Sunday Night Theatre
Sunday Night Theatre was a long-running series of televised live television plays screened by BBC Television from early 1950 until 1959. The productions for the first five years or so of the run were re-staged live the following Thursday, partly because of technical limitations in this era, and the theatrical basis of early television drama. Some of the earliest collaborations between Rudolph Cartier and Nigel Neale were produced for this series, including Arrow to the Heart and Nineteen Eighty-Four. The Sunday night drama slot was subsequently renamed The Sunday-Night Play which ran for four seasons between 1960 and 1963. ITV transmitted its own unrelated run of Sunday Night Theatre between 1971 and 1974.
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Seasons
- Ep 1
1.Hindle Wakes
01-01-1950 - Ep 2
2.Rope
08-01-1950Two young men strangle their "inferior" classmate, hide his body in their apartment, and invite his friends and family to a dinner party as a means to challenge the "perfection" of...
- Ep 3
3.Twelfth Night
15-01-1950Viola and Sebastian are lookalike twins, separated by a shipwreck. Viola lands in Illyria, where she disguises herself like her brother and goes into the service of the Duke Orsino...
- Ep 4
4.Cheapside
22-01-1950 - Ep 5
5.Trespass
29-01-1950 - Ep 6
6.The Scarlet Pimpernel
05-02-1950A noblewoman discovers her husband is The Scarlet Pimpernel, a vigilante who rescues aristocrats from the blade of the guillotine.
- Ep 7
7.The Indifferent Shepherd
12-02-1950 - Ep 10
10.The Seagull
05-03-1950This quintessential Chekhov drama--his first success--is both comic and tragic. A group of friends and relations gather at a country estate to see the first performance of an exper...
- Ep 11
11.The Lady's Not for Burning
12-03-1950 - Ep 16
16.Promise of Tomorrow
16-04-1950Marius Goring stars as Tommy Savidge, a crippled poet who longs to compose verse dramas but is forced to write trashy plays for dingy provincial repertory companies to make a livin...
- Ep 17
17.Othello
23-04-1950 - Ep 21
21.The Title
21-05-1950 - Ep 24
24.The Admirable Crichton
11-06-1950A group of people are shipwrecked when their yacht runs around on a South Pacific island. The usable hierarchy in a upper-class British family breaks down quickly when it becomes a...
- Ep 30
30.Dark Tribute
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31.Adventure Story
30-07-1950The story of Alexander the Great, a compulsive conqueror.
- Ep 33
33.The History of Mr. Polly
13-08-1950 - Ep 36
36.Vanity Fair
03-09-1950 - Ep 40
40.Party Manners
01-10-1950 - Ep 48
48.The Secret Sharer
26-11-1950A ship's captain must conceal a stowaway from his crew.
- Ep 49
49.An Enemy of the People
03-12-1950A scientist stands against an entire town when he discovers their medicinal spa is polluted.
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