Sunday-Night Play: Season Two
Season 2 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 Sunday-Night Play Season 1.
- 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 2 Progress Shield
A Subject of Scandal and Concern
Nov 6, 1960
A dramatized account of a Victorian cause celebre, written by John Osborne and concerning the true story of the last person in England to be tried for blasphemy. Richard Burton pla
The Squeeze
Nov 20, 1960
Big Tom, a Welsh coal miner, has always been in control of his life; but he finds himself increasingly at odds with his growing son, and even begins to wonder if his wife still lov
The Assassins
Dec 4, 1960
Ruthless assassins take over an ordinary suburban home in order to commit a political murder - but where do they come from?
Venus Brown
Jan 8, 1961
Jack Brown is devoted to his much younger wife, Venus; but she's not the goddess he thinks she is.
Off Centre
Jan 22, 1961
Joe Hunter must face up to the reality of his existence, and stop having false ideas about himself and his own importance.
An Inspector Calls
Feb 19, 1961
The comfortable lives of the wealthy Birling family are disrupted when an inspector calls on them to ask awkward questions about a girl who has committed suicide.
A Reason for Staying
Mar 5, 1961
An Eastern European general who has fled his native country dreams of returning home - and of gaining military power there.
Charley's Aunt
Apr 16, 1961
Lord Fancourt Babberley is required, much against his will, to impersonate the wealthy aunt of his friend Charley.
Home at Seven
Jun 4, 1961
Mr. Preston always gets home from the office at seven o'clock - but tonight he discovers that a whole day has unaccountably gone missing from his life.
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 t
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 persuade
That Lady
Jul 9, 1961
A one-eyed adventuress at the court of Philip II of Spain becomes embroiled in scandal and intrigue.
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
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