Thirty-Minute Theatre Explained

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.^[1] It was produced initially by Harry Moore, later by Graeme MacDonald, George Spenton-Foster, Innes Lloyd and others.^[2] 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^{[3] [4]} 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)^[5] and Jack Rosenthal (And for My Next Trick, 1972).

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.^{[6] [7]}

Productions

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

Notes and References

1. https://books.google.com/books?id=Oa7IXSJIsYgC&pg=PA85&lpg=PA85&dq=thirty-Minute+Theatre+rudkin&pg=PA85 Re-viewing Television History: Critical Issues in Television Historiography, p.85
2. Book: Shubik, Irene . Irene Shubik . 2000 . Play for Today - The evolution of television drama . Manchester . Manchester University Press . 2 . 0719056861.
3. Web site: Bermondsey (1972) . https://web.archive.org/web/20201028163250/https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b844d8e12 . dead . 28 October 2020 . BFI . 24 July 2021.
4. Web site: John Mortimer's Britain through the years . The Guardian . 4 May 2009 . 24 July 2021.
5. http://www.pebblemill.org/transmission-lists/ Pebble Mill Studios
6. Web site: Thirty-Minute Theatre . TV Brain . 24 July 2021.
7. Book: Coward . Simon . Down . Richard . Perry . Chris . 2011 . The Kaleidoscope BBC Television Drama Research Guide 1936-2011 . Kaleidoscope Publishing . 2532–2549.
8. Web site: BBC Genome. genome.ch.bbc.co.uk.
9. Web site: Collections Search | BFI | British Film Institute. collections-search.bfi.org.uk.
10. Web site: News-Benders, The (1968) . BFI Screenonline . 31 July 2021.
11. Daily Mirror 13 June 1968, page 16
12. Birmingham Mail 13 June 1968
13. Daily Mirror 13 June 1968, page 16
14. Web site: Conversations at Night (1969) . British Television Drama . 23 May 2011 . 31 July 2021.
15. Book: Taylor, Cecil P. . C. P. Taylor . 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' . Oriel Press . London . 0853621187.
16. Released online via Apple's iTunes Store and Amazon Prime Video.
17. Web site: That Quiet Earth (1972) . BFI Screenonline . 31 July 2021.
18. 'Dissent & Disruption: Alan Clarke at the BBC (1969–1989)' 13-disc Blu-Ray box set, BFI, 2016.