All Episodes of Sunday Night Theatre
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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
Season 1
N/A/100 votesTwelfth Night
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 1/15/1950
Viola and Sebastian are lookalike twins, separated by a shipwreck. Viola lands in Illyria, where she disguises herself like her brother and goes into the service of the Duke Orsino. Orsino sends her to help him woo the Lady Olivia, who doesn't want the Duke, but finds that she likes the new messenger the Duke's sending. Then, of course, Viola's brother shows up, and merry hell breaks loose. Meanwhile, Olivia's uncle and his cohorts are trying to find some way to get back at Olivia's officious majordomo, Malvolio.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
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The Indifferent Shepherd
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 2/12/1950
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Director: Unknown
Writer: Peter Ustinov
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The Seagull
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 3/5/1950
This quintessential Chekhov drama--his first success--is both comic and tragic. A group of friends and relations gather at a country estate to see the first performance of an experimental play written and staged by the young man of the house, Konstantin, an aspiring writer who dreams of bringing new forms to the theatre.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
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The Admirable Crichton
Season 1 Episode 24 - Aired 6/11/1950
A group of people are shipwrecked when their yacht runs around on a South Pacific island. The usable hierarchy in a upper-class British family breaks down quickly when it becomes apparent that only the servant Crichton is capable of surviving on his own and he becomes the communities leader.
Director: Unknown
Writer: J.M. Barrie