ITV Saturday Night Theatre

Season 3

1970 · 33 episodes

Episodes

1. 1

   1. The Exiles: Jennie

   10 Oct 1970

2. 2

   2. The Exiles: Emma

   17 Oct 1970

3. 3

   3. The Exiles: Zo

   24 Oct 1970

4. 4

   4. Visit from a Stranger

   30 Oct 1970

5. 5

   5. Roll on Four O'Clock

   19 Dec 1970

   In a city comprehensive school that has low expectations and ambitions, pupil Peter Latimer does not conform to the macho culture, and is labeled a homosexual. This leads to bullying, both by the pupils and by some of the teachers.

6. 6

   6. The Policeman and the Cook

   26 Dec 1970

   Murder mystery in a boarding house based on a Wilkie Collins story.

7. 7

   7. The Dead

   2 Jan 1971

   Its Christmas 1901, and a group of Dubliners make their annual call on Granny Morkan's island. As the music and wine flows Gabriel's initial contentment with his wife Gretta changes as he realizes his wife's mind is far away thinking about one of the departed just remembered by all - but which one?

8. 8

   8. Tales of Piccadilly: Behind the Spearmint Sign

   9 Jan 1971

   Private investigator Harry is find his life & work involving debt collection and the like boring and humdrum.Then Helen enters his life with an exciting case involving her missing husband.

9. 9

   9. Tales of Piccadilly: A Room Full of Holes

   16 Jan 1971

   Pete and Glynis meet in a post office queue for booking long distance phone calls overseas. Their loved ones abroad become less important as they both discover they have a mutual appreciation of Rembrandt.

10. 10

    10. Tales of Piccadilly: The Way Out

    23 Jan 1971

11. 11

    11. Big Soft Nellie

    21 Feb 1971

12. 12

    12. Anna of the Five Towns

    28 Feb 1971

13. 13

    13. Hari-Kari and Sally

    7 Mar 1971

14. 14

    14. The Hotel in Amsterdam

    14 Feb 1971

15. 15

    15. Pandora

    21 Mar 1971

16. 16

    16. The Price

    28 Mar 1971

    A family convenes after the death of the father. Two brothers and their mother come to terms with the sacrifices and misunderstandings they have carried since the children left home.

17. 17

    17. Arms and the Man

    4 Apr 1971

    1865: Swiss captain Bluntschli fights as mercenary in the war between Bulgaria and Serbia. When his group's attacked by a few Bulgarian troopers, he learns that he's got the wrong ammunition for his cannon and has to flee. His flight leads him right into the bedroom of his enemy's fiancée.

18. 18

    18. Love Doesn't Grow on Trees

    11 Apr 1971

19. 19

    19. The Silver Collection

    23 May 1971

    Rachel works in a museum, showing people round the silver collection. Jim, a carpenter, suggests she may be too far removed from real life.

20. 20

    20. The Shopper

    30 May 1971

21. 21

    21. Man and Boy

    6 Jun 1971

    An unscrupulous financial manipulator is down on his luck, and does not hesitate to involve his long-estranged son in his shady dealings.

22. 22

    22. Paper Roses

    13 Jun 1971

    Facing retirement, elderly journalist Clarence Hubbard reflects on the pointlessness of a life wasted writing banal tabloid human interest, animal, and crime stories. Rather than go quietly to tend roses in a garden, Hubbard begins a series of violent actions not unlike those described in tabloids, and this is heightened by inter cutting tabloid headlines between scenes. Throughout, there are occasional shots of a television critic who watches this very play as it unfolds, and he writes a negative review filled with cleverly phrased but bitter invective.

23. 23

    23. The Prize

    20 Jun 1971

24. 24

    24. Square

    27 Jun 1971

25. 25

    25. Alice Dancing

    4 Jul 1971

26. 26

    26. Square One

    10 Jul 1971

27. 27

    27. After a Lifetime

    18 Jul 1971

    The death of 64-year-old engineer Billy Scully leads his two adult sons to reflect on another side of their father, his lifelong political commitment as an activist and trade unionist.

28. 28

    28. Mr. Pargiter

    24 Jul 1971

29. 29

    29. One More on Top

    1 Aug 1971

30. 30

    30. Hamlet

    8 Aug 1971

    Hamlet suspects his uncle has murdered his father to claim the throne of Denmark and the hand of Hamlet's mother, but the prince cannot decide whether or not he should take vengeance.

31. 31

    31. The Chaps

    14 Aug 1971

32. 32

    32. Giants and Ogres

    22 Aug 1971

    On learning of the death of his ex-wife, American businessman Sam Dirk arranges to meet Daniel - the son he has never known. Sam's attempts at reconciliation seem doomed as Daniel doesn't seem to want to know his father.

33. 33

    33. Green Julia

    29 Aug 1971