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.
Sunday Night Theatre (Mùa 1)
Hindle Wakes (Tập 1)
Ngày phát sóng: 1950-01-01
Rope (Tập 2)
Ngày phát sóng: 1950-01-08
Tổng quan: 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 (Tập 3)
Ngày phát sóng: 1950-01-15
Tổng quan: 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.
Cheapside (Tập 4)
Ngày phát sóng: 1950-01-22
Trespass (Tập 5)
Ngày phát sóng: 1950-01-29
The Scarlet Pimpernel (Tập 6)
Ngày phát sóng: 1950-02-05
Tổng quan: A noblewoman discovers her husband is The Scarlet Pimpernel, a vigilante who rescues aristocrats from the blade of the guillotine.
The Indifferent Shepherd (Tập 7)
Biên kịch: Peter Ustinov
Ngày phát sóng: 1950-02-12
The Seagull (Tập 8)
Ngày phát sóng: 1950-03-05
Tổng quan: 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.
The Lady's Not for Burning (Tập 9)
Ngày phát sóng: 1950-03-12
Promise of Tomorrow (Tập 10)
Ngày phát sóng: 1950-04-16
Tổng quan: 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.
Othello (Tập 11)
Ngày phát sóng: 1950-04-23
The Title (Tập 12)
Ngày phát sóng: 1950-05-21
The Insect Play (Tập 13)
Ngày phát sóng: 1950-05-28
The Admirable Crichton (Tập 14)
Biên kịch: J.M. Barrie
Ngày phát sóng: 1950-06-11
Tổng quan: A group of people are shipwrecked when their yacht runs around on a South Pacific island. The usable hierarchy in a upper-class British family breaks down quickly when it becomes apparent that only the servant Crichton is capable of surviving on his own and he becomes the communities leader.
Dark Tribute (Tập 15)
Adventure Story (Tập 16)
Ngày phát sóng: 1950-07-30
Tổng quan: The story of Alexander the Great, a compulsive conqueror.
The History of Mr. Polly (Tập 17)
Ngày phát sóng: 1950-08-13
Vanity Fair (Tập 18)
Ngày phát sóng: 1950-09-03
Party Manners (Tập 19)
Ngày phát sóng: 1950-10-01
The Secret Sharer (Tập 20)
Ngày phát sóng: 1950-11-26
Tổng quan: A ship's captain must conceal a stowaway from his crew.
An Enemy of the People (Tập 21)
Ngày phát sóng: 1950-12-03
Tổng quan: A scientist stands against an entire town when he discovers their medicinal spa is polluted.
