Sunday Night Theatre

Total Seasons :10Total Episodes : 73

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 Ca...

Episodes(17)

Hindle Wakes

1. Hindle Wakes

Air Date : 1950-01-01

Rope

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.

Air Date : 1950-01-08

Twelfth Night

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.

Air Date : 1950-01-15

Cheapside

4. Cheapside

Air Date : 1950-01-22

Trespass

5. Trespass

Air Date : 1950-01-29

The Scarlet Pimpernel

6. The Scarlet Pimpernel

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

Air Date : 1950-02-05

The Indifferent Shepherd

7. The Indifferent Shepherd

Air Date : 1950-02-12

The Seagull

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.

Air Date : 1950-03-05

The Lady's Not for Burning

11. The Lady's Not for Burning

Air Date : 1950-03-12

Promise of Tomorrow

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.

Air Date : 1950-04-16

Othello

17. Othello

Air Date : 1950-04-23

Dark Tribute

30. Dark Tribute

Air Date :

Adventure Story

31. Adventure Story

The story of Alexander the Great, a compulsive conqueror.

Air Date : 1950-07-30

The History of Mr. Polly

33. The History of Mr. Polly

Air Date : 1950-08-13

Vanity Fair

36. Vanity Fair

Air Date : 1950-09-03

Party Manners

40. Party Manners

Air Date : 1950-10-01

An Enemy of the People

49. An Enemy of the People

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

Air Date : 1950-12-03

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