Sunday Night Theatre

Sunday Night Theatre Season 1: Episode Guide & Ratings

Season 1 Episodes

1. Hindle Wakes

January 1st, 1950

2. Rope

January 8th, 1950

Two young men strangle their "inferior" classmate, hide his body in their apartment, and invite his friends and family to a dinner party as a means to challenge the "perfection" of their crime.

3. Twelfth Night

January 15th, 1950

Viola and Sebastian are lookalike twins, separated by a shipwreck. Viola lands in Illyria, where she disguises herself like her brother and goes into the service of the Duke Orsino. Orsino sends her to help him woo the Lady Olivia, who doesn't want the Duke, but finds that she likes the new messenger the Duke's sending. Then, of course, Viola's brother shows up, and merry hell breaks loose. Meanwhile, Olivia's uncle and his cohorts are trying to find some way to get back at Olivia's officious majordomo, Malvolio.

4. Cheapside

January 22nd, 1950

5. Trespass

January 29th, 1950

6. The Scarlet Pimpernel

February 5th, 1950

A noblewoman discovers her husband is The Scarlet Pimpernel, a vigilante who rescues aristocrats from the blade of the guillotine.

7. The Indifferent Shepherd

February 12th, 1950

10. The Seagull

March 5th, 1950

This quintessential Chekhov drama--his first success--is both comic and tragic. A group of friends and relations gather at a country estate to see the first performance of an experimental play written and staged by the young man of the house, Konstantin, an aspiring writer who dreams of bringing new forms to the theatre.

11. The Lady's Not for Burning

March 12th, 1950

16. Promise of Tomorrow

April 16th, 1950

Marius Goring stars as Tommy Savidge, a crippled poet who longs to compose verse dramas but is forced to write trashy plays for dingy provincial repertory companies to make a living.

17. Othello

April 23rd, 1950

All Seasons

Season 10

Season 10

Jan 4, 1959
Season 2

Season 2

Jan 7, 1951
Season 1

Season 1

Jan 1, 1950