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 (15)
5. Number Three
Aired 1 February 1953
A group of nuclear scientists face a moral dilemma when they discover that as well as making electricity, their government also wants to make nuclear bombs with their products.
6. Our Marie
Aired 8 February 1953
7. The Hero
Aired 15 February 1953
11. As You Like It
Aired 15 March 1953
After the overthrowing of Duke Senior by his tyrannical brother, Senior's daughter Rosalind disguises herself as a man and sets out to find her banished father while also counseling her clumsy suitor Orlando in the art of wooing.
12. As You Like It/II
Aired 19 March 1953
After the overthrowing of Duke Senior by his tyrannical brother, Senior's daughter Rosalind disguises herself as a man and sets out to find her banished father while also counseling her clumsy suitor Orlando in the art of wooing.
15. L'Aiglon
10.0Aired 12 April 1953 • 145 min
16. Moonshine
Aired 19 April 1953
17. Take Away the Lady
Aired 26 April 1953
19. The Lady From The Sea
Aired 10 May 1953 • 105 min
A lighthouse keeper's daughter lives her opportunistic marital life, until her past lover re-appears.
29. The Duenna
Aired 19 July 1953
32. Sounding Brass
Aired 9 August 1953
35. The Confidential Clerk
Aired 30 August 1953
A young man becomes confidential clerk to a rich financier - who may be his father.
38. The Return of Peggy Atherton
Aired 20 September 1953
39. The Bridge
Aired 27 September 1953
48. Crime and Punishment
Aired 29 November 1953
A man is haunted by a murder that he's committed.