Sunday Night Theatre (1950)
Synopsis
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.
First Air Date: 1950-01-01
Last Air Date: 1959-07-26
Number of Seasons: 10
Number of Episodes: 109
Networks: BBC One
Top Cast
- Michael Brennan as Charles
- Michael Hordern as Jacques
- Rupert Davies as Alec Roper
- Marius Goring as Chorus
- Evelyn Moore as N/A
- Wolfe Morris as Emilio
- Peter Bull as Edward Tappercoom
- Oliver MacGreevy as N/A
- Margaretta Scott as Lady Marguerite Blakeney
- Gerard Heinz as Poet
Seasons
Season 1 (1950)
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Episodes:
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Ep. 1: Hindle Wakes
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Ep. 2: Rope
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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Ep. 3: Twelfth Night
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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Ep. 4: Cheapside
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Ep. 5: Trespass
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Ep. 6: The Scarlet Pimpernel
A noblewoman discovers her husband is The Scarlet Pimpernel, a vigilante who rescues aristocrats from the blade of the guillotine.
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Ep. 7: The Indifferent Shepherd
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Ep. 10: The Seagull
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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Ep. 11: The Lady's Not for Burning
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Ep. 16: Promise of Tomorrow
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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Ep. 17: Othello
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Ep. 30: Dark Tribute
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Ep. 31: Adventure Story
The story of Alexander the Great, a compulsive conqueror.
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Ep. 33: The History of Mr. Polly
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Ep. 36: Vanity Fair
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Ep. 40: Party Manners
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Ep. 48: The Secret Sharer
A ship's captain must conceal a stowaway from his crew.
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Ep. 49: An Enemy of the People
A scientist stands against an entire town when he discovers their medicinal spa is polluted.
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