ITV Saturday Night Theatre
Anthology series of dramatic works.
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Season 1
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1
E1
Park People
Young Frank Brady falls in love with a woman he has only seen from a distance. He enlists his friend Peg to help him win the woman's love.
Jan 11, 1969 -
2
E2
Bangelstein's Boys
A rugby team's annual tour descends into chaos when Tommy and Jack have a fall out with their brother-in-law.
Jan 18, 1969 -
3
E3
My Bonnie Jean
Jan 25, 1969 -
4
E4
MacNeil
Carpenter and widower MacNeil takes a blunt approach in making advances to lady executive Miss Saville who works in the same firm as himself. His belief in his instincts regarding women is contradicted by his daughter Mary, who knows him better than he thinks.
Feb 1, 1969 · 26m -
5
E5
Cornelius
Feb 8, 1969 -
6
E6
Emlyn
Mary MacNeil drifts into a complex relationship with a Welsh barrister.
Feb 15, 1969 -
7
E7
Tiger Trap in the Street
Fed up with having his car stolen, Williams decides it's time to take the law into his own hands, but there is a price to pay.
Feb 22, 1969 -
8
E8
An Hour of Love #1: The Bind
Mar 1, 1969 -
9
E9
An Hour of Love #2: Anatomy of a Divorce
Mar 1, 1969 -
10
E10
The Piano Tuner
Mar 8, 1969 -
11
E11
Pig in a Poke
An effete television producer and his beautiful wife move into an old terraced house.In the basement is a sitting tenant they cannot move.The tenant starts to invade their life with increasing voracity, leading to him eventually beating up the young wife and then becoming her afternoon lover.
Mar 15, 1969 -
12
E12
Machine
Two people (one rich, one poor) have failing kidneys, an expensive kidney machine would save them.
Mar 22, 1969 -
14
E14
The Dirt on Lucy Lane
Michael Vint, an embittered hack reporter from a Sunday newspaper, is sent down into the country to find a story in the love life of an aging has-been writer and his new glamorous young film star wife. The writer is annoyed about the intrusion into his private life, but his wife sees it as an opportunity.
Apr 5, 1969 -
15
E15
Moonlight on the Highway
Writing for ITV Saturday Night Theatre (1969), Dennis Potter introduced the notion that popular music expresses the yearning of the human spirit for a better world. A troubled young man, David Peters (Ian Holm), claims, "Once dreams were possible, that's what the popular songs told us." Rejecting rock music of the day, Peters is immersed in the tunes of Thirties crooner Al Bowlly (killed during the London blitz). He collects Bowlly memorabilia, publishes the Bowlly fan-club newsletter, and finds pleasure in lip-synching Bowlly records but his obsession with Bowlly masks certain darker events in his past.
Apr 12, 1969 -
16
E16
Hazel and Her New Gas Cooker
Apr 19, 1969 -
17
E17
Steve
Steve's maverick personality costs him his teaching job. He drops out of conventional society and earns a living by roguish means. Then he meets Paula, who makes him question his ideals and life.
Apr 26, 1969 -
18
E18
Toys
May 3, 1969 -
19
E19
Rogues Gallery: The Bright Eyed Body Snatcher
May 10, 1969 -
20
E20
Rogues Gallery: The Wicked Stage
May 17, 1969 -
21
E21
Rogues Gallery: The Timorous Rake
May 24, 1969 -
22
E22
Rogues Gallery: The Fearful Image
May 31, 1969 -
23
E23
Rogues Gallery: A Bed Full of Miracles
Jun 7, 1969 -
24
E24
Rogues Gallery: The Prude Pursued
Jun 14, 1969 -
25
E25
The Innocent Ceremony
Jun 21, 1969 -
26
E26
The Haunting
Young Cathy asks her teacher Kate for help with her father Rolf who is still withdrawn and depressed after his wife's fatal car crash sometime ago. However, the line between fantasy and reality complicates matters.
Jun 28, 1969 -
27
E27
A Measure of Malice
Jul 5, 1969 -
28
E28
Better Dead
Jul 12, 1969 -
29
E29
Every Day of the Life Man
An innocent man is wrongly picked from an identity parade after a factory robbery because he is black.
Jul 19, 1969 -
30
E30
Salve Regina
In the basement of a department store after the last bomb of World War Three. A bag lady, calls herself ' the queen ' and exercises complete authority over two befuddled men. That is until an astronaut (who was in space when the bomb fell) finds them.
Jul 19, 1969 -
31
E31
Takeover
Suddenly and inexplicably Mother and Father find that their previously well behaved adolescent sons are completely unmanageable, reversing the standard family dynamics.
Jul 26, 1969 -
32
E32
Two Hundred Miles by Train
Jul 26, 1969 -
33
E33
The Funeral of Queen Victoria
Aug 2, 1969 -
34
E34
The Garbler Strategy
Aug 2, 1969 -
35
E35
Travelling Where?
Aug 9, 1969 -
36
E36
Two Feet Off the Ground
Aug 16, 1969 -
37
E37
Fly Away Home
A couple return from their holiday to find their house burnt down. Having no insurance, the husband has no option but to rebuild it himself with the help of local handyman Arthur. Local council bureaucracy hinders all the way.
Aug 23, 1969 -
38
E38
The Talking Head
Aug 30, 1969