Series 1

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Episodes

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Episode 145 min1957-01-21

The Bride and the Bachelor

Internalised father issues cause a bride to experience cold feet on her wedding day.

Episode 21957-01-28

Romanoff and Juliet

In the smallest country in the world, the daughter of the American ambassador falls in love with the son of the Russian ambassador. Oops.

Episode 345 min1957-02-18

The Member of the Wedding

A young tomboy named Frankie is forced to face her own immaturity as a result her older brother's wedding.

Episode 445 min1957-03-04

Subway in the Sky

An American soldier in West Berlin deserts and goes on the run when faced with false trafficking and murder charges. He takes shelter with a cabaret singer, whom he manages to persuade to help prove his innocence.

Episode 545 min1957-03-18

Olive Ogilvie

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Episode 645 min1957-03-31

Sailor Beware

An imminent wedding is endangered by a domineering matriarch.

Episode 745 min1957-05-27

Summer of the Seventeenth Doll

A couple of Australian cane-cutters plan their usual annual holiday of boozing and womanizing; but this year it's different.

Episode 845 min1957-06-04

The Lovebirds

A newly married couple are given a Budgie as a wedding present. Little do they know that the Budgie is possessed by the spirit of the bride's late first husband.

Episode 945 min1957-06-12

Zuleika

In this musical adaptation of Max Beerbohm's 1911 novel, a beautiful young woman visits Oxford, causing all the male students to fall madly in love with her.

Episode 1045 min1957-07-01

Dear Delinqient

An engaged man begins to fall for another woman. Fortunately, his fiancée is loathsome, making his decision easier, though the audience is left wondering why it takes the entire runtime to decide it, and why he was ever engaged to the undesirable woman in the first place.

Episode 1145 min1957-07-08

Six Months' Grace

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Episode 1245 min1957-08-12

Silver Wedding

Sir Robert and Lady Lydia Marlowe have spent many years abroad in the diplomatic service. On their 25th wedding anniversary, she announces they should go their own separate ways. Her gift is a series of love letters Robert had written to different women throughout his career, each of whom Lydia has befriended.

Episode 1345 min1957-08-27

Blood Upon the Rose

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Episode 1445 min1957-09-02

Meet Me by Moonlight

A satirical look at Victorian life, set entirely in the drawing room of Henry Mansfield's house in an English provincial town in 1884.

Episode 1545 min1957-09-16

Nekrassov

In 1950s Paris, journalist Sibilot works at right-wing publication Soir á Paris, where he pens anti-communist propaganda. His life hits a major turnpoint when he's unable to come up with a great idea, and his boss informa him that he will be fired if no great story comes soon.

Episode 1645 min1957-11-28

The Happiest Millionaire

Happy and unbelievably lucky young Irish immigrant John Lawless lands a job as the butler of unconventional millionaire Anthony J. Drexel Biddle. His daughter Cordelia tires of his unusual antics--especially since the nice young men around town all fear him. Wouldn't you fear a father-in-law that keeps alligators for pets and teaches boxing at his daily Bible courses?

Episode 1745 min1958-01-12