Watch Sunday Night Theatre (1950) Online!
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 8 - Candida
Release Date: 1955-02-20The idealist Reverend Morell tries to unite Socialism and Christianity.
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Episode 11 - The Merchant of Venice
Release Date: 1955-03-13A rich merchant, Antonio is depressed for no good reason, until his good friend Bassanio comes to tell him how he's in love with Portia. Portia's father has died and left a very strange will: only the man that picks the correct casket out of three (silver, gold, and lead) can marry her. Bassanio, unfortunately, is strapped for cash with which to go wooing, and Antonio wants to help, so Antonio borrows the money from Shylock, the money-lender. But Shylock has been nursing a grudge against Antonio's insults, and makes unusual terms to the loan. And when Antonio's business fails, those terms threaten his life, and it's up to Bassanio and Portia to save him.
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Episode 12 - The Merchant of Venice/II
Release Date: 1955-03-17A rich merchant, Antonio is depressed for no good reason, until his good friend Bassanio comes to tell him how he's in love with Portia. Portia's father has died and left a very strange will: only the man that picks the correct casket out of three (silver, gold, and lead) can marry her. Bassanio, unfortunately, is strapped for cash with which to go wooing, and Antonio wants to help, so Antonio borrows the money from Shylock, the money-lender. But Shylock has been nursing a grudge against Antonio's insults, and makes unusual terms to the loan. And when Antonio's business fails, those terms threaten his life, and it's up to Bassanio and Portia to save him.
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Episode 18 - It Could Happen Only in Paris
Release Date: 1955-05-01 -
Episode 21 - Romeo and Juliet
Release Date: 1955-05-22In Shakespeare's classic play, the Montagues and Capulets, two families of Renaissance Italy, have hated each other for years, but the son of one family and the daughter of the other fall desperately in love and secretly marry.
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Episode 35 - A Life in the Sun
Release Date: 1955-08-28 -
Episode 43 - The Makepeace Story #2: A New Generation
Release Date: 1955-10-23 -
Episode 44 - The Makepeace Story #3: Family Business
Release Date: 1955-10-30 -
Episode 51 - The Devil's General
Release Date: 1955-12-18A veteran hero of the German army finds himself at odds with the Nazi regime.