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ITV Sunday Night Theatre

UK TV anthology series


ITV Sunday Night Theatre, originally titled ITV Saturday Night Theatre and often shortened to simply Sunday Night Theatre or Saturday Night Theatre,[citation needed] is a British television anthology series screened on ITV, whose episodes were contributed by various companies in the ITV network.[1]

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Overview

The first episode of the programme was the teleplay Park People by Alun Owen[2] which aired on 11 January 1969.[3]

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.[citation needed]

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, Charmian Abrahams and Margaret Whiting.[citation needed]

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).[1] The first episode went to air on 28 February 1970.[4]

Season 1

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Season 2

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References

  1. "Wicked Women". Nostalgia Central. Retrieved 27 March 2023.
  2. "Park People (1969)". BFI watch and discover. British Film Institute. Archived from the original on 23 April 2023. Retrieved 23 April 2023.
  3. Rich (22 January 1969). "Radio-Television: Foreign TV Reviews - SATURDAY NIGHT THEATRE". Variety. 253 (10): 39.
  4. "ITV Saturday Night Theatre - Season 2 Episode 25". Video Detective. 28 February 1970. Retrieved 27 March 2023.
  5. "Park People (1969)". BFI watch and discover. British Film Institute. Archived from the original on 23 April 2023. Retrieved 23 April 2023.
  6. Patrick Campbell (16 July 1970). "Television Today: Exceptional teamwork in distinguished production". The Stage and Television Today (4657): 13.
  7. Brooke, Michael. "Twelfth Night (1970)". BFI Screenonline. British Film Institute. Retrieved 18 February 2023.
  8. Patrick Campbell (13 April 1972). "And For My Next Trick". The Stage and Television Today (4748): 13.
  9. McDonagh, Fintan. "Another Sunday and Sweet F.A. (1972)". BFI Screenonline. British Film Institute. Retrieved 18 February 2023.
  10. "The Last Journey (1972)". BFI. Archived from the original on 8 January 2022.
  11. Patrick Campbell (11 January 1973). "The Death of Adolf Hitler". The Stage and Television Today (4787): 19.
  12. "The Death of Adolf Hitler (1973)". BFI. British Film Institute. Archived from the original on 14 April 2022. Retrieved 18 February 2023.
  13. Sheldon, Larry (5 April 1973). "Television Today-- Reviews: The Ruffian on the Stair". The Stage and Television Today (4799): 13.
  14. "The Ruffian on the Stair (1973)". BFI. British Film Institute. Archived from the original on 17 October 2019. Retrieved 18 February 2023.
  15. Bok (14 March 1973). "Television Reviews: LONG DAY'S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT". Variety. 270 (5): 46.
  16. "Long Day's Journey into Night (1973)". BFI. British Film Institute. Archived from the original on 9 March 2016. Retrieved 18 February 2023.
  17. Fob (5 December 1973). "Television Reviews: CATHOLICS". Variety. 273 (4): 38.
  18. "Catholics A Fable of the Future (1973)". BFI. British Film Institute. Archived from the original on 5 May 2019. Retrieved 18 February 2023.

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