ITV Sunday Night Theatre

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.[1]

Overview

The first episode of the programme was the teleplay Park People by Alun Owen which was directed by Peter Willes and starred Julian Glover, Elizabeth Shepherd, and Zena Walker. It was produced by Yorkshire Television[2] and aired on 11 January 1969.[3]

Around 200 episodes aired on ITV between 1969 and 1974, including productions of the plays 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.

Among its directors were Michael Lindsay-Hogg, Anthony Page, Mike Newell, Fielder Cook, Ted Kotcheff, Peter Wood, and Vivian Matalon.

The actors involved included 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 and Margaret Whiting.

Episodes

Wicked Women

Wicked Women[4] 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.[5]

Other episodes

References
  1. "Wicked Women". Nostalgia Central. Retrieved 27 March 2023.
  2. "Park People (1969)". BFI watch and discover. British Film Institute. Retrieved 23 April 2023.
  3. Rich (22 January 1969). "Radio-Television: Foreign TV Reviews - SATURDAY NIGHT THEATRE". Variety. 253 (10): 39.
  4. Wicked Women at IMDb
  5. "ITV Saturday Night Theatre - Season 2 Episode 25". Video Detective. 28 February 1970. Retrieved 27 March 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. Patrick Campbell (11 January 1973). "The Death of Adolf Hitler". The Stage and Television Today (4787): 19.
  11. "The Death of Adolf Hitler (1973)". BFI. British Film Institute. Retrieved 18 February 2023.
  12. Sheldon, Larry (5 April 1973). "Television Today-- Reviews: The Ruffian on the Stair". The Stage and Television Today (4799): 13.
  13. "The Ruffian on the Stair (1973)". BFI. British Film Institute. Retrieved 18 February 2023.
  14. Bok (14 March 1973). "Television Reviews: LONG DAY'S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT". Variety. 270 (5): 46.
  15. "Long Day's Journey into Night (1973)". BFI. British Film Institute. Retrieved 18 February 2023.
  16. Fob (5 December 1973). "Television Reviews: CATHOLICS". Variety. 273 (4): 38.
  17. "Catholics A Fable of the Future (1973)". BFI. British Film Institute. Retrieved 18 February 2023.
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