ITV Saturday Night Theatre
1969 · 6 Seasons · 191 Episodes ·
Anthology series of dramatic works.
E11. Park PeopleYoung Frank Brady falls in love with a woman he has only seen from a distance. He enlists his friend Peg to help him win the woman's love.E22. Bangelstein's BoysA rugby team's annual tour descends into chaos when Tommy and Jack have a fall out with their brother-in-law.E33. My Bonnie JeanE44. MacNeilCarpenter and widower MacNeil takes a blunt approach in making advances to lady executive Miss Saville who works in the same firm as himself. His belief in his instincts regarding women is contradicted by his daughter Mary, who knows him better than he thinks.E55. CorneliusE66. EmlynMary MacNeil drifts into a complex relationship with a Welsh barrister.E77. Tiger Trap in the StreetFed up with having his car stolen, Williams decides it's time to take the law into his own hands, but there is a price to pay.E88. An Hour of Love #1: The BindE99. An Hour of Love #2: Anatomy of a DivorceE1010. The Piano TunerE1111. Pig in a PokeAn effete television producer and his beautiful wife move into an old terraced house.In the basement is a sitting tenant they cannot move.The tenant starts to invade their life with increasing voracity, leading to him eventually beating up the young wife and then becoming her afternoon lover.E1212. MachineTwo people (one rich, one poor) have failing kidneys, an expensive kidney machine would save them.E1414. The Dirt on Lucy LaneMichael Vint, an embittered hack reporter from a Sunday newspaper, is sent down into the country to find a story in the love life of an aging has-been writer and his new glamorous young film star wife. The writer is annoyed about the intrusion into his private life, but his wife sees it as an opportunity.E1515. Moonlight on the HighwayWriting for ITV Saturday 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." Rejecting rock music of the day, Peters is immersed in the tunes of Thirties crooner Al Bowlly (killed during the London blitz). He collects Bowlly memorabilia, publishes the Bowlly fan-club newsletter, and finds pleasure in lip-synching Bowlly records but his obsession with Bowlly masks certain darker events in his past.E1616. Hazel and Her New Gas CookerE1717. SteveSteve's maverick personality costs him his teaching job. He drops out of conventional society and earns a living by roguish means. Then he meets Paula, who makes him question his ideals and life.E1818. ToysE1919. Rogues Gallery: The Bright Eyed Body SnatcherE2020. Rogues Gallery: The Wicked StageE2121. Rogues Gallery: The Timorous RakeE2222. Rogues Gallery: The Fearful ImageE2323. Rogues Gallery: A Bed Full of MiraclesE2424. Rogues Gallery: The Prude PursuedE2525. The Innocent CeremonyE2626. The HauntingYoung Cathy asks her teacher Kate for help with her father Rolf who is still withdrawn and depressed after his wife's fatal car crash sometime ago. However, the line between fantasy and reality complicates matters.E2727. A Measure of MaliceE2828. Better DeadE2929. Every Day of the Life ManAn innocent man is wrongly picked from an identity parade after a factory robbery because he is black.E3030. Salve ReginaIn the basement of a department store after the last bomb of World War Three. A bag lady, calls herself ' the queen ' and exercises complete authority over two befuddled men. That is until an astronaut (who was in space when the bomb fell) finds them.E3131. TakeoverSuddenly and inexplicably Mother and Father find that their previously well behaved adolescent sons are completely unmanageable, reversing the standard family dynamics.E3232. Two Hundred Miles by TrainE3333. The Funeral of Queen VictoriaE3434. The Garbler StrategyE3535. Travelling Where?E3636. Two Feet Off the GroundE3737. Fly Away HomeA couple return from their holiday to find their house burnt down. Having no insurance, the husband has no option but to rebuild it himself with the help of local handyman Arthur. Local council bureaucracy hinders all the way.E3838. The Talking Head
