Thirty-Minute Theatre

Anthology drama series of short plays shown on BBC Television.

English

TheTVDB.com Series ID 71879
Status Ended
First Aired October 7, 1965
Recent May 17, 1973
Network BBC Two
Average Runtime 30 minutes
Genres Crime Drama
Original Country Great Britain
Original Language English
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Season	From	To	Episodes
All Seasons
Specials			0
Season 1	October 1965	June 1966	38
Season 2	October 1966	June 1967	37
Season 3	October 1967	June 1968	35
Season 4	September 1968	May 1969	36
Season 5	September 1969	August 1970	36
Season 6	September 1970	August 1971	37
Season 7	September 1971	June 1972	33
Season 8	August 1972	May 1973	32
Unassigned Episodes			4

Season	From	To	Episodes
All Seasons
Season 1	October 1965		1
Season 2	October 1966		1
Season 8	May 1973		1
Unassigned Episodes			285

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Season	From	To	Episodes
Season 1			0
Unassigned Episodes			288

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Name	Number of Episodes	Dates
Michael Hart	21	01/24/1966 - 05/15/1969
Rodney Bennett	9
Geoffrey Nethercott	9	06/26/1968
Piers Haggard	7
Mark Cullingham	6
Mary Ridge	6
Rudolph Cartier	6	01/10/1968 - 05/08/1969
Donald McWhinnie	6
Herbert Wise	5	10/07/1965 - 10/30/1970
John Glenister	5
Naomi Capon	4
Hugh David	4
Gilchrist Calder	3
Roald Dahl	3	10/07/1965
Roderick Graham	3
Alan Gibson	3	06/28/1967 - 09/14/1969
Claude Whatham	3
Alan Bridges	3
Henri Safran	3
Gareth Davies	3	04/11/1966
James Ferman	3	03/03/1973
George Spenton-Foster	3
Robert Knights	2	02/28/1970
Christopher Morahan	2
Clive Rees	2
Douglas Camfield	2
Tina Wakerell	2
George R. Foa	2
Philip Saville	2	08/14/1972 - 05/17/1973
Christopher Barry	2	09/30/1968
John Warrington	2	05/29/1969
Simon Langton	1
Brian Hulme	1	12/27/1967
Alan Cooke	1
Barry Hanson	1
Bill Hays	1
Jack Gold	1	09/20/1971
John Gorrie	1
John Tydeman	1
Michael Tuchner	1
James Vowden	1
Bill Sellars	1
Richard Martin	1
John Mackenzie	1
Paddy Russell	1
Michael Hayes	1
Mike Newell	1
David Rose	1
James MacTaggart	1
Tennessee Williams	1
David Giles	1
Michael Apted	1
Basil Coleman	1
Waris Hussein	1
Ken Hannam	1
Robert Moore Williams	1	12/27/1967
Alan Clarke	1	03/20/1972
Jean Rhys	1
Oliver Horsbrugh	1
Ridley Scott	1
Gerald Blake	1	01/03/1968
Michael Bakewell	1

Name	Number of Episodes	Dates
Arden Winch	9	12/04/1970
Jean Benedetti	3
Charlotte Plimmer	3	09/30/1968
Denis Plimmer	3	09/30/1968
John Mortimer	3
Laurence Collinson	2
Hugh Leonard	2
Fay Weldon	2	08/14/1972
David Rudkin	2
Barry Bermange	2
Tom Stoppard	2	06/28/1967
David Campton	1	01/03/1968
Hugh Whitemore	1
Patrick Garland	1
Stanislaw Lem	1	05/15/1969
Peter Van Greenaway	1
Michael Keir	1
James Leo Herlihy	1
Henry Livings	1
Ian Curteis	1
Samuel Beckett	1
Philip Martin	1
B.S. Johnson	1
William Woods	1
Peter Everett	1
Andrew Davies	1
Philip Levene	1	10/07/1965
Frank Norman	1
Leslie Thomas	1
Hugo Charteris	1
Peter Hammond	1
Jean Stubbs	1
Pauline MacCaulay	1
Friedrich Dürrenmatt	1	05/08/1969
Irwin Shaw	1
John Spurling	1
Simon Gray	1
Alan McMurtee	1
Willis Hall	1
William Douglas Home	1
Alfred Fagon	1	05/17/1973
Robert David MacDonald	1	05/08/1969
Sheila MacLeod	1	06/27/1966
Peter Prince	1
Slawomir Mrozek	1
Dennis Potter	1	04/11/1966
James Hanley	1
Don Shaw	1
Reg Hill	1
Derrick Sherwin	1	12/27/1967
William T. Powers	1
Carey Harrison	1
Simon Raven	1
Gerry Jones	1
John Finch	1
E.A. Whitehead	1	03/20/1972
Caryl Churchill	1
Desmond Lowden	1	01/10/1968

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