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Sunday Night Theatre

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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.

Drama

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1st January 1950 - 12th July 1959
Top Cast
Oliver MacGreevy
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Hindle Wakes
1st January 1950

Episode 1

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Rope
8th January 1950

Episode 2

Two 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 their crime.

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Twelfth Night
15th January 1950

Episode 3

Viola 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. Orsino sends her to help him woo the Lady Olivia, who doesn't want the Duke, but finds that she likes the new messenger the Duke's sending. Then, of course, Viola's brother shows up, and merry hell breaks loose. Meanwhile, Olivia's uncle and his cohorts are trying to find some way to get back at Olivia's officious majordomo, Malvolio.

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Cheapside
22nd January 1950

Episode 4

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Trespass
29th January 1950

Episode 5

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The Scarlet Pimpernel
5th February 1950

Episode 6

A noblewoman discovers her husband is The Scarlet Pimpernel, a vigilante who rescues aristocrats from the blade of the guillotine.

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The Indifferent Shepherd
12th February 1950

Episode 7

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The Seagull
5th March 1950

Episode 10

This 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 experimental play written and staged by the young man of the house, Konstantin, an aspiring writer who dreams of bringing new forms to the theatre.

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The Lady's Not for Burning
12th March 1950

Episode 11

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Promise of Tomorrow
16th April 1950

Episode 16

Marius 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 living.

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Othello
23rd April 1950

Episode 17

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Dark Tribute

Episode 30

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Adventure Story
30th July 1950

Episode 31

The story of Alexander the Great, a compulsive conqueror.

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The History of Mr. Polly
13th August 1950

Episode 33

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Vanity Fair
3rd September 1950

Episode 36

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Party Manners
1st October 1950

Episode 40

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The Secret Sharer
26th November 1950

Episode 48

A ship's captain must conceal a stowaway from his crew.

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An Enemy of the People
3rd December 1950

Episode 49

A scientist stands against an entire town when he discovers their medicinal spa is polluted.

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