Tonight at 8.30

Dame Joan Collins takes on all of Gertrude Lawrence's lead roles in rare and entertaining television productions of eight out of the nine thirty-minute playlets by Noël Coward which he and Lawrence performed on-stage in sets of three from 1935 as "Tonight at 8.30". 1: 'Hands Across the Sea' (a light comedy). 2: 'Red Peppers' (an interlude with music). 3: 'The Astonished Heart' (a sad love tale). 4: 'Family Album' (a Victorian vignette). 5: 'Fumed Oak' (an unpleasant comedy). 6: 'Ways and Means' (a light comedy). 7: 'Still Life' (a romantic interlude). 8: 'Shadow Play' (a musical fantasy).