ITV Saturday Night Theatre

Episode 01

Park People

Jan 11, 1969

Young 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.

Episode 02

Bangelstein's Boys

Jan 18, 1969

A rugby team's annual tour descends into chaos when Tommy and Jack have a fall out with their brother-in-law.

Episode 03

My Bonnie Jean

Jan 25, 1969

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Episode 04

MacNeil

Feb 1, 1969

Carpenter 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.

Episode 05

Cornelius

Feb 8, 1969

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Episode 06

Emlyn

Feb 15, 1969

Mary MacNeil drifts into a complex relationship with a Welsh barrister.

Episode 07

Tiger Trap in the Street

Feb 22, 1969

Fed 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.

Episode 08

An Hour of Love #1: The Bind

Mar 1, 1969

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Episode 09

An Hour of Love #2: Anatomy of a Divorce

Mar 1, 1969

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Episode 10

The Piano Tuner

Mar 8, 1969

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Episode 11

Pig in a Poke

Mar 15, 1969

An 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.

Episode 12

Machine

Mar 22, 1969

Two people (one rich, one poor) have failing kidneys, an expensive kidney machine would save them.

Episode 14

The Dirt on Lucy Lane

Apr 5, 1969

Michael 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.

Episode 15

Moonlight on the Highway

Apr 12, 1969 · 52 min

Writing 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.

Episode 16

Hazel and Her New Gas Cooker

Apr 19, 1969

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Episode 17

Steve

Apr 26, 1969

Steve'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.

Episode 18

Toys

May 3, 1969

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Episode 19

Rogues Gallery: The Bright Eyed Body Snatcher

May 10, 1969

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Episode 20

Rogues Gallery: The Wicked Stage

May 17, 1969

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Episode 21

Rogues Gallery: The Timorous Rake

May 24, 1969

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Episode 22

Rogues Gallery: The Fearful Image

May 31, 1969

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Episode 23

Rogues Gallery: A Bed Full of Miracles

Jun 7, 1969

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Episode 24

Rogues Gallery: The Prude Pursued

Jun 14, 1969

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Episode 25

The Innocent Ceremony

Jun 21, 1969

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Episode 26

The Haunting

Jun 28, 1969

Young 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.

Episode 27

A Measure of Malice

Jul 5, 1969

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Episode 28

Better Dead

Jul 12, 1969

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Episode 29

Every Day of the Life Man

Jul 19, 1969

An innocent man is wrongly picked from an identity parade after a factory robbery because he is black.

Episode 30

Salve Regina

Jul 19, 1969

In 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.

Episode 31

Takeover

Jul 26, 1969

Suddenly and inexplicably Mother and Father find that their previously well behaved adolescent sons are completely unmanageable, reversing the standard family dynamics.

Episode 32

Two Hundred Miles by Train

Jul 26, 1969

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Episode 33

The Funeral of Queen Victoria

Aug 2, 1969

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Episode 34

The Garbler Strategy

Aug 2, 1969

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Episode 35

Travelling Where?

Aug 9, 1969

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Episode 36

Two Feet Off the Ground

Aug 16, 1969

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Episode 37

Fly Away Home

Aug 23, 1969

A 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.

Episode 38

The Talking Head

Aug 30, 1969

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