Talk:Thirty-Minute Theatre
Latest comment: 2 years ago by CaptainZond in topic List of Productions
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List of Productions edit
I've added a full tabulated list of productions (including sortable columns and id="Title" tags to allow direct links to the individual productions) and improved the Infobox, in line with the articles for similar BBC drama anthology series of the period. Points to note:
- I increased the number of episodes from 286 to 291; the additional 5 all clearly belong to the group of productions broadcast in the period Feb-Aug 1973 without the Thirty-Minute Theatre billing in the Radio Times (according to the BBC Genome database), but which are clearly a continuation of the anthology, based on timeslot, duration, production team and remarks in the RT listings.[1] Such productions are identified under the colspan heading at the end of the table.
- I have assumed the Genome database entries to be more authoritative than those of the BFI, TV Brain, IMDB and the British Television Drama 1955-1994 Databases of the University of Reading.[2][3][4][5] Genome highlighted some missing entries, incorrect dates and misspelled titles in the other sources.
- Still more authoritative would be to check the production paperwork, Programmes As Broadcast records and on-screen title captions, where available.[6]
- Beyond the start of Season 6, the ends and starts of seasons are somewhat unclear; I have made a best guess based on the gaps in transmission around the summer period, with the assumption of one season per year, as was the case for the first five seasons.
- Based on the titles, it looks like there were actually five, not four (as currently stated in the text at the top) John Mortimer plays about London.
- The text at the top refers to two three-part Inspector Waugh series, but it seems that there was in fact just one six-part series, of which five of the episodes were repeated in Sep-Oct 1972.
- Links to articles about the specific productions (of which there are only a couple so far) are made in the Title column, while those to original theatrical or literary sources are made in the Notes column.
- I have not attempted to identify links to earlier BBC Radio productions of the same works, which exist for some of the productions.
- The article could benefit from a 'Not to be confused with...' remark at the top referring to Thirty-Minute Theatre on BBC Radio or perhaps elsewhere(?).
- I deleted a couple of references with broken links, having not managed to find the sources (possibly blog articles) online or archived.
- Performers listed are generally those identified as 'starring' in the RT listing; otherwise the first few are listed.
- I have not gone through checking to add links to articles on performers.
- Still to add: identification of those surviving productions available on DVD/Blu-Ray or online.
CaptainZond (talk) 18:23, 24 July 2021 (UTC)
References
- ^ "BBC Genome". genome.ch.bbc.co.uk.
- ^ "Collections Search | BFI | British Film Institute". collections-search.bfi.org.uk.
- ^ "Thirty-Minute Theatre". TV Brain. Retrieved 24 July 2021.
- ^ Thirty-Minute Theatre at IMDb
- ^ "British Television Drama 1955-1994 Databases". U. of Reading. Retrieved 24 July 2021.
- ^ Programmes as Broadcast record held by the BBC Written Archives Centre