About this season
Sunday Night Theatre was a long-running series of televised live television plays screened by BBC Television from early 1950 until 1959. The productions for the first five years or so of the run were re-staged live the following Thursday, partly because of technical limitations in this era, and the theatrical basis of early television drama. Some of the earliest collaborations between Rudolph Cartier and Nigel Neale were produced for this series, including Arrow to the Heart and Nineteen Eighty-Four. The Sunday night drama slot was subsequently renamed The Sunday-Night Play which ran for four seasons between 1960 and 1963. ITV transmitted its own unrelated run of Sunday Night Theatre between 1971 and 1974.
Episodes (9)
1. The Stone Ship
Aired 4 January 1959
19. The Fortrose Incident
Aired 10 May 1959
21. When in Rome
Aired 4 May 1959
28. Farewell My City
Aired 12 July 1959
30. A Small Revolution
Aired 26 July 1959
38. Crime Passionnel
Aired 20 September 1959
47. The Velvet Alley
Aired 22 November 1959
Will Ernie Pandish finally find success as a writer?
49. Maigret and the Lost Life
Aired 6 December 1959
Maigret, that most human of French detectives, sets out to solve the mystery surrounding the brutal murder of a girl whose body has been found in a street near Place Pigalle in the heart of Paris.
50. Echo from Afar
Aired 13 December 1959