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An anthology of single plays offering up adaptations of either of prominent stage plays or novels.

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Season 1

  • Fallen Angels
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    Fallen Angels

    Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 10/9/1963

    Two wives admit to premarital sex and contemplating adultery.

    Director: Alan Bromly

    Writer: Noël Coward

  • The Duel
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    The Duel

    Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 10/16/1963

    No description available

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • I Want to Go Home
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    I Want to Go Home

    Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 10/23/1963

    No description available

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Stephen D
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    Stephen D

    Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/30/1963

    Dublin in the early twentieth century. Young Stephen Dedalus considers his future.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • The Human Voice
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    The Human Voice

    Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 11/6/1963

    During a long telephone call to her (much younger) lover, a woman tries to conceal her desperation.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Krapp's Last Tape
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    Krapp's Last Tape

    Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 11/13/1963

    On Krapp's 69th birthday he reviews a tape recording he made the year he was 39 and makes a new recording commenting on the last 12 months.

    Director: Prudence FitzGerald

    Writer: Samuel Beckett

  • The Bald Prima Donna
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    The Bald Prima Donna

    Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 11/27/1963

    There is no prima donna in this play, and if there was one, she wouldn't be bald. Apart from that, what could be more normal?

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Stalingrad
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    Stalingrad

    Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 12/4/1963

    No description available

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • The Fire Raisers
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    The Fire Raisers

    Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 12/11/1963

    In an area plagued by mysterious outbursts of arson, two strangers arrive and inveigle their way into the home of a wealthy bourgeois businessman. Are they the fire raisers? Surely they can't be - can they?

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Little Eyolf
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    Little Eyolf

    Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 12/18/1963

    A writer is trapped in a loveless, unfulfilled marriage to a wealthy woman. The death of their disabled son wreaks havoc on their relationship as they struggle to find redemption for their personal failures.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • The Comedy of Errors
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    The Comedy of Errors

    Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 1/1/1964

    Two unrelated men, strangers to each other, are identical twins - and so, even more confusingly, are their servants.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • The Respectful Prostitute
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    The Respectful Prostitute

    Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 1/8/1964

    A prostitute in the Deep South is persuaded not to tell the truth about an injustice involving racial prejudice.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Lysistrata
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    Lysistrata

    Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 1/15/1964

    A version of Aristophane's play: Sparta and Athens are in a endless war, but Lisistrata, a beautiful woman has an idea to stop the fight, and convinces all the women to do it: no sex until there is peace.

    Director: Prudence FitzGerald

    Writer: Marc Brandel, Patric Dickinson, Aristophanes

  • August for the People
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    August for the People

    Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 1/22/1964

    Sir Augustus Thwaites isn't too keen on all this democracy he keeps hearing about - or is he?

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Trevor
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    Trevor

    Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 2/5/1964

    No description available

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • The Lady of the Camellias
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    The Lady of the Camellias

    Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 2/12/1964

    An innocent young man falls in love with a notorious courtesan.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Say Nothing
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    Say Nothing

    Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 2/19/1964

    No description available

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • The Master of Santiago
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    The Master of Santiago

    Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 2/26/1964

    No description available

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Under Milk Wood
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    Under Milk Wood

    Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 3/4/1964

    One night while the townsfolk wrestle with their dreams, seedy Captain Cat and a stranger walk the streets. Captain Cat is a blind, retired sea captain, recalling memories of drowned shipmates and Rosie Probert, a whore and the one great love of his youth

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • A Florentine Tragedy
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    A Florentine Tragedy

    Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 3/11/1964

    No description available

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • The Old Lady Says No! Or Who Wounded Maud McCutcheon?
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    The Old Lady Says No! Or Who Wounded Maud McCutcheon?

    Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 3/18/1964

    Denis Johnston's first play took Dublin by storm and laid the foundation of the worldwide reputation of the Dublin Gate Theatre. It takes place in the mind of an actor who is playing the Irish revolutionary Robert Emmet in a traditional patriotic drama. The actor is knocked unconscious by accident and in his reverie he imagines he is Emmet walking the streets of present-day Dublin, confronting the jarring contrast between the myth of Ireland and modern day reality.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Murder in the Cathedral
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    Murder in the Cathedral

    Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 3/25/1964

    T. S. Eliot's portrayal of the assassination of Archbishop Thomas Becket in Canterbury Cathedral in 1170.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • The Inner World of Miss Vaughan
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    The Inner World of Miss Vaughan

    Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired 4/1/1964

    No description available

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Ring Round the Moon
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    Ring Round the Moon

    Season 1 Episode 24 - Aired 4/8/1964

    Twin brothers with very different personalities are in conflict over the love of a less than worthy woman. One brother comes up with an ingenious solution to the problem.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Justin Thyme
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    Justin Thyme

    Season 1 Episode 25 - Aired 4/15/1964

    Super-cool, super-resourceful, absolutely unbeatable, British secret agent Justin Thyme springs into action.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • John Bull's Other Island
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    John Bull's Other Island

    Season 1 Episode 26 - Aired 4/22/1964

    No description available

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • The Life of Galileo
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    The Life of Galileo

    Season 1 Episode 27 - Aired 4/29/1964

    The researches of Galileo Galilei bring him into conflict with the Papacy - and the Inquisition.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • The Keep
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    The Keep

    Season 1 Episode 28 - Aired 5/6/1964

    The memory of a revered and long-dead mother binds together a Welsh family, and also prevents any of its members from having a full life. But is she really dead?

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Everyman
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    Everyman

    Season 1 Episode 29 - Aired 5/20/1964

    No description available

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Police
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    Police

    Season 1 Episode 30 - Aired 5/27/1964

    In an Eastern European dictatorship, the life of a policeman is not always easy.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Six Characters in Search of an Author
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    Six Characters in Search of an Author

    Season 1 Episode 31 - Aired 6/3/1964

    An absurdist play about the relationship between authors, their characters, and theatre practitioners. In it, the actors, author, and crew interact with the "real characters" who appear on stage during the rehearsal of the play.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Bloomsday
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    Bloomsday

    Season 1 Episode 32 - Aired 6/10/1964

    One day in the life of assorted Dubliners, in the summer of 1904.

    Director: Henric Hirsch

    Writer: Allan McClelland, James Joyce