BBC 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.
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Season 7
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The Weeping Madonna
Jan 8, 1956 -
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E6
The White Falcon
An examination of the fatal romance between Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn.
Feb 5, 1956 · 92m -
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E11
The Mayerling Affair
The Austro-Hungarian empire is rocked by scandal when Crown Prince Rudolf and his mistress Mare Vetsera are found dead at the Mayerling hunting lodge.
Mar 11, 1956 -
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E16
The Seat of the Scornful
Apr 15, 1956 -
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E20
Shout Aloud Salvation (II)
May 13, 1956 -
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E22
Epitaph
May 27, 1956 -
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E24
Desert Duel
Jun 10, 1956 -
27
E27
The Fugitive
Jul 1, 1956 -
31
E31
The Cold Light
Crystof Wolters is German born but working in and owing allegiance to Britain. The play is concerned with how and why he betrays that allegiance, and how, after a tense cat-and mouse-game, he is led to reveal his betrayal.
Jul 29, 1956 · 105m -
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E34
Siding 273
Aug 19, 1956 -
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E37
You Touched Me
When Hadrian seeks permission to marry, is it for love or for an inheritance?
Sep 9, 1956 -
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E39
Henry Irving
Sep 23, 1956 -
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E40
One Morning Near Troodos
Sep 30, 1956 -
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E53
Clive of India
A portrayal of the life of the eighteenth century soldier and politician, particularly focusing on his victory at the Battle of Plassey.
Dec 30, 1956