ITV Saturday Night Theatre — Season 1

Aired 11 January 1969

Young Frank Brady falls in love with a woman he has only seen from a distance. He enlists his friend Peg to help him win the woman's love.

Aired 18 January 1969

A rugby team's annual tour descends into chaos when Tommy and Jack have a fall out with their brother-in-law.

Aired 25 January 1969

Aired 1 February 1969

Carpenter and widower MacNeil takes a blunt approach in making advances to lady executive Miss Saville who works in the same firm as himself. His belief in his instincts regarding women is contradicted by his daughter Mary, who knows him better than he thinks.

Aired 8 February 1969

Aired 15 February 1969

Mary MacNeil drifts into a complex relationship with a Welsh barrister.

Aired 22 February 1969

Fed up with having his car stolen, Williams decides it's time to take the law into his own hands, but there is a price to pay.

Aired 1 March 1969

Aired 1 March 1969

Aired 8 March 1969

Aired 15 March 1969

An effete television producer and his beautiful wife move into an old terraced house.In the basement is a sitting tenant they cannot move.The tenant starts to invade their life with increasing voracity, leading to him eventually beating up the young wife and then becoming her afternoon lover.

Aired 22 March 1969

Two people (one rich, one poor) have failing kidneys, an expensive kidney machine would save them.

Aired 5 April 1969

Michael Vint, an embittered hack reporter from a Sunday newspaper, is sent down into the country to find a story in the love life of an aging has-been writer and his new glamorous young film star wife. The writer is annoyed about the intrusion into his private life, but his wife sees it as an opportunity.

Aired 12 April 1969 • 52 min

Writing for ITV Saturday Night Theatre (1969), Dennis Potter introduced the notion that popular music expresses the yearning of the human spirit for a better world. A troubled young man, David Peters (Ian Holm), claims, "Once dreams were possible, that's what the popular songs told us." Rejecting rock music of the day, Peters is immersed in the tunes of Thirties crooner Al Bowlly (killed during the London blitz). He collects Bowlly memorabilia, publishes the Bowlly fan-club newsletter, and finds pleasure in lip-synching Bowlly records but his obsession with Bowlly masks certain darker events in his past.

Aired 19 April 1969

Aired 26 April 1969

Steve's maverick personality costs him his teaching job. He drops out of conventional society and earns a living by roguish means. Then he meets Paula, who makes him question his ideals and life.

Aired 3 May 1969

Aired 10 May 1969

Aired 17 May 1969

Aired 24 May 1969

Aired 31 May 1969

Aired 7 June 1969

Aired 14 June 1969

Aired 21 June 1969

Aired 28 June 1969

Young Cathy asks her teacher Kate for help with her father Rolf who is still withdrawn and depressed after his wife's fatal car crash sometime ago. However, the line between fantasy and reality complicates matters.

Aired 5 July 1969

Aired 12 July 1969

Aired 19 July 1969

An innocent man is wrongly picked from an identity parade after a factory robbery because he is black.

Aired 19 July 1969

In the basement of a department store after the last bomb of World War Three. A bag lady, calls herself ' the queen ' and exercises complete authority over two befuddled men. That is until an astronaut (who was in space when the bomb fell) finds them.

Aired 26 July 1969

Suddenly and inexplicably Mother and Father find that their previously well behaved adolescent sons are completely unmanageable, reversing the standard family dynamics.

Aired 26 July 1969

Aired 2 August 1969

Aired 2 August 1969

Aired 9 August 1969

Aired 16 August 1969

Aired 23 August 1969

A couple return from their holiday to find their house burnt down. Having no insurance, the husband has no option but to rebuild it himself with the help of local handyman Arthur. Local council bureaucracy hinders all the way.

Aired 30 August 1969