Sunday-Night Play

Sunday-Night Play Season Two

TV Show

Season Two Episodes

1. The Chopping Block

October 23rd, 1960

2. Looking for Garrow

October 30th, 1960

3. A Subject of Scandal and Concern

November 6th, 1960

A dramatized account of a Victorian cause celebre, written by John Osborne and concerning the true story of the last person in England to be tried for blasphemy. Richard Burton plays John George Holyoake, a social reformer who goes on trial for speaking in public about his atheist views. Rachel Roberts plays his wife, and the programme is introduced by Face to Face inquisitor John Freeman.

4. The Wind and the Sun

November 13th, 1960

5. The Squeeze

November 20th, 1960

Big Tom, a Welsh coal miner, has always been in control of his life; but he finds himself increasingly at odds with his growing son, and even begins to wonder if his wife still loves him.

6. The Nightwalkers

November 27th, 1960

7. The Assassins

December 4th, 1960

Ruthless assassins take over an ordinary suburban home in order to commit a political murder - but where do they come from?

8. The Song of a March Hare

December 11th, 1960

9. A Time to Fight

December 18th, 1960

10. Tuppence in the Gods

December 25th, 1960

11. Nearer to Heaven

January 1st, 1961

12. Venus Brown

January 8th, 1961

Jack Brown is devoted to his much younger wife, Venus; but she's not the goddess he thinks she is.

13. A Woman Comes Home

January 15th, 1961

Will home be the sanctuary Bobbie James needs it to be?

14. Off Centre

January 22nd, 1961

Joe Hunter must face up to the reality of his existence, and stop having false ideas about himself and his own importance.

15. A Kind of Strength

January 29th, 1961

16. The Final Result

February 5th, 1961

17. The Intervener

February 12th, 1961

18. An Inspector Calls

February 19th, 1961

The comfortable lives of the wealthy Birling family are disrupted when an inspector calls on them to ask awkward questions about a girl who has committed suicide.

19. The Mather Story

February 26th, 1961

20. A Reason for Staying

March 5th, 1961

An Eastern European general who has fled his native country dreams of returning home - and of gaining military power there.

21. Old Mick Mack

March 12th, 1961

22. The Wrong Side of the Park

March 19th, 1961

23. Fury in Petticoats

March 26th, 1961

24. Brian Rix Presents #11: A Fair Cop

April 2nd, 1961

25. Charley's Aunt

April 16th, 1961

Lord Fancourt Babberley is required, much against his will, to impersonate the wealthy aunt of his friend Charley.

26. Scene of the Accident

April 30th, 1961

27. Marriage Lines

May 14th, 1961

28. Brian Rix Presents #12: Wolf's Clothing

May 21st, 1961

29. Home at Seven

June 4th, 1961

Mr. Preston always gets home from the office at seven o'clock - but tonight he discovers that a whole day has unaccountably gone missing from his life.

30. A Call on Kuprin: Part 1

June 18th, 1961

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?

31. A Call on Kuprin: Part 2

June 25th, 1961

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.

32. That Lady

July 9th, 1961

A one-eyed adventuress at the court of Philip II of Spain becomes embroiled in scandal and intrigue.

33. Listen James

July 23rd, 1961

34. Brian Rix Presents #13: Basinful of the Briny

August 6th, 1961

35. The Winslow Boy

August 20th, 1961

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.

36. Wet Fish

September 3rd, 1961

37. The Hasty Heart

September 17th, 1961

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. The doctors have told him he needs to remain "for observation". The Colonel takes Sister Parker, the unit head nurse, into his confidence and tells her that the real reason.

All Seasons

Season Four

Season Four

Sep 30, 1962
Season Three

Season Three

Oct 1, 1961
Season Two

Season Two

Oct 23, 1960
Season 1

Season 1

Sep 25, 1960