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 (13)
3. The Prisoner
Aired 10 February 1952
8. The Wanderer
Aired 24 February 1952
9. The Wild Duck
Aired 2 March 1952
A loving family's world is shattered by an old friend's arrival, carrying a dark secret.
12. Dial M for Murder
Aired 23 March 1952
A London businessman concocts an intricate plan to murder his unfaithful wife for her money.
13. Mourning Becomes Elektra
Aired 30 March 1952
18. Love and Mr. Lewisham
Aired 4 May 1952
19. Martine
Aired 11 May 1952
29. Arrow to the Heart (I)
Aired 20 July 1952
31. Her Royal Highness
Aired 3 August 1952
32. The Same Sky
Aired 10 August 1952
The theme of Romeo and Juliet reworked in an orthodox Jewish household where Jeff who is a Christian falls in love with Juliet. Both families bitterly oppose the relationship. The story is set in wartime, in the East End of London.
40. Strange Orchestra
Aired 5 October 1952
46. The Merry Wives of Windsor
Aired 16 November 1952
47. No Cross, No Crown
Aired 23 November 1952