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Thirty-Minute Theatre was a British anthology drama series of short plays shown on BBC Television between 1965 and 1973, which was used in part at least as a training ground for new writers, on account of its short running length, and which therefore attracted many writers who later became well known. [2]
The episodes were often broadcast as part of programmes such as Children's Hour or Thirty-Minute Theatre and did not originally air with an overall series title. The title Sherlock Holmes was used for some of the individual series and has been used for the overall series. [1]
On 28 April 1959, it was adapted as “A Mass of Cobwebs” by Brian Batchelor for the BBC's Thirty-Minute Theatre. It was produced by Robin Midgley and starred Peter Howell as William Garrett, with Edgar Norfolk as Eldred.
Allen's first play, The Hard Word (1966), directed by Ridley Scott, [2] was broadcast as part of the Thirty-Minute Theatre series on BBC 2. It was followed by The Lump (1967), the first fictional work directed by Jack Gold, who had begun his career on documentaries, [3] and broadcast as part of The Wednesday Play drama anthology series.
When John Neville decided to leave the Nottingham Playhouse, Goodwin also resigned and joined the BBC television drama department, where he directed episodes of Thirty-Minute Theatre and Z-Cars. He then became a freelancer and with Rodney Bewes co-wrote and directed several series of Dear Mother...Love Albert .
Simon James Holliday Gray CBE FRSL (21 October 1936 – 7 August 2008) [1] was an English playwright and memoirist who also had a career as a university lecturer in English literature at Queen Mary, University of London, for 20 years.
Thirty Minute Theatre: The Flip Side (1966) Mad Movies (1966) (writer, presenter and producer) Sunday Night at the London Palladium (January–March 1967) Half Hour Story: Bug (1967) The Golden Shot (1967–72, 1974–75) Friends In High Places (1969) Take Three Girls (1971) The Bob Monkhouse Comedy Hour (1972) Quick on the Draw (1974)
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Eric Episode: "Turn Off If You Know the Ending" 1968 A Man of our Times: Roberts 2 episodes The First Lady: Bailey Episode: "Upset" Ooh La La! Le Compte Emile Episode: "The Missing Person" Frontier: Mortimer Berkeley Episode: "A Little Before His Time" The Sex Game: Simon Episode: "A Quartet at Sheila's" Thirty-Minute Theatre