| ITV Sunday Night Theatre | |
|---|---|
| Also known as | ITV Saturday Night Theatre |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Original language | English |
| Production | |
| Production company | Various ITV companies |
| Original release | |
| Network | ITV |
| Release | 11 January 1969 (1969-01-11) – 5 May 1974 (1974-05-05) |
ITV Sunday Night Theatre, originally titled ITV Saturday Night Theatre and often shortened to simply Sunday Night Theatre or Saturday Night Theatre, is a British television anthology series screened on ITV, whose episodes were contributed by various companies in the ITV network.
Overview
The first episode of the programme was the teleplay Park People by Alun Owen which aired on 11 January 1969.
Around 200 episodes aired on ITV between 1969 and 1974, including productions of plays such as Long Day's Journey into Night by Eugene O'Neill, A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen and Arms and the Man by George Bernard Shaw.
Other episodes included adaptation of the works of William Shakespeare, James Joyce, Wilkie Collins, Simon Gray, Sam Shepard, Israel Horovitz, Arthur Miller, August Strindberg, J. B. Priestley, Lanford Wilson, and John Mortimer.
Directors
Actors
Helen Mirren, Laurence Olivier, Peggy Ashcroft, Sean Connery, Anthony Hopkins, Michael Caine, Paul Scofield, George C. Scott, Laurence Harvey, Ralph Richardson, Diana Rigg, Trevor Howard, Pamela Buchner, Glenda Jackson, Diane Cilento, Alec Guinness, Jane Asher, Martin Sheen, Colleen Dewhurst, Jean Marsh, Shelley Winters, Ian Holm, Richard Chamberlain, Edith Evans, John Gielgud, Shirley Knight, Gareth Forwood, Jeff Shankley, Sarah Douglas, Ian McKellen, George Sanders, Michael Gambon, and Margaret Whiting.
Episodes
"Wicked Women"
"Wicked Women" is a six-episode drama series, produced by London Weekend, which aired as part of the second series of Saturday Night Theatre, based on true-life cases of women whose stories featured prominently in Victorian newspapers after they murdered or attempted to murder various people. These included Alice Rhodes (played by Joanna Dunham), Christiana Edmunds (Anna Massey), Augusta Fullam (Vivien Merchant), Anne-Maria Moody (Jane Asher), Florence Maybrick (Nicola Pagett), Madeleine July (Billie Whitelaw). The first episode went to air on 28 February 1970.
Season 1
Season 2
| Year | Ep. | Title | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 September 1969 | 1 | "Diddled" | Starring Robert Powell. |
| 13 September 1969 | 2 | "Episode #2.2" | Starring |
| 20 September 1969 | 3 | "That Woman is Wrecking Our Marriage" | Starring Ray Brooks & Michael Craze. |
| 27 September 1969 | 4 | "A Walk Through the Forest" | Starring Anthony Hopkins & Sally Faulkner. |
| 4 October 1969 | 5 | "The Undoing" | Starring Robert Cartland, Aubrey Morris, John Nettleton & Kenneth Watson. |
| 11 October 1969 | 6 | "In Another Country" | Starring John Thaw & Hannah Gordon. |
| 18 October 1969 | 7 | "Murder: The Colonel and the Naturalist" | Starring Michael Balfour & Roland Culver. |
| 25 October 1969 | 8 | "Murder: The Blood Relation" | Starring |
| 1 November 1969 | 9 | "It's Called the Sugar Plum" | Starring Maureen Lipman. |
| 8 November 1969 | 10 | "Hester Lilly" | Starring Joan Hickson. |
| 15 November 1969 | 11 | "Aren't We All?" | Starring Maurice Quick. |
| 22 November 1969 | 12 | "The Full Cheddar" | Starring Robin Askwith, Vivien Merchant, Daniel Massey, Robert Hartley, Michael Cashman, Ishaq Bux & John Line. |
| 29 November 1969 | 13 | "The Comic" | Starring Isabel Dean & George Cole. |
| 6 December 1969 | 14 | "Faith and Henry" | Starring Allan Surtees. |
| 13 December 1969 | 15 | "Nora" | Starring June Brown, Robert Powell & Michael Turner. |
| 20 December 1969 | 16 | "It Calls for a Great Deal of Love" | Starring Thora Hird, John Sharp, Eric Thompson & David Ashford. |
| 3 January 1970 | 17 | "Suffer Little Children" | Starring John Lewis Mesurier, Josephine Tewson, Edwin Apps, Graeme Garden, Martin Wyldeck & Dudley Jones. |
| 10 January 1970 | 18 | "Anniversary" | Starring Michael Bryant & Judy Cornwell. |
| 17 January 1970 | 19 | "A Doll's House" | Starring Anna Massey, Julian Glover, George Murcell & Barbara Leigh-Hunt. |
| 24 January 1970 | 20 | "Mrs. Mouse, Are You Within?" | Starring Barbara Leigh-Hunt. |
| 31 January 1970 | 21 | "The Pretenders" | Starring John Bird & Cyril Luckham. |
| 7 February 1970 | 22 | "Wolly Wenpol, the Complete Works" | Starring James Bolam, Robert Hardy, Louise Pajo & Denis Cleary. |
| 14 February 1970 | 23 | "Wicked Women: Alice Rhodes" | Starring Joanna Dunham, Ralph Bates, Henry McCarthy, David Webb & David McKail. |
| 21 February 1970 | 24 | "Wicked Women: Christiana Edmunds" | Starring Anna Massey & Charles Lloyd Pack. |
| 28 February 1970 | 25 | "Wicked Women: Augusta Fullam" | Starring Vivien Merchant, Preston Lockwood, Edward de Souza, Roger Hammond, Albert Moses & Ishaq Bux. |
| 7 March 1970 | 26 | "Wicked Women: Anna-Maria Moody" | Starring Jane Asher, William Lucas, John Stratton & Anthony Jackson. |
| 14 March 1970 | 27 | "Wicked Women: Florence Maybrick" | Starring Nicola Pagett, Paul Shelley, John Carson & Arnold Peters. |
| 21 March 1970 | 28 | "Wicked Women: Madeleine July" | Starring Billie Whitelaw, Shirley Stelfox, Mary Morris, John Collin, Erik Chitty, Geoffrey Cheshire, Hamilton Dyce, Michael Bilton & Geoffrey Hughes. |
| 28 March 1970 | 29 | "The Master and the Mask" | Starring Brian Cox & June Brown. |
| 4 April 1970 | 30 | "The Cork Moustache" | Starring Judy Cornwell. |
| 11 April 1970 | 31 | "Fade Out" | Starring George Sanders, Geoffrey Bayldon & Francis Matthews. |
| 18 April 1970 | 32 | "The Rococo Bush" | Starring Tenniel Evans, Ronald Lacey & Frances White. |
| 2 May 1970 | 33 | "Dangerous Corner" | Starring Moray Watson, Ian Hendry & Nicholas Pennell. |
| 9 May 1970 | 34 | "The Family is a Vicious Circle" | Starring Tom Chadbon. |
| 16 May 1970 | 35 | "When Johnny Comes Marching Home" | Starring |
| 23 May 1970 | 36 | "Lay Down Your Arms" | Starring George Layton, Peter Collier, Leonard Trolley, Graham Armitage, Joby Blanshard, Michael Cashman, Tony Caunter, John Levene, David Webb, Thérèse McMurray, James Cairncross & Will Stampe. |
| 30 May 1970 | 37 | "You See, the Thing Is..." | Starring Ian Holm. |
| 30 May 1970 | 38 | "The Salesman" | Starring Ian Holm. |
| 6 June 1970 | 39 | "Married Alive" | Starring Diana Rigg, Robert Culp, Jean Marsh, James Villiers, Dudley Jones & Mark Elwes |
| 13 June 1970 | 40 | "Playing with Fire" | Starring |
| 20 June 1970 | 41 | "Slattery's Mounted Foot" | Starring Terence De Marney, Jack Woolgar, Kathy Staff & Lynne Perrie. |
| 27 June 1970 | 42 | "Hands with the Magic Touch" | Starring Mark Eden, Ronald Lacey, Saeed Jaffrey & Nicholas Smith. |
| 4 July 1970 | 43 | "The Gingham Dog" | Starring Garrick Hagon & Maureen Lipman. |
| 12 July 1970 | 44 | "Twelfth Night" | Written by William Shakespeare. Directed by John Sichel for ATV. Starring Tommy Steele, Ralph Richardson, Alec Guinness Joan Plowright, Gary Raymond, Adrienne Corri, John Moffatt, Sheila Reid, Richard Leech, Kurt Christian, Christopher Timothy, Edward Arthur, Nicholas McArdle & Jenny McCracken |
| 18 July 1970 | 45 | "Skyscrapers" | Starring Michael Bryant, Vivien Merchant & Maureen Neill. |
| 25 July 1970 | 46 | "The Insider" | Starring Tom Chadbon. |
| 1 August 1970 | 47 | "Dear Janet Rosenberg... Dear Mr. Kooning" | Starring William Squire |
| 8 August 1970 | 48 | "Act of Separation" | Starring Jack Watling, Lisa Daniely & Erik Chitty |
| 15 August 1970 | 49 | "Honour and Offer" | Starring Brian Wilde |
| 22 August 1970 | 50 | "Hodinott Veiling" | Starring Keith Barron & Sylvia Coleridge. |
Season 3
| Year | Ep. | Title | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 October 1970 | 1 | "The Exiles: Jennie" | Starring Hannah Gordon, James Laurenson & Rudolph Walker. |
| 17 October 1970 | 2 | "The Exiles: Emma" | Starring Hannah Gordon, Rudolph Walker & Alan MacNaughtan. |
| 24 October 1970 | 3 | "The Exiles: Zo" | Starring Hannah Gordon, James Laurenson, William Lucas, Glyn Houston, Edward Hardwicke & Margot Thomas. |
| 31 October 1970 | 4 | "Visit from a Stranger" | Starring Honor Blackman, Philip Brack & John Stride. |
| 19 December 1970 | 5 | "Roll on Four O'Clock" | Starring George A. Cooper, Clive Swift, Kenneth Watson & Jack Shepherd. |
| 26 December 1970 | 6 | "The Policeman and the Cook" | Starring Michael Crawford, Tim Curry, William Lucas, John Normington & Felicity Gibson. |
| 2 January 1971 | 7 | "The Dead" | Starring RayMcAnally, Pauline Delaney |
| 9 January 1971 | 8 | "Tales of Piccadilly: Behind the Spearmint Sign" | Starring Peter Birrel, Alethea Charlton, Claire Davenport, Barbara Leake & Dermot Tuohy. |
| 16 January 1971 | 9 | "Tales of Piccadilly: A Room Full of Holes" | Starring Richard Beckinsale, Sheila Ruskin, Fiona Walker & Arthur Blake. |
| 23 January 1971 | 10 | "Tales of Piccadilly: A Special Occasion" | Starring Christian Rodska. |
| 30 January 1971 | 11 | "Tales of Piccadilly: Out of Town Girl" | Starring Angela Down & Bruce Boa. |
| 6 February 1971 | 12 | "Tales of Piccadilly: A Windmill in the Window" | Starring Neil McCallum, Joseph O'Conor, Michael Turner & Geoffrey Morris. |
| 13 February 1971 | 13 | "Tales of Piccadilly: The Way Out" | Starring Stephanie Beacham, James Hazeldine & Celia Bannerman. |
| 21 February 1971 | 14 | "Big Soft Nellie" | Starring Roy Kinnear, Tony Robinson, Daphne Heard & Derek Francis. |
| 28 February 1971 | 15 | "Anna of the Five Towns" | Starring Gillian Brown. |
| 7 March 1971 | 16 | "Hari-Kali and Sally" | Starring Leonard Rossiter, Godfrey James, Ray Brooks, James Culliford & Reginald Barratt. |
| 14 March 1971 | 17 | "The Hotel in Amsterdam" | Starring Paul Scofield, Isabel Dean, Michael Craig & Jill Bennett. |
| 21 March 1971 | 18 | "Pandora" | Starring Geraldine McEwan, Michael Craig, Trevor Martin & Susan Penhaligon. |
| 28 March 1971 | 19 | "The Price" | Starring George C. Scott & Colleen Dewhurst. |
| 4 April 1971 | 20 | "Arms and the Man" | Written by George Bernard Shaw. Starring Laurence Harvey, John Standing & Charles Lloyd Pack. |
| 11 April 1971 | 21 | "Love Doesn't Grow on Trees" | Starring Ian Hendry, Michael Bryant & Brian Wilde. |
| 23 May 1971 | 22 | "The Silver Collection" | Starring Helen Mirren, Billy Murray & Cyril Luckham. |
| 30 May 1971 | 23 | "The Shopper" | Starring Geoffrey Palmer & Richard Easton. |
| 6 June 1971 | 24 | "Man and Boy" | Starring Telly Savalas, Ed Bishop, David Bauer, Paul Maxwell & Liz Fraser. |
| 13 June 1971 | 25 | "Paper Roses" | Starring Rosalie Williams, Bill Maynard, John Carson, William Simons, Aimée Delamain, Peter Childs, Donald Gee & Dudley Jones. |
| 20 June 1971 | 26 | "The Prize" | Starring Clive Scott. |
| 27 June 1971 | 27 | "Square" | Starring Hermione Baddeley & Edward Fox. |
| 4 July 1971 | 28 | "Alice Dancing" | Starring Sylvia Coleridge, John Nettleton & Paul Greenhalgh. |
| 11 July 1971 | 29 | "Square One" | Starring Patrick Troughton, Michael Aldridge & Frank Mills. |
| 18 July 1971 | 30 | "After a Lifetime" | Starring Neville Smith & Laidlaw Dalling. |
| 25 July 1971 | 31 | "Mr. Pargiter" | Starring Roland Culver, Lynda Bellingham, Clive Morton, May Warden, Lucy Griffiths & Geoffrey Colville. |
| 1 August 1971 | 32 | "One More on Top" | Starring |
| 8 August 1971 | 33 | "Hamlet" | Starring Richard Chamberlain, Michael Redgrave, John Gielgud, Alan Bennett, James Laurenson, Martin Shaw, Godfrey James, Desmond McNamara & Nigel Stock. |
| 15 August 1971 | 34 | "The Chaps" | Starring Frank Wylie. |
| 22 August 1971 | 35 | "Giants and Ogres" | Starring Christopher Neame. |
| 29 August 1971 | 36 | "Green Julia" | Starring June Alliss, John Hurt & Michael Jayston. |
Season 4
| Year | Ep. | Title | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 September 1971 | 1 | "The Wedding Gift" | Starring Derek Newark, Rachel Herbert, Mona Bruce & Norman Bird. |
| 12 September 1971 | 2 | "Concussion" | Starring |
| 19 September 1971 | 3 | "Fly on the Wall: The General" | Starring Christopher Timothy & John Nettleton. |
| 26 September 1971 | 4 | "Fly on the Wall: The Reformer" | Starring Christopher Timothy & Antony Carrick. |
| 3 October 1971 | 5 | "Fly on the Wall: The Designer" | Starring Christopher Timothy. |
| 10 October 1971 | 6 | "Upstairs, Downstairs: On Trial" | |
| 17 October 1971 | 7 | "Upstairs, Downstairs: The Mistress and the Maids" | |
| 24 October 1971 | 8 | "Upstairs, Downstairs: Board Wages" | Starring Pauline Collins, Jean Marsh, Aletha Charlton & Simon Williams. |
| 31 October 1971 | 9 | "Upstairs, Downstairs: The Path of Duty" | Starring Gordon Jackson, Angela Baddeley, Jean Marsh, Simon Williams & Patsy Smart. |
| 7 November 1971 | 10 | "Upstairs, Downstairs: A Suitable Marriage" | Starring Gordon Jackson, Jean Marsh & James Bree. |
| 14 November 1971 | 11 | "Upstairs, Downstairs: A Cry for Help" | Starring Gordon Jackson, Angela Baddeley, Patsy Smart & Susan Penhaligon. |
| 28 November 1971 | 12 | "The Signalman's Apprentice" | Starring Peter Vaughan, Victor Madden & Dennis Waterman. |
| 5 December 1971 | 13 | "The Birthday Run" | Starring George A. Cooper, Gerald Flood & Mary Peach. |
| 12 December 1971 | 14 | "Some Distant Shadow" | Starring Peter Vaughan, Colin Jeavons, Michael Hawkins, David Savile, Wendy Gifford & Terence Wilton. |
| 19 December 1971 | 15 | "Second Time Around" | Starring |
| 26 December 1971 | 16 | "Who Killed Santa Claus" | Starring Robert Hardy, John Franklyn-Robbins & Barbara Murray. |
| 2 January 1972 | 17 | "The Midsummer Dream of Chief Inspector Blossom" | Starring Glyn Owen. |
| 9 January 1972 | 18 | "Another Sunday and Sweet F.A." | Written by Jack Rosenthal. Directed by Michael Apted for Granada Television. Starring David Swift, Freddie Fletcher, Anne Kirkbride, David Bradley, & Roy Alon. |
| 16 January 1972 | 19 | "A Man About a Dog" | Starring David Hedison, Kate O'Mara & Geoffrey Bayldon. |
| 23 January 1972 | 20 | "Upstairs, Downstairs: Magic Casements" | |
| 30 January 1972 | 21 | "Upstairs, Downstairs: I Dies from Love" | |
| 6 February 1972 | 22 | "Upstairs, Downstairs: Why is Her Door Locked?" | |
| 13 February 1972 | 23 | "Upstairs, Downstairs: A Voice from the Past" | |
| 20 February 1972 | 24 | "Upstairs, Downstairs: The Swedish Tiger" | |
| 27 February 1972 | 25 | "Upstairs, Downstairs: The Key of the Door" | |
| 5 March 1972 | 26 | "Upstairs, Downstairs: For Love of Love" | |
| 12 March 1972 | 27 | "Whose Life is it Anyway" | Starring Ian McShane, Philip Latham & Donald Hewlett. |
| 19 March 1972 | 28 | "A Summer Story" | Starring Ian Hendry, Jack Hedley & Rio Fanning. |
| 26 March 1972 | 29 | "Major Lavender" | Starring Robert Flemyng, Dinsdale Landen, Leonard Maguire, Basil Moss & Jean Marsh. |
| 2 April 1972 | 30 | "Time Lock" | Starring Paul Eddington, Philip Latham, Robert Beatty & Billy Murray. |
| 9 April 1972 | 31 | "The Last Journey" | Starring Harry Andrews, Patrick Allen, Peggy Ashcroft, Ian McKellen, Paul Eddington, John Stratton, Wayne Sleep, John Garvin & John Challis. |
| 4 June 1972 | 32 | "Ben Spray" | Starring John Alderton, Nicholas Ball, Roger Hammond, Jonathan Elsom & Christopher Biggins. |
| 11 June 1972 | 33 | "It's Good to See You" | Starring Donald Eccles. |
| 18 June 1972 | 34 | "Consequences" | Starring Richard Beckinsale, Joss Ackland & Ysanne Churchman. |
| 25 June 1972 | 35 | "A Marriage" | Starring Mary Peach & Barbara Shelley. |
| 2 July 1972 | 36 | "Madly in Love" | Starring Richard Beckinsale & Madeleine Smith. |
| 9 July 1972 | 37 | "Summer and Winter" | Starring Gerald Flood, Bernard Hepton & Frances White. |
| 16 July 1972 | 38 | "The Rose Garden" | Starring Paul Eddington, Lesley Dunlop & John Lee. |
| 23 July 1972 | 39 | "Last Year's Confetti" | Starring Stephanie Beacham. |
| 30 July 1972 | 40 | "Before Paris" | Starring Margaret Whiting & Edward Judd. |
| 6 August 1972 | 41 | "A Bit of Vision" | Starring Roy Dotrice, Clive Revill, Adrienne Corri, Annette Crosbie & John Carson. |
| 13 August 1972 | 42 | "Sharing the Honours" | Starring Jane Asher, Siân Phillips, Rosalind Lloyd, Morris Perry & Bob Keegan. |
Season 5
Season 6
Other episodes
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