The Jazz Age - Episode Guide

'Welcome to the Paradise Club '— that's what the band is playing When Scar Edwards, an up-town gangster, comes to have a show-down with Steve Crandall who operates in the Broadway area. Scar doesn'get much of a welcome, he is carried out of the Club with a slug in his back.

With Scar Edwards out of the way, Steve Crandall and his gang are going to take over New York. But Dan McCorn, a Broadway dick, has other ideas. He discovers that Scar's girl is working at the Club....

A young soldier, mortally wounded, lies dying in the trenches, and thinks forward to the end of the Twenties

'Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me....'

Fitzgerald could have been describing Emily Castleton , one of his most fabulous flappers. This arch-type of the poor little rich girl was different from everyone. At twenty-four, Emily's score was one affair, many engagements, and an embittered heart when she settled for Brevoort Blair-the catch of the year.

A quarter of a million dollars' worth of gifts poured in. A thousand guests crowded the church. The music began. But no bride came down the aisle, for Emily had left for Europe to find her destiny ...

Tonight's play is a fictional reconstruction of the murder of Kevin O'Higgins, a leading Irish politician who was gunned down on his way to Mass one Sunday morning in 1927. O'Flaherty, in his novel from which this play is adapted, explores the mind of a man who would perpetrate such a crime. The Assassin's anti-hero threw Ireland into an uproar. His motive is more than revenge and, in settling a debt, he understood that he had a far more personal one to settle with his God.

A tragic tale of a beautiful and innocent girl who, through a chance encounter and an act of kindness, is caught up in a divorce that promises to have scandalous repercussions on those in the Mayfair smart set.

An eleven-year-old boy is torn between his father, whose loyalties are with the Don Cossacks , and his older brother who joins the Red Army. The Youngest Comrade becomes a pawn in a world that places no value on human life.

Mr Jack Hollins is a self-made millionaire at odds with values and life in the 1920s. His daughter Minnie strives to be an emancipated woman. She is an art student and a socialist, and longs for her own life away from home. Her father refuses to let her go and when she eventually escapes by marrying, Jack Hollins , through his money, still controls her life. But the world is changing and it is beyond Mr. Hollins's control. He finds himself no longer master of his fate.

In the early 1920s Germany was in a state of economic chaos, crippled by reparations; the value of the Mark fell until it impoverished the middle-class. One of the victims was Herr Tonn , whose avarice led him to ' sell' his own daughter and steal money to make more on the black exchange. Tonight's play takes place in his pension which houses an assortment of English expatriates, social rejects, and an Irish gunman who finds his salvation in Herr Tonn 's beautiful, but abused daughter.

Thark is a haunted house, purchased by the formidable Mrs. Frush from Sir Hector Benbow , a gay old dog with an eye for the ladies. Mistaken identities and misunderstandings pile one on the other, and as confusion multiplies, the scene moves from London to Thark for a chaotic confrontation with the supernatural.

Late one night Commander Stevenson sees some strange goods being unloaded on a lonely beach. Before he is knocked unconscious he also sees three faces. This is the start of a tale involving smuggling, murder, and revenge.

Mike Taggart is a very determined journalist and his offer of help to the wife of a prisoner of the Castro regime is not a selfless one, but honour has a way of coming to the surface.