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Sunday Night Theatre

Drama

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.

Jan 1, 195010 seasons134 episodesReturning SeriesEN

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Oliver MacGreevy

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Seasons

Season 1

21 episodes

Premiered Jan 1, 1950

Season 2

15 episodes

Premiered Jan 7, 1951

Season 3

13 episodes

Season 4

16 episodes

Premiered Jan 4, 1953

Season 5

19 episodes

Premiered Jan 3, 1954

Season 6

18 episodes

Season 7

14 episodes

Season 8

11 episodes

Season 9

10 episodes

Season 10

10 episodes

Premiered Jan 4, 1959

Episodes

1–6 of 21

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Ep 1

Hindle Wakes

Jan 1, 1950

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Ep 2

Rope

Jan 8, 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.

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Ep 3

Twelfth Night

Jan 15, 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.

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