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Sunday-Night Play Season 1

September. 25,1960

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Sunday-Night Play

BBC anthology drama series that ran over four seasons and replaced the previous BBC Sunday Night Theatre series.

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BBC anthology drama series that ran over four seasons and replaced the previous BBC Sunday Night Theatre series.

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Sunday-Night Play Season 1 Full Episode Guide

Episode 130 - Tuppence in the Gods

First Aired: December. 25,1960

Episode 129 - A Time to Fight

First Aired: December. 18,1960

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.

Episode 128 - The Song of a March Hare

First Aired: December. 11,1960

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.

Episode 127 - The Assassins

First Aired: December. 04,1960

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.

Episode 126 - The Nightwalkers

First Aired: November. 27,1960

A young British student wandering through France today becomes involved with remnants of a former French Resistance group.

Episode 125 - The Squeeze

First Aired: November. 20,1960

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?

Episode 124 - The Wind and the Sun

First Aired: November. 13,1960

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.

Episode 123 - A Subject of Scandal and Concern

First Aired: November. 06,1960

In 1842, a rebel in Cheltenham and Gloucester imprisoned for his beliefs and for the right to express them.

Episode 122 - Looking for Garrow

First Aired: October. 30,1960

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!

Episode 121 - The Chopping Block

First Aired: October. 23,1960

Episode 120 - Nearer to Heaven

First Aired: January. 01,1961

Episode 119 - Venus Brown

First Aired: January. 08,1961

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.

Episode 118 - A Woman Comes Home

First Aired: January. 15,1961

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.

Episode 117 - Off Centre

First Aired: January. 22,1961

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.

Episode 116 - A Kind of Strength

First Aired: January. 29,1961

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.

Episode 115 - The Final Result

First Aired: February. 05,1961

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.

Episode 114 - The Intervener

First Aired: February. 12,1961

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.

Episode 113 - An Inspector Calls

First Aired: February. 19,1961

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.....

Episode 112 - The Mather Story

First Aired: February. 26,1961

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.

Episode 111 - A Reason for Staying

First Aired: March. 05,1961

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.....

Episode 110 - Old Mick Mack

First Aired: March. 12,1961

Episode 109 - The Wrong Side of the Park

First Aired: March. 19,1961

Episode 108 - Fury in Petticoats

First Aired: March. 26,1961

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....

Episode 107 - Brian Rix presents: A Fair Cop

First Aired: April. 02,1961

Episode 106 - Charley's Aunt

First Aired: April. 16,1961

I'm Charley's Aunt from Brazil - where the nuts come from.

Episode 105 - Scene of the Accident

First Aired: April. 30,1961

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.

Episode 104 - Marriage Lines

First Aired: May. 14,1961

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.

Episode 103 - Brian Rix presents: Wolf's Clothing

First Aired: May. 21,1961

Episode 102 - Home at Seven

First Aired: June. 04,1961

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.

Episode 101 - A Call on Kuprin: Part 2

First Aired: June. 25,1961

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.

Episode 100 - A Call on Kuprin: Part 1

First Aired: June. 18,1961

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?

Episode 99 - That Lady

First Aired: July. 09,1961

Episode 98 - Brian Rix presents: Basinful of the Briny

First Aired: August. 06,1961

Episode 97 - The Winslow Boy

First Aired: August. 20,1961

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.

Episode 96 - Wet Fish

First Aired: September. 03,1961

Episode 95 - The Hasty Heart

First Aired: September. 17,1961

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.

Episode 94 - A Clean Kill

First Aired: October. 01,1961

Episode 93 - Faraway Places

First Aired: October. 08,1961

Kindly, mild mannered clerk Arthur Bruce dreams of traveling to distant lands and reads books about faraway places.

Episode 92 - What Every Woman Knows

First Aired: October. 15,1961

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.

Episode 91 - The Big Noise

First Aired: October. 22,1961

Episode 90 - Hello Ragtime

First Aired: October. 29,1961

Episode 89 - The Test

First Aired: November. 05,1961

Pressure mounts on a group of scientists as they urgently prepare to test a new top secret weapon.

Episode 88 - Brian Rix Presents #14: Flat Spin

First Aired: November. 12,1961

Episode 87 - Cross of Iron

First Aired: November. 19,1961

Episode 86 - She Stoops to Conquer

First Aired: November. 26,1961

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.

Episode 85 - Somewhere for the Night

First Aired: December. 03,1961

Episode 84 - Centenary Year

First Aired: December. 10,1961

Episode 83 - The Judge and His Hangman

First Aired: December. 17,1961

Inspector Barlach is ruthless in pursuit of an arrest, and doesn't seem to care if anyone else gets hurt along the way.

Episode 82 - The Barretts of Wimpole Street

First Aired: December. 24,1961

Elizabeth Barrett's tyrannical father has forbidden any of his family to marry. Nevertheless, Elizabeth falls in love with the poet Robert Browning.

Episode 81 - Affair of State

First Aired: December. 31,1961

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.

Episode 42 - Pay Day

First Aired: October. 16,1960

Episode 41 - The Ruffians

First Aired: October. 09,1960

Episode 40 - The Unplayed Part

First Aired: October. 02,1960

Episode 39 - A Walk in the Desert

First Aired: September. 25,1960

Episode 38 - Summer Theatre: An English Summer

First Aired: September. 18,1960

Episode 37 - Brian Rix Presents: Reluctant Heroes

First Aired: September. 11,1960

Episode 36 - Summer Theatre: Death of a Guest

First Aired: September. 04,1960

Episode 35 - Summer Theatre: The Small Victory

First Aired: August. 28,1960

Episode 34 - Summer Theatre: The Liberators

First Aired: August. 21,1960

Episode 33 - Summer Theatre: The Devil's General

First Aired: August. 14,1960

General Harras, a hero of the First World War, finds himself increasingly at odds with the new Germany of Adolf Hitler.

Episode 32 - Summer Theatre: A Dream of Treason

First Aired: August. 07,1960

Lambert, a government official, is required to leak a secret document - which may have serious consequences.

Episode 31 - Summer Theatre: The Critical Point

First Aired: July. 31,1960

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?

Episode 30 - Summer Theatre: My Flesh, My Blood

First Aired: July. 24,1960

Episode 29 - Summer Theatre: You're a Long Time Dead

First Aired: July. 17,1960

Episode 28 - Summer Theatre: June Evening

First Aired: July. 10,1960

Episode 27 - Playhouse 90: A Town Has Turned to Dust

First Aired: July. 03,1960

Episode 26 - Twentieth Century Theatre: Musical Chairs

First Aired: June. 26,1960

Episode 25 - Twentieth Century Theatre: The Insect Play

First Aired: June. 19,1960

Episode 24 - Twentieth Century Theatre: Mr. Gillie

First Aired: June. 12,1960

Episode 23 - Twentieth Century Theatre: Doctor in the House

First Aired: June. 05,1960

Episode 22 - Twentieth Century Theatre: The Assassin

First Aired: May. 29,1960

Episode 21 - Twentieth Century Theatre: The Elder Statesman

First Aired: May. 22,1960

Episode 20 - Twentieth Century Theatre: Aren't We All

First Aired: May. 15,1960

Episode 19 - Twentieth Century Theatre: Judgment Day

First Aired: May. 08,1960

Episode 18 - Twentieth Century Theatre: The Vortex

First Aired: May. 01,1960

Episode 17 - Twentieth Century Theatre: Love on the Dole

First Aired: April. 24,1960

Episode 16 - Twentieth Century Theatre: The Queen Came By

First Aired: April. 17,1960

Episode 15 - Twentieth Century Theatre: Glorious Morning

First Aired: April. 10,1960

Episode 14 - Twentieth Century Theatre: The Price of Freedom

First Aired: April. 03,1960

Episode 13 - Twentieth Century Theatre: I Have Been Here Before

First Aired: March. 27,1960

Episode 12 - Twentieth Century Theatre: Young Woodley

First Aired: March. 20,1960

Episode 11 - Twentieth Century Theatre: The Fanatics

First Aired: March. 13,1960

Episode 10 - Twentieth Century Theatre: Journey's End

First Aired: March. 06,1960

Episode 9 - Twentieth Century Theatre: The Conquering Hero

First Aired: February. 28,1960

Episode 8 - Brian Rix Presents: Is Your Honeymoon Really Necessary?

First Aired: February. 21,1960

Episode 7 - Twentieth Century Theatre: MacAdam and Eve

First Aired: February. 14,1960

Episode 6 - Twentieth Century Theatre: Our Betters

First Aired: February. 07,1960

Episode 5 - Twentieth Century Theatre: The White Guard

First Aired: January. 31,1960

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.