Sunday Night Theatre (1950)
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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Episodes
- 1 1. Hindle Wakes1950-01-01
- 2 2. Rope1950-01-08Two 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
- 3 3. Twelfth Night1950-01-15Viola 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
- 4 4. Cheapside1950-01-22
- 5 5. Trespass1950-01-29
- 6 6. The Scarlet Pimpernel1950-02-05A noblewoman discovers her husband is The Scarlet Pimpernel, a vigilante who rescues aristocrats from the blade of the guillotine.
- 7 7. The Indifferent Shepherd1950-02-12
- 10 10. The Seagull1950-03-05This 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
- 11 11. The Lady's Not for Burning1950-03-12
- 16 16. Promise of Tomorrow1950-04-16Marius 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
- 17 17. Othello1950-04-23
- 21 21. The Title1950-05-21
- 22 22. The Insect Play1950-05-28
- 24 24. The Admirable Crichton1950-06-11A 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
- 30 30. Dark Tribute
- 31 31. Adventure Story1950-07-30The story of Alexander the Great, a compulsive conqueror.
- 33 33. The History of Mr. Polly1950-08-13
- 36 36. Vanity Fair1950-09-03
- 40 40. Party Manners1950-10-01
- 48 48. The Secret Sharer1950-11-26A ship's captain must conceal a stowaway from his crew.
- 49 49. An Enemy of the People1950-12-03A scientist stands against an entire town when he discovers their medicinal spa is polluted.
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