Thirty-Minute Theatre

Failure to win in a television quiz proves too much for Stuart and Patricia Pendleton.

Simon is trying to convince his mistress, Monica, to leave her husband by staging a suicide. But instead of Monica showing up, a stranger appears, who helps him to carry out the suicide he was staging at the beginning of the play.

Mrs. Bixby, a dentist's wife, goes alone once a month to the country "to see her aunt"; she's secretly visiting her lover, the Colonel. But when he gives her an expensive coat, she has to devise a way of explaining it to her husband.

In this medical drama for the BBC's THIRTY MINUTE THEATER series, a doctor is helpless as an old man dies in pain. In the same ward, three other patients of different backgrounds attempt to deal with the old man's death.