Sunday Night Theatre + World Television Theatre (surviving episodes)
by Thor-Delta | created - 23 Sep 2012 | updated - 15 Nov 2014 | PublicA (incomplete?) list of surviving episodes of the 1950s BBC series "Sunday Night Theatre".
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1. BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1950–1959)
Drama
Series of television plays performed live.
Stars: Richard Caldicot, George Woodbridge, Robert Brown, Michael Brennan
Votes: 179
(Series is listed here purely as a link to get this linked to on the page for the series)
2.
BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1950–1959)
Episode:
It Is Midnight, Dr. Schweitzer
(1953)
100 min | Drama
Dr Schweitzer, a former internationally-famous organist and theologian, is working in a small hospital in French colonial Africa. He founded the institute at his own expense, leaving his ... See full summary »
Director: Rudolph Cartier | Stars: André Morell, Greta Gynt, Douglas Wilmer, Tom Fleming
This is the earliest surviving example of a BBC "live play" production, and one of the earliest surviving examples of BBC drama overall (preceded only by 2 episodes of the serial "The Quatermass Experiment").
I hope they release this and the other surviving episodes of "Sunday Night Theatre" on DVD!
3.
BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1950–1959)
Episode:
The Lady from the Sea
(1953)
Drama
A lighthouse keeper's daughter lives her opportunistic marital life, until her past lover re-appears.
Stars: Irene Worth, Robert Harris, Hamlyn Benson, Eric Berry
4.
BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1950–1959)
Episode:
Anastasia
(1953)
Drama
An opportunistic Russian businessman tries to pass a mysterious impostor as the Grand Duchess Anastasia. But she is so convincing in her performance that even the biggest skeptics believe her.
Stars: Charles Cameron, Bryan Coleman, Peter Cushing, Ruth Goddard
Votes: 11
5.
BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1950–1959)
Episode:
Peer Gynt
(1954)
Drama
Gynt, the complete opposite of a hero, is banished from his village for his (in)actions. He then travels the world with more or less the same result.
6.
BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1950–1959)
Episode:
Nineteen Eighty-Four
(1954)
114 min | Drama
In a totalitarian future society, Winston Smith, whose daily work is re-writing history, tries to rebel by falling in love.
Director: Rudolph Cartier | Stars: Peter Cushing, André Morell, Yvonne Mitchell, Donald Pleasence
Votes: 680
7.
BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1950–1959)
Episode:
The Masque of Kings
(1955)
Drama
The tragic story that ended in death at the Mayerling hunting lodge.
Stars: Ronald Adam, Jane Barrett, Geoffrey Bellman, Clive Brook
8.
BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1950–1959)
Episode:
The Sacred Flame
(1955)
Drama
Stars: Anne Crawford, Julian D'Albie, Amy Dalby, Mark Dignam
9.
BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1950–1959)
Episode:
The Confidential Clerk
(1955)
Drama
Director: Peter Potter | Stars: Joan Greenwood, Kenneth Haigh, Isabel Jeans, Alexander Knox
10.
BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1950–1959)
Episode:
The Dark Lady of the Sonnets
(1955)
Drama
Director: Douglas Allen | Stars: Alan MacNaughtan, Barbara Murray, Beatrix Lehmann, George Woodbridge
11.
BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1950–1959)
Episode:
The Happy Hypocrite
(1955)
Drama
Stars: Douglas Cleverdon, Patricia Cree, Vernon Greeves, Joyce Heron
12.
BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1950–1959)
Episode:
The Makepeace Story #4: The New Executive
(1955)
Drama
Stars: William Franklyn, John Paul, Mary Steele, Iris Russell
13.
BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1950–1959)
Episode:
The Weeping Madonna
(1956)
Drama
Stars: Sandra Alfred, Michael Balfour, Ina De La Haye, Eddie Leslie
14.
BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1950–1959)
Episode:
The White Falcon
(1956)
92 min | Drama
Director: Rudolph Cartier | Stars: Jeanette Sterke, Paul Rogers, Marius Goring, Margaretta Scott
15.
BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1950–1959)
Episode:
The Tempest
(1956)
Drama
Exiled Prospero lives on a desolate island with his daughter, Miranda. When Prospero's usurping brother sails by the island, Prospero conjures a storm that wrecks the ship and changes all of their lives.
Directors: Ian Atkins, Robert Atkins | Stars: Robert Atkins, Robert Eddison, Douglas Wilmer, Charles Lloyd Pack
16.
BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1950–1959)
Episode:
Mrs. Patterson
(1956)
75 min | Drama
It's 1920 in a small town in Kentucky, and Teddy, a teenage girl, dreams of escaping from her boredom at home to the excitement of Chicago.
Stars: Margaret Allworthy, Marian Berry-Hart, Neville Crabbe, Evelyn Dove
Votes: 14
17.
BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1950–1959)
Episode:
The Seddons
(1956)
Drama
Stars: Carl Bernard, Isabel Dean, Colin Douglas, John Dunbar
18.
BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1950–1959)
Episode:
The Cold Light
(1956)
105 min | Drama
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.
Director: Rudolph Cartier | Stars: Marius Goring, John Longden, Anton Diffring, Ewen Solon
19.
BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1950–1959)
Episode:
Henry Irving
(1956)
Drama
Stars: Richard Pasco, Richard Burrell, James Bree, Jean Anderson
20.
BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1950–1959)
Episode:
The Lark
(1956)
Drama
Joan of Arc faces her interrogators before they burn the 19 year old at the stake.
Stars: Hazel Penwarden, Anne Allan, John Arnatt, Michael Caine
21.
Television World Theatre (1957–1958)
Episode:
Strange Interlude: Part 1
(1958)
90 min | Drama
After Nina Leeds finds out that insanity runs in her husband's family, she has a love child with a handsome doctor and lets her husband believes the child is his.
Director: John Jacobs | Stars: Diane Cilento, William Sylvester, David Knight, Catherine Lacey
22.
Television World Theatre (1957–1958)
Episode:
Strange Interlude: Part 2
(1958)
90 min | Drama
In the second part of this adaptation of Eugene O'Neill's 1928 play, Gordon Evans grows up unaware that his "Uncle" Ned is in fact his father. Gordon's mother, Nina, grows increasingly distracted because of her deception.
Director: John Jacobs | Stars: Diane Cilento, William Sylvester, Noel Willman, David Knight
23.
Television World Theatre (1957–1958)
Episode:
Heartbreak House
(1958)
Drama
On the eve of World War I, Ellie Dunn, her father, and her fiancé are invited to one of Hesione Hushabye's infamous dinner parties. Unfortunately, her fiancé is a scoundrel, her father's a ... See full summary »
Stars: Judy Campbell, Tony Britton, Josephine Stuart, Marda Vanne
24.
Television World Theatre (1957–1958)
Episode:
The Government Inspector
(1958)
75 min | Drama
The most prominent citizens of a small Russian town mistake a wandering stranger for the much-feared "government inspector" whose visit they are fearfully awaiting. The stranger takes full advantage of their error.
Director: Alan Bromly | Stars: Tony Hancock, John Phillips, Michael Segal, John Gill
Votes: 12
25.
Television World Theatre (1957–1958)
Episode:
The Master Builder
(1958)
90 min | Drama
A successful, ego-maniacal architect who has spent a lifetime bullying his wife, employees and mistresses wants to make peace as his life approaches its final act.
Director: Max Faber | Stars: Donald Wolfit, Mai Zetterling, Catherine Lacey, David Markham
Votes: 10
26.
Television World Theatre (1957–1958)
Episode:
The Clandestine Marriage
(1958)
Drama
Stars: Hermione Baddeley, Esmond Knight, Doreen Aris, Geoffrey Bayldon
27.
BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1950–1959)
Episode:
The Green Pastures
(1958)
Drama
God, heaven, and several Old Testament stories, including the Creation and Noah's Ark, are described supposedly using the perspective of rural, black Americans.
Stars: Robert Adams, Harry Baird, Earl Cameron, Nadia Cattouse
28.
BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1950–1959)
Episode:
A Midsummer Night's Dream
(1958)
105 min | Drama
Mistaken identity, unrequited love, and the supernatural are combined in Shakespeare's classic set in the woods of Greece on a moonlit night.
Director: Rudolph Cartier | Stars: Paul Rogers, Natasha Parry, John Justin, Miles Malleson
29.
BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1950–1959)
Episode:
The Lower Depths
(1958)
Drama
In a Russian slum, various residents play out their lives, dreaming of better things or settling for their lot. Among them is a man who pines for a young woman but is stymied by her deceptive family.
Stars: Wilfrid Lawson, Alan Webb, Leo McKern, Esmond Knight
30.
BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1950–1959)
Episode:
Waters of the Moon
(1959)
Drama
Lonely people in a quiet hotel find their lives shaken up by the arrival of the glamorous, assertive Helen Lancaster.
Stars: Jean Anderson, Lewis Casson, Edith Evans, Kathleen Harrison
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