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ITV Saturday Night Theatre: Series 1

37 episodes Premiered Jan 11, 1969 Updated Jul 22, 2026
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Episodes

S1·E1

Park People

Jan 11, 1969

Young Frank Brady falls in love with a woman he has only seen from a distance. He enlists his friend Peg to help him win the woman's love.

S1·E2

Bangelstein's Boys

Jan 18, 1969

A rugby team's annual tour descends into chaos when Tommy and Jack have a fall out with their brother-in-law.

S1·E4

MacNeil

Feb 1, 1969

Carpenter and widower MacNeil takes a blunt approach in making advances to lady executive Miss Saville who works in the same firm as himself. His belief in his instincts regarding

S1·E6

Emlyn

Feb 15, 1969

Mary MacNeil drifts into a complex relationship with a Welsh barrister.

S1·E7

Tiger Trap in the Street

Feb 22, 1969

Fed up with having his car stolen, Williams decides it's time to take the law into his own hands, but there is a price to pay.

S1·E11

Pig in a Poke

Mar 15, 1969

An effete television producer and his beautiful wife move into an old terraced house.In the basement is a sitting tenant they cannot move.The tenant starts to invade their life wit

S1·E12

Machine

Mar 22, 1969

Two people (one rich, one poor) have failing kidneys, an expensive kidney machine would save them.

S1·E14

The Dirt on Lucy Lane

Apr 5, 1969

Michael Vint, an embittered hack reporter from a Sunday newspaper, is sent down into the country to find a story in the love life of an aging has-been writer and his new glamorous

S1·E15

Moonlight on the Highway

Apr 12, 1969 · 52 min

Writing for ITV Saturday Night Theatre (1969), Dennis Potter introduced the notion that popular music expresses the yearning of the human spirit for a better world. A troubled youn

S1·E17

Steve

Apr 26, 1969

Steve's maverick personality costs him his teaching job. He drops out of conventional society and earns a living by roguish means. Then he meets Paula, who makes him question his i

S1·E18

Toys

May 3, 1969

S1·E26

The Haunting

Jun 28, 1969

Young Cathy asks her teacher Kate for help with her father Rolf who is still withdrawn and depressed after his wife's fatal car crash sometime ago. However, the line between fantas

S1·E29

Every Day of the Life Man

Jul 19, 1969

An innocent man is wrongly picked from an identity parade after a factory robbery because he is black.

S1·E30

Salve Regina

Jul 19, 1969

In the basement of a department store after the last bomb of World War Three. A bag lady, calls herself ' the queen ' and exercises complete authority over two befuddled men. That

S1·E31

Takeover

Jul 26, 1969

Suddenly and inexplicably Mother and Father find that their previously well behaved adolescent sons are completely unmanageable, reversing the standard family dynamics.

S1·E37

Fly Away Home

Aug 23, 1969

A couple return from their holiday to find their house burnt down. Having no insurance, the husband has no option but to rebuild it himself with the help of local handyman Arthur.