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ITV Sunday Night Theatre, originally titled ITV Saturday Night Theatre and often shortened to simply Sunday Night Theatre or Saturday Night Theatre, [citation needed] is a British television anthology series screened on ITV, whose episodes were contributed by various companies in the ITV network.
Originally titled ITV Saturday Night Theatre, this long-running dramatic anthology series from ITV debuted on 11 January 1969 with the play “Park People” by Alun Owen.
Sunday Night Theatre was a long-running series of televised live television plays screened by BBC Television from early 1950 until 1959. The productions for the first five years or so of the run were re-staged live the following Thursday, partly because of technical limitations in this era, and the theatrical basis of early television drama.
ITV Saturday Night Theatre: With Michael Balfour, Madoline Thomas, Diane Cilento, Jim Dale. Anthology series of dramatic works.
April 11, 1969 3:00 PM — 25m. Writing for ITV Sunday Night Theatre (1969), Dennis Potter introduced the notion that popular music expresses the yearning of the human spirit for a better world. A troubled young man, David Peters (Ian Holm), claims, "Once dreams were possible, that's what the popular songs told us."
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The Sunday night BBC drama slot was subsequently renamed The Sunday-Night Play (1960 – 1963). Not to be confused with the ITV Sunday Night Theatre series, which aired between 1969 and 1974.
