Thirty-Minute Theatre (1965)
Thirty-Minute Theatre (1965)
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Cast & Crew.
Robin Chadwick
P.C. White
Donald Sinden
Andrew Pelham
Helen Lindsay
Joanna Pelham
Paul Moriarty
Chris Pelham
Leslie Sands
Andrew Bell, the Home Secretary
David Langton
Teddy Maskell
Clive Swift
Inspector Waugh
Piers Haggard
Director
Mark Cullingham
Director
Rudolph Cartier
Director
Mary Ridge
Director
John Glenister
Director
Herbert Wise
Director
Hugh David
Director
Gareth Davies
Director
James Ferman
Director
Alan Bridges
Director
Claude Whatham
Director
Robert Knights
Director
Philip Saville
Director
Henri Safran
Director
Douglas Camfield
Director
Christopher Morahan
Director
Christopher Barry
Director
Jack Gold
Director
John Gorrie
Director
Alan Cooke
Director
Alan Clarke
Director
Ridley Scott
Director
Michael Hayes
Director
Michael Apted
Director
David Giles
Director
Oliver Horsbrugh
Director
Paddy Russell
Director
Richard Martin
Director
Waris Hussein
Director
Bill Hays
Director
Mike Newell
Director
Bill Sellars
Director
Michael Tuchner
Director
Simon Langton
Director
Gerald Blake
Director
John Mortimer
Writer
David Rudkin
Writer
Fay Weldon
Writer
Tom Stoppard
Writer
Dennis Potter
Writer
Derrick Sherwin
Writer
Henry Livings
Writer
Jim Allen
Writer
Andrew Davies
Writer
Philip Martin
Writer
Hugh Whitemore
Writer
Saul Bellow
Writer
Marius Goring
Mr Ponge / The Interrogator
John Gielgud
The Writer
Sylvia Syms
Judy Marriott
Tenniel Evans
Padstow
Terence de Marney
Flanders
Dan Jackson
Adzola
Julian Glover
Spangle
Gillian Lewis
Angela
Richard Pearson
Cloon
Nigel Davenport
The Prisoner
Athol Coats
Executioner
Colin Jeavons
Conspirator
Kenneth Griffith
Mr Rounds
Megs Jenkins
Miss Wellcome
Mary Kerridge
Miss Colduck
Miriam Karlin
Marcella Vankuchen
Sam Wanamaker
Solomon Ithimar, PhD
Michael Aldridge
Henry Shoreham
Antony Carrick
Correspondent
Alfred Burke
First Man
Dean Stockwell
The Man
Scott Forbes
Kender
John Junkin
Jeffrey
Leo McKern
Mark
Barry Jackson
Ed
Brian Wilde
Mr Shater / Shyster
Michael Graham Cox
Albert
David McKail
Fisher
Alec Guinness
The Executioner
George Cole
Paul Bishop / Caramel
Maurice Denham
Crowther
Lee Montague
Shuki / Lenin
Norman Rossington
Zinoviev / Connor / Mr. Dross
David Collings
Sverdlov
Edward Woodward
John Standing
Moray Watson
Frank Finlay
John Castle
Shelley Winters
Emrys James
Clifton Jones
Kathleen Byron
Nigel Stock
Derek Francis
Maureen O'Brien
Keith Barron
John Nettleton
Frederick Jaeger
Calvin Lockhart
Donald Pleasence
Claire Nielson
Earl Cameron
John Franklyn-Robbins
John Carson
Robert Lang
Philip Bond
John Bennett
Royston Tickner
Patricia Routledge
Christopher Benjamin
Julia Foster
Jennifer Daniel
Dennis Waterman
Johnny Briggs
Michael Standing
Details.
Wiki.
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. It was produced initially by Harry Moore, later by Graeme MacDonald, George Spenton-Foster, Innes Lloyd and others.Thirty-Minute Theatre began on BBC2 in 1965 with an adaptation of the black comedy Parson's Pleasure (author, Roald Dahl). Dennis Potter contributed Emergency – Ward 9 (1966), which he partially recycled in the much later The Singing Detective (1986). In 1967 BBC2 launched the UK's first colour service, with the consequence that Thirty-Minute Theatre became the first drama series in the country to be shown in colour.
As well as single plays, the series showed several linked collections of plays, including a group of four plays by John Mortimer named after areas of London in 1972, two three-part Inspector Waugh series starring Clive Swift in the title role, and a trilogy of plays by Jean Benedetti, broadcast in 1969, focusing on infamous historical figures such as Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin. Other plays were broadcast by writers like Charlotte and Denis Plimmer (The Chequers Manoeuvre, 1968), David Rudkin (Bypass, 1972, and Atrocity, 1973) and Jack Rosenthal (And for My Next Trick, 1972).Thirty-Minute Theatre was cancelled in August 1973. Second City Firsts, also of 30 minutes duration, fulfilled much the same role.