Series 2
Episodes • 1958

1. Brouhaha
minAn extract from a current West End theatre production, a farcical comedy set in a far-off country.
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2. The Heart's a Wonder
minA Man comes into a pub and boasts that he has just killed his father. Instead of condemning him for the crime, the locals revel in his story and praise him for his deed, with the daughter of the landlord falling for this "dashing hero". Things take an even more surprising turn, when the father enters the pub. Based on John Millington Synge's play The Playboy of the Western World.
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4. Expresso Bongo
minAn unscrupulous small-time promoter discovers a young singer and determines to make him a star.
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9. The Long and the Short and the Tall
minPsychological drama about a British patrol in the Burmese jungle who fall out among themselves.
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16. The Grass Is Greener
minA handsome stranger disturbs the marriage of the Earl and Countess of Rhyall.
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19. The Amourous Prawn
minA general's wife turns his official home into a hotel for wealthy Americans.
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