Episodes
| First Broadcast | Comments |
|---|---|
| 19791107 | A selection of plays from the series Just Before Midnight The Dissolution of Dominic Boot by TOM STOPPARD with as Directed by GLYN DEARMAN (Every Good Boy Deserves Favour: next Wed BBC2) Desert Island Risks bv WILLIAM FOX Fenella Fielding as Julia Nicola Pagett as Polly Michael Cochrane as Rupert and Roy Plomley (of course) Directed by JOHN TYDEMAN 12 55 Weather; programme news: long wave only |
| 19791114 | A selection of plays from the series Just Before Midnight Heaven Scent by BARRIE KEEFFI with Directed by RONALD MASON Mr Jones by ALAN DRURY With HEATHER BELL. BRIAN COBURN , LOLLY COCKERELL , ADRIAN EGAN , BRENDA KAYE , DANNY SCHILLER and as Directed by BERNARD KRICHEFSKI 12.55 Weather: programme news: long wave only |
| 19791121 | A selection of plays from the series . Just Before Midnight Getting Out by CHRISTOPHER RUSSELL with James Bolam as Tom and Ian Holm as Titch The nurse...HILDA KRISEMAN Directed by MICHAEL BARTLITT Falling by JONATHAN RABAN Directed by RICHARD WORTLEY 12.55 Weather; programme news: long wave only |
| 19791128 | A selection of plays from Just Before Midnight Tunes by ALAN PLATER with Ronald Herdman as Tattersall Malcolm Hebden as Frond Janet - FIONA MATHESON Directed by ALFRED BRADLEY House Husband Words and music by ALEX GLASGOW Music arranged and conducted by KEITH STATHAM Directed by GLYN DEARMAN 12.55Weather; programme news: long wave only |
| 19791205 | A selection of plays from the series Just Before Midnight Interval bv J. C. WILSHER with Eileen Atkins and Edward Woedward Directed by GLYN DEARMAN Brainchild by JOSIE TAYLOR 12.55 Weather: programme news: long wave only |
| 19791212 | And No Birds Sing by TED WILLIS Directed by DAVID JOHNSON Leavings byROSE TREMAIN Directed by SHAUN MACLOUGHLIN 12.55Weather; programme news: long wave only |
| 19791219 | A selection of plays from the series Just Before Midnight The Bionic Blob (or This Bazooka on my Left Shoulder is Loaded) A sci-fl comedy by JAMES FpLLETT Directed by JOHN TYDEMAN Antlanta by BERNARD KOPS 12.55 Weather: programmt news: long wave only |
| 19800102 | A selection of plays from the series Just Before Midnight Paul Scofield in Microcosm by J. C. WILSHER with Eric Allan Directed by IAN COTTERELL Susie Graham 's Dance Trophy by MAURICE PATTERSON Directed by MARTIN JENKINS 12.55 Weather; programme news: long wave only |
| 19800109 | A selection of plays from the series Just Before Midnight The Nightmare Story of Arnold Pottersbar by J. C. W. BROOK with Charles Kay and Kathleen Helme We are all resigned to growing old, but what would be your reaction if you found you were growing younger ... ? Directed by IAN COTTERELL How to Build Your Own Battleship by GEOFFREY HUBBARD with Peter Tuddenham as Me Great-Grandfather began to build the battleship in his garden in SE7 to deal with the strikers in his gutta percha factory. Two World Wars and three generations later it was finally launched. Directed by . MICHAEL BARTLETT 12.55 Weather; programme news: long wave only |
| 19800116 | A selection of plays from the series Just Before Midnight Mr Bruin who Once Drove the Bus by DON HAWORTH with strive to arrive more punctually. Make it your aim your target, your goal. So that one day we shall have the pleasure of chiselling on your head-stone: .. Mr Bruin, as everontime. Directed by JOHN CARDY The Kitchen Maid by PETER RUSSELL BOWEN: Had a gander at the garden? Nice out there. Might take some cuttings. lift a tuber. She wouldn't notice, would she? MILTON Not with her throat cut from ear to ear -no, sir. Directed by GERRY JONES 12.55 Weather: programme news: long uave only |
| 19800123 | A selection of plays from the series Just Before Midnight The Devil to Pay by JAMES FOLLETT with Norman Rodway and Derek Seaton A car crash on a hot deserted road; a camper on hand to drag the driver from the blazing wreck. The start of an action-packed adventure play? - Not quite. Listen on. Directed by GLYN DEARMAN The Bognor Regis Vampire by J. C. W. BROOK 'Forgive me for being personal, but you have several peculiarities: your teeth, white face and staring red eyes, the fact that our mahogany mirror over the fireplace seems to ignore your existence - and what are you doing in Bognor Regis? ' Directed by IAN COTTERELL 12.55Weather; programme news: long wave only |
| 19800130 | A selection of plays from the series Just Before Midnight How Far to Run by GRANT C. EUSTACE ' Mayday! Mayday! Langford Approach, this is X-ray Four Three. Fire starboard outer engine. Request clearance for immediate run in for emergency landing.' Directed by MICHAEL BARTLETT Mercenary by KEN BLAKESON Elliot, a voluntary ambulance driver, on an urgent assignment, is stopped by a mercenary anxious to get to the border. On the way there an unexpected incident occurs. Directed by CHRISTOPHER VENNING 12.55 Weather: programme news: long wave only |
| 19800206 | A selection of plays from the series Just Before Midnight Th< Trafalgar Terrace Lepidoptcrist by DAVID HOPKINS Les believes in the wild, free concept of nature roaming wild. He wants his children to witness 't - hence butterflies! But nature threatens to be wilder and freer than he is prepared to accept! Directed by KAY PATRICK Casting Vote by PHILIP HONEYWELL A late-night sitting at the House of Commons. A crucial Bill is being put to the vote. And someone is blackmailing someone else to vote against it .. 12.55 Weather; programme news: long wave only |
| 19800213 | Plays from the scries Just Before Midnight The Cellar by R. D. WINGFIF. LD There is a cellar sir, yes but we can't get to it The previous owner had it bricked up. Directed by GERRY JONES End of the Line by BETTY DAVIES and Mary arrives back from America and is more than delighted by the flat her brother has found for her. Then the telephone rings.... Directed by JOHN TYDEMAN 12.55 Weather: programme news: long wave only |
| 19800220 | Plays from the series Just Before Midnight Filling by LEE TORRANCE with Bernard Gallagher and Lolly Cockerell Having the dentist poke around your gums is pretty shiver-making. When he's drilling your tooth and rowing with his wife. all you can do is groan and sweat and listen....GALLAGHER Directed by PETER KING Laving Room bv CONNIE BEXSI. EY ' You're shy. aren't you Meggie? I can tell from the way you keep edging me away from the bedroom door.' 'I'm so out of practice, that's what it is really.' The situation is not helped by tearful neighbours and a quest for owls. Directed by ALEC REID 12.55 Weather; programme news: long ware only |
| 19800227 | A selection of plays from the series Just Before Midnight Getting Ahead by ELIZABETH KAY and An established theatre critic over-identifies with his job to the point of making his wife's life a misery - he criticises everything she does, her clothes, her appearance. Then a new hairdresser comes up with the perfect answer.... Directed by CHERRY cookson The Place by GERALDINE O'DONNELL with A young boy has agreed to play Blindman's Buff with two older children. They don't need to blindfold him - simply take away his specs; without them he can see nothing; he must rely on his other senses: touch, sound and smell. He is defenceless ...and children can be so cruel. Directed by GLYN DEARMAN 12.55 Weather: programme news: long wave only |
| 19800305 | A selection of piays from the series Just Before Midnight Lally Bowers and Nigel Stock in Thank You for Your Support by MARTYN READ From Laetitia Plum . • ' Dear Sir, I should be much obliged if you would send me: one pair of your surgical stockings plus your Oo-la-la from France.' Directed by PETER KING The Siege by PETER TlNNISWOOD ' We have a slight problem on our hands here. It seems your husband has barricaded himself in the marital home. refuses to come out and is now taking pot shots at all and sundry. We want you to talk to him.' 1 Oh dear.... ' Directed by TONY CLIFP BBC Manchester 12.55 Weather; programme news: long wave unly |
| 19800312 | Plays from the series Just Before Midnight Out in the Midday Sun by RICK FERREIRA , With ' I will pay you £500 if you will do exactly as I say.' Mr Partridge walking his dog on Hampstead Heath met the one person who could carry out his plan, so he made his offer. But the young coloured man on the park bench was clever - and all didn't go according to plan. Directed by CHRISTOPHER VENNING Chequemates by ROY RUSSELL with James Cossins and Ray Brooks POMFREY: I'm afraid you've quite a lot to learn about fiscal matters, Mr Ross. I do know the financial rules of business and' you deviate from them at your peril. Sound advice from a bank manager, but does he take it himself? Directed by MICHAEL BARTLETT 12.55 Weather; programme news: long wave only |
| 19800319 | Plays from the series Just Before Midnight Top Tomato by GILL LINSCOTT with Rod Beacham as Race Haydn Jones as Bengow Brian Haines as Joe A wily businessman has bought up a family firm of seed merchants... Everyone involved presumes he will continue trading but perhaps they are being a little naive ... Directed by CHERRY COOKSON Only the Lonely by WALLY K. DALY with Manning Wilson and Gladys Spencer Two lonely old people prepare for what appears to be a very important encounter. Directed by MARTIN JENKINS 12.55 Weather; programme news: long wave only |
| 19800326 | Plays from the series Just Before Midnight ALAN AYCKBOURN 'S Mother Figure And then we got this phone call - will you accept a transfer charge from a phone box in Middlesbrough and Terry says hello, that's funny, who do we know in Middlesbrough and I said not a soul and he says well, that's funny. So we took it and it was your husband.' Directed by MATTHEW WALTERS Tutorial by ROBERT DAVIS with , a sixth-form teacher with a problem. Is he in love with one of his pupils? Is it fantasy day-dreaming? Directed by RICHARD WORTLET 12.55 Weather; programme news: long wave only |
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| 19810331 | Taurus by SAM SMITH Mike thinks that horoscopes are nonsense until he meets Sandra, whose life seems to be ruled by the stars. Directed by ALFRED BRADLEY BBC Manchester Why? by ROBERT DAVIS A new slant on the eternal triangle. A comedy where the wife, husband and mistress all ask ' why? '. Directed by Richard WORTLEY : long wave only |
| 19810414 | Stop Me if You've Heard it Before A rearrangement of an old fairytale by SARAH MAXWELL with and The toad needs to be kissed by a princess to be turned back into a handsome prince. Any old princess will do ... Directed by GLYN DEARMAN (Nicky Henson is a National Theatre player) High Midnight bv GEOFFREY M. MATTHEWS When Ringo rides into town to claim Dallas as his woman, he guns down Marshall Snelgrove. The Kid picks up his badge, but as High Noon has already passed, gives Ringo till midnight to git outa town. The ' High midnight ' song played and sung by TIM BENTINCK Directed by MICHAEL BARTLETT |