Thirty-Minute Theatre
Episode name: Thirty-Minute Theatre
An anthology of short plays shown on BBC Television between 1965 and 1973, used in part at least as a training ground for new writers, on account of its short length, and which therefore attracted many writers who later became well known.
Release Date: 1965-10-07
Drama
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