Rudolph Cartier
Director
Sunday Night Theatre (1950)
Season 6
Sunday Night Theatre was a long-running series of televised live television plays screened by BBC Television from early 1950 until 1959. The productions for the first five years or so of the run were re-staged live the following Thursday, partly because of technical limitations in this era, and the theatrical basis of early television drama. Some of the earliest collaborations between Rudolph Cartier and Nigel Neale were produced for this series, including Arrow to the Heart and Nineteen Eighty-Four. The Sunday night drama slot was subsequently renamed The Sunday-Night Play which ran for four seasons between 1960 and 1963. ITV transmitted its own unrelated run of Sunday Night Theatre between 1971 and 1974.
Released Jan. 1, 1950
Episode 30 min
None+
Genres: Drama
Keywords: imdb.early-television, imdb.partially-lost-tv-series, imdb.acronym-in-title
Network: BBC One
Country: United Kingdom
Languages:
English
S6E51 - The Devil's General
A veteran hero of the German army finds himself at odds with the Nazi regime.
Dec. 18, 1955, midnight
S6E8 - Candida
The idealist Reverend Morell tries to unite Socialism and Christianity.
Feb. 20, 1955, midnight
S6E11 - The Merchant of Venice
A rich merchant, Antonio is depressed for no good reason, until his good friend Bassanio comes to tell him how he's in love with Portia. Portia's father has died and left a very strange will: only the man that picks the correct casket out of three (silver, gold, and lead) can marry her. Bassanio, unfortunately, is strapped for cash with which to go wooing, and Antonio wants to help, so Antonio borrows the money from Shylock, the money-lender. But Shylock has been nursing a grudge against Antonio's insults, and makes unusual terms to the loan. And when Antonio's business fails, those terms threaten his life, and it's up to Bassanio and Portia to save him.
March 13, 1955, midnight
S6E12 - The Merchant of Venice/II
A rich merchant, Antonio is depressed for no good reason, until his good friend Bassanio comes to tell him how he's in love with Portia. Portia's father has died and left a very strange will: only the man that picks the correct casket out of three (silver, gold, and lead) can marry her. Bassanio, unfortunately, is strapped for cash with which to go wooing, and Antonio wants to help, so Antonio borrows the money from Shylock, the money-lender. But Shylock has been nursing a grudge against Antonio's insults, and makes unusual terms to the loan. And when Antonio's business fails, those terms threaten his life, and it's up to Bassanio and Portia to save him.
March 17, 1955, midnight
S6E18 - It Could Happen Only in Paris
May 1, 1955, midnight
S6E21 - Romeo and Juliet
In Shakespeare's classic play, the Montagues and Capulets, two families of Renaissance Italy, have hated each other for years, but the son of one family and the daughter of the other fall desperately in love and secretly marry.
May 22, 1955, midnight
S6E24 - Holiday for Simon
June 12, 1955, midnight
S6E35 - A Life in the Sun
Aug. 28, 1955, midnight
S6E38 - The Scarlet Pimpernel
A noblewoman discovers her husband is The Scarlet Pimpernel, a vigilante who rescues aristocrats from the blade of the guillotine.
Sept. 18, 1955, midnight
S6E43 - The Makepeace Story #2: A New Generation
Oct. 23, 1955, midnight
S6E44 - The Makepeace Story #3: Family Business
Oct. 30, 1955, midnight
S6E47 - Idiot's Delight
A group of disparate travelers are caught are thrown together in a posh Alpine hotel when the borders are closed at the start of WWII.
Nov. 20, 1955, midnight
Network: BBC One
Episode Runtime: 30 min.
Season Runtime: 3270 min.
Released: Jan. 1, 1950
Last Air Date: July 26, 1959, midnight
Status: Returning Series
Certification: NR
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