Vivian A. Daniels
Director
Sunday-Night Play (1960)
Season Two
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
S2E1 - The Chopping Block
Oct. 23, 1960, midnight
S2E2 - Looking for Garrow
Oct. 30, 1960, midnight
S2E3 - A Subject of Scandal and Concern
A dramatized account of a Victorian cause celebre, written by John Osborne and concerning the true story of the last person in England to be tried for blasphemy. Richard Burton plays John George Holyoake, a social reformer who goes on trial for speaking in public about his atheist views. Rachel Roberts plays his wife, and the programme is introduced by Face to Face inquisitor John Freeman.
Nov. 6, 1960, midnight
S2E4 - The Wind and the Sun
Nov. 13, 1960, midnight
S2E5 - The Squeeze
Big Tom, a Welsh coal miner, has always been in control of his life; but he finds himself increasingly at odds with his growing son, and even begins to wonder if his wife still loves him.
Nov. 20, 1960, midnight
S2E6 - The Nightwalkers
Nov. 27, 1960, midnight
S2E7 - The Assassins
Ruthless assassins take over an ordinary suburban home in order to commit a political murder - but where do they come from?
Dec. 4, 1960, midnight
S2E8 - The Song of a March Hare
Dec. 11, 1960, midnight
S2E9 - A Time to Fight
Dec. 18, 1960, midnight
S2E10 - Tuppence in the Gods
Dec. 25, 1960, midnight
S2E11 - Nearer to Heaven
Jan. 1, 1961, midnight
S2E12 - Venus Brown
Jack Brown is devoted to his much younger wife, Venus; but she's not the goddess he thinks she is.
Jan. 8, 1961, midnight
S2E13 - A Woman Comes Home
Will home be the sanctuary Bobbie James needs it to be?
Jan. 15, 1961, midnight
S2E14 - Off Centre
Joe Hunter must face up to the reality of his existence, and stop having false ideas about himself and his own importance.
Jan. 22, 1961, midnight
S2E15 - A Kind of Strength
Jan. 29, 1961, midnight
S2E16 - The Final Result
Feb. 5, 1961, midnight
S2E17 - The Intervener
Feb. 12, 1961, midnight
S2E18 - An Inspector Calls
The comfortable lives of the wealthy Birling family are disrupted when an inspector calls on them to ask awkward questions about a girl who has committed suicide.
Feb. 19, 1961, midnight
S2E19 - The Mather Story
Feb. 26, 1961, midnight
S2E20 - A Reason for Staying
An Eastern European general who has fled his native country dreams of returning home - and of gaining military power there.
March 5, 1961, midnight
S2E21 - Old Mick Mack
March 12, 1961, midnight
S2E22 - The Wrong Side of the Park
March 19, 1961, midnight
S2E23 - Fury in Petticoats
March 26, 1961, midnight
S2E24 - Brian Rix Presents #11: A Fair Cop
April 2, 1961, midnight
S2E25 - Charley's Aunt
Lord Fancourt Babberley is required, much against his will, to impersonate the wealthy aunt of his friend Charley.
April 16, 1961, midnight
S2E26 - Scene of the Accident
April 30, 1961, midnight
S2E27 - Marriage Lines
May 14, 1961, midnight
S2E28 - Brian Rix Presents #12: Wolf's Clothing
May 21, 1961, midnight
S2E29 - Home at Seven
Mr. Preston always gets home from the office at seven o'clock - but tonight he discovers that a whole day has unaccountably gone missing from his life.
June 4, 1961, midnight
S2E30 - 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
S2E31 - 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
S2E32 - That Lady
A one-eyed adventuress at the court of Philip II of Spain becomes embroiled in scandal and intrigue.
July 9, 1961, midnight
S2E33 - Listen James
July 23, 1961, midnight
S2E34 - Brian Rix Presents #13: Basinful of the Briny
Aug. 6, 1961, midnight
S2E35 - 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
S2E36 - Wet Fish
Sept. 3, 1961, midnight
S2E37 - 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. The doctors have told him he needs to remain "for observation". The Colonel takes Sister Parker, the unit head nurse, into his confidence and tells her that the real reason.
Sept. 17, 1961, 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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