Sunday-Night Play
Season 1
196092 episodes
Episodes
- E1
A Walk in the Desert
1960-09-25
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- E2
The Unplayed Part
1960-10-02
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- E3
The Ruffians
1960-10-09
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- E4
Twentieth Century Theatre: Man and Superman
1960-01-24
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- E5
Twentieth Century Theatre: The White Guard
1960-01-31
It is November 1918 and the scene is the city of Kiev in the Ukraine, lately garrisoned by the German Army of Occupation but now threatened by the approach of a large well-equipped army of Cossacks. There's no ammunition and food is desperately short in the city. But still attempts are made to raise an army of citizens to repel the invaders. Describing the impact of the collapse of the Tsarist Empire on a family of officers, this play centres on Alexei Turbin, Colonel of the White Guard, responsible for defending Kiev, and on his beautiful sister Helena, deserted by her husband and in love with a young lieutenant, Leonid Schervinsky.
- E6
Twentieth Century Theatre: Our Betters
1960-02-07
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- E7
Twentieth Century Theatre: MacAdam and Eve
1960-02-14
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- E8
Brian Rix Presents: Is Your Honeymoon Really Necessary?
1960-02-21
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- E9
Twentieth Century Theatre: The Conquering Hero
1960-02-28
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- E10
Twentieth Century Theatre: Journey's End
1960-03-06
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- E11
Twentieth Century Theatre: The Fanatics
1960-03-13
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- E12
Twentieth Century Theatre: Young Woodley
1960-03-20
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- E13
Twentieth Century Theatre: I Have Been Here Before
1960-03-27
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- E14
Twentieth Century Theatre: The Price of Freedom
1960-04-03
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- E15
Twentieth Century Theatre: Glorious Morning
1960-04-10
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- E16
Twentieth Century Theatre: The Queen Came By
1960-04-17
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- E17
Twentieth Century Theatre: Love on the Dole
1960-04-24
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- E18
Twentieth Century Theatre: The Vortex
1960-05-01
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- E19
Twentieth Century Theatre: Judgment Day
1960-05-08
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- E20
Twentieth Century Theatre: Aren't We All
1960-05-15
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- E21
Twentieth Century Theatre: The Elder Statesman
1960-05-22
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- E22
Twentieth Century Theatre: The Assassin
1960-05-29
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- E23
Twentieth Century Theatre: Doctor in the House
1960-06-05
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- E24
Twentieth Century Theatre: Mr. Gillie
1960-06-12
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- E25
Twentieth Century Theatre: The Insect Play
1960-06-19
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- E26
Twentieth Century Theatre: Musical Chairs
1960-06-26
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- E27
Playhouse 90: A Town Has Turned to Dust
1960-07-03
A weakling sheriff is unable to prevent a lynching. Can he redeem himself by preventing a second one?
- E28
Summer Theatre: June Evening
1960-07-10
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- E29
Summer Theatre: You're a Long Time Dead
1960-07-17
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- E30
Summer Theatre: My Flesh, My Blood
1960-07-24
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- E31
Summer Theatre: The Critical Point
1960-07-31
Dr. Gage, involved in cryogenics, volunteers to be the first frozen man after murdering his wife. Dr. Mortimer discovers who killed his wife and ponders whether he should play judge and jury by switching Dr. Gage's freezing machine off?
- E32
Summer Theatre: A Dream of Treason
1960-08-07
Lambert, a government official, is required to leak a secret document - which may have serious consequences.
- E33
Summer Theatre: The Devil's General
1960-08-14
General Harras, a hero of the First World War, finds himself increasingly at odds with the new Germany of Adolf Hitler.
- E34
Summer Theatre: The Liberators
1960-08-21
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- E35
Summer Theatre: The Small Victory
1960-08-28
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- E36
Summer Theatre: Death of a Guest
1960-09-04
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- E37
Brian Rix Presents: Reluctant Heroes
1960-09-11
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- E38
Summer Theatre: An English Summer
1960-09-18
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- E39
A Walk in the Desert
1960-09-25
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- E40
The Unplayed Part
1960-10-02
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- E41
The Ruffians
1960-10-09
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- E42
Pay Day
1960-10-16
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- E81
Affair of State
1961-12-31
Philip is much older than his wife, who is, he discovers, having an affair with his friend George. When he introduces George to a young woman, he has an ulterior motive.
- E82
The Barretts of Wimpole Street
1961-12-24
Elizabeth Barrett's tyrannical father has forbidden any of his family to marry. Nevertheless, Elizabeth falls in love with the poet Robert Browning.
- E83
The Judge and His Hangman
1961-12-17
Inspector Barlach is ruthless in pursuit of an arrest, and doesn't seem to care if anyone else gets hurt along the way.
- E84
Centenary Year
1961-12-10
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- E85
Somewhere for the Night
1961-12-03
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- E86
She Stoops to Conquer
1961-11-26
Hardcastle, a man of substance, looks forward to acquainting his daughter with his old pal's son with a view to marriage. But thanks to playboy Lumpkin, he's mistaken by his prospective son-in-law Marlow for an innkeeper, his daughter for the local barmaid. The good news is, while Marlow can barely speak to a woman of quality he's a charmer with those of a different stamp.
- E87
Cross of Iron
1961-11-19
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- E88
Brian Rix Presents #14: Flat Spin
1961-11-12
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- E89
The Test
1961-11-05
Pressure mounts on a group of scientists as they urgently prepare to test a new top secret weapon.
- E90
Hello Ragtime
1961-10-29
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- E91
The Big Noise
1961-10-22
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- E92
What Every Woman Knows
1961-10-15
Maggie Wylie isn't very beautiful. She isn't even very young any more. But fortunately there is more to Maggie than meets the eye.
- E93
Faraway Places
1961-10-08
Kindly, mild mannered clerk Arthur Bruce dreams of traveling to distant lands and reads books about faraway places.
- E94
A Clean Kill
1961-10-01
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- E95
The Hasty Heart
1961-09-17
It's 1945, Burma, the day the war is over! For many this means they've survived and will be going home. But not for everyone. A Scottish soldier, Corporal Lachlan "Lachie" MacLachlan is the victim of a wound to the lower back on this day. He's moved to a M.A.S.H. unit and undergoes surgery. As time goes by he begins to recover and watches, in dismay as soldiers pack up and head for home.
- E96
Wet Fish
1961-09-03
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- E97
The Winslow Boy
1961-08-20
The Winslow family return from church to their house in South Kensington on a summer morning in 1912 not knowing how their lives will be altered by their son, Ronnie, who has been expelled from Naval College for stealing a five shilling postal order.
- E98
Brian Rix presents: Basinful of the Briny
1961-08-06
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- E99
That Lady
1961-07-09
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- E100
A Call on Kuprin: Part 1
1961-06-18
After the manned satellite, the armed satellite. Kuprin, the Soviet scientist, is working on a warhead for the Chelovyek. But Laye-Parker, M.P., and Smith, a Lobby Correspondent at the House of Commons, remember him at Cambridge before the war as an Anglophile married to an English woman. Can they, by a personal approach, persuade him to return to this country?
- E101
A Call on Kuprin: Part 2
1961-06-25
Laye-Parker, M.P., and Smith, a Lobby Correspondent, have reached Moscow in their search for Kuprin, a Soviet rocket expert whom they knew at Cambridge and whom they hope to persuade to return to England. Now Laye-Parker has been arrested by the M.V.D. on unspecified charges, and Smith, a reluctant partner in the enterprise, must carry on the search alone.
- E102
Home at Seven
1961-06-04
Home at seven as usual after just another Monday at the office - or that is what Mr. Preston thought. But in fact it is Tuesday and he has no recollection of the past twenty-four hours. It soon becomes vital to fill this gap in his memory.
- E103
Brian Rix presents: Wolf's Clothing
1961-05-21
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- E104
Marriage Lines
1961-05-14
A comedy of marriage, set in the secure partnership of two mature and worldly people, examines what happens when an envious free-lance tries to rock the boat.
- E105
Scene of the Accident
1961-04-30
When a prominent Q.C. is knocked down and killed by a car, the driver's Insurance Company is faced with paying out on a very substantial claim. Briefed to investigate possible grounds for disputing liability, Sam Holford unearths a delicate and intriguing situation.
- E106
Charley's Aunt
1961-04-16
I'm Charley's Aunt from Brazil - where the nuts come from.
- E107
Brian Rix presents: A Fair Cop
1961-04-02
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- E108
Fury in Petticoats
1961-03-26
It is 1837 and we are in the home of the Rev. William Dill, the vicar of a small parish in England. Life there is peaceful and leisurely until one day the vicar welcomes into his household a native girl brought from Tierra del Fuego by a Mr. Charles Darwin....
- E109
The Wrong Side of the Park
1961-03-19
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- E110
Old Mick Mack
1961-03-12
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- E111
A Reason for Staying
1961-03-05
A group of Eastern European emigres, now living in England, still hope that they will one day return to their home-land in authority. But one of them, a general, has a reason for staying.....
- E112
The Mather Story
1961-02-26
A serious accusation by a famous artist about the work of another gives John Ramsay a chance to 'get something into the paper' and perhaps to keep his job on the Sunday Herald. But rapidly the story becomes a challenge-to his skill, and to his responsibility.
- E113
An Inspector Calls
1961-02-19
Spring, 1912 - for the wealthy a time of good living, gaiety, and a belief in the unshakability of the status quo. Mr. and Mrs. Birling are celebrating the engagement of their daughter Sheila to Gerald Croft, heir to a title; it is the pinnacle of Mr. Birling's successful rise in society.....
- E114
The Intervener
1961-02-12
Jeremy Penlove is a London solicitor and a confirmed bachelor. His life is placid and uncomplicated until, one fine summer's day, a new client, Lily Forrester, walks into his office to turn his world upside down.
- E115
The Final Result
1961-02-05
John Horner's father, mother, and sister are waiting to hear the result of his degree examination. He is the only one who is not surprised: it is what he expected it to be. It is this result, and the action John takes as a consequence, which reveals, nakedly, the conflict within this family group.
- E116
A Kind of Strength
1961-01-29
Two men, both trapped in the world of commerce, struggle for freedom. In facing the truth about themselves, the decisions they have to make need a rare kind of strength.
- E117
Off Centre
1961-01-22
Joe Hunter is a scientist living two lives: one as he sees himself, and the other as the world, sees him. The story spans the years from 1917, when he was a young pilot in the Royal Flying Corps, to the present day - when the man and his ideas come into headlong collision.
- E118
A Woman Comes Home
1961-01-15
Home has many meanings; a refuge from strain, the start of 'growing up'; the source of compassion and understanding. When these are lost there is desolation, but if they are fought for, no matter with what human frailty, life may grow again out of a new wisdom.
- E119
Venus Brown
1961-01-08
For Jack Brown, his wife Venus is a goddess in more than name. But she is not a goddess, she is a human being, and it is dangerous to worship human beings.
- E120
Nearer to Heaven
1961-01-01
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- E121
The Chopping Block
1960-10-23
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- E122
Looking for Garrow
1960-10-30
American business woman Clarissa comes to England seeking one J.S. Garrow - author of an alarmingly frank new novel. But it looks as though her teenage daughter has already found Garrow - and he is franker and more alarming than his book!
- E123
A Subject of Scandal and Concern
1960-11-06
In 1842, a rebel in Cheltenham and Gloucester imprisoned for his beliefs and for the right to express them.
- E124
The Wind and the Sun
1960-11-13
Ruth and Lewis Miller's marriage is almost at breaking point. The result upon their two children of the tension created by this situation is revealed in the play as an important question in modern life. The play is not regarded as suitable for viewing by children.
- E125
The Squeeze
1960-11-20
Should Big Tom, a colliery face repairer, confronted by the onset of middle age, continue with his work at the risk of his life, or settle for something safer at the risk of his self-respect?
- E126
The Nightwalkers
1960-11-27
A young British student wandering through France today becomes involved with remnants of a former French Resistance group.
- E127
The Assassins
1960-12-04
A quiet evening at home for a normal fairly prosperous middle-class family is suddenly disrupted by the arrival of two strangers - two men with a mission, fanatical and ruthless, prepared to kill if necessary; but these men are not criminals-they would be described by some as patriots.
- E128
The Song of a March Hare
1960-12-11
Crumble is convinced that he was born for success in business. All he needs is a chance to prove it, and this comes with an unexpected legacy.
- E129
A Time to Fight
1960-12-18
Housewife Ellen Manders had no reason to suspect that this evening was going to be any different from any other until her husband arrived home late with his shoes and brief-case covered in mud.
- E130
Tuppence in the Gods
1960-12-25
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