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 (10)
19. Irving Berlin
Aired 11 May 1958
21. The Great Adventure
Aired 25 May 1958
26. View Friendship and Marriage
Aired 29 June 1958
28. Statue of David
Aired 13 July 1958
32. The Shadow of Doubt
Aired 10 August 1958
34. The Lady from the Sea (II)
Aired 24 August 1958
44. The End of the Equation
Aired 2 November 1958
45. A Midsummer Night's Dream
Aired 9 November 1958
Mistaken identity, unrequited love, and the supernatural are combined in Shakespeare's classic set in the woods of Greece on a moonlit night.
46. The Lower Depths
Aired 16 November 1958
In a Russian slum, various residents play out their lives, dreaming of better things or settling for their lot. Among them is a man who pines for a young woman but is stymied by her deceptive family.
50. The Laughing Woman
Aired 14 December 1958