Watch Free for 7 Days on Apple TV+

Watch Now

Home > Drama >

Television World Theatre

AD:Watch Similar TV Shows on Apple TV

Watch on Apple TV

Television World Theatre (1957)

December. 29,1957

5.6

| Drama

Television World Theatre

Television World Theatre is a classic BBC television drama anthology series broadcast from 1957 to 1958, which adapted major international classical and historical stage plays for British viewers.

AD:Watch Similar TV Shows on Apple TV

Watch Now

Free Trial Channels
AD

Apple TV

Free Trial

Watch on Apple TV+

With 7-Day Free Trial

Stream Now

Television World Theatre

1957

Watch on Apple TV

Television World Theatre is a classic BBC television drama anthology series broadcast from 1957 to 1958, which adapted major international classical and historical stage plays for British viewers.

Seasons & Episode

Seasons 1 : 1957

14 Episode

Episode 1 - The Life of Henry V

December. 29,1957

In the midst of the Hundred Years' War, the young King Henry V of England embarks on the conquest of France in 1415.

Watch on Apple TV

Watch on Apple TV >

Watch Similar on Apple TV+

Watch 7-day Free

Episode 2 - The Cherry Orchard

January. 05,1958

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.

Watch on Apple TV

Watch on Apple TV >

Episode 3 - Women of Troy

January. 12,1958

Watch on Apple TV

Watch on Apple TV >

Episode 4 - The Captain of Koepenick

January. 19,1958

Watch on Apple TV

Watch on Apple TV >

Episode 5 - The Dark Is Light Enough

January. 26,1958

Watch on Apple TV

Watch on Apple TV >

Episode 6 - Heartbreak House

February. 02,1958

On the eve of World War I, Ellie Dunn, her father, and her fiancé are invited to one of Hesione Hushabye's infamous dinner parties. Unfortunately, her fiancé is a scoundrel, her father's a bumbling prig, and she's actually in love with Hector, Hesione's husband. This bold mix of farce and tragedy lampoons British society as it blithely sinks towards disaster.

Watch on Apple TV

Watch on Apple TV >

Episode 7 - The Government Inspector

February. 09,1958

The most prominent citizens of a small Russian town mistake a wandering stranger for the much-feared "government inspector" whose visit they are fearfully awaiting. The stranger takes full advantage of their error.

Watch on Apple TV

Watch on Apple TV >

Episode 8 - The Judge

February. 16,1958

A nostalgic reunion briefly arises when three estranged siblings spend some time together in their childhood home where their father is on his dead-bed. A glimpse of a new fellowship between the three of them.

Watch on Apple TV

Watch on Apple TV >

Episode 9 - The Master Builder

February. 23,1958

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.

Watch on Apple TV

Watch on Apple TV >

Episode 10 - Amphitryon 38

March. 02,1958

Watch on Apple TV

Watch on Apple TV >

Episode 11 - The Circle of Chalk

March. 09,1958

Watch on Apple TV

Watch on Apple TV >

Episode 12 - The Clandestine Marriage

March. 16,1958

Watch on Apple TV

Watch on Apple TV >

Episode 13 - Strange Interlude: Part 1

March. 23,1958

After Nina Leeds finds out that insanity runs in her husband's family, she has a love child with a handsome doctor and lets her husband believes the child is his.

Watch on Apple TV

Watch on Apple TV >

Episode 14 - Strange Interlude: Part 2

March. 30,1958

In the second part of this adaptation of Eugene O'Neill's 1928 play, Gordon Evans grows up unaware that his "Uncle" Ned is in fact his father. Gordon's mother, Nina, grows increasingly distracted because of her deception.

Watch on Apple TV

Watch on Apple TV >

Television World Theatre is a classic BBC television drama anthology series broadcast from 1957 to 1958, which adapted major international classical and historical stage plays for British viewers.