Episodes
1. The Bride and the Bachelor
January 21, 1957
45 min
Internalised father issues cause a bride to experience cold feet on her wedding day.
Guest Stars:
Cicely Courtneidge, Jill Raymond, Robertson Hare, Maggie McCourt, Viola Lyel
2. Romanoff and Juliet
January 28, 1957
In the smallest country in the world, the daughter of the American ambassador falls in love with the son of the Russian ambassador. Oops.
Guest Stars:
Josephine Barrington, Michael David, Marianne Deeming, William Greene, Delphi Lawrence
3. The Member of the Wedding
February 18, 1957
45 min
A young tomboy named Frankie is forced to face her own immaturity as a result her older brother's wedding.
Guest Stars:
Geraldine McEwan, James Dyrenforth, Orlando Martins, Garry Nesbitt, John Hall
4. Subway in the Sky
March 4, 1957
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.
Guest Stars:
Reed De Rouen, Margaret Lockwood, Valerie White, Zachary Scott, Nigel Stock
5. Olive Ogilvie
March 18, 1957
45 min
Guest Stars:
Yolande Donlan, Ronald Radd, Edward Burnham, John Justin, Phil Brown
6. Sailor Beware
March 31, 1957
45 min
An imminent wedding is endangered by a domineering matriarch.
Guest Stars:
Peggy Mount, Henryetta Edwards, Cyril Smith, Ann Wilton, Jean Burgess
7. Summer of the Seventeenth Doll
May 27, 1957
45 min
A couple of Australian cane-cutters plan their usual annual holiday of boozing and womanizing; but this year it's different.
Guest Stars:
Madge Ryan, June Jago, Kenneth J. Warren, Ethel Gabriel, Fenella Maguire
8. The Lovebirds
June 4, 1957
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.
Guest Stars:
Ronald Shiner, Dora Bryan, Jean Aubrey, John Scott, Billie Hill
9. Zuleika
June 12, 1957
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.
Guest Stars:
Patsy Rowlands, Patricia Routledge, Peter Woodthorpe, Patricia Stark, Clive Exton
10. Dear Delinqient
July 1, 1957
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.
Guest Stars:
Patrick Cargill, David Tomlinson, Joan Haythorne, Laurence Hardy, Anna Massey
11. Six Months' Grace
July 8, 1957
45 min
Guest Stars:
Anthony Tancred, Michael Shepley, Richard Caldicot, Molly Urquhart, Stuart Saunders
12. Silver Wedding
August 12, 1957
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.
Guest Stars:
Frank Lawton, Evelyn Laye, Brian Smith, Miranda Connell, Marie Lohr
13. Blood Upon the Rose
August 27, 1957
45 min
Guest Stars:
Leonard Maguire, Edith MacArthur, Una McLean, Daniel Moynihan, David Steuart
14. Meet Me by Moonlight
September 2, 1957
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.
Guest Stars:
Michael Denison, Jeremy Brett, Sophie Stewart, Derek Tansley, Ellis Irving
15. Nekrassov
September 16, 1957
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.
Guest Stars:
George Benson, Ronnie Barker, Harry H. Corbett, Robert Helpmann, Jane Downs
16. The Happiest Millionaire
November 28, 1957
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?
Guest Stars:
John Wentworth, Maureen Swanson, Robert Beatty, Gwynne Whitby, Leo Maguire
18. The Happy Man
January 21, 1958
45 min
Guest Stars:
Hugh Williams, Valerie Taylor, Cyril Raymond, Everley Gregg, Edith Sharpe
19. A Touch of the Sun
February 11, 1958
45 min
Guest Stars:
Vanessa Redgrave, Michael Redgrave, Ronald Squire, Dinsdale Landen, Anthony Oliver
22. Any Other Business
May 15, 1958
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.
23. Flowering Cherry
June 5, 1958
45 min
Jim Cherry has the opportunity to change his life - will he take the risk?
