Thirty-Minute Theatre is an 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. Thirty-Minute Theatre followed on from a similarly named ITV series, beginning on BBC2 in 1965 with an adaptation of the black comedy Parsons Pleasure. 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.
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Hands Lushly Too Far Thrills Galore The Argument The Seventh Juror I Spy a Stranger The Judge's Wife Scarborough Tonight We Meet Arthur Pendlebury Ronnie's So Long at the Fair Ten Torrey Canyons I Wouldn't Tell on You, Miss You're Free Dialogue Krapp's Last Tape The Chauffeur and the Lady You've Been a Long Time, Alfred The Japanese Student The Punchy and the Fairy Playthings Is Nellie Dead? A Chance Encounter You and Me and Him The Great Acrobile Atrocity Beginning To End Swamp Music Croust The Baby's Name Being Kitchener Kamikaze in a Coffee Bath About a Bout Shakespeare Country
Hands Lushly Too Far Thrills Galore The Argument The Seventh Juror I Spy a Stranger The Judge's Wife Scarborough Tonight We Meet Arthur Pendlebury Ronnie's So Long at the Fair Ten Torrey Canyons I Wouldn't Tell on You, Miss You're Free Dialogue Krapp's Last Tape The Chauffeur and the Lady You've Been a Long Time, Alfred The Japanese Student The Punchy and the Fairy Playthings Is Nellie Dead? A Chance Encounter You and Me and Him The Great Acrobile Atrocity Beginning To End Swamp Music Croust The Baby's Name Being Kitchener Kamikaze in a Coffee Bath About a Bout Shakespeare Country