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

Episode: N/A

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Release: 1950-01-01

Rating: 3.5

Season 1 - Sunday Night Theatre
1950-01-01
1950-01-22
1950-02-05
A noblewoman discovers her husband is The Scarlet Pimpernel, a vigilante who rescues aristocrats from the blade of the guillotine.
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.
1950-04-23
1950-09-03

Season 2 - Sunday Night Theatre
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.
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.
1951-03-01
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.
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.
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.

Season 3 - Sunday Night Theatre

Season 4 - Sunday Night Theatre
1953-02-08
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.
1953-03-19
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.
1953-04-12

Season 5 - Sunday Night Theatre
1954-09-19
During the Trojan War, a Trojan warrior is distraught when his lover takes up with a Greek.
1954-09-23
During the Trojan War, a Trojan warrior is distraught when his lover takes up with a Greek.
1954-10-17
1954-12-12
In a totalitarian future society, Winston Smith, whose daily work is re-writing history, tries to rebel by falling in love.

Season 6 - Sunday Night Theatre
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.
1955-12-18
A veteran hero of the German army finds himself at odds with the Nazi regime.

Season 7 - Sunday Night Theatre
1956-02-05
An examination of the fatal romance between Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn.
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.
1956-06-10
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.
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.

Season 8 - Sunday Night Theatre
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.
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.

Season 9 - Sunday Night Theatre

Season 10 - Sunday Night Theatre
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.