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Sunday Night Theatre

1950 3.5

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.

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  1. 5

    The Creature

    1955-01-30

    A scientist searches for the Yeti in a Himalayan fastness, and is soon at odds with an adventurer who wants to find the Creature for less exalted reasons.

  2. 8

    Candida

    1955-02-20

    The idealist Reverend Morell tries to unite Socialism and Christianity.

  3. 11

    The Merchant of Venice

    1955-03-13

    A rich merchant, Antonio is depressed for no good reason, until his good friend Bassanio comes to tell him how he's in love with Portia. Portia's father has died and left a very strange will: only the man that picks the correct casket out of three (silver, gold, and lead) can marry her. Bassanio, unfortunately, is strapped for cash with which to go wooing, and Antonio wants to help, so Antonio borrows the money from Shylock, the money-lender. But Shylock has been nursing a grudge against Antonio's insults, and makes unusual terms to the loan. And when Antonio's business fails, those terms threaten his life, and it's up to Bassanio and Portia to save him.

  4. 12

    The Merchant of Venice/II

    1955-03-17

    A rich merchant, Antonio is depressed for no good reason, until his good friend Bassanio comes to tell him how he's in love with Portia. Portia's father has died and left a very strange will: only the man that picks the correct casket out of three (silver, gold, and lead) can marry her. Bassanio, unfortunately, is strapped for cash with which to go wooing, and Antonio wants to help, so Antonio borrows the money from Shylock, the money-lender. But Shylock has been nursing a grudge against Antonio's insults, and makes unusual terms to the loan. And when Antonio's business fails, those terms threaten his life, and it's up to Bassanio and Portia to save him.

  5. 16

    Midsummer Fire

    1955-04-17
  6. 18

    It Could Happen Only in Paris

    1955-05-01
  7. 21

    Romeo and Juliet

    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.

  8. 23

    The Legend of Pepito

    1955-06-05
  9. 24

    Holiday for Simon

    1955-06-12
  10. 33

    The Powder Magazine

    1955-08-14
  11. 35

    A Life in the Sun

    1955-08-28
  12. 38

    The Scarlet Pimpernel

    1955-09-18

    A noblewoman discovers her husband is The Scarlet Pimpernel, a vigilante who rescues aristocrats from the blade of the guillotine.

  13. 42

    The Makepeace Story #1: The Ruthless Destiny

    1955-10-16
  14. 43

    The Makepeace Story #2: A New Generation

    1955-10-23
  15. 44

    The Makepeace Story #3: Family Business

    1955-10-30
  16. 47

    Idiot's Delight

    1955-11-20

    A group of disparate travelers are caught are thrown together in a posh Alpine hotel when the borders are closed at the start of WWII.

  17. 50

    The Devil Came from Dublin

    1955-12-11
  18. 51

    The Devil's General

    1955-12-18

    A veteran hero of the German army finds himself at odds with the Nazi regime.

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