Sunday-Night Play: Season 1
Episodes
Twentieth Century Theatre: The White Guard
Jan 31, 1960
It is November 1918 and the scene is the city of Kiev in the Ukraine, lately garrisoned by the German Army of Occupation but now threatened by the approach of a large well-equipped
Playhouse 90: A Town Has Turned to Dust
Jul 3, 1960
A weakling sheriff is unable to prevent a lynching. Can he redeem himself by preventing a second one?
Summer Theatre: The Critical Point
Jul 31, 1960
Dr. Gage, involved in cryogenics, volunteers to be the first frozen man after murdering his wife. Dr. Mortimer discovers who killed his wife and ponders whether he should play judg
Summer Theatre: A Dream of Treason
Aug 7, 1960
Lambert, a government official, is required to leak a secret document - which may have serious consequences.
Summer Theatre: The Devil's General
Aug 14, 1960
General Harras, a hero of the First World War, finds himself increasingly at odds with the new Germany of Adolf Hitler.
Affair of State
Dec 31, 1961
Philip is much older than his wife, who is, he discovers, having an affair with his friend George. When he introduces George to a young woman, he has an ulterior motive.
The Barretts of Wimpole Street
Dec 24, 1961
Elizabeth Barrett's tyrannical father has forbidden any of his family to marry. Nevertheless, Elizabeth falls in love with the poet Robert Browning.
The Judge and His Hangman
Dec 17, 1961
Inspector Barlach is ruthless in pursuit of an arrest, and doesn't seem to care if anyone else gets hurt along the way.
She Stoops to Conquer
Nov 26, 1961
Hardcastle, a man of substance, looks forward to acquainting his daughter with his old pal's son with a view to marriage. But thanks to playboy Lumpkin, he's mistaken by his prospe
The Test
Nov 5, 1961
Pressure mounts on a group of scientists as they urgently prepare to test a new top secret weapon.
What Every Woman Knows
Oct 15, 1961
Maggie Wylie isn't very beautiful. She isn't even very young any more. But fortunately there is more to Maggie than meets the eye.
Faraway Places
Oct 8, 1961
Kindly, mild mannered clerk Arthur Bruce dreams of traveling to distant lands and reads books about faraway places.
The Hasty Heart
Sep 17, 1961
It's 1945, Burma, the day the war is over! For many this means they've survived and will be going home. But not for everyone. A Scottish soldier, Corporal Lachlan "Lachie" MacLachl
The Winslow Boy
Aug 20, 1961
The Winslow family return from church to their house in South Kensington on a summer morning in 1912 not knowing how their lives will be altered by their son, Ronnie, who has been
A Call on Kuprin: Part 1
Jun 18, 1961
After the manned satellite, the armed satellite. Kuprin, the Soviet scientist, is working on a warhead for the Chelovyek. But Laye-Parker, M.P., and Smith, a Lobby Correspondent at
A Call on Kuprin: Part 2
Jun 25, 1961
Laye-Parker, M.P., and Smith, a Lobby Correspondent, have reached Moscow in their search for Kuprin, a Soviet rocket expert whom they knew at Cambridge and whom they hope to persua
Home at Seven
Jun 4, 1961
Home at seven as usual after just another Monday at the office - or that is what Mr. Preston thought. But in fact it is Tuesday and he has no recollection of the past twenty-four h
Marriage Lines
May 14, 1961
A comedy of marriage, set in the secure partnership of two mature and worldly people, examines what happens when an envious free-lance tries to rock the boat.
Scene of the Accident
Apr 30, 1961
When a prominent Q.C. is knocked down and killed by a car, the driver's Insurance Company is faced with paying out on a very substantial claim. Briefed to investigate possible grou
Fury in Petticoats
Mar 26, 1961
It is 1837 and we are in the home of the Rev. William Dill, the vicar of a small parish in England. Life there is peaceful and leisurely until one day the vicar welcomes into his h
A Reason for Staying
Mar 5, 1961
A group of Eastern European emigres, now living in England, still hope that they will one day return to their home-land in authority. But one of them, a general, has a reason for s
The Mather Story
Feb 26, 1961
A serious accusation by a famous artist about the work of another gives John Ramsay a chance to 'get something into the paper' and perhaps to keep his job on the Sunday Herald. But
An Inspector Calls
Feb 19, 1961
Spring, 1912 - for the wealthy a time of good living, gaiety, and a belief in the unshakability of the status quo. Mr. and Mrs. Birling are celebrating the engagement of their daug
The Intervener
Feb 12, 1961
Jeremy Penlove is a London solicitor and a confirmed bachelor. His life is placid and uncomplicated until, one fine summer's day, a new client, Lily Forrester, walks into his offic
The Final Result
Feb 5, 1961
John Horner's father, mother, and sister are waiting to hear the result of his degree examination. He is the only one who is not surprised: it is what he expected it to be. It is t
A Kind of Strength
Jan 29, 1961
Two men, both trapped in the world of commerce, struggle for freedom. In facing the truth about themselves, the decisions they have to make need a rare kind of strength.
Off Centre
Jan 22, 1961
Joe Hunter is a scientist living two lives: one as he sees himself, and the other as the world, sees him. The story spans the years from 1917, when he was a young pilot in the Roya
A Woman Comes Home
Jan 15, 1961
Home has many meanings; a refuge from strain, the start of 'growing up'; the source of compassion and understanding. When these are lost there is desolation, but if they are fought
Venus Brown
Jan 8, 1961
For Jack Brown, his wife Venus is a goddess in more than name. But she is not a goddess, she is a human being, and it is dangerous to worship human beings.
Looking for Garrow
Oct 30, 1960
American business woman Clarissa comes to England seeking one J.S. Garrow - author of an alarmingly frank new novel. But it looks as though her teenage daughter has already found G
A Subject of Scandal and Concern
Nov 6, 1960
In 1842, a rebel in Cheltenham and Gloucester imprisoned for his beliefs and for the right to express them.
The Wind and the Sun
Nov 13, 1960
Ruth and Lewis Miller's marriage is almost at breaking point. The result upon their two children of the tension created by this situation is revealed in the play as an important qu
The Squeeze
Nov 20, 1960
Should Big Tom, a colliery face repairer, confronted by the onset of middle age, continue with his work at the risk of his life, or settle for something safer at the risk of his se
The Nightwalkers
Nov 27, 1960
A young British student wandering through France today becomes involved with remnants of a former French Resistance group.
The Assassins
Dec 4, 1960
A quiet evening at home for a normal fairly prosperous middle-class family is suddenly disrupted by the arrival of two strangers - two men with a mission, fanatical and ruthless, p
The Song of a March Hare
Dec 11, 1960
Crumble is convinced that he was born for success in business. All he needs is a chance to prove it, and this comes with an unexpected legacy.
A Time to Fight
Dec 18, 1960
Housewife Ellen Manders had no reason to suspect that this evening was going to be any different from any other until her husband arrived home late with his shoes and brief-case co