Sunday Night Theatre
series currently in production
Returning Series
Drama
Seasons | 10
Episodes | 73
avg.Runtime | min
First EP | 1950-01-01
Last EP | 1959-07-12
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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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Season List
season 1 || Season 1
Relesed on | 1950-01-01
1
Hindle Wakes
1950-01-01
2
Rope
1950-01-08
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.
3
Twelfth Night
1950-01-15
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.
4
Cheapside
1950-01-22
5
Trespass
1950-01-29
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
30
Dark Tribute
31
Adventure Story
1950-07-30
The story of Alexander the Great, a compulsive conqueror.
33
The History of Mr. Polly
1950-08-13
36
Vanity Fair
1950-09-03
40
Party Manners
1950-10-01
48
The Secret Sharer
1950-11-26
A ship's captain must conceal a stowaway from his crew.
49
An Enemy of the People
1950-12-03
A scientist stands against an entire town when he discovers their medicinal spa is polluted.
CAST
charactor: Ajax
Original: Michael Brennan
Total EP: 19
charactor: Jacques
Original: Michael Hordern
Total EP: 12
charactor: Thomas Cromwell
Original: Rupert Davies
Total EP: 11
charactor: Chorus
Original: Marius Goring
Total EP: 9
charactor:
Original: Evelyn Moore
Total EP: 9
charactor: Horace Pengard
Original: Wolfe Morris
Total EP: 8
charactor: Smith
Original: Peter Bull
Total EP: 7
charactor:
Original: Oliver MacGreevy
Total EP: 6
charactor: Lady Marguerite Blakeney
Original: Margaretta Scott
Total EP: 6
charactor: Poet
Original: Gerard Heinz
Total EP: 6
charactor: Tom Mead
Original: Alfred Burke
Total EP: 6
charactor: Mrs. Topping
Original: Anna Turner
Total EP: 6
charactor: Lodovico
Original: Patrick Macnee
Total EP: 5
charactor: Sylvius
Original: Peter Wyngarde
Total EP: 4
charactor: 4th Plebeian
Original: Harold Kasket
Total EP: 4
charactor: Maria Fitzherbert
Original: Jeanette Sterke
Total EP: 3
charactor: Mr. Blinkard
Original: Erik Chitty
Total EP: 3
charactor: HRH George, Prince of Wales
Original: Tony Britton
Total EP: 3
charactor: Orlando
Original: Laurence Harvey
Total EP: 3
charactor: Troilus
Original: John Fraser
Total EP: 3
charactor: Calchas
Original: Timothy Bateson
Total EP: 3
charactor: Admetus
Original: Robert Hardy
Total EP: 3
charactor: Tom Grimthorpe
Original: Colin Douglas
Total EP: 3
charactor: Amiens
Original: John Schlesinger
Total EP: 3
charactor: Chauvelin
Original: Douglas Wilmer
Total EP: 3
charactor: Leading Telegraphist Marshall
Original: Kenneth Cope
Total EP: 3
charactor: Vicomte de Tournai
Original: William Russell
Total EP: 3
charactor: Marcus Brutus
Original: Patrick Barr
Total EP: 3
charactor: King Henry V
Original: Clement McCallin
Total EP: 2
charactor: Corporal
Original: Donald Pleasence
Total EP: 2
charactor: Margaret Devize
Original: Nora Nicholson
Total EP: 2
charactor: Dr. John Rollason
Original: Peter Cushing
Total EP: 2
charactor: Baron Molde
Original: Andrew Cruickshank
Total EP: 2
charactor: Percy Courtney
Original: Terence Alexander
Total EP: 2
charactor: Wimberber
Original: Michael Golden
Total EP: 2
charactor: Roderigo
Original: Alan Wheatley
Total EP: 2
charactor: Hector
Original: William Squire
Total EP: 2
charactor: Father Francis
Original: Richard Pearson
Total EP: 2
charactor: Geoffrey Kenyon
Original: Clive Revill
Total EP: 2
charactor: Mark Smeaton
Original: Roger Delgado
Total EP: 2
CREW
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