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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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Episode 2 - The Scarlet Pimpernel
Release Date: 1951-01-14During the French Revolution, a mysterious English nobleman known only as The Scarlet Pimpernel (a humble wayside flower), snatches French aristos from the jaws of the guillotine, while posing as the foppish Sir Percy Blakeney in society. Percy falls for and marries the beautiful actress Marguerite St. Just, but she is involved with Chauvelin and Robespierre, and Percy's marriage to her may endanger the Pimpernel's plans to save the little Dauphin.
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Episode 6 - The Skin Game
Release Date: 1951-02-03 -
Episode 8 - Julius Caesar
Release Date: 1951-02-25The growing ambition of Julius Caesar is a source of major concern to his close friend Brutus. Cassius persuades him to participate in his plot to assassinate Caesar but they have both sorely underestimated Mark Antony.
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Episode 9 - Julius Caesar/II
Release Date: 1951-03-01The growing ambition of Julius Caesar is a source of major concern to his close friend Brutus. Cassius persuades him to participate in his plot to assassinate Caesar but they have both sorely underestimated Mark Antony.
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Episode 13 - The Voysey Inheritance
Release Date: 1951-04-01 -
Episode 16 - The Life of King Henry V (Part One)
Release Date: 1951-04-22In the midst of the Hundred Years' War, the young King Henry V of England embarks on the conquest of France in 1415.
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Episode 17 - The Life of Henry V (Part Two)
Release Date: 1951-04-29In the midst of the Hundred Years' War, the young King Henry V of England embarks on the conquest of France in 1415.
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Episode 31 - The Silent Village
Release Date: 1951-08-05