Sunday-Night Play
Season Two
196037 episodes
Episodes
- E1
The Chopping Block
1960-10-23
No episode synopsis available yet.
- E2
Looking for Garrow
1960-10-30
No episode synopsis available yet.
- E3
A Subject of Scandal and Concern
1960-11-06
A dramatized account of a Victorian cause celebre, written by John Osborne and concerning the true story of the last person in England to be tried for blasphemy. Richard Burton plays John George Holyoake, a social reformer who goes on trial for speaking in public about his atheist views. Rachel Roberts plays his wife, and the programme is introduced by Face to Face inquisitor John Freeman.
- E4
The Wind and the Sun
1960-11-13
No episode synopsis available yet.
- E5
The Squeeze
1960-11-20
Big Tom, a Welsh coal miner, has always been in control of his life; but he finds himself increasingly at odds with his growing son, and even begins to wonder if his wife still loves him.
- E6
The Nightwalkers
1960-11-27
No episode synopsis available yet.
- E7
The Assassins
1960-12-04
Ruthless assassins take over an ordinary suburban home in order to commit a political murder - but where do they come from?
- E8
The Song of a March Hare
1960-12-11
No episode synopsis available yet.
- E9
A Time to Fight
1960-12-18
No episode synopsis available yet.
- E10
Tuppence in the Gods
1960-12-25
No episode synopsis available yet.
- E11
Nearer to Heaven
1961-01-01
No episode synopsis available yet.
- E12
Venus Brown
1961-01-08
Jack Brown is devoted to his much younger wife, Venus; but she's not the goddess he thinks she is.
- E13
A Woman Comes Home
1961-01-15
Will home be the sanctuary Bobbie James needs it to be?
- E14
Off Centre
1961-01-22
Joe Hunter must face up to the reality of his existence, and stop having false ideas about himself and his own importance.
- E15
A Kind of Strength
1961-01-29
No episode synopsis available yet.
- E16
The Final Result
1961-02-05
No episode synopsis available yet.
- E17
The Intervener
1961-02-12
No episode synopsis available yet.
- E18
An Inspector Calls
1961-02-19
The comfortable lives of the wealthy Birling family are disrupted when an inspector calls on them to ask awkward questions about a girl who has committed suicide.
- E19
The Mather Story
1961-02-26
No episode synopsis available yet.
- E20
A Reason for Staying
1961-03-05
An Eastern European general who has fled his native country dreams of returning home - and of gaining military power there.
- E21
Old Mick Mack
1961-03-12
No episode synopsis available yet.
- E22
The Wrong Side of the Park
1961-03-19
No episode synopsis available yet.
- E23
Fury in Petticoats
1961-03-26
No episode synopsis available yet.
- E24
Brian Rix Presents #11: A Fair Cop
1961-04-02
No episode synopsis available yet.
- E25
Charley's Aunt
1961-04-16
Lord Fancourt Babberley is required, much against his will, to impersonate the wealthy aunt of his friend Charley.
- E26
Scene of the Accident
1961-04-30
No episode synopsis available yet.
- E27
Marriage Lines
1961-05-14
No episode synopsis available yet.
- E28
Brian Rix Presents #12: Wolf's Clothing
1961-05-21
No episode synopsis available yet.
- E29
Home at Seven
1961-06-04
Mr. Preston always gets home from the office at seven o'clock - but tonight he discovers that a whole day has unaccountably gone missing from his life.
- E30
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?
- E31
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.
- E32
That Lady
1961-07-09
A one-eyed adventuress at the court of Philip II of Spain becomes embroiled in scandal and intrigue.
- E33
Listen James
1961-07-23
No episode synopsis available yet.
- E34
Brian Rix Presents #13: Basinful of the Briny
1961-08-06
No episode synopsis available yet.
- E35
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.
- E36
Wet Fish
1961-09-03
No episode synopsis available yet.
- E37
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. The doctors have told him he needs to remain "for observation". The Colonel takes Sister Parker, the unit head nurse, into his confidence and tells her that the real reason.