Vivian A. Daniels
Director
Sunday-Night Play (1960)
Season 1
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
S1E1 - A Walk in the Desert
Sept. 25, 1960, midnight
S1E2 - The Unplayed Part
Oct. 2, 1960, midnight
S1E3 - The Ruffians
Oct. 9, 1960, midnight
S1E4 - Twentieth Century Theatre: Man and Superman
Jan. 24, 1960, midnight
S1E5 - Twentieth Century Theatre: The White Guard
It is November 1918 and the scene is the city of Kiev in the Ukraine, lately garrisoned by the German Army of Occupation but now threatened by the approach of a large well-equipped army of Cossacks. There's no ammunition and food is desperately short in the city. But still attempts are made to raise an army of citizens to repel the invaders. Describing the impact of the collapse of the Tsarist Empire on a family of officers, this play centres on Alexei Turbin, Colonel of the White Guard, responsible for defending Kiev, and on his beautiful sister Helena, deserted by her husband and in love with a young lieutenant, Leonid Schervinsky.
Jan. 31, 1960, midnight
S1E6 - Twentieth Century Theatre: Our Betters
Feb. 7, 1960, midnight
S1E7 - Twentieth Century Theatre: MacAdam and Eve
Feb. 14, 1960, midnight
S1E8 - Brian Rix Presents: Is Your Honeymoon Really Necessary?
Feb. 21, 1960, midnight
S1E9 - Twentieth Century Theatre: The Conquering Hero
Feb. 28, 1960, midnight
S1E10 - Twentieth Century Theatre: Journey's End
March 6, 1960, midnight
S1E11 - Twentieth Century Theatre: The Fanatics
March 13, 1960, midnight
S1E12 - Twentieth Century Theatre: Young Woodley
March 20, 1960, midnight
S1E13 - Twentieth Century Theatre: I Have Been Here Before
March 27, 1960, midnight
S1E14 - Twentieth Century Theatre: The Price of Freedom
April 3, 1960, midnight
S1E15 - Twentieth Century Theatre: Glorious Morning
April 10, 1960, midnight
S1E16 - Twentieth Century Theatre: The Queen Came By
April 17, 1960, midnight
S1E17 - Twentieth Century Theatre: Love on the Dole
April 24, 1960, midnight
S1E18 - Twentieth Century Theatre: The Vortex
May 1, 1960, midnight
S1E19 - Twentieth Century Theatre: Judgment Day
May 8, 1960, midnight
S1E20 - Twentieth Century Theatre: Aren't We All
May 15, 1960, midnight
S1E21 - Twentieth Century Theatre: The Elder Statesman
May 22, 1960, midnight
S1E22 - Twentieth Century Theatre: The Assassin
May 29, 1960, midnight
S1E23 - Twentieth Century Theatre: Doctor in the House
June 5, 1960, midnight
S1E24 - Twentieth Century Theatre: Mr. Gillie
June 12, 1960, midnight
S1E25 - Twentieth Century Theatre: The Insect Play
June 19, 1960, midnight
S1E26 - Twentieth Century Theatre: Musical Chairs
June 26, 1960, midnight
S1E27 - Playhouse 90: A Town Has Turned to Dust
July 3, 1960, midnight
S1E28 - Summer Theatre: June Evening
July 10, 1960, midnight
S1E29 - Summer Theatre: You're a Long Time Dead
July 17, 1960, midnight
S1E30 - Summer Theatre: My Flesh, My Blood
July 24, 1960, midnight
S1E31 - Summer Theatre: The Critical Point
Dr. Gage, involved in cryogenics, volunteers to be the first frozen man after murdering his wife. Dr. Mortimer discovers who killed his wife and ponders whether he should play judge and jury by switching Dr. Gage's freezing machine off?
July 31, 1960, midnight
S1E32 - Summer Theatre: A Dream of Treason
Lambert, a government official, is required to leak a secret document - which may have serious consequences.
Aug. 7, 1960, midnight
S1E33 - Summer Theatre: The Devil's General
General Harras, a hero of the First World War, finds himself increasingly at odds with the new Germany of Adolf Hitler.
Aug. 14, 1960, midnight
S1E34 - Summer Theatre: The Liberators
Aug. 21, 1960, midnight
S1E35 - Summer Theatre: The Small Victory
Aug. 28, 1960, midnight
S1E36 - Summer Theatre: Death of a Guest
Sept. 4, 1960, midnight
S1E37 - Brian Rix Presents: Reluctant Heroes
Sept. 11, 1960, midnight
S1E38 - Summer Theatre: An English Summer
Sept. 18, 1960, midnight
S1E39 - A Walk in the Desert
Sept. 25, 1960, midnight
S1E40 - The Unplayed Part
Oct. 2, 1960, midnight
S1E41 - The Ruffians
Oct. 9, 1960, midnight
S1E42 - Pay Day
Oct. 16, 1960, midnight
S1E81 - Affair of State
Philip is much older than his wife, who is, he discovers, having an affair with his friend George. When he introduces George to a young woman, he has an ulterior motive.
Dec. 31, 1961, midnight
S1E82 - The Barretts of Wimpole Street
Elizabeth Barrett's tyrannical father has forbidden any of his family to marry. Nevertheless, Elizabeth falls in love with the poet Robert Browning.
Dec. 24, 1961, midnight
S1E83 - The Judge and His Hangman
Inspector Barlach is ruthless in pursuit of an arrest, and doesn't seem to care if anyone else gets hurt along the way.
Dec. 17, 1961, midnight
S1E84 - Centenary Year
Dec. 10, 1961, midnight
S1E85 - Somewhere for the Night
Dec. 3, 1961, midnight
S1E86 - She Stoops to Conquer
Hardcastle, a man of substance, looks forward to acquainting his daughter with his old pal's son with a view to marriage. But thanks to playboy Lumpkin, he's mistaken by his prospective son-in-law Marlow for an innkeeper, his daughter for the local barmaid. The good news is, while Marlow can barely speak to a woman of quality he's a charmer with those of a different stamp.
Nov. 26, 1961, midnight
S1E87 - Cross of Iron
Nov. 19, 1961, midnight
S1E88 - Brian Rix Presents #14: Flat Spin
Nov. 12, 1961, midnight
S1E89 - The Test
Pressure mounts on a group of scientists as they urgently prepare to test a new top secret weapon.
Nov. 5, 1961, midnight
S1E90 - Hello Ragtime
Oct. 29, 1961, midnight
S1E91 - The Big Noise
Oct. 22, 1961, midnight
S1E92 - What Every Woman Knows
Maggie Wylie isn't very beautiful. She isn't even very young any more. But fortunately there is more to Maggie than meets the eye.
Oct. 15, 1961, midnight
S1E93 - Faraway Places
Kindly, mild mannered clerk Arthur Bruce dreams of traveling to distant lands and reads books about faraway places.
Oct. 8, 1961, midnight
S1E94 - A Clean Kill
Oct. 1, 1961, midnight
S1E95 - The Hasty Heart
It's 1945, Burma, the day the war is over! For many this means they've survived and will be going home. But not for everyone. A Scottish soldier, Corporal Lachlan "Lachie" MacLachlan is the victim of a wound to the lower back on this day. He's moved to a M.A.S.H. unit and undergoes surgery. As time goes by he begins to recover and watches, in dismay as soldiers pack up and head for home.
Sept. 17, 1961, midnight
S1E96 - Wet Fish
Sept. 3, 1961, midnight
S1E97 - The Winslow Boy
The Winslow family return from church to their house in South Kensington on a summer morning in 1912 not knowing how their lives will be altered by their son, Ronnie, who has been expelled from Naval College for stealing a five shilling postal order.
Aug. 20, 1961, midnight
S1E98 - Brian Rix presents: Basinful of the Briny
Aug. 6, 1961, midnight
S1E99 - That Lady
July 9, 1961, midnight
S1E100 - A Call on Kuprin: Part 1
After the manned satellite, the armed satellite. Kuprin, the Soviet scientist, is working on a warhead for the Chelovyek. But Laye-Parker, M.P., and Smith, a Lobby Correspondent at the House of Commons, remember him at Cambridge before the war as an Anglophile married to an English woman. Can they, by a personal approach, persuade him to return to this country?
June 18, 1961, midnight
S1E101 - A Call on Kuprin: Part 2
Laye-Parker, M.P., and Smith, a Lobby Correspondent, have reached Moscow in their search for Kuprin, a Soviet rocket expert whom they knew at Cambridge and whom they hope to persuade to return to England. Now Laye-Parker has been arrested by the M.V.D. on unspecified charges, and Smith, a reluctant partner in the enterprise, must carry on the search alone.
June 25, 1961, midnight
S1E102 - Home at Seven
Home at seven as usual after just another Monday at the office - or that is what Mr. Preston thought. But in fact it is Tuesday and he has no recollection of the past twenty-four hours. It soon becomes vital to fill this gap in his memory.
June 4, 1961, midnight
S1E103 - Brian Rix presents: Wolf's Clothing
May 21, 1961, midnight
S1E104 - Marriage Lines
A comedy of marriage, set in the secure partnership of two mature and worldly people, examines what happens when an envious free-lance tries to rock the boat.
May 14, 1961, midnight
S1E105 - Scene of the Accident
When a prominent Q.C. is knocked down and killed by a car, the driver's Insurance Company is faced with paying out on a very substantial claim. Briefed to investigate possible grounds for disputing liability, Sam Holford unearths a delicate and intriguing situation.
April 30, 1961, midnight
S1E106 - Charley's Aunt
I'm Charley's Aunt from Brazil - where the nuts come from.
April 16, 1961, midnight
S1E107 - Brian Rix presents: A Fair Cop
April 2, 1961, midnight
S1E108 - Fury in Petticoats
It is 1837 and we are in the home of the Rev. William Dill, the vicar of a small parish in England. Life there is peaceful and leisurely until one day the vicar welcomes into his household a native girl brought from Tierra del Fuego by a Mr. Charles Darwin....
March 26, 1961, midnight
S1E109 - The Wrong Side of the Park
March 19, 1961, midnight
S1E110 - Old Mick Mack
March 12, 1961, midnight
S1E111 - A Reason for Staying
A group of Eastern European emigres, now living in England, still hope that they will one day return to their home-land in authority. But one of them, a general, has a reason for staying.....
March 5, 1961, midnight
S1E112 - The Mather Story
A serious accusation by a famous artist about the work of another gives John Ramsay a chance to 'get something into the paper' and perhaps to keep his job on the Sunday Herald. But rapidly the story becomes a challenge-to his skill, and to his responsibility.
Feb. 26, 1961, midnight
S1E113 - An Inspector Calls
Spring, 1912 - for the wealthy a time of good living, gaiety, and a belief in the unshakability of the status quo. Mr. and Mrs. Birling are celebrating the engagement of their daughter Sheila to Gerald Croft, heir to a title; it is the pinnacle of Mr. Birling's successful rise in society.....
Feb. 19, 1961, midnight
S1E114 - The Intervener
Jeremy Penlove is a London solicitor and a confirmed bachelor. His life is placid and uncomplicated until, one fine summer's day, a new client, Lily Forrester, walks into his office to turn his world upside down.
Feb. 12, 1961, midnight
S1E115 - The Final Result
John Horner's father, mother, and sister are waiting to hear the result of his degree examination. He is the only one who is not surprised: it is what he expected it to be. It is this result, and the action John takes as a consequence, which reveals, nakedly, the conflict within this family group.
Feb. 5, 1961, midnight
S1E116 - A Kind of Strength
Two men, both trapped in the world of commerce, struggle for freedom. In facing the truth about themselves, the decisions they have to make need a rare kind of strength.
Jan. 29, 1961, midnight
S1E117 - Off Centre
Joe Hunter is a scientist living two lives: one as he sees himself, and the other as the world, sees him. The story spans the years from 1917, when he was a young pilot in the Royal Flying Corps, to the present day - when the man and his ideas come into headlong collision.
Jan. 22, 1961, midnight
S1E118 - A Woman Comes Home
Home has many meanings; a refuge from strain, the start of 'growing up'; the source of compassion and understanding. When these are lost there is desolation, but if they are fought for, no matter with what human frailty, life may grow again out of a new wisdom.
Jan. 15, 1961, midnight
S1E119 - Venus Brown
For Jack Brown, his wife Venus is a goddess in more than name. But she is not a goddess, she is a human being, and it is dangerous to worship human beings.
Jan. 8, 1961, midnight
S1E120 - Nearer to Heaven
Jan. 1, 1961, midnight
S1E121 - The Chopping Block
Oct. 23, 1960, midnight
S1E122 - Looking for Garrow
American business woman Clarissa comes to England seeking one J.S. Garrow - author of an alarmingly frank new novel. But it looks as though her teenage daughter has already found Garrow - and he is franker and more alarming than his book!
Oct. 30, 1960, midnight
S1E123 - A Subject of Scandal and Concern
In 1842, a rebel in Cheltenham and Gloucester imprisoned for his beliefs and for the right to express them.
Nov. 6, 1960, midnight
S1E124 - The Wind and the Sun
Ruth and Lewis Miller's marriage is almost at breaking point. The result upon their two children of the tension created by this situation is revealed in the play as an important question in modern life. The play is not regarded as suitable for viewing by children.
Nov. 13, 1960, midnight
S1E125 - The Squeeze
Should Big Tom, a colliery face repairer, confronted by the onset of middle age, continue with his work at the risk of his life, or settle for something safer at the risk of his self-respect?
Nov. 20, 1960, midnight
S1E126 - The Nightwalkers
A young British student wandering through France today becomes involved with remnants of a former French Resistance group.
Nov. 27, 1960, midnight
S1E127 - The Assassins
A quiet evening at home for a normal fairly prosperous middle-class family is suddenly disrupted by the arrival of two strangers - two men with a mission, fanatical and ruthless, prepared to kill if necessary; but these men are not criminals-they would be described by some as patriots.
Dec. 4, 1960, midnight
S1E128 - The Song of a March Hare
Crumble is convinced that he was born for success in business. All he needs is a chance to prove it, and this comes with an unexpected legacy.
Dec. 11, 1960, midnight
S1E129 - A Time to Fight
Housewife Ellen Manders had no reason to suspect that this evening was going to be any different from any other until her husband arrived home late with his shoes and brief-case covered in mud.
Dec. 18, 1960, midnight
S1E130 - Tuppence in the Gods
Dec. 25, 1960, midnight
Network: BBC Television
Episode Runtime: 42 min.
Season Runtime: 40 min.
Released: Sept. 25, 1960
Last Air Date: Sept. 15, 1963, midnight
Status: Ended
Certification: NR
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