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- A domineering, reclusive and ostentatiously pious widow in a small Spanish town keeps such close watch on her daughters that they are unable to have normal social lives. However, the eldest is allowed to become engaged to an unprincipled young man, primarily for the financial advantages it will bring the mother, Bernarda. Jealousy and envy ensues among the other daughters.
- A betrayed queen takes a terrible revenge.
- The denizens of Harry Hope's saloon are forced to face up to the uncomfortable realities of their lives.
- 1959–19611h 43m7.6 (16)TV EpisodeTwo plays by William Saroyan portraying writers stymied, inspired, frustrated, excited, listful, wistful, slothful, awed, unnerved, perhaps corrupted and perplexed by the promise and let-down writing holds for them.
- Several different accounts of the same incident tell quite different stories about what happened.
- Two derelicts, Vladimir and Estragon, occupy themselves as they wait for 'Godot' to make an appearance on Pozzo's estate.
- 1959–19611h 40m7.3 (11)TV EpisodeDouble bill: A failure of a barrister plots his court tactics with his client, a wife killer. A headmaster and wife infantilise their 17 year old daughter.
- The denizens of Harry Hope's saloon are forced to face up to the uncomfortable realities of their lives.
- The young wife of an aging man who is desperate for a child suspects that he is sterile. Because she loves him and wants to please him by bearing him a child, she becomes pregnant by his young assistant.
- A cynical catholic priest is sent to Mexico to preach. It's the 30's and Mexican government sees the church as competition. They send a secret agent to assassinate the priest.
- A young bride is possessed by a dybbuk, a malicious possessing spirit, believed to be the dislocated soul of a dead person, on the eve of her wedding.
- Madame Ranevskaya is a spoiled aging aristocratic lady, who returns from a trip to Paris to face the loss of her magnificent Cherry Orchard estate after a default on the mortgage. In denial, she continues living in the past, deluding herself and her family, while the beautiful cherry trees are being axed down by the re-possessor Lopakhin, her former serf, who has his own agenda.
- In this rendering of the Turgenev play, a woman toys with the affections of a young admirer while spending a month at a country estate.
- Jean Anouilh's comedy about three thieves who invade the palatial summer home of a wealthy old woman. Romance blooms between the youngest thief and one of the two young girls that reside there.
- The elderly General St. Pe contemplates his memoirs. Unfortunately, his private life is a disaster - his wife, once beautiful, is now a shrewish hypochondriac, whilst the beautiful French girl he has never quite managed to seduce is starting to look elsewhere.
- Hugo, a young Communist, must make a choice whether or not to do the party's bidding or suffer the fate of a dissenter.
- The time: Present - the place: Harlem, U.S.A. - the play: SIMPLY HEAVENLY a delightful musical-comedy about a handful of Harlemites...their joys, their quarrels. their crises, their cares. Rich in humor, high in spirits, scintillating in song, SIMPLY HEAVENLY is an experience you won't want to miss...on this weeks "Play of the Week."
- Father Shaughnessy forms a vigilante committee to stamp out sin, which includes interfaith marriages, breaking up the engagement of a schoolmaster to Nora Fintry, a Protestant.. Nora is determined to fight the priest.
- A young woman who is suicidal has visions of herself at different ages - each incarnation trying to give her life meaning.
- Archy, a cockroach who had been a free-verse poet in a previous life, tries to reform his friend Mehitabel, an alley cat who believes in free love.
- Finding himself in Hell - where boredom, rather than eternal fire, is the punishment for sinners - Don Juan begins a philosophical debate with the Devil.
- A pianist has lost both of his hands in a tragic accident. A respected surgeon performs the impossible by grafting the hands of a recently-hanged killer onto the disabled musician. The musician's new hands prefer murdering to playing sonatas.
- The four Tennessee Williams plays are: "I Rise in Flame, Cried the Phoenix", "Hello from Bertha", "The Lady of Larkspur Lotion" and "The Purification".
- A bitter clown endeavors to rescue the young woman he loves from the lecherous count who once betrayed him.
- Henry Bolingbroke has now been crowned King of England, but faces a rebellion headed by the embittered Earl of Northumberland and his son (nicknamed 'Hotspur'). Henry's son Hal, the Prince of Wales, has thrown over life at court in favour of heavy drinking and petty theft in the company of a debauched elderly knight, Sir John Falstaff. Hal must extricate himself from some legal problems, regain his father's good opinions and help suppress the uprising.
- During the Irish Civil War in 1922, a family earns a big inheritance. They start leading a rich life, forgetting what the most important values are.
- In Don Appel's comedy a truck driver eloped with a nightclub cigarette girl, who has known for three days, to escape from his dominating mother.
- In a small Midwestern town the lives of four sisters are turned upside down when one sister's son brings his fiancée home to meet his eccentric family for the first time.
- Humorous musical revues of life in New York City.
- Adaptations of two separate one act plays for the stage by August Strindberg. The usual English translations from the Swedish are "Miss Julie" and "The Stronger." Each is a two character play.
- After his mother's death, Collin Fenwick goes to live with his father's cousins, the wealthy, avaricious, and controlling Verena Talbo, and her compliant, earthy sister Dolly. When a city slicker comes to town and convinces Verena to market Dolly's locally-famous tonic, Dolly finally gets some backbone, refuses to divulge the formula, and heads for a tree house with Collin and Catherine, the loyal maid. Verena, who has most of the town in her pocket, sics the law on the renegades. Dolly, Catherine, and Collin find a supporter in a retired judge, Charlie Cool, who's attracted to Dolly. Will Verena's venom win out? And what about that city slicker?
- A successful, ego-maniacal architect who has spent a lifetime bullying his wife, employees and mistresses wants to make peace as his life approaches its final act.
- The daughter of a famous atheist claims to have had a vision of God.
- The story of a Mother Hildebrand, head of a convent school, who is ordered by her bishop to dismiss a teacher.
- Everyone in Troy is most anxious that the Trojan War will not take place. But it grows inevitable.
- A pleasant man plans to do away with his two spinster sisters.
- Volpone, an elderly Venetian, connives with his money-crazed servant to convince his greedy friends that he is dying, knowing that each will try to curry favor with him in order to be named his heir. He is inundated with valuable gifts, and soon finds himself entangled deeper and deeper in a web of lies.