Season 1
Episodes
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1. A Walk in the Desert
25 Sept 1960
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2. The Unplayed Part
2 Oct 1960
- 3
3. The Ruffians
9 Oct 1960
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4. Twentieth Century Theatre: Man and Superman
24 Jan 1960
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5. Twentieth Century Theatre: The White Guard
31 Jan 1960
It is November 1918 and the scene is the city of Kiev in the Ukraine, lately garrisoned by the German Army of Occupation but now threatened by the approach of a large well-equipped army of Cossacks. There's no ammunition and food is desperately short in the city. But still attempts are made to raise an army of citizens to repel the invaders. Describing the impact of the collapse of the Tsarist Empire on a family of officers, this play centres on Alexei Turbin, Colonel of the White Guard, responsible for defending Kiev, and on his beautiful sister Helena, deserted by her husband and in love with a young lieutenant, Leonid Schervinsky.
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6. Twentieth Century Theatre: Our Betters
7 Feb 1960
- 7
7. Twentieth Century Theatre: MacAdam and Eve
14 Feb 1960
- 8
8. Brian Rix Presents: Is Your Honeymoon Really Necessary?
21 Feb 1960
- 9
9. Twentieth Century Theatre: The Conquering Hero
28 Feb 1960
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10. Twentieth Century Theatre: Journey's End
6 Mar 1960
- 11
11. Twentieth Century Theatre: The Fanatics
13 Mar 1960
- 12
12. Twentieth Century Theatre: Young Woodley
20 Mar 1960
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13. Twentieth Century Theatre: I Have Been Here Before
27 Mar 1960
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14. Twentieth Century Theatre: The Price of Freedom
3 Apr 1960
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15. Twentieth Century Theatre: Glorious Morning
10 Apr 1960
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16. Twentieth Century Theatre: The Queen Came By
17 Apr 1960
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17. Twentieth Century Theatre: Love on the Dole
24 Apr 1960
- 18
18. Twentieth Century Theatre: The Vortex
1 May 1960
- 19
19. Twentieth Century Theatre: Judgment Day
8 May 1960
- 20
20. Twentieth Century Theatre: Aren't We All
15 May 1960
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21. Twentieth Century Theatre: The Elder Statesman
22 May 1960
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22. Twentieth Century Theatre: The Assassin
29 May 1960
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23. Twentieth Century Theatre: Doctor in the House
5 Jun 1960
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24. Twentieth Century Theatre: Mr. Gillie
12 Jun 1960
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25. Twentieth Century Theatre: The Insect Play
19 Jun 1960
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26. Twentieth Century Theatre: Musical Chairs
26 Jun 1960
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27. Playhouse 90: A Town Has Turned to Dust
3 Jul 1960
A weakling sheriff is unable to prevent a lynching. Can he redeem himself by preventing a second one?
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28. Summer Theatre: June Evening
10 Jul 1960
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29. Summer Theatre: You're a Long Time Dead
17 Jul 1960
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30. Summer Theatre: My Flesh, My Blood
24 Jul 1960
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31. Summer Theatre: The Critical Point
31 Jul 1960
Dr. Gage, involved in cryogenics, volunteers to be the first frozen man after murdering his wife. Dr. Mortimer discovers who killed his wife and ponders whether he should play judge and jury by switching Dr. Gage's freezing machine off?
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32. Summer Theatre: A Dream of Treason
7 Aug 1960
Lambert, a government official, is required to leak a secret document - which may have serious consequences.
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33. Summer Theatre: The Devil's General
14 Aug 1960
General Harras, a hero of the First World War, finds himself increasingly at odds with the new Germany of Adolf Hitler.
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34. Summer Theatre: The Liberators
21 Aug 1960
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35. Summer Theatre: The Small Victory
28 Aug 1960
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36. Summer Theatre: Death of a Guest
4 Sept 1960
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37. Brian Rix Presents: Reluctant Heroes
11 Sept 1960
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38. Summer Theatre: An English Summer
18 Sept 1960
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39. A Walk in the Desert
25 Sept 1960
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40. The Unplayed Part
2 Oct 1960
- 41
41. The Ruffians
9 Oct 1960
- 42
42. Pay Day
16 Oct 1960
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81. Affair of State
31 Dec 1961
Philip is much older than his wife, who is, he discovers, having an affair with his friend George. When he introduces George to a young woman, he has an ulterior motive.
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82. The Barretts of Wimpole Street
24 Dec 1961
Elizabeth Barrett's tyrannical father has forbidden any of his family to marry. Nevertheless, Elizabeth falls in love with the poet Robert Browning.
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83. The Judge and His Hangman
17 Dec 1961
Inspector Barlach is ruthless in pursuit of an arrest, and doesn't seem to care if anyone else gets hurt along the way.
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84. Centenary Year
10 Dec 1961
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85. Somewhere for the Night
3 Dec 1961
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86. She Stoops to Conquer
26 Nov 1961
Hardcastle, a man of substance, looks forward to acquainting his daughter with his old pal's son with a view to marriage. But thanks to playboy Lumpkin, he's mistaken by his prospective son-in-law Marlow for an innkeeper, his daughter for the local barmaid. The good news is, while Marlow can barely speak to a woman of quality he's a charmer with those of a different stamp.
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87. Cross of Iron
19 Nov 1961
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88. Brian Rix Presents #14: Flat Spin
12 Nov 1961
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89. The Test
5 Nov 1961
Pressure mounts on a group of scientists as they urgently prepare to test a new top secret weapon.
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90. Hello Ragtime
29 Oct 1961
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91. The Big Noise
22 Oct 1961
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92. What Every Woman Knows
15 Oct 1961
Maggie Wylie isn't very beautiful. She isn't even very young any more. But fortunately there is more to Maggie than meets the eye.
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93. Faraway Places
8 Oct 1961
Kindly, mild mannered clerk Arthur Bruce dreams of traveling to distant lands and reads books about faraway places.
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94. A Clean Kill
1 Oct 1961
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95. The Hasty Heart
17 Sept 1961
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.
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96. Wet Fish
3 Sept 1961
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97. The Winslow Boy
20 Aug 1961
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.
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98. Brian Rix presents: Basinful of the Briny
6 Aug 1961
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99. That Lady
9 Jul 1961
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100. A Call on Kuprin: Part 1
18 Jun 1961
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?
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101. A Call on Kuprin: Part 2
25 Jun 1961
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.
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102. Home at Seven
4 Jun 1961
Home at seven as usual after just another Monday at the office - or that is what Mr. Preston thought. But in fact it is Tuesday and he has no recollection of the past twenty-four hours. It soon becomes vital to fill this gap in his memory.
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103. Brian Rix presents: Wolf's Clothing
21 May 1961
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104. Marriage Lines
14 May 1961
A comedy of marriage, set in the secure partnership of two mature and worldly people, examines what happens when an envious free-lance tries to rock the boat.
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105. Scene of the Accident
30 Apr 1961
When a prominent Q.C. is knocked down and killed by a car, the driver's Insurance Company is faced with paying out on a very substantial claim. Briefed to investigate possible grounds for disputing liability, Sam Holford unearths a delicate and intriguing situation.
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106. Charley's Aunt
16 Apr 1961
I'm Charley's Aunt from Brazil - where the nuts come from.
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107. Brian Rix presents: A Fair Cop
2 Apr 1961
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108. Fury in Petticoats
26 Mar 1961
It is 1837 and we are in the home of the Rev. William Dill, the vicar of a small parish in England. Life there is peaceful and leisurely until one day the vicar welcomes into his household a native girl brought from Tierra del Fuego by a Mr. Charles Darwin....
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109. The Wrong Side of the Park
19 Mar 1961
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110. Old Mick Mack
12 Mar 1961
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111. A Reason for Staying
5 Mar 1961
A group of Eastern European emigres, now living in England, still hope that they will one day return to their home-land in authority. But one of them, a general, has a reason for staying.....
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112. The Mather Story
26 Feb 1961
A serious accusation by a famous artist about the work of another gives John Ramsay a chance to 'get something into the paper' and perhaps to keep his job on the Sunday Herald. But rapidly the story becomes a challenge-to his skill, and to his responsibility.
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113. An Inspector Calls
19 Feb 1961
Spring, 1912 - for the wealthy a time of good living, gaiety, and a belief in the unshakability of the status quo. Mr. and Mrs. Birling are celebrating the engagement of their daughter Sheila to Gerald Croft, heir to a title; it is the pinnacle of Mr. Birling's successful rise in society.....
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114. The Intervener
12 Feb 1961
Jeremy Penlove is a London solicitor and a confirmed bachelor. His life is placid and uncomplicated until, one fine summer's day, a new client, Lily Forrester, walks into his office to turn his world upside down.
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115. The Final Result
5 Feb 1961
John Horner's father, mother, and sister are waiting to hear the result of his degree examination. He is the only one who is not surprised: it is what he expected it to be. It is this result, and the action John takes as a consequence, which reveals, nakedly, the conflict within this family group.
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116. A Kind of Strength
29 Jan 1961
Two men, both trapped in the world of commerce, struggle for freedom. In facing the truth about themselves, the decisions they have to make need a rare kind of strength.
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117. Off Centre
22 Jan 1961
Joe Hunter is a scientist living two lives: one as he sees himself, and the other as the world, sees him. The story spans the years from 1917, when he was a young pilot in the Royal Flying Corps, to the present day - when the man and his ideas come into headlong collision.
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118. A Woman Comes Home
15 Jan 1961
Home has many meanings; a refuge from strain, the start of 'growing up'; the source of compassion and understanding. When these are lost there is desolation, but if they are fought for, no matter with what human frailty, life may grow again out of a new wisdom.
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119. Venus Brown
8 Jan 1961
For Jack Brown, his wife Venus is a goddess in more than name. But she is not a goddess, she is a human being, and it is dangerous to worship human beings.
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120. Nearer to Heaven
1 Jan 1961
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121. The Chopping Block
23 Oct 1960
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122. Looking for Garrow
30 Oct 1960
American business woman Clarissa comes to England seeking one J.S. Garrow - author of an alarmingly frank new novel. But it looks as though her teenage daughter has already found Garrow - and he is franker and more alarming than his book!
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123. A Subject of Scandal and Concern
6 Nov 1960
In 1842, a rebel in Cheltenham and Gloucester imprisoned for his beliefs and for the right to express them.
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124. The Wind and the Sun
13 Nov 1960
Ruth and Lewis Miller's marriage is almost at breaking point. The result upon their two children of the tension created by this situation is revealed in the play as an important question in modern life. The play is not regarded as suitable for viewing by children.
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125. The Squeeze
20 Nov 1960
Should Big Tom, a colliery face repairer, confronted by the onset of middle age, continue with his work at the risk of his life, or settle for something safer at the risk of his self-respect?
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126. The Nightwalkers
27 Nov 1960
A young British student wandering through France today becomes involved with remnants of a former French Resistance group.
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127. The Assassins
4 Dec 1960
A quiet evening at home for a normal fairly prosperous middle-class family is suddenly disrupted by the arrival of two strangers - two men with a mission, fanatical and ruthless, prepared to kill if necessary; but these men are not criminals-they would be described by some as patriots.
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128. The Song of a March Hare
11 Dec 1960
Crumble is convinced that he was born for success in business. All he needs is a chance to prove it, and this comes with an unexpected legacy.
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129. A Time to Fight
18 Dec 1960
Housewife Ellen Manders had no reason to suspect that this evening was going to be any different from any other until her husband arrived home late with his shoes and brief-case covered in mud.
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130. Tuppence in the Gods
25 Dec 1960
Sunday-Night Play Season 1: quick answers
How many episodes are in Sunday-Night Play Season 1?
Season 1 of Sunday-Night Play has 92 episodes.
When did Sunday-Night Play Season 1 come out?
Season 1 premiered on 25 Sept 1960.