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Sunday Night Theatre Episode Guide
Rope
S1 Ep2
8th Jan 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.
Twelfth Night
S1 Ep3
15th Jan 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.
The Scarlet Pimpernel
S1 Ep6
5th Feb 1950
A noblewoman discovers her husband is The Scarlet Pimpernel, a vigilante who rescues aristocrats from the blade of the guillotine.
The Seagull
S1 Ep10
5th Mar 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.
Promise of Tomorrow
S1 Ep16
16th Apr 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.
Adventure Story
S1 Ep31
30th Jul 1950
The story of Alexander the Great, a compulsive conqueror.
The Secret Sharer
S1 Ep48
26th Nov 1950
A ship's captain must conceal a stowaway from his crew.
An Enemy of the People
S1 Ep49
3rd Dec 1950
A scientist stands against an entire town when he discovers their medicinal spa is polluted.
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.
The first episode of Sunday Night Theatre aired on January 01, 1950.
The last episode of Sunday Night Theatre aired on July 12, 1959.
There are 73 episodes of Sunday Night Theatre.
There are 10 seasons of Sunday Night Theatre.
Yes.
Sunday Night Theatre is set to return for future episodes.
