ITV Saturday Night Theatre

Series 1

1969 · 37 episodes · 0h 52m in all

Episodes

1. 1

   1. Park People

   11 Jan 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.

2. 2

   2. Bangelstein's Boys

   18 Jan 1969

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

3. 3

   3. My Bonnie Jean

   25 Jan 1969

4. 4

   4. MacNeil

   1 Feb 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.

5. 5

   5. Cornelius

   8 Feb 1969

6. 6

   6. Emlyn

   15 Feb 1969

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

7. 7

   7. Tiger Trap in the Street

   22 Feb 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.

8. 8

   8. An Hour of Love #1: The Bind

   1 Mar 1969

9. 9

   9. An Hour of Love #2: Anatomy of a Divorce

   1 Mar 1969

10. 10

    10. The Piano Tuner

    8 Mar 1969

11. 11

    11. Pig in a Poke

    15 Mar 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.

12. 12

    12. Machine

    22 Mar 1969

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

13. 14

    14. The Dirt on Lucy Lane

    5 Apr 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.

14. 15

    15. Moonlight on the Highway

    12 Apr 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.

15. 16

    16. Hazel and Her New Gas Cooker

    19 Apr 1969

16. 17

    17. Steve

    26 Apr 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.

17. 18

    18. Toys

    3 May 1969

18. 19

    19. Rogues Gallery: The Bright Eyed Body Snatcher

    10 May 1969

19. 20

    20. Rogues Gallery: The Wicked Stage

    17 May 1969

20. 21

    21. Rogues Gallery: The Timorous Rake

    24 May 1969

21. 22

    22. Rogues Gallery: The Fearful Image

    31 May 1969

22. 23

    23. Rogues Gallery: A Bed Full of Miracles

    7 Jun 1969

23. 24

    24. Rogues Gallery: The Prude Pursued

    14 Jun 1969

24. 25

    25. The Innocent Ceremony

    21 Jun 1969

25. 26

    26. The Haunting

    28 Jun 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.

26. 27

    27. A Measure of Malice

    5 Jul 1969

27. 28

    28. Better Dead

    12 Jul 1969

28. 29

    29. Every Day of the Life Man

    19 Jul 1969

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

29. 30

    30. Salve Regina

    19 Jul 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.

30. 31

    31. Takeover

    26 Jul 1969

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

31. 32

    32. Two Hundred Miles by Train

    26 Jul 1969

32. 33

    33. The Funeral of Queen Victoria

    2 Aug 1969

33. 34

    34. The Garbler Strategy

    2 Aug 1969

34. 35

    35. Travelling Where?

    9 Aug 1969

35. 36

    36. Two Feet Off the Ground

    16 Aug 1969

36. 37

    37. Fly Away Home

    23 Aug 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.

37. 38

    38. The Talking Head

    30 Aug 1969