TV series
Sunday Night Theatre
1950–, English, on BBC Television.
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.
- Seasons
- 10
- Episodes
- 168
- Episode length
- Varies
- Status
- Still running
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Latest episode
S10 E50: Echo from Afar
Aired 13 December 1959
Seasons 10
Cast & crew
- Michael BrennanCast · 19 ep
- Oliver MacGreevyCast · 13 ep
- Michael HordernMaurice Lammering · 12 ep
- Rupert DaviesThomas Cromwell · 11 ep
- Sarah LawsonElizabeth Gray · 10 ep
- Marius GoringChorus · 9 ep
- Evelyn MooreMrs. Johnson's School Friend · 9 ep
- Raymond HuntleyGordon Meslin · 9 ep
- Wolfe MorrisPepe · 8 ep
- Peter BullTommy · 7 ep
- Margaretta ScottEmpress Elizabeth · 6 ep
- Gerard HeinzDr. Justinus van Galen · 6 ep
Details
- First aired
- 1 January 1950
- Network
- BBC Television
- Language
- English
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Type
- Scripted
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