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Season guide

Thirty-Minute Theatre: Series 7

33 episodes Premiered Sep 19, 1971 Updated Sep 26, 2026
Previously on Thirty-Minute Theatre

Season 7 Lore Primer

Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.

  • ⚡ Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of Thirty-Minute Theatre Season 6.
  • ⚡ Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
  • ⚡ Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
  • ⚡ Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
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Season 7 Episodes

Episode Guide

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Season 7: Filler vs. Essential Canon

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Mytharc (3): Crucial lore & season climaxes
Core (30): Character development & subplots
Side Quest (0): Standalone / filler
S7·E11 Core

Jenkins

Nov 29, 1971

S7·E15 Core

A Wen

Dec 27, 1971

S7·E16 Core

Not Counting the Savages

Jan 3, 1972

An incident in a graveyard has upset a middle-aged housewife, but her husband couldn't care less.

S7·E17 Core

Uncle Rollo

Jan 10, 1972

Uncle Rollo has a bad habit of remembering all the things his nephew Ivor would like to forget.

S7·E19 Core

The Penthouse Apartment

Jan 24, 1972

Morgan the caretaker really doesn't like Mr. and Mrs. Runca, two of the tenants he's supposed to look after - and he picks the worst possible time to let them know it.

S7·E20 Core

An Affair of Honour

Jan 31, 1972

If Major Bartholomew isn't insane, why is he playing Russian roulette with a lovelorn subaltern?

S7·E25 Core

Under the Age

Mar 20, 1972

Gay bartender Susie applies make-up and holds sway over a quiet bar, responding with suspicion and bitterness to two men and then two women who enter, all communicating with meanne

S7·E26 Core

Bypass

Mar 27, 1972

S7·E29 Core

Mill Hill

May 22, 1972

A dentist discovers his wife on the verge of having an affair with another man - a rival dentist.

S7·E32 Mytharc

Knightsbridge

Jun 12, 1972

Francesca has some concerns about her mother's business.

S7·E33 Mytharc

Bermondsey

Jun 19, 1972

Pip and Bob, both married, are a couple of ordinary working-class blokes in an ordinary London suburb. It's just that they have also been gay lovers for years.

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