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Sunday Night Theatre

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.

Genre: Drama,

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Country: United Kingdom,

Type: tv

Season: 10

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Duration: N/A minutes

Release: 1950-01-01

Rating: 3.5

1"Hindle Wakes"

1950-01-01

4"Cheapside"

1950-01-22

6"The Scarlet Pimpernel"

1950-02-05

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

7"The Indifferent Shepherd"

1950-02-12

10"The Seagull"

1950-03-05

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.

11"The Lady's Not for Burning"

1950-03-12

16"Promise of Tomorrow"

1950-04-16

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.

17"Othello"

1950-04-23

31"Adventure Story"

1950-07-30

The story of Alexander the Great, a compulsive conqueror.

36"Vanity Fair"

1950-09-03

40"Party Manners"

1950-10-01

2"The Scarlet Pimpernel"

1951-01-14

During the French Revolution, a mysterious English nobleman known only as The Scarlet Pimpernel (a humble wayside flower), snatches French aristos from the jaws of the guillotine, while posing as the foppish Sir Percy Blakeney in society. Percy falls for and marries the beautiful actress Marguerite St. Just, but she is involved with Chauvelin and Robespierre, and Percy's marriage to her may endanger the Pimpernel's plans to save the little Dauphin.

6"The Skin Game"

1951-02-03

8"Julius Caesar"

1951-02-25

The growing ambition of Julius Caesar is a source of major concern to his close friend Brutus. Cassius persuades him to participate in his plot to assassinate Caesar but they have both sorely underestimated Mark Antony.

9"Julius Caesar/II"

1951-03-01

13"The Voysey Inheritance"

1951-04-01

16"The Life of King Henry V (Part One)"

1951-04-22

In the midst of the Hundred Years' War, the young King Henry V of England embarks on the conquest of France in 1415.

17"The Life of Henry V (Part Two)"

1951-04-29

In the midst of the Hundred Years' War, the young King Henry V of England embarks on the conquest of France in 1415.

31"The Silent Village"

1951-08-05

8"The Wanderer"

1952-02-24

9"The Wild Duck"

1952-03-02

13"Mourning Becomes Elektra"

1952-03-30

29"Arrow to the Heart (I)"

1952-07-20

40"Strange Orchestra"

1952-10-05

46"The Merry Wives of Windsor"

1952-11-16

47"No Cross, No Crown"

1952-11-23

6"Our Marie"

1953-02-08

11"As You Like It"

1953-03-15

After the overthrowing of Duke Senior by his tyrannical brother, Senior's daughter Rosalind disguises herself as a man and sets out to find her banished father while also counseling her clumsy suitor Orlando in the art of wooing.

12"As You Like It/II"

1953-03-19

15"L'Aiglon"

1953-04-12

32"Sounding Brass"

1953-08-09

28"The Promised Years #3: The Small Victory"

1954-07-11

32"Captain Banner"

1954-08-08

38"Troilus and Cressida"

1954-09-19

During the Trojan War, a Trojan warrior is distraught when his lover takes up with a Greek.

39"Troilus and Cressida/II"

1954-09-23

During the Trojan War, a Trojan warrior is distraught when his lover takes up with a Greek.

42"Ninety Sail"

1954-10-17

45"The Silent People"

1954-11-07

50"Nineteen Eighty-Four"

1954-12-12

In a totalitarian future society, Winston Smith, whose daily work is re-writing history, tries to rebel by falling in love.

51"Stand Still Time"

1954-12-19

8"Candida"

1955-02-20

The idealist Reverend Morell tries to unite Socialism and Christianity.

11"The Merchant of Venice"

1955-03-13

A rich merchant, Antonio is depressed for no good reason, until his good friend Bassanio comes to tell him how he's in love with Portia. Portia's father has died and left a very strange will: only the man that picks the correct casket out of three (silver, gold, and lead) can marry her. Bassanio, unfortunately, is strapped for cash with which to go wooing, and Antonio wants to help, so Antonio borrows the money from Shylock, the money-lender. But Shylock has been nursing a grudge against Antonio's insults, and makes unusual terms to the loan. And when Antonio's business fails, those terms threaten his life, and it's up to Bassanio and Portia to save him.

12"The Merchant of Venice/II"

1955-03-17

18"It Could Happen Only in Paris"

1955-05-01

21"Romeo and Juliet"

1955-05-22

In Shakespeare's classic play, the Montagues and Capulets, two families of Renaissance Italy, have hated each other for years, but the son of one family and the daughter of the other fall desperately in love and secretly marry.

35"A Life in the Sun"

1955-08-28

43"The Makepeace Story #2: A New Generation"

1955-10-23

44"The Makepeace Story #3: Family Business"

1955-10-30

51"The Devil's General"

1955-12-18

A veteran hero of the German army finds himself at odds with the Nazi regime.

6"The White Falcon"

1956-02-05

An examination of the fatal romance between Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn.

11"The Mayerling Affair"

1956-03-11

The Austro-Hungarian empire is rocked by scandal when Crown Prince Rudolf and his mistress Mare Vetsera are found dead at the Mayerling hunting lodge.

20"Shout Aloud Salvation (II)"

1956-05-13

24"Desert Duel"

1956-06-10

27"The Fugitive"

1956-07-01

31"The Cold Light"

1956-07-29

Crystof Wolters is German born but working in and owing allegiance to Britain. The play is concerned with how and why he betrays that allegiance, and how, after a tense cat-and mouse-game, he is led to reveal his betrayal.

40"One Morning Near Troodos"

1956-09-30

53"Clive of India"

1956-12-30

A portrayal of the life of the eighteenth century soldier and politician, particularly focusing on his victory at the Battle of Plassey.

10"Twelfth Night"

1957-03-10

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.

13"Requiem for a Heavyweight"

1957-03-31

An over-the-hill heavyweight boxing champion who suffers from the ravages of years of head trauma is exploited by his manager, despite the efforts of a compassionate young woman who tries to help him recover his self-respect.

23"The Lass of Richmond Hill"

1957-06-09

The Prince of Wales, contrary to strict royal protocol, falls in love with a commoner, Maria Fitzherbert, and plans to marry her.

26"Abe Lincoln in Illinois"

1957-06-30

Before becoming one of America's greatest presidents, Abraham Lincoln had a long career as a businessman, lawyer, government official and elected representative for the state of Illinois. This film looks at the rise of this self-educated statesman, including his famous series of public debates with rival Stephen Douglas. A glimpse is also shown of some of the more personal aspects of his Lincoln's life, including the early romance and heartbreak he experienced with Ann Rutledge.

28"The Magnificent Egotist"

1957-07-14

50"The Laughing Woman"

1958-12-14

19"The Fortrose Incident"

1959-05-10

28"Farewell My City"

1959-07-12

49"Maigret and the Lost Life"

1959-04-12

Maigret, that most human of French detectives, sets out to solve the mystery surrounding the brutal murder of a girl whose body has been found in a street near Place Pigalle in the heart of Paris.