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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
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    Theatre Night Season 3 Episode 1 - The Miser
    8.5/10(16 votes)

    S3:E1

    The miser loves money above life itself. It takes the whole efforts of his children, their lovers, his unpaid servants and the accomplished courtesan Frosine to make him part with a few francs.

    Director:Michael Simpson
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. Theatre Night Season 5 Episode 1 - Othello
    8.4/10(205 votes)

    S5:E1

    The acclaimed production of Shakespeare's masterpiece as presented by the Royal Shakespeare Company during its 1989 season in Stratford and London.

    Director:Trevor Nunn
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. Theatre Night Season 4 Episode 3 - The Winslow Boy
    8.3/10(98 votes)

    S4:E3

    Ronnie Winslow, a naval cadet, is expelled from Osborne for the alleged theft of a five-shilling postal order. His family begins a long and costly fight to prove his innocence, a fight that finally shakes the government of the day.

    Director:Michael Darlow
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. Theatre Night Season 2 Episode 6 - The Birthday Party
    7.6/10(97 votes)

    S2:E6

    It is Stanley's birthday; but the party he is given is not quite what he expects.

    Director:Kenneth Ives
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. Theatre Night Season 3 Episode 2 - The Master Builder
    7.6/10(43 votes)

    S3:E2

    Oppressed by past tragedies and an unhappy marriage, the master builder is haunted by his fears of the future—that, some day, youth will arrive to knock him off his pedestal.

    Director:Michael Darlow
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. Theatre Night Season 2 Episode 1 - The Devil's Disciple
    7.5/10(83 votes)

    S2:E1

    The American War of Independence is in its second year. Its effects are reaching into the smallest communities, affecting the lives of all in them.

    Director:David Hugh Jones
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. Theatre Night Season 2 Episode 3 - Miss Julie
    7.5/10(23 votes)

    S2:E3

    The aristocratic Miss Julie plays with fire on Midsummer's Eve by flirting with her father's servant Jean, only to find that she is soon completely within his power.

    Director:Michael Simpson
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. Theatre Night Season 2 Episode 5 - Ghosts
    7.5/10(155 votes)

    S2:E5

    Helene Alving leads an outwardly contented life. On the eve of the 10th anniversary of her husband's death, she is about to open an orphanage as a memorial to him. To mark this occasion, her bohemian painter son Oswald has returned from Paris. Helene plans to take the opportunity to tell Oswald the truth about his father. But ghosts of the past erupt during an eventful evening, bringing the facade of civilised family life crashing down.

    Director:Elijah Moshinsky
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. Theatre Night Season 3 Episode 4 - The Rivals
    7.5/10(13 votes)

    S3:E4

    Jack Absolute can win the heart of romantic Lydia Languish only by pretending to be the penniless Ensign Beverley.

    Director:Elijah Moshinsky
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. Theatre Night Season 4 Episode 1 - Arms and the Man
    7.5/10(134 votes)

    S4:E1

    A young Bulgarian girl saves the life of a Swiss soldier of fortune who has been fighting against her country. In the next few days, she learns that her ideals of love and war are romantic dreams.

    Director:James Cellan Jones
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. Theatre Night Season 1 Episode 1 - Lady Windermere's Fan
    7.4/10(164 votes)

    S1:E1

    On the brink of a decision that could ruin her life, Lady Windermere learns that the difference between good people and bad people is not as simple as she thought.

    Director:Tony Smith
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. Theatre Night Season 1 Episode 3 - Absent Friends
    7.4/10(25 votes)

    S1:E3

    Diana invites her friends to a jolly tea party to cheer up their bereaved friend Colin. His reaction takes them all by surprise ...

    Director:Michael Simpson
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. Theatre Night Season 2 Episode 2 - What the Butler Saw
    7.4/10(68 votes)

    S2:E2

    In Dr Prentice's Home for the Disturbed, it is a toss-up which are the crazier—patients or administrators.

    Director:Barry Davis
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. Theatre Night Season 3 Episode 3 - The Importance of Being Earnest
    7.3/10(295 votes)

    S3:E3

    How did a baby come to be deposited in the left luggage room at Victoria Station in mistake for a three-volume novel? And what is the secret allure of the name Ernest?

    Director:Stuart Burge
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. Theatre Night Season 4 Episode 6 - Benefactors
    7.3/10(12 votes)

    S4:E6

    David dreams to sweep away acres of crumbling south London houses and replace them with a perfect low-rise set of homes. But he has reckoned without the opposition of his oldest friend.

    Director:Barry Davis
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. Theatre Night Season 4 Episode 5 - Metamorphosis
    6.9/10(106 votes)

    S4:E5

    The Samsa family live like parasites off their industrious son Gregor. One morning Gregor finds it harder than usual to get up. Waving his arms and legs around in an attempt to get out of bed he realises that he has been changed into an insect.

    Director:Jim Goddard
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. Theatre Night Season 1 Episode 4 - Playboy of the West Indies
    6.8/10(6 votes)

    S1:E4

    Peggy Ford runs a rum bar for her father Mikey in Mayaro, a small fishing village on the south-east coast of Trinidad. Mayaro is, to put it mildly, off the beaten track and if you were to say that nothing ever happens there you might, with reason, be accused of exaggeration. Imagine, therefore, if you will, the effect on all concerned when a handsome young stranger appears and insists that he has just murdered his father.

    Director:Nicolas Kent
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. Theatre Night Season 2 Episode 4 - Make and Break
    6.7/10(21 votes)

    S2:E4

    To his staff, John Garrard is a frenzied workaholic. During a busy trade fair in Frankfurt, his passion for work changes all their lives.

    Director:Michael Darlow
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. Theatre Night Season 4 Episode 4 - Knuckle
    6.5/10(19 votes)

    S4:E4

    Curly Delafield is back in Guildford for the first time in 12 years to look for his missing sister Sarah. The only clues are her coat and purse which were found on Eastbourne beach. Was it suicide? Murder? Or is there some other explanation?

    Director:Moira Armstrong
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. Theatre Night Season 1 Episode 2 - The Father
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S1:E2

    When Laura is told by her husband that she can have no say in deciding their daughter's education she retaliates by hinting that Bertha may not after all be his daughter. The suspicion takes root in the Captain's mind with terrifying results.

    Director:Kenneth Ives
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. Theatre Night Season 1 Episode 5 - Trelawny of the Wells
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S1:E5

    Rose Trelawny, the beautiful young star of 'The Wells', decides to quit a promising career on the stage to marry into 'the quality'.

    Director:Tom Kingdon
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. Theatre Night Season 1 Episode 6 - Molière
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S1:E6

    Moliere is seen at the beginning as an imposing, confident theatre director, playfully wooing his mistress; but we watch him disintegrate before our eyes.

    Director:Bill Alexander
    Writer:Unknown

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  23. Theatre Night Season 3 Episode 5 - Strife
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S3:E5

    A clash between the stubborn John Anthony, owner of a tin plate firm, and the hard leader of his striking workers, vividly portrays what Galsworthy in 1909 called 'the trouble of the century'.

    Director:Michael Darlow
    Writer:Unknown

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  24. Theatre Night Season 4 Episode 2 - The Contractor
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S4:E2

    An ill-assorted gang of workmen arrives to put up a luxurious tent at the home of their boss, for his daughter's wedding reception. By the time the tent has been raised—and dismantled—a lot more has been learned about all of them, and their problems.

    Director:Barry Davis
    Writer:Unknown

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  25. Theatre Night Season 5 Episode 2 - Bingo
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S5:E2

    The ageing William Shakespeare has retreated to Warwickshire in search of an elusive inner peace. Disillusioned by human cruelty he is further dismayed to find the greed and injustices that drove him from London to Stratford are as prevalent in his rural retreat as they were in the capital.

    Director:Don Taylor
    Writer:Unknown

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Best Episodes Summary

"The Miser" is the best rated episode of "Theatre Night". It scored 8.5/10 based on 16 votes. Directed by Michael Simpson and written by Unknown, it aired on 5/8/1988. This episode scored 0.1 points higher than the second highest rated, "Othello".