Sunday-Night Play: Season Four
Season 4 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 3.
- 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 4 Progress Shield
A Suitable Case for Treatment
Oct 21, 1962
Heavy-drinking Marxist writer Morgan Delt must hold on to his sanity whilst trying to resolve his marital problems.
The Big Eat
Oct 28, 1962
An eating contest is staged for a new TV show - with fatal results.
The Aspern Papers
Nov 18, 1962
A publisher insinuates himself into the mouldering mansion of the centenarian lover of a renowned but long-dead poet in order to find his lost love letter.
The Canterville Ghost
Dec 23, 1962
The ghost of Sir Simon De Canterville has terrified visitors to his family home for centuries - but when a family of Americans rent the place, he's the one who's terrified.
The Madhouse on Castle Street
Jan 13, 1963
A man mysteriously locks himself in a room in a boarding house leaving only a note saying he has decided to "retire from the world". His worried sister and the other boarders then
The Prisoner
Feb 24, 1963
Not to be confused with the 1967 TV series of the same name (also starring Patrick McGoohan), this adaptation of Bridget Boland's 1954 stage play depicts the conflict between a Car
June Fall
Mar 3, 1963
Two lonely, unbeautiful people are brought together by a dating agency, and, against all odds, find love.
Continuity Man
Mar 10, 1963
Don and Roz, a very trendy couple, are expecting a Hollywood film actress as their dinner guest, but find they also have to look after Don's very eccentric and contrary father.
For Tea on Sunday
Mar 17, 1963
Three girls sharing living accommodation invite their boyfriends for tea on Sunday. One of the young men arrives carrying an ax over his shoulder.
How to Get Rid of Your Wife
May 26, 1963
Mild-mannered and unassuming, Gerald Swinney has had enough of his nagging, domineering wife. So he resolves, not to kill her, but simply to "get rid" of her.
The Full Chatter
Jun 16, 1963
An eccentric teacher dreams of finding fame as a novelist; but everything in his life seems to conspire against him.
Take the Plunge
Jul 14, 1963
Douglas has fallen in love with an American girl and is perturbed to find, at the same time, that he really must get a job at last.
The Shadow of Mart
Jul 21, 1963
About the foolish and lost Gabriel who lives entirely in the shadow of his brother, the brave soldier Mart who died in the war and is continuously immortalised by the dominant moth
The Affair
Sep 15, 1963
A young fellow of a Cambridge college is accused of fraud and dismissed. Based on the eighth novel in C.P. Snow's "Strangers and Brothers" series.