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BBC Sunday-Night Theatre: With Richard Caldicot, George Woodbridge, Robert Brown, Michael Brennan. Series of television plays performed live.
- (173)
- 1950-01-01
- Drama
BBC Sunday-Night Play. 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 ...
- 721 plays (27 survive)
- 5 March 1950 –, 20 December 1959
- English
- BBC Television
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Nineteen Eighty-Four: Directed by Rudolph Cartier. With Peter Cushing, André Morell, Yvonne Mitchell, Donald Pleasence. In a totalitarian future society, Winston Smith, whose daily work is re-writing history, tries to rebel by falling in love.
- (660)
- Drama
- Rudolph Cartier
- 1954-12-12
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.
Nineteen Eighty-Four. Aired as part of the BBC’s Sunday-Night Theatre on 12 December 1954, Nigel Kneale’s adaptation of George Orwell’s most celebrated novel was one of the most controversial television programmes of its time and marks a key transitional moment in the development of television drama in Britain.
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.
Sep 23, 2022 · Sunday Night Performances showcase some of the best of the UK’s dance, theatre, music and spoken word in specially made films for television every week of the year. Published: 23...
