Sunday Night Theatre + World Television Theatre (surviving episodes)
A (incomplete?) list of surviving episodes of the 1950s BBC series "Sunday Night Theatre".
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- StarsRichard CaldicotGeorge WoodbridgeRobert BrownSeries of television plays performed live.(Series is listed here purely as a link to get this linked to on the page for the series)
- DirectorRudolph CartierStarsAndré MorellGreta GyntDouglas WilmerDr 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 wife and child behind in Europe. The outbreak of the First World War sparks unrest amongst the natives. It also brings the local French officials to the hospital. They intern him as an enemy alien due to his German birth, despite the fact that this will mean the closure of the only medical facility anywhere in the area.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! - StarsIrene WorthRobert HarrisHamlyn BensonA lighthouse keeper's daughter lives her opportunistic marital life, until her past lover re-appears.
- StarsCharles CameronBryan ColemanPeter CushingAn 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.
- 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.
- DirectorRudolph CartierStarsPeter CushingAndré MorellYvonne MitchellIn a totalitarian future society, Winston Smith, whose daily work is re-writing history, tries to rebel by falling in love.
- StarsRonald AdamJane BarrettGeoffrey BellmanThe tragic story that ended in death at the Mayerling hunting lodge.
- DirectorPeter PotterStarsJoan GreenwoodKenneth HaighIsabel Jeans
- 1950–1959TV Episode
- DirectorIan AtkinsRobert AtkinsStarsRobert AtkinsRobert EddisonDouglas WilmerExiled 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.
- StarsMargaret AllworthyMarian Berry-HartNeville CrabbeIt'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.
- DirectorRudolph CartierStarsMarius GoringJohn LongdenAnton DiffringCrystof 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.
- StarsHazel PenwardenAnne AllanJohn ArnattJoan of Arc faces her interrogators before they burn the 19 year old at the stake.
- DirectorJohn JacobsStarsDiane CilentoWilliam SylvesterDavid KnightAfter 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.
- DirectorJohn JacobsStarsDiane CilentoWilliam SylvesterNoel WillmanIn 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.
- StarsJudy CampbellTony BrittonJosephine StuartOn 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 bumbling prig, and she's actually in love with Hector, Hesione's husband. This bold mix of farce and tragedy lampoons British society as it blithely sinks towards disaster.
- 1957–19581h 15m6.8 (12)TV EpisodeDirectorAlan BromlyStarsTony HancockJohn PhillipsMichael SegalThe 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.
- DirectorMax FaberStarsDonald WolfitMai ZetterlingCatherine LaceyA 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.
- StarsRobert AdamsHarry BairdEarl CameronGod, heaven, and several Old Testament stories, including the Creation and Noah's Ark, are described supposedly using the perspective of rural, black Americans.
- DirectorRudolph CartierStarsPaul RogersNatasha ParryJohn JustinMistaken identity, unrequited love, and the supernatural are combined in Shakespeare's classic set in the woods of Greece on a moonlit night.
- StarsWilfrid LawsonAlan WebbLeo McKernIn 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.
- StarsJean AndersonLewis CassonEdith EvansLonely people in a quiet hotel find their lives shaken up by the arrival of the glamorous, assertive Helen Lancaster.