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Season guide

Thirty-Minute Theatre: Series 1

38 episodes Premiered Oct 6, 1965 Updated Jul 23, 2026
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Season 1 Episodes

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Mytharc (4): Crucial lore & season climaxes
Core (34): Character development & subplots
Side Quest (0): Standalone / filler
S1·E1 Mytharc

Parson's Pleasure

Oct 7, 1965 · 30 min

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.

S1·E2 Core

Give the Clown His Supper

Oct 14, 1965 · 30 min

Failure to win in a television quiz proves too much for Stuart and Patricia Pendleton.

S1·E5 Core

Monica

Nov 4, 1965 · 30 min

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 su

S1·E9 Core

Mrs. Bixby and the Colonel's Coat

Dec 2, 1965 · 30 min

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

S1·E10 Core

Mr. Ponge

Dec 9, 1965 · 30 min

S1·E17 Core

Brothers

Jan 24, 1966 · 30 min

S1·E27 Mytharc

Emergency Ward 9

Apr 11, 1966 · 30 min

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 a

S1·E33 Core

Ella

May 23, 1966 · 30 min

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