Sunday Night Theatre

1. Hindle Wakes

Air Date: 1950-01-01

4. Cheapside

Air Date: 1950-01-22

6. The Scarlet Pimpernel

Air Date: 1950-02-05

A noblewoman discovers her husband is The Scarlet Pimpernel, a vigilante who rescues aristocrats from the blade of the guillotine.

7. The Indifferent Shepherd

Air Date: 1950-02-12

10. The Seagull

Air Date: 1950-03-05

This quintessential Chekhov drama--his first success--is both comic and tragic. A group of friends and relations gather at a country estate to see the first performance of an experimental play written and staged by the young man of the house, Konstantin, an aspiring writer who dreams of bringing new forms to the theatre.

11. The Lady's Not for Burning

Air Date: 1950-03-12

16. Promise of Tomorrow

Air Date: 1950-04-16

Marius Goring stars as Tommy Savidge, a crippled poet who longs to compose verse dramas but is forced to write trashy plays for dingy provincial repertory companies to make a living.

17. Othello

Air Date: 1950-04-23

31. Adventure Story

Air Date: 1950-07-30

The story of Alexander the Great, a compulsive conqueror.

36. Vanity Fair

Air Date: 1950-09-03

40. Party Manners

Air Date: 1950-10-01

2. The Scarlet Pimpernel

Air Date: 1951-01-14

During the French Revolution, a mysterious English nobleman known only as The Scarlet Pimpernel (a humble wayside flower), snatches French aristos from the jaws of the guillotine, while posing as the foppish Sir Percy Blakeney in society. Percy falls for and marries the beautiful actress Marguerite St. Just, but she is involved with Chauvelin and Robespierre, and Percy's marriage to her may endanger the Pimpernel's plans to save the little Dauphin.

6. The Skin Game

Air Date: 1951-02-03

8. Julius Caesar

Air Date: 1951-02-25

The growing ambition of Julius Caesar is a source of major concern to his close friend Brutus. Cassius persuades him to participate in his plot to assassinate Caesar but they have both sorely underestimated Mark Antony.

9. Julius Caesar/II

Air Date: 1951-03-01

The growing ambition of Julius Caesar is a source of major concern to his close friend Brutus. Cassius persuades him to participate in his plot to assassinate Caesar but they have both sorely underestimated Mark Antony.

13. The Voysey Inheritance

Air Date: 1951-04-01

16. The Life of King Henry V (Part One)

Air Date: 1951-04-22

In the midst of the Hundred Years' War, the young King Henry V of England embarks on the conquest of France in 1415.

17. The Life of Henry V (Part Two)

Air Date: 1951-04-29

In the midst of the Hundred Years' War, the young King Henry V of England embarks on the conquest of France in 1415.

31. The Silent Village

Air Date: 1951-08-05

8. The Wanderer

Air Date: 1952-02-24

9. The Wild Duck

Air Date: 1952-03-02

13. Mourning Becomes Elektra

Air Date: 1952-03-30

29. Arrow to the Heart (I)

Air Date: 1952-07-20

31. Her Royal Highness

Air Date: 1952-08-03

40. Strange Orchestra

Air Date: 1952-10-05

46. The Merry Wives of Windsor

Air Date: 1952-11-16

47. No Cross, No Crown

Air Date: 1952-11-23

6. Our Marie

Air Date: 1953-02-08

11. As You Like It

Air Date: 1953-03-15

After the overthrowing of Duke Senior by his tyrannical brother, Senior's daughter Rosalind disguises herself as a man and sets out to find her banished father while also counseling her clumsy suitor Orlando in the art of wooing.

12. As You Like It/II

Air Date: 1953-03-19

After the overthrowing of Duke Senior by his tyrannical brother, Senior's daughter Rosalind disguises herself as a man and sets out to find her banished father while also counseling her clumsy suitor Orlando in the art of wooing.

15. L'Aiglon

Air Date: 1953-04-12

32. Sounding Brass

Air Date: 1953-08-09

28. The Promised Years #3: The Small Victory

Air Date: 1954-07-11

32. Captain Banner

Air Date: 1954-08-08

38. Troilus and Cressida

Air Date: 1954-09-19

During the Trojan War, a Trojan warrior is distraught when his lover takes up with a Greek.

39. Troilus and Cressida/II

Air Date: 1954-09-23

During the Trojan War, a Trojan warrior is distraught when his lover takes up with a Greek.

42. Ninety Sail

Air Date: 1954-10-17

45. The Silent People

Air Date: 1954-11-07

50. Nineteen Eighty-Four

Air Date: 1954-12-12

In a totalitarian future society, Winston Smith, whose daily work is re-writing history, tries to rebel by falling in love.

51. Stand Still Time

Air Date: 1954-12-19

8. Candida

Air Date: 1955-02-20

The idealist Reverend Morell tries to unite Socialism and Christianity.

11. The Merchant of Venice

Air Date: 1955-03-13

A rich merchant, Antonio is depressed for no good reason, until his good friend Bassanio comes to tell him how he's in love with Portia. Portia's father has died and left a very strange will: only the man that picks the correct casket out of three (silver, gold, and lead) can marry her. Bassanio, unfortunately, is strapped for cash with which to go wooing, and Antonio wants to help, so Antonio borrows the money from Shylock, the money-lender. But Shylock has been nursing a grudge against Antonio's insults, and makes unusual terms to the loan. And when Antonio's business fails, those terms threaten his life, and it's up to Bassanio and Portia to save him.

12. The Merchant of Venice/II

Air Date: 1955-03-17

A rich merchant, Antonio is depressed for no good reason, until his good friend Bassanio comes to tell him how he's in love with Portia. Portia's father has died and left a very strange will: only the man that picks the correct casket out of three (silver, gold, and lead) can marry her. Bassanio, unfortunately, is strapped for cash with which to go wooing, and Antonio wants to help, so Antonio borrows the money from Shylock, the money-lender. But Shylock has been nursing a grudge against Antonio's insults, and makes unusual terms to the loan. And when Antonio's business fails, those terms threaten his life, and it's up to Bassanio and Portia to save him.

18. It Could Happen Only in Paris

Air Date: 1955-05-01

21. Romeo and Juliet

Air Date: 1955-05-22

In Shakespeare's classic play, the Montagues and Capulets, two families of Renaissance Italy, have hated each other for years, but the son of one family and the daughter of the other fall desperately in love and secretly marry.

35. A Life in the Sun

Air Date: 1955-08-28

43. The Makepeace Story #2: A New Generation

Air Date: 1955-10-23

44. The Makepeace Story #3: Family Business

Air Date: 1955-10-30

51. The Devil's General

Air Date: 1955-12-18

A veteran hero of the German army finds himself at odds with the Nazi regime.

6. The White Falcon

Air Date: 1956-02-05

An examination of the fatal romance between Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn.

11. The Mayerling Affair

Air Date: 1956-03-11

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.

20. Shout Aloud Salvation (II)

Air Date: 1956-05-13

24. Desert Duel

Air Date: 1956-06-10

27. The Fugitive

Air Date: 1956-07-01

31. The Cold Light

Air Date: 1956-07-29

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.

40. One Morning Near Troodos

Air Date: 1956-09-30

53. Clive of India

Air Date: 1956-12-30

A portrayal of the life of the eighteenth century soldier and politician, particularly focusing on his victory at the Battle of Plassey.

10. Twelfth Night

Air Date: 1957-03-10

Viola and Sebastian are lookalike twins, separated by a shipwreck. Viola lands in Illyria, where she disguises herself like her brother and goes into the service of the Duke Orsino. Orsino sends her to help him woo the Lady Olivia, who doesn't want the Duke, but finds that she likes the new messenger the Duke's sending. Then, of course, Viola's brother shows up, and merry hell breaks loose. Meanwhile, Olivia's uncle and his cohorts are trying to find some way to get back at Olivia's officious majordomo, Malvolio.

13. Requiem for a Heavyweight

Air Date: 1957-03-31

An over-the-hill heavyweight boxing champion who suffers from the ravages of years of head trauma is exploited by his manager, despite the efforts of a compassionate young woman who tries to help him recover his self-respect.

23. The Lass of Richmond Hill

Air Date: 1957-06-09

The Prince of Wales, contrary to strict royal protocol, falls in love with a commoner, Maria Fitzherbert, and plans to marry her.

26. Abe Lincoln in Illinois

Air Date: 1957-06-30

Before becoming one of America's greatest presidents, Abraham Lincoln had a long career as a businessman, lawyer, government official and elected representative for the state of Illinois. This film looks at the rise of this self-educated statesman, including his famous series of public debates with rival Stephen Douglas. A glimpse is also shown of some of the more personal aspects of his Lincoln's life, including the early romance and heartbreak he experienced with Ann Rutledge.

28. The Magnificent Egotist

Air Date: 1957-07-14

50. The Laughing Woman

Air Date: 1958-12-14

19. The Fortrose Incident

Air Date: 1959-05-10

28. Farewell My City

Air Date: 1959-07-12

49. Maigret and the Lost Life

Air Date: 1959-04-12

Maigret, that most human of French detectives, sets out to solve the mystery surrounding the brutal murder of a girl whose body has been found in a street near Place Pigalle in the heart of Paris.