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 (14)
2. The Weeping Madonna
Aired 8 January 1956
6. The White Falcon
Aired 5 February 1956
An examination of the fatal romance between Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn.
11. The Mayerling Affair
Aired 11 March 1956
The Austro-Hungarian empire is rocked by scandal when Crown Prince Rudolf and his mistress Mare Vetsera are found dead at the Mayerling hunting lodge.
16. The Seat of the Scornful
Aired 15 April 1956
20. Shout Aloud Salvation (II)
Aired 13 May 1956
22. Epitaph
Aired 27 May 1956
24. Desert Duel
Aired 10 June 1956
27. The Fugitive
Aired 1 July 1956
31. The Cold Light
Aired 29 July 1956
Crystof Wolters is German born but working in and owing allegiance to Britain. The play is concerned with how and why he betrays that allegiance, and how, after a tense cat-and mouse-game, he is led to reveal his betrayal.
34. Siding 273
Aired 19 August 1956
37. You Touched Me
Aired 9 September 1956
When Hadrian seeks permission to marry, is it for love or for an inheritance?
39. Henry Irving
Aired 23 September 1956
40. One Morning Near Troodos
Aired 30 September 1956
53. Clive of India
Aired 30 December 1956
A portrayal of the life of the eighteenth century soldier and politician, particularly focusing on his victory at the Battle of Plassey.