodney Bennett	Amanda Barrie, Roddy Maude-Roxby, Betty Marsden, Jack Watling, John Witty		Missing
7 December 1969	Lecture to an Academy	Franz Kafka	Innes Lloyd	Roderick Graham	Tutte Lemkow	Adapted from the short story.	Missing
14 December 1969	The Switch	Ewart Alexander	Innes Lloyd	Liz Small	Barbara Couper, John Castle		Missing
28 December 1969	The Discharge Of Trooper Lusby	Robert Holles	Innes Lloyd	James Brabazon	Michael Trubshawe, Robin Bailey, Jack Woolgar, Michael Elwyn, Peter Welch, Terence Brady, Robert James, Stuart Saunders, Patrick Godfrey	Repeated on BBC1 18 September 1970.	Missing
10 January 1970	Laffin' Gas	Tony Perrin	Innes Lloyd	Brian Farnham	Joe Gladwin, Del Henney		Missing
17 January 1970	The Chief Whip Sends His Compliments	Maurice Edelman	Innes Lloyd	Roderick Graham	Michael Aldridge, Sylvia Syms, Peter Howell, Edward Evans, Philip Bond, Raymond Llewellyn, Pauline Taylor, Antony Carrick, Salvin Stewart		Missing
24 January 1970	Reparation	Robert Lamb	Innes Lloyd	Rodney Bennett	Sydney Tafler, Irene Prador, John Woodvine	Repeated 8 August 1970.	Missing
31 January 1970	The Scarecrows	Ewart Alexander	Innes Lloyd	Bill Craske	John Rees, Aubrey Richards		Missing
7 February 1970	Laying It Off For Spangle	Alan McMurtie	Innes Lloyd	James Vowden	Julian Glover, Robert Cartland, Stacy Davies		Missing
14 February 1970	Home Is Where You Hang Your Hat	George Layton	Innes Lloyd	Liz Small	Clive Revill, Maureen Pryor		Missing
21 February 1970	What a Pity You Can't Stay Longer	Adeline Collier	Innes Lloyd	Henri Safran	Neil McCallum, Geraldine Moffatt, Donald Pickering, Janet Key		Missing
28 February 1970	Out Of Sight, Out Of Mind	Frank Clements	Innes Lloyd	Robert Knights	Madge Ryan, James Cossins	Repeated 26 April 1971.	Missing
14 March 1970	Meanwhile, Back at the Office…	Derek Hoddinott	Innes Lloyd	Michael Hart	David Markham, Hilary Mason, Kara Wilson, Reginald Marsh, Frederick Hall	Repeated 30 August 1971.	Missing
28 March 1970	All My Own Army	Leslie Thomas	Innes Lloyd	Michael Tuchner	Michael Bates, Hubert Rees, Paddy Joyce, John Garrie, Jack Shepherd	Repeated 20 November 1970.	Missing
4 April 1970	Whispers	Patrick Foster	Innes Lloyd	Henri Safran	Gwen Watford, David Langton, Tom Oliver, Ysanne Churchman		Missing
11 April 1970	Revolution: Cromwell	Cecil P. Taylor	Innes Lloyd	Tristan de Vere Cole	Leslie Sands, Kenneth Colley, Davyd Harries	Repeated 3 May 1971. Taylor authored a book on the production of his play. [13]	Missing
18 April 1970	Revolution: Lenin		Innes Lloyd	Brian Farnham	Lee Montague, Norman Rossington, David Collings		Missing
25 April 1970	Revolution: Fidel Castro		Innes Lloyd	Michael Hart	Bernard Horsfall, Tom Conti, Bernard Finch, Alec Wallis		Missing
9 May 1970	Is That Your Body, Boy?	Andrew Davies	Innes Lloyd	Claude Whatham	Ron Moody, Michael Kitchen, Keith Skinner	Repeated on BBC1 14 August 1970. Released online. [14]	Survives
16 May 1970	The Tidewatchers	David McGibbon	Innes Lloyd	James Vowden	Sam Kydd, Richard O'Callaghan, Maurice Roëves	Repeated 17 May 1971.	Missing
23 May 1970	Twenty-Six Efforts at Pornography	Carey Harrison	Innes Lloyd	Robert Knights	Mark Dignam, Keith McNally	Repeated 23 August 1971.	Missing
6 June 1970	Lily: Part 1	Jean Benedetti	Innes Lloyd	Gilchrist Calder	Dandy Nichols, Iain Cuthbertson, Avis Bunnage, Freda Dowie, Paul Stassino	Repeated 6 September 1971.	Missing
13 June 1970	Lily: Part 2			Hugh David	Avis Bunnage, Iain Cuthbertson, Dandy Nichols, Patrick Wymark, Freda Dowie, Paul Stassino, André van Gyseghem, Glynn Edwards, Graham Leaman, John Scott Martin	Repeated 13 September 1971.	Missing
20 June 1970	Ben	Roy Minton	Innes Lloyd	Colin Cant	John Gregson, Jeremy Burring	Repeated 10 May 1971.	Missing
27 June 1970	An Uncertain Sound	Leo Knowles	Innes Lloyd	Tristan de Vere Cole	John Carlisle, Ewan Hooper, Peter Miles, Louise Nelson		Missing
4 July 1970	Hope	John Spurling	Innes Lloyd	John Glenister	John Bennett, John Sharp, Annette Crosbie		Missing
25 July 1970	Good Times	Roy Minton	Innes Lloyd	Brian Farnham	Gwen Watford, Victor Maddern		Missing
1 August 1970	Tropical Wednesdays	James Gibbons	Innes Lloyd	Colin Cant	Joyce Carey, Agnes Lauchlan, Nadim Sawalha		Missing
Series Six
18 September 1970	The Raid	Conn Ryan	Innes Lloyd	Anne Head	Michael Goodliffe, Rachel Gurney, Clifton Jones		Missing
2 October 1970	The Year of the Crow	Lida Winiewicz, translated by Rudolph Cartier.	Innes Lloyd	Rudolph Cartier	Nigel Davenport, Marius Goring, Colin Jeavons, Athol Coats		Missing
9 October 1970	Did Your Nanny Come From Bergen?	Shelagh Delaney	Innes Lloyd	Suzanne Neild	Agnes Lauchlan, John Rees, Michael Trubshawe, Guy Middleton, June Jago, Alethea Charlton, David Allister		Missing
16 October 1970	Tribunal	Leo Knowles	Innes Lloyd	Keith Williams	Leslie Sands, John Carlisle, Patrick Connor, Peter Hutchins, Godfrey James		Missing
30 October 1970	Helen	Keith Dewhurst, based on Euripides	Innes Lloyd	Herbert Wise	Aspassia Papathanassiou, Paul Daneman, Ian Ogilvy, Noel Johnson, Mark Rivers, Stacey Tendeter	Based on the play.	Missing
13 November 1970	The Warmonger	Keith Waterhouse	Innes Lloyd	Mischa Scorer	Nicholas Osborn, Paul Jacobs, Alan Baverstock, Nicholas Rymills, Martin Cox	A BBC-Bavaria Atelier Gmbh Munich co-production. Repeated 11 April 1971.	Survives
27 November 1970	The Editor Regrets	William Douglas Home	Innes Lloyd	Philip Dudley	William Mervyn, Dinsdale Landen, Penelope Wilton		Missing
4 December 1970	Waugh on Crime: 1: In Which Inspector Waugh Settles an Account	Arden Winch	Innes Lloyd	Tristan de Vere Cole	Clive Swift, Willoughby Gray	Repeated 27 September 1972.	Survives
11 December 1970	Waugh on Crime: 2: In Which Inspector Waugh Meets a Man Going to St. Ives		Innes Lloyd	Tristan de Vere Cole	Clive Swift		Survives
18 December 1970	Waugh on Crime: 3: In Which Inspector Waugh Encounters the English Class System		Innes Lloyd	Philip Dudley	Clive Swift, John Dawson, David McKail	Repeated 4 October 1972.	Survives
25 December 1970	Waugh on Crime: 4: In Which Inspector Waugh Observes the Truth of an Old Music-Hall Song		Innes Lloyd	Philip Dudley	Clive Swift, Sydney Tafler, George Tovey	Repeated 11 October 1972.	Survives
1 January 1971	Waugh on Crime: 5: In Which Inspector Waugh Plays Cops and Robbers		Innes Lloyd	Tristan de Vere Cole	Clive Swift, Alethea Charlton	Repeated 18 October 1972.	Survives
8 January 1971	Waugh on Crime: 6: In Which Inspector Waugh Knows the Criminal but not the Crime		Innes Lloyd	Philip Dudley	Clive Swift, Moray Watson, Brian Peck	Repeated 25 October 1972.	Survives
11 January 1971	But Now They Are Fled	Ron Berry	Innes Lloyd	Clive Rees	Nicholas Jones, Angharad Rees	Repeated 7 February 1972.	Survives
18 January 1971	Faith	John Spurling	Anne Head	Michael Hart	Robert Lang, John Franklyn-Robbins, Esmond Knight, Kara Wilson		Missing
25 January 1971	Terrible Jim Fitch	James Leo Herlihy	Innes Lloyd	James Firman	Nicol Williamson, Marianne Faithfull		Missing
1 February 1971	The Bequest	Carey Harrison	Innes Lloyd	Christopher Morahan	Geoffrey Sumner, Keith Barron		Missing
8 February 1971	Me Mackenna	Don Shaw	Innes Lloyd	Gilchrist Calder	Anthony Heaton, Peter Attard, David Dixon, Prentis Hancock, Richard O'Sullivan, Nicholas Field, Keith Simon	Repeated 15 May 1972.	Missing
15 February 1971	The Proposal	Anton Chekhov , translated by Elizaveta Fen.	Innes Lloyd	Rudolph Cartier	Elisabeth Bergner, Hugh Griffith, Rupert Davies	Adapted from the play.	Missing
22 February 1971	Asquith in Orbit	Hugo Charteris	Innes Lloyd	Rodney Bennett	Charles Gray, Peter Barkworth, David Bauer, Robert Lee	Repeated 14 February 1972.	Missing
1 March 1971	Happy Days Are Here Again	Dennis Woolf	Anne Head	Brian Farnham	Joe Melia, Hilda Braid, Neil Wilson, Alex Macintosh, Sheila Grant	Repeated 24 April 1972.	Missing
8 March 1971	The Railwayman's New Clothes	Willis Hall	Anne Head	Gilchrist Calder	Peter Sallis, Barbara Mitchell, Jack Smethurst, David Gwillim	Repeated 1 May 1972.	Missing
15 March 1971	No Charge for the Extra Service	Rhys Adrian	Anne Head	Suzanne Neild	Lally Bowers, John Nettleton		Missing
22 March 1971	A Distinct Chill	Ian Curteis	Anne Head	Michael Hart	Ann Bell, Derek Smith, Julian Curry, Margery Withers		Missing
29 March 1971	The Waiting-Room	John Bowen	Innes Lloyd	Robert Knights	Barbara Leigh-Hunt, David Cook	Repeated 31 July 1972.	Missing
5 April 1971	Listen to the Drums	David McGibbon	Anne Head	Vere Lorrimer	Jean Moran, Seán Barrett, Gertrude Russell, Barry Keegan, Kerry Marsh, Harry Towb		Missing
24 May 1971	Death's Head	Campbell Black	Anne Head	John Mathews	Peter Dyneley, Jerome Willis, Martin Jarvis, Allan Surtees		Missing
31 May 1971	Jilly	Jumbo Parker	Innes Lloyd	Ben Rea	Patrick Troughton, Patsy Rowlands, David Collings		Missing
7 June 1971	Something for the Children	Alan Wells	Anne Head	John Hefin	Flora Robson, Alfred Lynch, Petra Markham	Repeated 17 April 1972.	Missing
14 June 1971	The Room They Left	Richard McNeff	Anne Head	Keith Williams	Carole Mowlam, James Laurenson, Donald Gee, Alan Downer, Leslie Dwyer		Missing
5 July 1971	Seven Days in the Life of Andrew Pelham: Day 1: Crisis	Derek Hoddinott	Innes Lloyd	Gilchrist Calder	Donald Sinden, David Quilter, Wendy Williams		Missing
12 July 1971	Seven Days in the Life of Andrew Pelham: Day 2: Suspect		Innes Lloyd		Donald Sinden, Moray Watson		Missing
19 July 1971	Seven Days in the Life of Andrew Pelham: Day 3: Inquiry	Don Shaw	Innes Lloyd		Donald Sinden, John Carson, Moray Watson, Willoughby Gray, William Fox, Robert James		Missing
26 July 1971	Seven Days in the Life of Andrew Pelham: Day 4: Retreat		Innes Lloyd		Donald Sinden, Cyril Luckham		Missing
2 August 1971	Seven Days in the Life of Andrew Pelham: Day 5: Deadlock		Innes Lloyd		Donald Sinden, David Langton		Missing
9 August 1971	Seven Days in the Life of Andrew Pelham: Day 6: Breakthrough		Innes Lloyd		Donald Sinden, David Langton, Wendy Williams		16mm b&w film print
16 August 1971	Seven Days in the Life of Andrew Pelham: Day 7: Decision		Innes Lloyd		Donald Sinden, John Standing, Frederick Jaeger		Missing
Series Seven
20 September 1971	Walt, King of the Dumper	Jim Allen	Tim Aspinall	Jack Gold	Dennis Waterman, Prentis Hancock, Paddy Joyce, Tony Caunter, Wanda Ventham	Repeated 10 July 1972.	Survives
27 September 1971	Soldier Ants	John Gale	Anne Head	Donald McWhinnie	Earl Cameron, Neil Wilson, Paul Aston, Frederick Treves, Eric Thompson, James Mellor, Patrick Tull	Repeated 24 July 1972.	Missing
4 October 1971	Gun Play	Philip Martin	Anne Head	Rodney Bennett	John Collin, Anna Cropper, Derek Newark	Repeated 8 May 1972.	Missing
11 October 1971	Combing Down His Yellow Hair	Raymond Hitchcock	Anne Head	Ken Hannam	Brian Cox, Mark McManus		Missing
18 October 1971	The Moonlighters	Tom Clarke	Anne Head	Brian Farnham	Windsor Davies, Sam Kydd, Don Hawkins, Sharon Duce, Ronnie Masterson		Missing
25 October 1971	Getting In	Mavor Moore	Anne Head	John Hefin	Joss Ackland, Robert Hardy	Repeated 17 July 1972.	Survives
1 November 1971	Psychological Warfare	Cyril Bolton	Tim Aspinall	Mike Newell	Del Henney, Bill Maynard, Victor Henry, Steven Berkoff		Missing
8 November 1971	A Settled Sort Of Life	Tom Clarke	Tim Aspinall	Michael Hayes	Sara Kestelman, Norman Rodway, Derek Royle		Missing
15 November 1971	The Gardeners Of My Youth	Rhys Adrian	Tim Aspinall	Donald McWhinnie	Hugh Burden, John Nettleton, Trader Faulkner, Clyde Pollitt		Missing
22 November 1971	Blues in the Morning	David McGibbon	Anne Head	John Powell	Prunella Scales, Barry Evans, Brian Rawlinson, Harold Kasket		Missing
29 November 1971	Jenkins	David Snodin	Anne Head	Eric Hills	Charles Gray, Lyndon Brook, Jeremy Young, Derek Benfield, Susan Penhaligon		Missing
6 December 1971	Allotment	Sean Hignett	Pharic MacLaren	Tina Wakerell	Frank Windsor, Derek Anders, Joan Young	BBC Scotland.	Survives
13 December 1971	Farewell Performance	Rodney Bennett	Anne Head	Rodney Bennett	Sydney Tafler		Missing
20 December 1971	Footprints	Robin Smyth	Anne Head	Basil Coleman	Daphne Slater, Terence Longdon, Daphne Heard		Missing
21 December 1971	A Wen	Saul Bellow	Anne Head	Piers Haggard	Sam Wanamaker, Miriam Karlin	Theatrical	Missing
3 January 1972	Not Counting the Savages	B. S. Johnson	Tim Aspinall	Mike Newell	Hugh Burden, Brenda Bruce, Fiona Walker, William Hoyland		Domestic video recording
10 January 1972	Uncle Rollo	Ron Berry	Innes Lloyd	Hugh David	Hugh Griffith, Clive Merrison		Missing
17 January 1972	They Don't All Open Men's Boutiques	Willis Hall	Anne Head	Herbert Wise	Derek Newark, David Hill, John Lyons, Don Hawkins, Rayner Bourton, William Victor, Johnnie Wade, John Dearth, Alan Chuntz	Repeated 3 December 1973 and under Scene on BBC1 21 March 1974.	Missing
24 January 1972	The Penthouse Apartment	William Trevor	Anne Head	Gilchrist Calder	Colin Blakely, Rachel Kempson, Alethea Charlton, John Harvey, Stacey Tendeter		Missing
31 January 1972	An Affair Of Honour	Reg Hill	Tim Aspinall	Mark Cullingham	Nigel Davenport, Michael Pennington, Penelope Wilton, Frederick Pyne		Missing
21 February 1972	An Arrow For Little Audrey	Brian Finch	David Rose	Paul Ciappessoni	Eric Allan, Geoffrey Hughes	1st BBC Birmingham Season, #1. Repeated 22 March 1973.	Survives
28 February 1972	That Quiet Earth	John Hopkins		John Hopkins	Shirley Knight Hopkins, David Savile, David Bradley, Ewan Hooper, Anne Cunningham	1st BBC Birmingham Season, #2. [15]	Survives
6 March 1972	Said the Preacher	Arthur Hopcraft		Michael Apted	Victor Henry, Madge Hindle, Frank Crompton, Mark Dignam, Bernard Wrigley	1st BBC Birmingham Season, #3. Repeated 5 April 1973.	Survives
13 March 1972	That Time Of Life	David Cregan		Michael Simpson	John Neville, Peter Bayliss, Nell Brennan, Barbara Ogilvie	1st BBC Birmingham Season, #4.	Missing
20 March 1972	Under the Age	Ted Whitehead		Alan Clarke	Paul Angelis, Michael Angelis, Stephen Bent	1st BBC Birmingham Season, #5. Repeated 16 August 1973. Released on Blu-Ray. [16]	Survives
27 March 1972	Bypass	David Rudkin		David Rose	Jean Leppard, Adrian Bracken, Bob Peck, Simon Carter	1st BBC Birmingham Season, #6. Repeated 29 March 1973.	Missing
3 April 1972	And For My Next Trick	Jack Rosenthal		Brian Parker	Noel Dyson, Tenniel Evans, Margaret Flint, Terence Soall, Virginia Hewitt, Sheila Reid, Frances White	1st BBC Birmingham Season, #7.	Missing
10 April 1972	The Sit In	Keith Dewhurst		Paul Ciappessoni	Carolyn Courage, Martin Shaw, Leonard Maguire, Barry Foster, Jennifer Wilson	1st BBC Birmingham Season, #8.	Missing
22 May 1972	Mill Hill	John Mortimer	Anne Head	Michael Hayes	Geraldine McEwan, Peter Cook, Clive Revill, Alison Griffin	Theatrical. Repeated 7 June 1973.	Survives
29 May 1972	Kings Cross Lunch Hour		Tim Aspinall	Gilchrist Calder	Pauline Collins, Joss Ackland, Lila Kaye	Theatrical	Survives
5 June 1972	Swiss Cottage		Tim Aspinall	Rodney Bennett	Derek Godfrey, Priscilla Morgan, Jan Francis, Bernice Spivack	Theatrical	Missing
12 June 1972	Knightsbridge		Tim Aspinall	Mark Cullingham	Googie Withers, Donald Churchill, Angela Scoular	Theatrical. Repeated 31 May 1973.	Survives
19 June 1972	Bermondsey		Anne Head	Claude Whatham	Edward Fox, Dinsdale Landen, Rosemary Leach, Sharon Duce	Theatrical. Repeated 14 June 1973.	Survives
Series Eight
14 August 1972	Hands	Fay Weldon	Tim Aspinall	Philip Saville	Rosemary Leach	Repeated 3 June 1974.	Missing
21 August 1972	Lushly	Howard Brenton	Anne Head	Brian Farnham	Roy Kinnear, Dudley Sutton, George Tovey		Missing
28 August 1972	Too Far	Joan Morahan	Tim Aspinall	Christopher Morahan	Barrie Ingham, Sheila Allen, Ann Lynn		Missing
4 September 1972	Thrills Galore	Rhys Adrian	Tim Aspinall	Donald McWhinnie	Rosalind Ayres, Dennis Chinnery, Kate Coleridge, John Dearth, Jimmy Gardner, Harry Landis, Patrick Magee, James Mellor, Declan Mulholland, Clyde Pollitt, Bryan Pringle	Repeated 17 December 1973 and 8 April 1974.	Survives
11 September 1972	The Argument	Mavor Moore	Tim Aspinall	Brian Farnham	Judy Parfitt, Lee Montague		Missing
18 September 1972	The Seventh Juror	Rayner Heppenstall	Anne Head	Alan Cooke	Walter Brown, John Arnatt, Peter Sinclair, Shelagh Fraser, Colin Douglas		Missing
25 September 1972	I Spy a Stranger	Jean Rhys , dramatised by Patrick Garland	Anne Head	Mark Cullingham	Mona Washbourne, Noel Dyson, Hana Maria Pravda, Basil Dignam	Literary. Repeated 27 May 1974.	Survives
2 October 1972	The Judge's Wife	Caryl Churchill	Anne Head	James Ferman	Sebastian Shaw, Rachel Kempson, Valerie White, Evin Crowley		Missing
12 October 1972	Scarborough	Donald Howarth	David Rose	Peter Cregeen	David Sadgrove, Louisa Martin, Brian Deacon	2nd BBC Birmingham Season, #1.	Survives
19 October 1972	Tonight We Meet Arthur Pendelbury	Alan Plater		Christopher Morahan	Donald Churchill, Norman Bird	2nd BBC Birmingham Season, #2.	Missing
26 October 1972	Ronnie's So Long at the Fair	Jay Humber		Ian Wyatt	David Dixon, Sherrie Hewson, Pat Heywood, John Collin	2nd BBC Birmingham Season, #3.	Missing
2 November 1972	Ten Torrey Canyons	Brian Clark		Eric Hills	Peter Halliday, Paul Henry, Jack Holloway, Ken Jones	2nd BBC Birmingham Season, #4.	Missing
9 November 1972	I Wouldn't Tell On You, Miss	Susan Pleat		Paul Ciappessoni	Leslie Sands, Brenda Bruce, Christine Rees, Adrienne Byrne, Verna Harvey	2nd BBC Birmingham Season, #5.	Missing
16 November 1972	You're Free	Henry Livings		Anthony Page	Rachel Roberts, Colin Blakely	2nd BBC Birmingham Season, #6.	Survives
22 November 1972	Dialogue	Alasdair Gray	Pharic MacLaren	Bob Hird	David Swift, Elizabeth Bell	BBC Scotland.	Missing
29 November 1972	Krapp's Last Tape	Samuel Beckett	Tim Aspinall	Donald McWhinnie	Patrick Magee	Adapted from the play. Repeated 17 December 1982 and 31 January 1990.	Survives
6 December 1972	The Chauffeur and the Lady	Howard Barker	Tim Aspinall	Mike Newell	Mary Wimbush, Kenneth Cranham, Catherine Kessler		Missing
13 December 1972	You've Been a Long Time, Alfred	John Loveday	Anne Head	Voytek	Mona Bruce, David Troughton, Karl Howman	Repeated 15 April 1974.	Missing
3 January 1973	The Japanese Student	Frank Tuohy	Tim Aspinall	James Ferman	Gwen Cherrell, Stephen Murray, Tessa Wyatt, Eric Young		Missing
10 January 1973	The Punchy and the Fairy	Jim Allen	Anne Head	Roy Battersby	James Culliford, Peter Kerrigan		Missing
17 January 1973	Playthings	John Harris	Tim Aspinall	Simon Langton	Brian Glover, Stephen Bone		Missing
24 January 1973	Is Nellie Dead?	Tom Woodall	Anne Head	Herbert Wise	Beatrix Lehmann, Philip Latham, Robert Powell		Missing
31 January 1973	A Chance Encounter	Rhys Adrian	Anne Head	Tim Aspinall	Alfred Marks, Hugh Burden, Oliver MacGreevy, Esmond Webb		Missing
Continuation of Thirty-Minute Theatre, albeit not billed as such in the Radio Times
8 February 1973	A Touch of Eastern Promise	Tara Prem	David Rose	Michael Lindsay-Hogg	Dev Sagoo, Jamila Massey, Albert Moses	3rd BBC Birmingham Season, #1. Repeated 1 April 1974.	Survives
15 February 1973	And All Who Sail in Her	Andy Ashton		Kenneth Ives	Neil McCarthy, Bob Hoskins	3rd BBC Birmingham Season, #2.	Missing
22 February 1973	You and Me and Him	David Mercer		Barry Hanson	Peter Vaughan	3rd BBC Birmingham Season, #3.	Survives
1 March 1973	The Great Acrobile	Roy Minton		Tristan de Vere Cole	Bernard Spear, Brian Godfrey, John Garrie, Ralph Arliss	3rd BBC Birmingham Season, #4.	Missing
8 March 1973	I Want to Marry Your Son	David Cregan		Kenneth Ives	Richard Johnson, Estelle Kohler, Carmen Munroe, Gerald James	3rd BBC Birmingham Season, #5.	Survives
15 March 1973	Atrocity	David Rudkin		Barry Hanson	Anthony Douse, Alex Marshall, Doreen Hepburn, Malcolm Terris	3rd BBC Birmingham Season, #6.	Missing (extract survives)
12 April 1973	Swamp Music	Snoo Wilson	Anne Head	Ian MacNaughton	Ed Devereaux, Bruce Bould		Missing
19 April 1973	Croust	Dave Humphries	Anne Head	John Hefin	Bryan Pringle, Michael Brennan, Charles Lamb, Jimmy Gardner		Missing
26 April 1973	The Baby's Name Being Kitchener	Peter Everett	Tim Aspinall	Michael Hayes	Leonard Rossiter, Margaret Courtenay		Missing
3 May 1973	Kamikaze in the Coffee Bath	John Gale	Tim Aspinall	Bill Craske	Michael Bates, Timothy Bateson, Oliver MacGreevy		Missing
10 May 1973	About a Bout	Philip Martin	Anne Head	Rodney Bennett	Peter Schofield, Hilary Mason, Ray Mort		Missing
17 May 1973	Shakespeare Country	Alfred Fagon	Tim Aspinall	Philip Saville	Alfred Fagon, Carmen Munroe, Stefan Kalipha, Merdel Jordine		Missing
19 July 1973	Places Where They Sing	Jonathan Hales	Richard Broke	Bill Hays	Gordon Jackson, Phil Daniels, Patrick Murray, Simon Gipps-Kent, Richard Willis	Repeated under Centre Play 22 May 1975.	Missing
26 July 1973	The Girls in Their Summer Dresses	Irwin Shaw	Anne Head	Clive Rees	Ann Bell, Anton Rodgers	Repeated 27 October 1974.	Survives
2 August 1973	The Museum Attendant	Michael Abbensetts	Ann Scott	Derek Bennett	Joseph Greig, David Battley, Robin Parkinson, Tony Selby	Repeated under Centre Play 5 June 1975.	Survives
9 August 1973	The Joke	Maggie Wadey	Ann Scott	Tim Aspinall	Yvonne Antrobus, Aubrey Woods, Bernard Lee, Louis Selwyn		Missing

See also

Other BBC2 drama anthology series include

• Theatre 625
• Second City Firsts
• BBC2 Playhouse
• Screen Two
• Stage 2

References

1. BBC Graphic Design Compilation Reel; see "BBC Motion Graphics Archive". Ravensbourne University London. Retrieved 17 August 2021.
2. Re-viewing Television History: Critical Issues in Television Historiography, p.85
3. Shubik, Irene (2000). Play for Today - The evolution of television drama (2 ed.). Manchester: Manchester University Press. ISBN   0719056861.
4. "Bermondsey (1972)". BFI. Archived from the original on 28 October 2020. Retrieved 24 July 2021.
5. "John Mortimer's Britain through the years". The Guardian. Retrieved 24 July 2021.
6. Pebble Mill Studios
7. "Thirty-Minute Theatre". TV Brain. Retrieved 24 July 2021.
8. Coward, Simon; Down, Richard; Perry, Chris (2011). The Kaleidoscope BBC Television Drama Research Guide 1936-2011. Kaleidoscope Publishing. pp. 2532–2549.
9. "BBC Genome". genome.ch.bbc.co.uk.
10. "Collections Search | BFI | British Film Institute". collections-search.bfi.org.uk.
11. "News-Benders, The (1968)". BFI Screenonline. Retrieved 31 July 2021.
12. "Conversations at Night (1969)". British Television Drama. Retrieved 31 July 2021.
13. Taylor, Cecil P. (1970). Making a Television Play - A Complete Guide from Conception to B.B.C. Production: based on the making of the play Charles and Cromwell for B.B.C. 'Thirty Minute Theatre'. London: Oriel Press. ISBN   0853621187.
14. Released online via Apple's iTunes Store and Amazon Prime Video.
15. "That Quiet Earth (1972)". BFI Screenonline. Retrieved 31 July 2021.
16. 'Dissent & Disruption: Alan Clarke at the BBC (1969–1989)' 13-disc Blu-Ray box set, BFI, 2016.

External links

• Thirty-Minute Theatre at IMDb