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.
- Created By
- First Aired on
Jan 01, 1950
- Popularity: 7.8641
- 2 votes
- Networks
- (GB)
- Status: Returning Series
In Production
10 seaons till Jul 12, 1959
Last episode: Farewell My City
Seasons & episodes
Total 10 seasons, 66 episodes
Season 1
Aired
Episode 1Hindle Wakes min
Overview not available
Episode 4Cheapside min
Overview not available
Episode 6The Scarlet Pimpernel min
A noblewoman discovers her husband is The Scarlet Pimpernel, a vigilante who rescues aristocrats from the blade of the guillotine.
Episode 7The Indifferent Shepherd min
Overview not available
Episode 10The Seagull min
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.
