Theatre Royal — 1954
33 episodes broadcast in 1954.
Laurence Olivier stars in H.G. Wells's 'The Country of the Blind,' the fantasy that upends the old saying about the one-eyed man among the sightless.
Laurence Olivier stars in 'Little Louise'; the source author is not identified in the surviving log.
Laurence Olivier stars in Oscar Wilde's 'Lord Arthur Savile's Crime,' in which a palm-reading sends a gentleman off to commit a foretold murder.
Laurence Olivier plays the dual role in Stevenson's 'The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.'
Sir Laurence Olivier stars in 'The Case of Bardell vs Pickwick,' the famous breach-of-promise trial from Dickens's 'The Pickwick Papers.'
Sir Laurence Olivier stars in Melville's 'Bartleby, the Scrivener' -- the episode first announced back in November and finally staged here.
Sir Laurence Olivier stars in Gogol's satire of small-town corruption, 'The Inspector General.'
A dramatization of Robert Louis Stevenson's 'The Suicide Club.'
Sir Laurence Olivier stars in Bret Harte's Gold Rush story 'The Outcasts of Poker Flat,' about gamblers and outcasts stranded by a mountain snowstorm.
Sir Laurence Olivier stars in 'Mr Micawber's Difficulties,' drawn from the ever-hopeful, ever-insolvent character of Dickens's 'David Copperfield.'
Bret Harte's 'The Luck of Roaring Camp,' in which an orphaned baby transforms a rough mining settlement.
Sir Laurence Olivier plays Sydney Carton in a dramatization of Dickens's 'A Tale of Two Cities,' centred on Carton's sacrifice in Revolutionary Paris.
Sir Laurence Olivier stars in 'When Greek Meets Greek,' from a story by the novelist Graham Greene.
Paul Gallico's 'The Snow Goose,' the tender wartime story of a lighthouse painter, a girl, and a wounded bird -- the close of Olivier's season.
Sir Ralph Richardson opens his season as Colonel Peregrine in Somerset Maugham's 'The Colonel's Lady.'
Sir Ralph Richardson stars in Joseph Conrad's sea story 'The Black Mate.'
Sir Ralph Richardson stars in 'Half an Hour,' a dramatization of the one-act play by J.M. Barrie.
Robert Morley stars in Jules Romains's satire 'Dr. Knock,' about a physician who convinces a whole town that it is ill.
Sir Ralph Richardson stars in Henry James's 'The Aspern Papers,' the tale of a scholar scheming to seize a dead poet's private letters.
'My Adventure in Norfolk,' a story by the British broadcasting raconteur A.J. Alan.
A Theatre Royal dramatization titled 'Private Rooms'; neither the source author nor the star is identified in the surviving log.
H.G. Wells's comic fantasy 'The Man Who Could Work Miracles,' about an ordinary man who finds he can make any wish come true.
A dramatization titled 'The Liar' -- most likely Henry James's story of that name, though the log does not confirm the author.
'My Uncle Toby,' drawn from the gentle old soldier of Laurence Sterne's 'Tristram Shandy.'
Henry James's 'Four Meetings,' the story of a New England schoolteacher whose one dream of seeing Europe is thwarted again and again.
A dramatization of Laurence Sterne's travelogue-novel 'A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy.'
Margaret Lockwood stars as the scheming Becky Sharp in a dramatization of Thackeray's 'Vanity Fair,' with Ralph Richardson hosting.
A Command Performance repeat of the premiere, Pushkin's 'The Queen of Spades,' again with Orson Welles.
A Command Performance repeat of Gogol's 'The Overcoat,' starring Michael Redgrave.
A Command Performance repeat of Beerbohm's 'The Happy Hypocrite,' again with Sir John Gielgud.
A Command Performance repeat of Stevenson's 'The Sire de Maletroit's Door,' with Robert Donat and Renee Asherson.
A Command Performance repeat of 'The Judgement,' starring Trevor Howard.
The announced final broadcast: a Command Performance repeat of H.G. Wells's 'The Country of the Blind' with Laurence Olivier, bookending the run on a story it had staged in January.
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