Anthology series of dramatic works.
ITV Saturday Night Theatre (Season 2)
Diddled (Episode 1)
Air date: 1969-09-06
Episode 2 (Episode 2)
Air date: 1969-09-13
That Woman Is Wrecking Our Marriage (Episode 3)
Air date: 1969-09-20
A Walk Through the Forest (Episode 4)
Air date: 1969-09-27
The Undoing (Episode 5)
Air date: 1969-10-04
In Another Country (Episode 6)
Air date: 1969-10-11
Murder: The Colonel and the Naturalist (Episode 7)
Air date: 1969-10-18
Murder: The Blood Relation (Episode 8)
Air date: 1969-10-25
It's Called the Sugar Plum (Episode 9)
Air date: 1969-11-01
Hester Lilly (Episode 10)
Air date: 1969-11-08
Overview: Muriel Ingram (Faith Brook) takes her friend Beatrice played by (Joan Hickson) into her confidence when she becomes suspicious of her husbands preoccupation with a young innocent looking orphan called Hester Lilly, Hester has arrived from Paris to stay with Robert Ingram the head of a boys boarding school.
Aren't We All? (Episode 11)
Air date: 1969-11-15
The Full Cheddar (Episode 12)
Air date: 1969-11-22
Overview: A teacher's concentration frequently wanders as he fantasizes about living a different life.
The Comic (Episode 13)
Air date: 1969-11-29
Overview: Tod a successful comic, is now being threatened by his own insecurities which are straining the relationships with his wife/writers and his fellow troupe of stooges. It might be about Tony Hancock? but it could be about any comedian.
Faith and Henry (Episode 14)
Air date: 1969-12-06
Overview: After the last science lesson of the day at Rivington High School, in St Helens, Lancashire, a young black girl, Faith is joined by a white fellow school pupil, Henry. They strike up a conversation about what they are doing for the evening. Henry persuades Faith to forgo the bus and walk it home instead. They nip to the local shop where Henry picks up his usual weekly order of Lancashire cheese for his family, mum, dad and 3 brothers. What follows is a gentle 1960's ever so innocent multi-racial friendship that was unusual in 1960's St. Helens. They walk around the Sankey canal, get teased by other children with one shouting 'Henry's got a girlfriend' to which Henry comically chases after them before giving up. They climb a local hill where you can see the Welsh hills, Widnes and Bold power station. Henry recites a poem and every feels every so quaint, especially for the industrial north. They return home... new friendships formed.
Nora (Episode 15)
Air date: 1969-12-13
It Calls for a Great Deal of Love (Episode 16)
Air date: 1969-12-20
Overview: Story of a lonely old woman who falls for a fat crossword puzzle composer.
Suffer Little Children (Episode 17)
Air date: 1970-01-03
Overview: The popularity of the Prime Minister (Lee Montague) has reached an all time low. Facing a serious economic crisis and with threats to his position, the former Post Office worker undergoes a breakdown and reverts to childhood.
Anniversary (Episode 18)
Air date: 1970-01-10
A Doll's House (Episode 19)
Air date: 1970-01-17
Overview: Nora Helmer has years earlier committed a forgery in order to save the life of her authoritarian husband Torvald. Now she is being blackmailed lives in fear of her husband's finding out and of the shame such a revelation would bring to his career. But when the truth comes out, Nora is shocked to learn where she really stands in her husband's esteem.
Mrs. Mouse, Are You Within? (Episode 20)
Air date: 1970-01-24
The Pretenders (Episode 21)
Air date: 1970-01-31
Wolly Wenpol, the Complete Works (Episode 22)
Air date: 1970-02-07
Wicked Women: Alice Rhodes (Episode 23)
Air date: 1970-02-14
Wicked Women: Christiana Edmunds (Episode 24)
Air date: 1970-02-21
Wicked Women: Augusta Fullam (Episode 25)
Air date: 1970-02-28
Wicked Women: Anne-Maria Moody (Episode 26)
Air date: 1970-03-07
Wicked Women: Florence Maybrick (Episode 27)
Air date: 1970-03-14
Wicked Women: Madeleine July (Episode 28)
Air date: 1970-03-21
The Master and the Mask (Episode 29)
Air date: 1970-03-28
The Cork Moustache (Episode 30)
Air date: 1970-04-04
Fade Out (Episode 31)
Air date: 1970-04-11
Overview: A TV news executive gets a sensational story concerning a corrupt politician, only to find that his network bosses want to suppress it.
The Rococo Bush (Episode 32)
Air date: 1970-04-18
Dangerous Corner (Episode 33)
Air date: 1970-05-02
Overview: An unexpected suicide prompts much speculation about honesty and theft.
The Family Is a Vicious Circle (Episode 34)
Air date: 1970-05-09
When Johnny Comes Marching Home (Episode 35)
Air date: 1970-05-16
Lay Down Your Arms (Episode 36)
Writer: Dennis Potter
Air date: 1970-05-23
Overview: At the time of the 1956 Suez Crisis and the Russian invasion of Hungary, Private Bob Hawk reports to the London Intelligence Office where the strength of Soviet troops is under scrutiny.
You See, the Thing Is... (Episode 37)
Air date: 1970-05-30
The Salesman (Episode 38)
Air date: 1970-05-30
Overview: A door-to-door salesman is selling nothing tangible, but something far more worrying.
Married Alive (Episode 39)
Air date: 1970-06-06
Overview: "Married Alive was a television play written by John Mortimer, that was broadcast on NBC in 1970. "The Colonel" (Robert Culp) is a man claiming to be Liz Jardine's (Diana Rigg) long lost husband who returns after many years and moves into her life.
Playing with Fire (Episode 40)
Air date: 1970-06-13
Slattery's Mounted Foot (Episode 41)
Air date: 1970-06-20
Overview: The intrigues, gossip and prejudices of a close-knit Irish clan living in the north of England.
Hands with the Magic Touch (Episode 42)
Air date: 1970-06-27
The Gingham Dog (Episode 43)
Air date: 1970-07-04
Twelfth Night (Episode 44)
Air date: 1970-07-11
Overview: After a shipwreck, believing her brother has been killed, Viola disguises herself as a boy named Cesario and becomes a courtier to Orsino, who sends her to deliver a message of his love to Olivia, but she falls for the messenger instead.
Skyscrapers (Episode 45)
Air date: 1970-07-18
The Insider (Episode 46)
Air date: 1970-07-25
Dear Janet Rosenberg... Dear Mr. Kooning (Episode 47)
Air date: 1970-08-01
Act of Separation (Episode 48)
Air date: 1970-08-08
Honour and Offer (Episode 49)
Air date: 1970-08-15
Hodinott Veiling (Episode 50)
Air date: 1970-08-22
