Sunday-Night Play – Season 1
Episodes
A Walk in the Desert
The Unplayed Part
The Ruffians
Twentieth Century Theatre: Man and Superman
Twentieth Century Theatre: The White Guard
It is November 1918 and the scene is the city of Kiev in the Ukraine, lately garrisoned by the German Army of Occupation but now threatened by the approach of a large well-equipped army of Cossacks. There's no ammunition and food is desperately short in the city. But still attempts are made to raise an army of citizens to repel the invaders. Describing the impact of the collapse of the Tsarist Empire on a family of officers, this play centres on Alexei Turbin, Colonel of the White Guard, responsible for defending Kiev, and on his beautiful sister Helena, deserted by her husband and in love with a young lieutenant, Leonid Schervinsky.
Twentieth Century Theatre: Our Betters
Twentieth Century Theatre: MacAdam and Eve
Brian Rix Presents: Is Your Honeymoon Really Necessary?
Twentieth Century Theatre: The Conquering Hero
Twentieth Century Theatre: Journey's End
Twentieth Century Theatre: The Fanatics
Twentieth Century Theatre: Young Woodley
Twentieth Century Theatre: I Have Been Here Before
Twentieth Century Theatre: The Price of Freedom
Twentieth Century Theatre: Glorious Morning
Twentieth Century Theatre: The Queen Came By
Twentieth Century Theatre: Love on the Dole
Twentieth Century Theatre: The Vortex
Twentieth Century Theatre: Judgment Day
Twentieth Century Theatre: Aren't We All
Twentieth Century Theatre: The Elder Statesman
Twentieth Century Theatre: The Assassin
Twentieth Century Theatre: Doctor in the House
Twentieth Century Theatre: Mr. Gillie
Twentieth Century Theatre: The Insect Play
Twentieth Century Theatre: Musical Chairs
Playhouse 90: A Town Has Turned to Dust
A weakling sheriff is unable to prevent a lynching. Can he redeem himself by preventing a second one?
Summer Theatre: June Evening
Summer Theatre: You're a Long Time Dead
Summer Theatre: My Flesh, My Blood
Summer Theatre: The Critical Point
Dr. Gage, involved in cryogenics, volunteers to be the first frozen man after murdering his wife. Dr. Mortimer discovers who killed his wife and ponders whether he should play judge and jury by switching Dr. Gage's freezing machine off?
Summer Theatre: A Dream of Treason
Lambert, a government official, is required to leak a secret document - which may have serious consequences.
Summer Theatre: The Devil's General
General Harras, a hero of the First World War, finds himself increasingly at odds with the new Germany of Adolf Hitler.
Summer Theatre: The Liberators
Summer Theatre: The Small Victory
Summer Theatre: Death of a Guest
Brian Rix Presents: Reluctant Heroes
Summer Theatre: An English Summer
A Walk in the Desert
The Unplayed Part
The Ruffians
Pay Day
Affair of State
Philip is much older than his wife, who is, he discovers, having an affair with his friend George. When he introduces George to a young woman, he has an ulterior motive.
The Barretts of Wimpole Street
Elizabeth Barrett's tyrannical father has forbidden any of his family to marry. Nevertheless, Elizabeth falls in love with the poet Robert Browning.
The Judge and His Hangman
Inspector Barlach is ruthless in pursuit of an arrest, and doesn't seem to care if anyone else gets hurt along the way.
Centenary Year
Somewhere for the Night
She Stoops to Conquer
Hardcastle, a man of substance, looks forward to acquainting his daughter with his old pal's son with a view to marriage. But thanks to playboy Lumpkin, he's mistaken by his prospective son-in-law Marlow for an innkeeper, his daughter for the local barmaid. The good news is, while Marlow can barely speak to a woman of quality he's a charmer with those of a different stamp.
Cross of Iron
Brian Rix Presents #14: Flat Spin
The Test
Pressure mounts on a group of scientists as they urgently prepare to test a new top secret weapon.
Hello Ragtime
The Big Noise
What Every Woman Knows
Maggie Wylie isn't very beautiful. She isn't even very young any more. But fortunately there is more to Maggie than meets the eye.
Faraway Places
Kindly, mild mannered clerk Arthur Bruce dreams of traveling to distant lands and reads books about faraway places.
A Clean Kill
The Hasty Heart
It's 1945, Burma, the day the war is over! For many this means they've survived and will be going home. But not for everyone. A Scottish soldier, Corporal Lachlan "Lachie" MacLachlan is the victim of a wound to the lower back on this day. He's moved to a M.A.S.H. unit and undergoes surgery. As time goes by he begins to recover and watches, in dismay as soldiers pack up and head for home.
Wet Fish
The Winslow Boy
The Winslow family return from church to their house in South Kensington on a summer morning in 1912 not knowing how their lives will be altered by their son, Ronnie, who has been expelled from Naval College for stealing a five shilling postal order.
Brian Rix presents: Basinful of the Briny
That Lady
A Call on Kuprin: Part 1
After the manned satellite, the armed satellite. Kuprin, the Soviet scientist, is working on a warhead for the Chelovyek. But Laye-Parker, M.P., and Smith, a Lobby Correspondent at the House of Commons, remember him at Cambridge before the war as an Anglophile married to an English woman. Can they, by a personal approach, persuade him to return to this country?
A Call on Kuprin: Part 2
Laye-Parker, M.P., and Smith, a Lobby Correspondent, have reached Moscow in their search for Kuprin, a Soviet rocket expert whom they knew at Cambridge and whom they hope to persuade to return to England. Now Laye-Parker has been arrested by the M.V.D. on unspecified charges, and Smith, a reluctant partner in the enterprise, must carry on the search alone.
Home at Seven
Home at seven as usual after just another Monday at the office - or that is what Mr. Preston thought. But in fact it is Tuesday and he has no recollection of the past twenty-four hours. It soon becomes vital to fill this gap in his memory.
Brian Rix presents: Wolf's Clothing
Marriage Lines
A comedy of marriage, set in the secure partnership of two mature and worldly people, examines what happens when an envious free-lance tries to rock the boat.
Scene of the Accident
When a prominent Q.C. is knocked down and killed by a car, the driver's Insurance Company is faced with paying out on a very substantial claim. Briefed to investigate possible grounds for disputing liability, Sam Holford unearths a delicate and intriguing situation.
Charley's Aunt
I'm Charley's Aunt from Brazil - where the nuts come from.
Brian Rix presents: A Fair Cop
Fury in Petticoats
It is 1837 and we are in the home of the Rev. William Dill, the vicar of a small parish in England. Life there is peaceful and leisurely until one day the vicar welcomes into his household a native girl brought from Tierra del Fuego by a Mr. Charles Darwin....
The Wrong Side of the Park
Old Mick Mack
A Reason for Staying
A group of Eastern European emigres, now living in England, still hope that they will one day return to their home-land in authority. But one of them, a general, has a reason for staying.....
The Mather Story
A serious accusation by a famous artist about the work of another gives John Ramsay a chance to 'get something into the paper' and perhaps to keep his job on the Sunday Herald. But rapidly the story becomes a challenge-to his skill, and to his responsibility.
An Inspector Calls
Spring, 1912 - for the wealthy a time of good living, gaiety, and a belief in the unshakability of the status quo. Mr. and Mrs. Birling are celebrating the engagement of their daughter Sheila to Gerald Croft, heir to a title; it is the pinnacle of Mr. Birling's successful rise in society.....
The Intervener
Jeremy Penlove is a London solicitor and a confirmed bachelor. His life is placid and uncomplicated until, one fine summer's day, a new client, Lily Forrester, walks into his office to turn his world upside down.
The Final Result
John Horner's father, mother, and sister are waiting to hear the result of his degree examination. He is the only one who is not surprised: it is what he expected it to be. It is this result, and the action John takes as a consequence, which reveals, nakedly, the conflict within this family group.
A Kind of Strength
Two men, both trapped in the world of commerce, struggle for freedom. In facing the truth about themselves, the decisions they have to make need a rare kind of strength.
Off Centre
Joe Hunter is a scientist living two lives: one as he sees himself, and the other as the world, sees him. The story spans the years from 1917, when he was a young pilot in the Royal Flying Corps, to the present day - when the man and his ideas come into headlong collision.
A Woman Comes Home
Home has many meanings; a refuge from strain, the start of 'growing up'; the source of compassion and understanding. When these are lost there is desolation, but if they are fought for, no matter with what human frailty, life may grow again out of a new wisdom.
Venus Brown
For Jack Brown, his wife Venus is a goddess in more than name. But she is not a goddess, she is a human being, and it is dangerous to worship human beings.
Nearer to Heaven
The Chopping Block
Looking for Garrow
American business woman Clarissa comes to England seeking one J.S. Garrow - author of an alarmingly frank new novel. But it looks as though her teenage daughter has already found Garrow - and he is franker and more alarming than his book!
A Subject of Scandal and Concern
In 1842, a rebel in Cheltenham and Gloucester imprisoned for his beliefs and for the right to express them.
The Wind and the Sun
Ruth and Lewis Miller's marriage is almost at breaking point. The result upon their two children of the tension created by this situation is revealed in the play as an important question in modern life. The play is not regarded as suitable for viewing by children.
The Squeeze
Should Big Tom, a colliery face repairer, confronted by the onset of middle age, continue with his work at the risk of his life, or settle for something safer at the risk of his self-respect?
The Nightwalkers
A young British student wandering through France today becomes involved with remnants of a former French Resistance group.
The Assassins
A quiet evening at home for a normal fairly prosperous middle-class family is suddenly disrupted by the arrival of two strangers - two men with a mission, fanatical and ruthless, prepared to kill if necessary; but these men are not criminals-they would be described by some as patriots.
The Song of a March Hare
Crumble is convinced that he was born for success in business. All he needs is a chance to prove it, and this comes with an unexpected legacy.
A Time to Fight
Housewife Ellen Manders had no reason to suspect that this evening was going to be any different from any other until her husband arrived home late with his shoes and brief-case covered in mud.