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.

Overview

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

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 adaptations 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.

Directors

Michael Lindsay-Hogg Anthony Page Mike Newell Fielder Cook Ted Kotcheff Peter Wood Vivian Matalon.

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 and Margaret Whiting.

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) and Madeleine July (Billie Whitelaw). The first episode went to air on 28 February 1970.

Series 1 Year Ep. Title Notes 11 January 1969 1 "Park People" Written by Alun Owen. Directed by Peter Willes & produced by Yorkshire Television. Starring Julian Glover, Elizabeth Shepherd & Zena Walker. 18 January 1969 2 "Bangelstein's Boys" Starring June Ellis, Christine Hargreaves and Del Henney. 25 January 1969 3 "My Bonnie Jean" Starring John Cairney, Ewan Roberts, Colette O'Neil, David McKail & John Laurie. 1 February 1969 4 "MacNeil" Starring Sean Connery, Anna Calder-Marshall, Roddy McMillan & Jo Rowbottom. Narrated by Laurence Olivier. 8 February 1969 5 "Cornelius" Starring Michael Caine & Anna Calder-Marshall. Narrated by Laurence Olivier. 15 February 1969 6 "Emlyn" Starring Paul Scofield, Anna Calder-Marshall & Geoffrey Chater. Narrated by Laurence Olivier. 22 February 1969 7 "Tiger Trap in the Street" Starring Michael Craig, Rosemary Leach, Larry Dann, Angela Douglas & Frederick Hall. 1 March 1969 8 "An Hour of Love: The Bind" Starring Dandy Nichols, Bill Owen & Edward Petherbridge. 1 March 1969 9 "An Hour of Love: Anatomy of a Divorce" Starring Julian Glover & Barbara Leigh-Hunt. 8 March 1969 10 "The Piano Tuner" Starring Frank Finlay, Daphne Slater & Shelagh Fraser. 15 March 1969 11 "Pig in a Poke" Starring Joan Benham, Colin Blakely, Donald Sumpter, Clifford Cox & John Harvey. 22 March 1969 12 "Machine" Written by Hugh Charteris. Starring Roy Battersby, Rachel Gurney, Ray McAnally, Michael Sheard & William Squire. 13 "Episode #1.13" Starring 5 April 1969 14 "The Dirt on Lucy Lane" Starring Michael Robbins, Robert Urquhart, Justine Lord, Hannah Gordon, Jim Norton & Maurice Quick. 12 April 1969 15 "Moonlight on the Highway" Starring Ian Holm, Anthony Bate, Deborah Grant, Robin Wentworth, John Flanagan & Bart Allison. 19 April 1969 16 "Hazel and Her New Gas Cooker" Starring Patricia Routledge, Jack Hedley, Ken Jones & June Brown. 26 April 1969 17 "Steve" Starring Billy Murray, David Sterne, Rudolph Walker, Isobel Black, Jon Finch, Maureen O'Brien, Richard Shaw, Richard Hampton & Derrick Slater. 3 May 1969 18 "Toys" Starring Michele Dotrice, John Breslin, Janina Faye, Ronald Lewis, Hilary Mason & David Wood. 10 May 1969 19 "Rogue's Gallery: The Bright Eyed Body Snatcher" For Granada. Starring Sandra Bryant, Michael Balfour, Jonathan Adams, John Cater, Diane Cilento, Jim Dale, John Woodnutt, Danny Sewell, Windsor Davies, Alan MacNaughtan, George Murcell, Ann Tirard & Terence Wilton. 17 May 1969 20 "Rogue's Gallery: The Wicked Stage" Starring Diane Cilento, Jim Dale, John Woodnutt, Sandra Bryant, Michael Balfour, Arthur Lowe, Bruce Purchase, Rosalie Crutchley, Danny Sewell, Ian McShane, Roger Hammond, Dennis Chinnery, Robert Lankesheer, Ann Tirard & Marc Boyle. 24 May 1969 21 "Rogue's Gallery: The Timorous Rake" Starring Sandra Bryant, Michael Balfour, Diane Cilento, Jim Dale, Danny Sewell, John Woodnutt, Raymond Huntley, Maria Charles, Edward Sinclair, Michael MacKenzie & Ann Tirard. 31 May 1969 22 "Rogue's Gallery: The Fearful Image" Starring Michael Balfour, Sandra Bryant, Diane Cilento, Jim Dale, Danny Sewell, John Woodnutt, Morag Hood, Barry Andrews & Ann Tirard. 7 June 1969 23 "Rogue's Gallery: A Bed Full of Miracles" Starring Michael Balfour, Sandra Bryant, Diane Cilento, Jim Dale, Danny Sewell, John Woodnutt, George Woodbridge, Daphne Heard, Francis Matthews, Steve Plytas, Ann Tirard, Griffith Davies & Clifford Cox. 14 June 1969 24 "Rogue's Gallery: The Prude Pursued" Starring Michael Balfour, Diane Cilento, Sandra Bryant, Jim Dale, Danny Sewell, John Woodnutt. Anthony Nicholls, Milton Johns & Ann Tirard. 21 June 1969 25 "The Innocent Ceremony" Starring Gladys Bacon, John Bailey, Stephanie Bidmead, Dennis Chinnery, Veronica Turleigh, Gareth Forwood, Madeleine Christie, Sarah Lawson & Joseph O'Conor. 28 June 1969 26 "The Haunting" Starring John Thaw, Suzanne Neve, Louise Pajo & Michael Lees. 5 July 1969 27 "A Measure of Malice" Starring Yootha Joyce, John Stratton & Elizabeth Weaver. 12 July 1969 28 "Better Dead" Starring Lindsay Campbell, Edward Fox, Ann Lynn, David Hutcheson, Ron Moody, James Cairncross & Patsy Smart. 19 July 1969 29 "Every Day of the Life Man" Starring Timothy Bateson & Oscar James. 19 July 1969 30 "Salve Regina" Starring Glenda Jackson, Graham Crowden, Miriam Karlin & Al Mancini. 26 July 1969 31 "Takeover" Starring Norman Bird & Louis Selwyn. 26 July 1969 32 "Two Hundred Miles by Train" Starring Joe Gladwin. 2 August 1969 33 "The Funeral of Queen Victoria " Starring Madge Ryan & Sheila White. 2 August 1969 34 "The Garbler Strategy" Starring Leonard Rossiter, Michael Lees, Anne Cunningham, Patrick Godfrey, Willoughby Goddard & Peter Thornton. 9 August 1969 35 "Travelling Where?" Starring Richard Beale, Jennifer Clulow, David Daker, Michael Lees, Colette O'Neil, Renu Setna & Richard Shaw. 16 August 1969 36 "Two Feet off the Ground" Starring Leslie Sands, Avice Landone, Jennifer Hilary, Tony Tanner, Martin Shaw, Blake Butler, David Ashford & John Rees. 23 August 1968 37 "Fly Away Home" Starring Tony Caunter, George Hilsdon, Bob Todd, David Weston, Peggy Ann Wood & Preston Lockwood. 30 August 1969 38 "The Talking Head" Starring John Thaw, Michael Craig, Ann Lynn, Edwin Richfield, Robert Cawdron & Godfrey James.

Series 2