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Sunday Night Theatre

3.5·10 seasons·148 episodes·United Kingdom

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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Hindle Wakes
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Jan 1, 1950
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Rope
Rope
Jan 8, 1950

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
Twelfth Night
Jan 15, 1950

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
Cheapside
Jan 22, 1950
05
Trespass
Trespass
Jan 29, 1950
06
The Scarlet Pimpernel
The Scarlet Pimpernel
Feb 5, 1950

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
The Indifferent Shepherd
Feb 12, 1950
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The Seagull
The Seagull
Mar 5, 1950

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
The Lady's Not for Burning
Mar 12, 1950
16
Promise of Tomorrow
Promise of Tomorrow
Apr 16, 1950

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.

17
Othello
Othello
Apr 23, 1950
21
The Title
The Title
May 21, 1950
22
The Insect Play
The Insect Play
May 28, 1950
24
The Admirable Crichton
The Admirable Crichton
Jun 11, 1950

A 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 apparent that only the servant Crichton is capable of surviving on his own and he becomes the communities leader.

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TBA
Dark TributeTBA
31
Adventure Story
Adventure Story
Jul 30, 1950

The story of Alexander the Great, a compulsive conqueror.

33
The History of Mr. Polly
The History of Mr. Polly
Aug 13, 1950
36
Vanity Fair
Vanity Fair
Sep 3, 1950
40
Party Manners
Party Manners
Oct 1, 1950
48
The Secret Sharer
The Secret Sharer
Nov 26, 1950

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

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An Enemy of the People
An Enemy of the People
Dec 3, 1950

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

Cast

1 credited
Oliver MacGreevy
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