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Sunday Night Theatre

Sunday Night Theatre

1950 - 1959

Hindle Wakes

1st January 1950
Episode 1
No overview available.

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.

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.

Cheapside

22nd January 1950
Episode 4
No overview available.

Trespass

29th January 1950
Episode 5
No overview available.

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.

The Indifferent Shepherd

12th February 1950
Episode 7
No overview available.

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.

The Lady's Not for Burning

12th March 1950
Episode 11
No overview available.

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.

Othello

23rd April 1950
Episode 17
No overview available.

Dark Tribute

Episode 30
No overview available.

Adventure Story

30th July 1950
Episode 31
The story of Alexander the Great, a compulsive conqueror.

The History of Mr. Polly

13th August 1950
Episode 33
No overview available.

Vanity Fair

3rd September 1950
Episode 36
No overview available.

Party Manners

1st October 1950
Episode 40
No overview available.

The Secret Sharer

26th November 1950
Episode 48
A ship's captain must conceal a stowaway from his crew.

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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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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