Sunday-Night Play
5.5
1960
BBC anthology drama series that ran over four seasons and replaced the previous BBC Sunday Night Theatre series.
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Episode 130 : Tuppence in the Gods
December. 25,1960
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Episode 129 : A Time to Fight
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.
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Episode 128 : The Song of a March Hare
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.
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Episode 127 : The Assassins
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.
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Episode 126 : The Nightwalkers
November. 27,1960
A young British student wandering through France today becomes involved with remnants of a former French Resistance group.
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Episode 125 : The Squeeze
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?
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Episode 124 : The Wind and the Sun
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.
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Episode 123 : A Subject of Scandal and Concern
November. 06,1960
In 1842, a rebel in Cheltenham and Gloucester imprisoned for his beliefs and for the right to express them.
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Episode 122 : Looking for Garrow
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!
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Episode 121 : The Chopping Block
October. 23,1960
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Episode 120 : Nearer to Heaven
January. 01,1961
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Episode 119 : Venus Brown
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.
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Episode 118 : A Woman Comes Home
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.
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Episode 117 : Off Centre
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.
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Episode 116 : A Kind of Strength
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.
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Episode 115 : The Final Result
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.
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Episode 114 : The Intervener
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.
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Episode 113 : An Inspector Calls
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.....
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Episode 112 : The Mather Story
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.
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Episode 111 : A Reason for Staying
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.....
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Episode 110 : Old Mick Mack
March. 12,1961
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Episode 109 : The Wrong Side of the Park
March. 19,1961
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Episode 108 : Fury in Petticoats
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....
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Episode 107 : Brian Rix presents: A Fair Cop
April. 02,1961
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Episode 106 : Charley's Aunt
April. 16,1961
I'm Charley's Aunt from Brazil - where the nuts come from.
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Episode 105 : Scene of the Accident
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.
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Episode 104 : Marriage Lines
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.
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Episode 103 : Brian Rix presents: Wolf's Clothing
May. 21,1961
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Episode 102 : Home at Seven
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.
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Episode 101 : A Call on Kuprin: Part 2
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.
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Episode 100 : A Call on Kuprin: Part 1
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?
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Episode 99 : That Lady
July. 09,1961
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Episode 98 : Brian Rix presents: Basinful of the Briny
August. 06,1961
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Episode 97 : The Winslow Boy
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.
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Episode 96 : Wet Fish
September. 03,1961
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Episode 95 : The Hasty Heart
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.
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Episode 94 : A Clean Kill
October. 01,1961
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Episode 93 : Faraway Places
October. 08,1961
Kindly, mild mannered clerk Arthur Bruce dreams of traveling to distant lands and reads books about faraway places.
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Episode 92 : What Every Woman Knows
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.
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Episode 91 : The Big Noise
October. 22,1961
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Episode 90 : Hello Ragtime
October. 29,1961
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Episode 89 : The Test
November. 05,1961
Pressure mounts on a group of scientists as they urgently prepare to test a new top secret weapon.
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Episode 88 : Brian Rix Presents #14: Flat Spin
November. 12,1961
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Episode 87 : Cross of Iron
November. 19,1961
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Episode 86 : She Stoops to Conquer
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.
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Episode 85 : Somewhere for the Night
December. 03,1961
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Episode 84 : Centenary Year
December. 10,1961
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Episode 83 : The Judge and His Hangman
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.
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Episode 82 : The Barretts of Wimpole Street
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.
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Episode 81 : Affair of State
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.
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Episode 42 : Pay Day
October. 16,1960
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Episode 41 : The Ruffians
October. 09,1960
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Episode 40 : The Unplayed Part
October. 02,1960
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Episode 39 : A Walk in the Desert
September. 25,1960
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Episode 38 : Summer Theatre: An English Summer
September. 18,1960
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Episode 37 : Brian Rix Presents: Reluctant Heroes
September. 11,1960
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Episode 36 : Summer Theatre: Death of a Guest
September. 04,1960
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Episode 35 : Summer Theatre: The Small Victory
August. 28,1960
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Episode 34 : Summer Theatre: The Liberators
August. 21,1960
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Episode 33 : Summer Theatre: The Devil's General
August. 14,1960
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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Episode 32 : Summer Theatre: A Dream of Treason
August. 07,1960
Lambert, a government official, is required to leak a secret document - which may have serious consequences.
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Episode 31 : Summer Theatre: The Critical Point
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?
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Episode 30 : Summer Theatre: My Flesh, My Blood
July. 24,1960
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Episode 29 : Summer Theatre: You're a Long Time Dead
July. 17,1960
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Episode 28 : Summer Theatre: June Evening
July. 10,1960
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Episode 27 : Playhouse 90: A Town Has Turned to Dust
July. 03,1960
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Episode 26 : Twentieth Century Theatre: Musical Chairs
June. 26,1960
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Episode 25 : Twentieth Century Theatre: The Insect Play
June. 19,1960
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Episode 24 : Twentieth Century Theatre: Mr. Gillie
June. 12,1960
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Episode 23 : Twentieth Century Theatre: Doctor in the House
June. 05,1960
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Episode 22 : Twentieth Century Theatre: The Assassin
May. 29,1960
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Episode 21 : Twentieth Century Theatre: The Elder Statesman
May. 22,1960
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Episode 20 : Twentieth Century Theatre: Aren't We All
May. 15,1960
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Episode 19 : Twentieth Century Theatre: Judgment Day
May. 08,1960
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Episode 18 : Twentieth Century Theatre: The Vortex
May. 01,1960
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Episode 17 : Twentieth Century Theatre: Love on the Dole
April. 24,1960
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Episode 16 : Twentieth Century Theatre: The Queen Came By
April. 17,1960
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Episode 15 : Twentieth Century Theatre: Glorious Morning
April. 10,1960
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Episode 14 : Twentieth Century Theatre: The Price of Freedom
April. 03,1960
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Episode 13 : Twentieth Century Theatre: I Have Been Here Before
March. 27,1960
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Episode 12 : Twentieth Century Theatre: Young Woodley
March. 20,1960
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Episode 11 : Twentieth Century Theatre: The Fanatics
March. 13,1960
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Episode 10 : Twentieth Century Theatre: Journey's End
March. 06,1960
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Episode 9 : Twentieth Century Theatre: The Conquering Hero
February. 28,1960
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Episode 8 : Brian Rix Presents: Is Your Honeymoon Really Necessary?
February. 21,1960
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Episode 7 : Twentieth Century Theatre: MacAdam and Eve
February. 14,1960
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Episode 6 : Twentieth Century Theatre: Our Betters
February. 07,1960
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Episode 4 : Twentieth Century Theatre: Man and Superman
January. 24,1960
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Episode 3 : The Ruffians
October. 09,1960
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Episode 2 : The Unplayed Part
October. 02,1960
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Episode 1 : A Walk in the Desert
September. 25,1960
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