Every week the well-meaning amateurs of the Cornley Dramatic Society perform a half-hour play - live! - on BBC One: a horror story, a wartime drama, a legal thriller, a period romance, a deep south melodrama and a Christmas fable. And every week, the performance goes terribly, terribly wrong.

Sets collapse, special effects fail, actors dry - life, limb and the studio audience are threatened. But the show must go on ... (Verlagstext)