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BBC Sunday-Night Play is the anthology drama series which replaced Sunday Night Theatre in 1960. It was broadcast on what was then BBC Television (now BBC One). The series often included versions of modern theatrical successes, but original work appeared in the slot too.
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BBC Sunday-Night Play: With Brian Rix, Joby Blanshard, Cyril Luckham, John Bennett. BBC Sunday-Night Play is the anthology drama series which replaced Sunday Night Theatre in 1960.
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- 1960-01-03
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BBC Sunday-Night Play is the anthology drama series which replaced Sunday Night Theatre in 1960. It was broadcast on what was then BBC Television (now BBC One ). The series often included versions of modern theatrical successes, but original work appeared in the slot too.
Not to be confused with the 1967 TV series of the same name (also starring Patrick McGoohan), this adaptation of Bridget Boland's 1954 stage play depicts the conflict between a Cardinal (allegedly inspired by real-life Hungarian Cardinal Mindszenty) in an unnamed totalitarian state and the Interrogator who tries to force him into a public ...
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- Drama
- Alan Cooke
- 1963-02-24
This BBC anthology drama series replaced Sunday-Night Theatre and presented a new series of plays specially written for television (premiering with John Whiting’s ‘A Walk in the Desert’ on 25 September 1960).
Sun, Nov 6, 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 ...
BBC Sunday-Night Play is the anthology drama series which replaced Sunday Night Theatre in 1960.
