Series 1

Episodes • 1957

The Bride and the Bachelor

1. The Bride and the Bachelor

45 min

Internalised father issues cause a bride to experience cold feet on her wedding day.

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Romanoff and Juliet

2. Romanoff and Juliet

min

In the smallest country in the world, the daughter of the American ambassador falls in love with the son of the Russian ambassador. Oops.

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The Member of the Wedding

3. The Member of the Wedding

45 min

A young tomboy named Frankie is forced to face her own immaturity as a result her older brother's wedding.

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Subway in the Sky

4. Subway in the Sky

45 min

An American soldier in West Berlin deserts and goes on the run when faced with false trafficking and murder charges. He takes shelter with a cabaret singer, whom he manages to persuade to help prove his innocence.

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Olive Ogilvie

5. Olive Ogilvie

45 min

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Sailor Beware

6. Sailor Beware

45 min

An imminent wedding is endangered by a domineering matriarch.

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Summer of the Seventeenth Doll

7. Summer of the Seventeenth Doll

45 min

A couple of Australian cane-cutters plan their usual annual holiday of boozing and womanizing; but this year it's different.

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The Lovebirds

8. The Lovebirds

45 min

A newly married couple are given a Budgie as a wedding present. Little do they know that the Budgie is possessed by the spirit of the bride's late first husband.

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Zuleika

9. Zuleika

45 min

In this musical adaptation of Max Beerbohm's 1911 novel, a beautiful young woman visits Oxford, causing all the male students to fall madly in love with her.

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Dear Delinqient

10. Dear Delinqient

45 min

An engaged man begins to fall for another woman. Fortunately, his fiancée is loathsome, making his decision easier, though the audience is left wondering why it takes the entire runtime to decide it, and why he was ever engaged to the undesirable woman in the first place.

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Six Months' Grace

11. Six Months' Grace

45 min

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Silver Wedding

12. Silver Wedding

45 min

Sir Robert and Lady Lydia Marlowe have spent many years abroad in the diplomatic service. On their 25th wedding anniversary, she announces they should go their own separate ways. Her gift is a series of love letters Robert had written to different women throughout his career, each of whom Lydia has befriended.

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Blood Upon the Rose

13. Blood Upon the Rose

45 min

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Meet Me by Moonlight

14. Meet Me by Moonlight

45 min

A satirical look at Victorian life, set entirely in the drawing room of Henry Mansfield's house in an English provincial town in 1884.

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Nekrassov

15. Nekrassov

45 min

In 1950s Paris, journalist Sibilot works at right-wing publication Soir á Paris, where he pens anti-communist propaganda. His life hits a major turnpoint when he's unable to come up with a great idea, and his boss informa him that he will be fired if no great story comes soon.

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The Happiest Millionaire

16. The Happiest Millionaire

45 min

Happy and unbelievably lucky young Irish immigrant John Lawless lands a job as the butler of unconventional millionaire Anthony J. Drexel Biddle. His daughter Cordelia tires of his unusual antics--especially since the nice young men around town all fear him. Wouldn't you fear a father-in-law that keeps alligators for pets and teaches boxing at his daily Bible courses?

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Winter Wonderland

17. Winter Wonderland

45 min

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The Happy Man

18. The Happy Man

45 min

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A Touch of the Sun

19. A Touch of the Sun

45 min

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Simple Spymen

20. Simple Spymen

45 min

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Breath of Spring

21. Breath of Spring

45 min

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Any Other Business

22. Any Other Business

45 min

A routine board meeting of a successful company reveals some facts that a traitor has left the company in a perilous position on the verge of ruin.

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Flowering Cherry

23. Flowering Cherry

45 min

Jim Cherry has the opportunity to change his life - will he take the risk?

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What Shall We Tell Caroline?

24. What Shall We Tell Caroline?

45 min

No description available.

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