Sunday Night Theatre
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Sunday Night Theatre

📅 1950 ⭐ 3.5 GB GB

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.

Seasons & Episodes
Season 1 20 episodes
E1
Hindle Wakes 1950-01-01
E2
Rope 1950-01-08
E3
Twelfth Night 1950-01-15
E4
Cheapside 1950-01-22
E5
Trespass 1950-01-29
E6
The Scarlet Pimpernel 1950-02-05
E7
The Indifferent Shepherd 1950-02-12
E10
The Seagull 1950-03-05
E11
The Lady's Not for Burning 1950-03-12
E16
Promise of Tomorrow 1950-04-16
E17
Othello 1950-04-23
E21
The Title 1950-05-21
E24
The Admirable Crichton 1950-06-11
E30
Dark Tribute
E31
Adventure Story 1950-07-30
E33
The History of Mr. Polly 1950-08-13
E36
Vanity Fair 1950-09-03
E40
Party Manners 1950-10-01
E48
The Secret Sharer 1950-11-26
E49
An Enemy of the People 1950-12-03
Season 2 15 episodes
E1
A Phoenix Too Frequent 1951-01-07
E2
The Scarlet Pimpernel 1951-01-14
E3
David Garrick 1951-01-21
E4
Release 1951-01-28
E5
Counsellor at Law 1951-02-04
E6
The Skin Game 1951-02-03
E8
Julius Caesar 1951-02-25
E9
Julius Caesar/II 1951-03-01
E13
The Voysey Inheritance 1951-04-01
E15
Shout Aloud Salvation 1951-04-15
E16
The Life of King Henry V (Part One) 1951-04-22
E17
The Life of Henry V (Part Two) 1951-04-29
E31
The Silent Village 1951-08-05
E32
Albert 1951-08-12
E43
Escape 1951-10-28
Season 3 12 episodes
E3
The Prisoner 1952-02-10
E8
The Wanderer 1952-02-24
E9
The Wild Duck 1952-03-02
E12
Dial M for Murder 1952-03-23
E13
Mourning Becomes Elektra 1952-03-30
E18
Love and Mr. Lewisham 1952-05-04
E29
Arrow to the Heart (I) 1952-07-20
E31
Her Royal Highness 1952-08-03
E32
The Same Sky 1952-08-10
E40
Strange Orchestra 1952-10-05
E46
The Merry Wives of Windsor 1952-11-16
E47
No Cross, No Crown 1952-11-23
Season 4 15 episodes
E5
Number Three 1953-02-01
E6
Our Marie 1953-02-08
E7
The Hero 1953-02-15
E11
As You Like It 1953-03-15
E12
As You Like It/II 1953-03-19
E15
L'Aiglon 1953-04-12
E16
Moonshine 1953-04-19
E17
Take Away the Lady 1953-04-26
E19
The Lady From The Sea 1953-05-10
E29
The Duenna 1953-07-19
E32
Sounding Brass 1953-08-09
E35
The Confidential Clerk 1953-08-30
E38
The Return of Peggy Atherton 1953-09-20
E39
The Bridge 1953-09-27
E48
Crime and Punishment 1953-11-29
Season 5 17 episodes
E1
The Gift 1954-01-03
E10
Ambrose Applejohn's Adventure 1954-03-07
E16
It Never Rains 1954-04-18
E20
The Comedy of Errors 1954-05-16
E26
Three Sisters 1954-06-27
E28
The Promised Years #3: The Small Victory 1954-07-11
E32
Captain Banner 1954-08-08
E37
The Moon in the Yellow River 1954-09-12
E38
Troilus and Cressida 1954-09-19
E39
Troilus and Cressida/II 1954-09-23
E40
The Last of the De Mullins 1954-10-03
E42
Ninety Sail 1954-10-17
E45
The Silent People 1954-11-07
E46
Waiting for Gillian 1954-11-14
E49
The Whiteoak Chronicles #1: Young Renny 1954-12-05
E50
Nineteen Eighty-Four 1954-12-12
E51
Stand Still Time 1954-12-19
Season 6 18 episodes
E5
The Creature 1955-01-30
E8
Candida 1955-02-20
E11
The Merchant of Venice 1955-03-13
E12
The Merchant of Venice/II 1955-03-17
E16
Midsummer Fire 1955-04-17
E18
It Could Happen Only in Paris 1955-05-01
E21
Romeo and Juliet 1955-05-22
E23
The Legend of Pepito 1955-06-05
E24
Holiday for Simon 1955-06-12
E33
The Powder Magazine 1955-08-14
E35
A Life in the Sun 1955-08-28
E38
The Scarlet Pimpernel 1955-09-18
E42
The Makepeace Story #1: The Ruthless Destiny 1955-10-16
E43
The Makepeace Story #2: A New Generation 1955-10-23
E44
The Makepeace Story #3: Family Business 1955-10-30
E47
Idiot's Delight 1955-11-20
E50
The Devil Came from Dublin 1955-12-11
E51
The Devil's General 1955-12-18
Season 7 14 episodes
E2
The Weeping Madonna 1956-01-08
E6
The White Falcon 1956-02-05
E11
The Mayerling Affair 1956-03-11
E16
The Seat of the Scornful 1956-04-15
E20
Shout Aloud Salvation (II) 1956-05-13
E22
Epitaph 1956-05-27
E24
Desert Duel 1956-06-10
E27
The Fugitive 1956-07-01
E31
The Cold Light 1956-07-29
E34
Siding 273 1956-08-19
E37
You Touched Me 1956-09-09
E39
Henry Irving 1956-09-23
E40
One Morning Near Troodos 1956-09-30
E53
Clive of India 1956-12-30
Season 8 8 episodes
E8
Myself a Stranger 1957-01-27
E10
Twelfth Night 1957-03-10
E13
Requiem for a Heavyweight 1957-03-31
E23
The Lass of Richmond Hill 1957-06-09
E26
Abe Lincoln in Illinois 1957-06-30
E28
The Magnificent Egotist 1957-07-14
E42
The Mulberry Bush 1957-10-20
E50
The Trial of Mary LaFarge 1957-12-15
Season 9 9 episodes
E19
Irving Berlin 1958-05-11
E26
View Friendship and Marriage 1958-06-29
E28
Statue of David 1958-07-13
E32
The Shadow of Doubt 1958-08-10
E34
The Lady from the Sea (II) 1958-08-24
E44
The End of the Equation 1958-11-02
E45
A Midsummer Night's Dream 1958-11-09
E46
The Lower Depths 1958-11-16
E50
The Laughing Woman 1958-12-14
Season 10 8 episodes
E1
The Stone Ship 1959-01-04
E19
The Fortrose Incident 1959-05-10
E21
When in Rome 1959-05-04
E28
Farewell My City 1959-07-12
E30
A Small Revolution 1959-07-26
E38
Crime Passionnel 1959-09-20
E47
The Velvet Alley 1959-11-22
E49
Maigret and the Lost Life 1959-04-12
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