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Sunday-Night Play (1960)

Season Four

BBC anthology drama series that ran over four seasons and replaced the previous BBC Sunday Night Theatre series.

Released Sept. 25, 1960 Episode 42 min None+

Network: BBC Television

Country: United Kingdom
Languages: English

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S4E1 - The Square Peg

None
Sept. 30, 1962, midnight

S4E2 - The Stepfather

None
Oct. 7, 1962, midnight

S4E3 - The Slip

None
Oct. 14, 1962, midnight

S4E4 - A Suitable Case for Treatment

Heavy-drinking Marxist writer Morgan Delt must hold on to his sanity whilst trying to resolve his marital problems.
Oct. 21, 1962, midnight

S4E5 - The Big Eat

An eating contest is staged for a new TV show - with fatal results.
Oct. 28, 1962, midnight

S4E6 - Ruth

None
Nov. 11, 1962, midnight

S4E7 - The Aspern Papers

A publisher insinuates himself into the mouldering mansion of the centenarian lover of a renowned but long-dead poet in order to find his lost love letter.
Nov. 18, 1962, midnight

S4E8 - Libel on a Liar

None
Nov. 25, 1962, midnight

S4E9 - The Sudden Silence

None
Dec. 2, 1962, midnight

S4E10 - Behind the Line

None
Dec. 9, 1962, midnight

S4E11 - Something to Hide

None
Dec. 16, 1962, midnight

S4E12 - The Canterville Ghost

The ghost of Sir Simon De Canterville has terrified visitors to his family home for centuries - but when a family of Americans rent the place, he's the one who's terrified.
Dec. 23, 1962, midnight

S4E13 - Parkin's Primitives

None
Dec. 30, 1962, midnight

S4E14 - The Remarkable Incident at Carson Corners

None
Jan. 6, 1963, midnight

S4E15 - The Madhouse on Castle Street

A man mysteriously locks himself in a room in a boarding house leaving only a note saying he has decided to "retire from the world". His worried sister and the other boarders then try to discover why.
Jan. 13, 1963, midnight

S4E16 - Freya of the Seven Isles

None
Jan. 20, 1963, midnight

S4E17 - House on Three Floors

None
Jan. 27, 1963, midnight

S4E18 - The Reward of Silence

None
Feb. 3, 1963, midnight

S4E19 - The Bergonzi Hand

None
Feb. 10, 1963, midnight

S4E20 - The Fall of Mendel Krick

None
Feb. 17, 1963, midnight

S4E21 - The Prisoner

Not to be confused with the 1967 TV series of the same name (also starring Patrick McGoohan), this adaptation of Bridget Boland's 1954 stage play depicts the conflict between a Cardinal (allegedly inspired by real-life Hungarian Cardinal Mindszenty) in an unnamed totalitarian state and the Interrogator who tries to force him into a public abjure of his religious convictions.
Feb. 24, 1963, midnight

S4E22 - June Fall

Two lonely, unbeautiful people are brought together by a dating agency, and, against all odds, find love.
March 3, 1963, midnight

S4E23 - Continuity Man

Don and Roz, a very trendy couple, are expecting a Hollywood film actress as their dinner guest, but find they also have to look after Don's very eccentric and contrary father.
March 10, 1963, midnight

S4E24 - For Tea on Sunday

Three girls sharing living accommodation invite their boyfriends for tea on Sunday. One of the young men arrives carrying an ax over his shoulder.
March 17, 1963, midnight

S4E25 - Too Late for Mashed Potato

None
March 24, 1963, midnight

S4E26 - The Big Donkey

None
March 31, 1963, midnight

S4E27 - Just You Wait

None
April 7, 1963, midnight

S4E28 - The Holly Road Rig

None
April 14, 1963, midnight

S4E29 - A Little Bit of Gold Said 'Jump'

None
April 21, 1963, midnight

S4E30 - A Deadly Hush

None
April 28, 1963, midnight

S4E31 - A Right Crusader

None
May 5, 1963, midnight

S4E32 - I'm Not Stopping

None
May 12, 1963, midnight

S4E33 - The Fly Sham

None
May 19, 1963, midnight

S4E34 - How to Get Rid of Your Wife

Mild-mannered and unassuming, Gerald Swinney has had enough of his nagging, domineering wife. So he resolves, not to kill her, but simply to "get rid" of her.
May 26, 1963, midnight

S4E35 - So Long Charlie

None
June 2, 1963, midnight

S4E36 - Trial Run

None
June 9, 1963, midnight

S4E37 - The Full Chatter

An eccentric teacher dreams of finding fame as a novelist; but everything in his life seems to conspire against him.
June 16, 1963, midnight

S4E38 - Dial Rix #7: Skin Deep

None
June 23, 1963, midnight

S4E39 - She's a Free Country

None
June 30, 1963, midnight

S4E40 - You Can't Throw Your Mates

None
July 7, 1963, midnight

S4E41 - Take the Plunge

Douglas has fallen in love with an American girl and is perturbed to find, at the same time, that he really must get a job at last.
July 14, 1963, midnight

S4E42 - The Shadow of Mart

About the foolish and lost Gabriel who lives entirely in the shadow of his brother, the brave soldier Mart who died in the war and is continuously immortalised by the dominant mother.
July 21, 1963, midnight

S4E43 - The Joker

None
July 28, 1963, midnight

S4E44 - The Sponge Room

None
Aug. 4, 1963, midnight

S4E45 - Night Express

None
Aug. 11, 1963, midnight

S4E46 - Pig in the Middle

None
Aug. 18, 1963, midnight

S4E47 - The Greevey Column

None
Aug. 25, 1963, midnight

S4E48 - Plain Jane

None
Sept. 1, 1963, midnight

S4E49 - Two by the Sea #1: See the Pretty Lights

None
Sept. 8, 1963, midnight

S4E50 - Two by the Sea #2: Wedding Bells

None
Sept. 8, 1963, midnight

S4E51 - The Affair

A young fellow of a Cambridge college is accused of fraud and dismissed. Based on the eighth novel in C.P. Snow's "Strangers and Brothers" series.
Sept. 15, 1963, midnight
BBC Television
42 min/ep
40 min
Sept. 25, 1960
Sept. 15, 1963, midnight
Ended
NR

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