Sunday Night Theatre
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. Some of the earliest collaborations between Rudolph Cartier and Nigel Neale were produced for this series, including Arrow to the Heart and Nineteen Eighty-Four. The Sunday night drama slot was subsequently renamed The Sunday-Night Play which ran for four seasons between 1960 and 1963. ITV transmitted its own unrelated run of Sunday Night Theatre between 1971 and 1974.
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Michael Brennan
Peter / Charles / Casca / Sergeant Hooper / Feret / Jake Middleton / Sergeant Ericsson / Inspector Mitchell / Sergeant-Major Mascher / Captain of the Guard / Johnny Huff / Monsieur Thomas / Korrianke / Ajax · 19 eps
Oliver MacGreevy
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Michael Hordern
Epilogue spoken by (voice) / Maurice Lammering / Jacques / Shylock / Hugh Wigmore / Rev. James Mavor Morell / Major Booth Voysey / Christopher Williams / General Parmenion / Trigorin · 12 eps
Rupert Davies
Wing Commander / Day-watchman / Walters / Mr. Page / Thompson / Oderbruch / Maurice Szeps / Gabriel Mirabeau / Thomas Cromwell / Alec Roper / Frontier guard · 11 eps
Sarah Lawson
Esther Eccles / Sister Melanie / Hazel Conway / Elizabeth Gray / Valerie Barton / Lady Chiltern / Virginia Lawrence / Brenda Paulton / Jane Moonlight / Bolette · 10 eps
Marius Goring
Tommy Savidge / General Harras / Robert Clive / Archbishop Thomas Cranmer / Hjalmar Ekdal / Chorus / Richard Brinsley Sheridan / Crystof Wolters · 9 eps
Evelyn Moore
Lady Portales / Eliza / Ellen / Mrs. Johnson's School Friend / Lady Portaries / Phoebe · 9 eps
Raymond Huntley
Prof. Brander / Crichton / Gordon Meslin / Spence / Inspector Hubbard / Mr. Culver / Manning / Lord Laithwaite / Challiss · 9 eps
Wolfe Morris
Frederico / Emilio / Ella Petrovitch / Porter -The Tartar / Pepe / Nima Kusang / Horace Pengard / A waiter · 8 eps
Peter Bull
Smith / Tommy / Circus Director / Edward Tappercoom / Sid Rolands / Joseph Sedley / George Ware · 7 eps
Margaretta Scott
Emilia / Lady Marguerite Blakeney / Catherine of Aragon / Olivia Geiss / Empress Elizabeth · 6 eps
Gerard Heinz
Red Cross Commissioner / Dr. Justinus van Galen / Alexis Mouranoff / Poet / Achille Weber / Tausch · 6 eps
Alfred Burke
Arthur Sandler / Johnny Jason / Ignatius Farrell / Tom Mead / Bowden / PC Weems · 6 eps
Anna Turner
Girl of the Town / Elsie Pearce / Mrs. Topping / Petra Stockmann / Lucy / Isobel Bateman · 6 eps
Patrick Macnee
Lodovico / Peter / Captain Peter Niles / Captain Marchant / Rolf Hornblower · 5 eps
Paul Rogers
Henry VIII / David Fielden / Sir Claude Mulhammer / Bottom / Lt.-Col. Vershinin · 5 eps
Harold Kasket
4th Plebeian / Fourth Plebeian / Pemberton / Porphyrius Petrovitch Somiotoff / Umberto Martinez · 5 eps
Avril Elgar
Ann Padley / Matilda Rockley / Mlle. Brun / Louise / Bolette · 5 eps
Peter Wyngarde
Prokesch / Sylvius / Charles Granillo · 4 eps
Erik Chitty
Justice Shallow / Weltje / Old soak / Mr. Blinkard · 4 eps
