ITV Saturday Night Theatre: Season 5
Season 5 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of ITV Saturday Night Theatre Season 4.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
Season 5 Progress Shield
When the Wheel Turns
Oct 15, 1972
A man decides to leave his job, sell his home and set out for adventure. But his wife has other ideas.
The Death of Adolf Hitler
Jan 7, 1973
The final days in the Bunker, with Hitler becoming more and more paranoid, plumbing the depths of his madness and reaching his well deserved fate.
The Ruffian on the Stair
Apr 1, 1973
Mike and Joyce are a poor London couple living in a bedsit. One day while Joyce is alone, a young man named Wilson arrives and asks for a room.
A.D.A.M.
Apr 8, 1973
Roger Empson builds a house for his disabled wife Jean that is completely automated and monitored by a computer called A.D.A.M. (Automated Domestic Appliance Monitor). When she was
Long Day's Journey Into Night
Apr 22, 1973
On a day in the summer of 1912, the family of retired matinee idol James Tyrone grapples with the morphine addiction of Tyrone's wife Mary, the illness of their youngest son Edmund
Reckoning Day
Jul 1, 1973
The Coopers and the Nicholsons have been friends for years, but their relationship reaches an unexpected crisis point.
It Only Hurts for a Minute
Jul 8, 1973
Respected (but out of work and broke) film cameraman Harry Griffin is offered a job to film a blue movie.