Sunday-Night Play: Season Three
Season 3 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 2.
- 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 3 Progress Shield
Faraway Places
Oct 8, 1961
Kindly, mild mannered clerk Arthur Bruce dreams of traveling to distant lands and reads books about faraway places.
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.
The Test
Nov 5, 1961
Pressure mounts on a group of scientists as they urgently prepare to test a new top secret weapon.
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 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.
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.
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 Happiest Days of Your Life
Feb 4, 1962
Through a clerical error, a boys' school and a girls' school are billeted on the same premises.
One for the Pot
Mar 11, 1962
The definition of a trivial subspace and of a nontrivial subspace are provided.
This Happy Breed
Apr 1, 1962
The travails of an ordinary London working-class family over many years.
The High Mountain
Apr 8, 1962
A ruthless business tycoon proposes a merger - between God and Mammon.
The Long Memory
May 13, 1962
An embittered man is released from prison, anxious for revenge on those who really perpetrated the crime for which he was convicted.
Value for Money
May 20, 1962
A self-made Northerner of limited sophistication finds London life a little hectic.
A Child in the House
May 27, 1962
With her mother in hospital and her father mysteriously away, Elisabeth is sent to an unknown uncle and aunt in Belfast. The play deals with the conflict aroused in the child's con
The Money Machine
Jun 3, 1962
Alastair Moncrieff designs a banknote counter and he takes it to Olagem Ltd. Director John Lock realises that the counter can make a fortune, and determines that the fortune shall
Member of the Family
Jun 24, 1962
Edwin Carrington has remarried. His staid English family is surprised by his new wife.
Dial M for Murder
Aug 5, 1962
A London businessman concocts an intricate plan to murder his unfaithful wife for her money.
The Pretender
Aug 12, 1962
When her throne is threatened by a "pretender" based in Venice, Catherine the Great sends Count Orloff to deal with the problem.
Six Men of Dorset
Sep 16, 1962
The story of the Tolpuddle Martyrs, nineteenth-century labourers who formed a union and were transported to Australia.