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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 6 - The White Falcon
Release Date: 1956-02-05An examination of the fatal romance between Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn.
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Episode 11 - The Mayerling Affair
Release Date: 1956-03-11The Austro-Hungarian empire is rocked by scandal when Crown Prince Rudolf and his mistress Mare Vetsera are found dead at the Mayerling hunting lodge.
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Episode 20 - Shout Aloud Salvation (II)
Release Date: 1956-05-13 -
Episode 27 - The Fugitive
Release Date: 1956-07-01 -
Episode 31 - The Cold Light
Release Date: 1956-07-29Crystof 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.
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Episode 40 - One Morning Near Troodos
Release Date: 1956-09-30 -
Episode 53 - Clive of India
Release Date: 1956-12-30A portrayal of the life of the eighteenth century soldier and politician, particularly focusing on his victory at the Battle of Plassey.