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Sunday Night Theatre

Sunday Night Theatre

Drama
January 1, 1950 – July 26, 1959 (began 76 years ago)
3.5/10
Returning Series
10 Seasons
134 Episodes
BBC One

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.

Rupert Davies
Rupert Davies

Rupert Davies

Day-watchman

Ages 33-43

11 eps
Raymond Huntley
Raymond Huntley

Raymond Huntley

Lord Laithwaite

Ages 45-55

9 eps
Peter Bull
Peter Bull

Peter Bull

Sid Rolands

Ages 37-47

7 eps
Margaretta Scott
Margaretta Scott

Margaretta Scott

Lady Marguerite Blakeney

Ages 37-47

6 eps
Alfred Burke
Alfred Burke

Alfred Burke

Johnny Jason

Ages 31-41

6 eps
Anna Turner
AT

Anna Turner

Mrs. Topping

Ages 31-41

6 eps
Patrick Macnee
Patrick Macnee

Patrick Macnee

Rolf Hornblower

Ages 27-37

5 eps
Harold Kasket
Harold Kasket

Harold Kasket

Umberto Martinez

Ages 23-33

5 eps
Paul Rogers
Paul Rogers

Paul Rogers

Sir Claude Mulhammer

Ages 32-42

5 eps