Lilli Palmer Theatre

Season

1955

7.4

Episode List

S1 • E1

Bardell vs. Pickwick

A humanitarian is sued for breach of promise in this courtroom scenario adapted from Dickens' "Pickwick Papers."

S1 • E2

The Brown Man's Servant

S1 • E3

The Door

Losing his way, a young man walks through a door and into a trap set for someone else.

S1 • E4

The Great Healer

In Victorian times, two women meet up, it comes out that they hadn't seen each other for over fifty years, from when they worked together as chorus girls. They have a chat about old times and how their lives have changed, the most notable changes are Kitty's who went from been a working class chorus girl to a titled lady after marring Bertie, who would later become Lord Bodmin. Rosie's changes were more mundane as she just married and became Mrs. Bounce.

S1 • E5

Mister Betts Runs Away

Eric Portman portrays a man terrified by a fortuneteller's predictions.

S1 • E6

Mossbach Collection

A blind man (Marius Goring), needing money, decides to sell his art collection---only to find that his wife has been liquidating it for years.

S1 • E7

The Orderly

A colonel learns that his wife (Andree Melly) was driven to suicide by a blackmailer.

S1 • E8

The Little Black Book

Two hopeful beneficiaries get an impersonator to stand in for the deceased, who died before he could sign his will.

S1 • E9

The Suicide Club

In 1900 in London there was a club where wealthy but desperate men who had lost the will to live could gamble - not for gain but for life. One night Prince Florizel drew the ace of spades.

S1 • E10

The Game and the Onlooker

A woman (Wendy Hiller) about to be married learns that her fiance wants only her money.

S1 • E11

Death Trap

A Tangier smuggler tries to elude a gangster who's plotting his death.

S1 • E12

The No Man

A mild-mannered man is pushed around by everyone except a girl who works with him and is determined to make a man of him.

S1 • E13

The Stocking

A husband gets jealous when an older man sends expensive presents to his wife on Valentine's Day.

S1 • E14

A Present from Bessie

A man suspects his brother of blackmailing him and kills him, then learns that the brother wasn't the extortionist.

S1 • E15

The Triumphant

A woman acquitted of murder must face her neighbors, who believe her guilty.

S1 • E16

The Stolen Pearl

In the world of the deep-sea fishermen and pearl divers there is little else but danger. For Mike Gardner and Candleblow Smith a stolen pearl spells freedom from a life of hazard.

S1 • E17

The Colonel

The neglected wife of a rigid Army colonel (Andrew Cruikshank) is about to sue for divorce, just when her husband loses his command.

S1 • E18

Bride Wore an Opal Ring

A girl and her family are involved in last minute preparations for her wedding day. Her bridegroom-to-be is a stuffy person, that the girl is marrying only because she has had a fight with the man she really loves.

S1 • E19

The Assassin

A member of the Allied underground poses as a doctor to murder a Nazi officer.

S1 • E20

Just Off Piccadilly

A fancy for the supernatural drives Marjorie (Pauline Jamieson) to a haunted house. She expected to find ghosts -- but not a long-lost lover.

S1 • E21

The Portrait

As the result of a favorable press criticism many years ago, an unsuccessful artist considers himself an unrecognized genius.

S1 • E22

The Old Man of the Air

One of two crime partners becomes invisible after an accidental blast at an atomic-energy plant.

S1 • E23

The Case of Dr. Crippen

Dr. Crippen is accused of murdering his nymphomaniac wife.

S1 • E24

Night Call

S1 • E25

The Lady and the Thief

Outwardly the life of Lady Orrin seems normal, but she has a secret which no one would suspect. When the truth comes out, she finds herself in serious trouble.