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Sunday-Night Play Season 2

October. 23,1960

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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 2 Full Episode Guide

Episode 37 - 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. The doctors have told him he needs to remain "for observation". The Colonel takes Sister Parker, the unit head nurse, into his confidence and tells her that the real reason.

Episode 36 - Wet Fish

First Aired: September. 03,1961

Episode 35 - 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 34 - Brian Rix Presents #13: Basinful of the Briny

First Aired: August. 06,1961

Episode 33 - Listen James

First Aired: July. 23,1961

Episode 32 - That Lady

First Aired: July. 09,1961

A one-eyed adventuress at the court of Philip II of Spain becomes embroiled in scandal and intrigue.

Episode 31 - 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 30 - 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 29 - Home at Seven

First Aired: June. 04,1961

Mr. Preston always gets home from the office at seven o'clock - but tonight he discovers that a whole day has unaccountably gone missing from his life.

Episode 28 - Brian Rix Presents #12: Wolf's Clothing

First Aired: May. 21,1961

Episode 27 - Marriage Lines

First Aired: May. 14,1961

Episode 26 - Scene of the Accident

First Aired: April. 30,1961

Episode 25 - Charley's Aunt

First Aired: April. 16,1961

Lord Fancourt Babberley is required, much against his will, to impersonate the wealthy aunt of his friend Charley.

Episode 24 - Brian Rix Presents #11: A Fair Cop

First Aired: April. 02,1961

Episode 23 - Fury in Petticoats

First Aired: March. 26,1961

Episode 22 - The Wrong Side of the Park

First Aired: March. 19,1961

Episode 21 - Old Mick Mack

First Aired: March. 12,1961

Episode 20 - A Reason for Staying

First Aired: March. 05,1961

An Eastern European general who has fled his native country dreams of returning home - and of gaining military power there.

Episode 19 - The Mather Story

First Aired: February. 26,1961

Episode 18 - An Inspector Calls

First Aired: February. 19,1961

The comfortable lives of the wealthy Birling family are disrupted when an inspector calls on them to ask awkward questions about a girl who has committed suicide.

Episode 17 - The Intervener

First Aired: February. 12,1961

Episode 16 - The Final Result

First Aired: February. 05,1961

Episode 15 - A Kind of Strength

First Aired: January. 29,1961

Episode 14 - Off Centre

First Aired: January. 22,1961

Joe Hunter must face up to the reality of his existence, and stop having false ideas about himself and his own importance.

Episode 13 - A Woman Comes Home

First Aired: January. 15,1961

Will home be the sanctuary Bobbie James needs it to be?

Episode 12 - Venus Brown

First Aired: January. 08,1961

Jack Brown is devoted to his much younger wife, Venus; but she's not the goddess he thinks she is.

Episode 11 - Nearer to Heaven

First Aired: January. 01,1961

Episode 10 - Tuppence in the Gods

First Aired: December. 25,1960

Episode 9 - A Time to Fight

First Aired: December. 18,1960

Episode 8 - The Song of a March Hare

First Aired: December. 11,1960

Episode 7 - The Assassins

First Aired: December. 04,1960

Ruthless assassins take over an ordinary suburban home in order to commit a political murder - but where do they come from?

Episode 6 - The Nightwalkers

First Aired: November. 27,1960

Episode 5 - The Squeeze

First Aired: November. 20,1960

Big Tom, a Welsh coal miner, has always been in control of his life; but he finds himself increasingly at odds with his growing son, and even begins to wonder if his wife still loves him.

Episode 4 - The Wind and the Sun

First Aired: November. 13,1960

Episode 3 - A Subject of Scandal and Concern

First Aired: November. 06,1960

A dramatized account of a Victorian cause celebre, written by John Osborne and concerning the true story of the last person in England to be tried for blasphemy. Richard Burton plays John George Holyoake, a social reformer who goes on trial for speaking in public about his atheist views. Rachel Roberts plays his wife, and the programme is introduced by Face to Face inquisitor John Freeman.